Most leadership conversations in the church world eventually drift toward balance. How do we balance grace and truth? How do we balance staff health and high standards? How do we balance reaching lost people and discipling believers? How do we balance compassion and conviction? But in this conversation with Pastor Ryan Visconti of Generation Church … Read more

Most church audio directors spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the mix sound better. Better EQ. Better compression. Better plugins. Better gear. Better console files. But in this Churchfront Conference workshop, Lee Fields made a point every church production leader needs to hear: The quality of your mixing skill is not … Read more

If you’ve ever stepped up to a church lighting computer five minutes before service and thought, “I really hope I don’t break anything,” this LightKey walkthrough is for you. Church lighting does not need to feel overwhelming for a basic service. If your LightKey file has been set up properly, most operators should be able … Read more

Twenty years ago, the Yamaha M7CL was a groundbreaking console. It set the bar for live digital audio mixing for a generation of church techs. By 2026, that same console is showing its age — and the one at Calvary Community Church in Minnesota was actively failing on them. Components were dying. The lighting system … Read more

Easter Sunday at my home church included a sunrise service on the beach. Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, a pastor’s mic, and a TV screen for ProPresenter lyrics — that was the brief. Everything had to be portable, battery-powered, sand-tolerant, and set up by a small volunteer crew who didn’t have time to troubleshoot anything fancy. … Read more

Most church leaders I talk to assume that if their livestream looks bad, they need better cameras. That’s almost never the right answer. We just wrapped a full AVL upgrade for CrossPoint Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, and their story is a textbook example of what’s actually going on when a church’s video quality slips. Their … Read more

Almost every pastor I talk to about AI lands in one of two camps. Either they assume it’s a threat to ministry — theologically, vocationally, or both — or they’ve quietly adopted it for their own work and feel a little weird about it. I just sat down with one of the pastors at Vineyard … Read more

Most pastors I know won’t touch AI for sermon prep. The fear is obvious. What if the AI ends up doing the preaching? What if study disappears? What if your voice gets replaced by a language model? I sat down with Josh Shaw, lead pastor of Vineyard Church in Los Angeles, and he said something … Read more

Every few years a piece of gear shows up at NAB that you can tell is going to rearrange things. The Fairlight Live Panel 10 is that piece of gear. Blackmagic Design has been quietly building Fairlight into DaVinci Resolve for years — it’s the audio post-production side of their ecosystem. What they just announced … Read more

It might be the most dreaded conversation in worship ministry. You know the one. A team member isn’t cutting it anymore — whether it’s a character issue, a skill gap, or a culture mismatch — and you have to do something about it. But this isn’t a corporate layoff. These are volunteers. Friends. People who … Read more