Worship Ministry Training Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

Want to become a world-class worship leader without it taking years and years? There is no magic pill you can take, but there IS something you can do to fast track your success. Find mentors. In this episode, I talk with Shalon Palmer (Founder of Worship Online) about how mentors can help us skip past much of the pain and failure and achieve our goals faster. We talk about how to find good mentors, how to be a good mentee, and the ...

Worship leaders, artists (and really most humans) can be quite insecure. Any time we are stepping into new territory we can feel unsure of ourselves and our abilities. How can we battle insecurity and become all that God is calling us to be? Patrick Mayberry says through having the right identity. More than what we do, or what we accomplish, or how well we 'perform', we are God's beloved children. What an incredible truth!

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In this bonus episode I answer a lot of practical questions that apply to both worship leaders AND worship team members. A list of the questions tackled is below. If you'd like access to coaching calls check out https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/

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- What do you wish you knew about worship leading when first starting?
- How do you deepen your anointing as a worship leader?
- Besides Jesus, what should teams be focusing on ...

In this bonus episode I answer a lot of practical questions that apply to both worship leaders AND worship team members. A list of the questions tackled is below. If you'd like access to coaching calls check out https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/

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- How do you communicate vocal parts to your singers?
- How do you balance flowing in the spirit vs planning?
- How do you play more cohesively with other musicians?
- How do yo...

What are the key factors that make up a healthy worship team? In this podcast episode, I talk with Jimmy Cooper from Hey Worship Leader about how to develop your core values, how to communicate them, how to exemplify them, and how to lovingly correct team members who are not living up to the agreed upon standards. Plus much more around the topics of team building and team culture. Enjoy and if you were helped, please pass this on t...

What is the Nashville Numbers System and how do we use it in worship? More importantly, how can we teach our musicians to understand and use the Nashville Numbers System? In this special bonus episode, I'm answering an Academy member's question on how he can practically teach his team the NNS (Nashville Number System) at his church. 

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Most churches don’t have money to hire professional sound techs. Usually, worship leaders get stuck being both worship pastor AND audio director. The problem is, most of us weren’t trained in audio. To make matters worse, our churches usually aren’t equipped with the latest and greatest sound gear. So how do we, as untrained audio engineers working with less-than-adequate gear, make our churches sound great? That’s exactly what we’...

What if the modern worship experience is incomplete? What if how we lead worship and what we include in our services is leaving our church malnourished? What if we aren't giving them the Biblical language and experiences they need to successfully navigate life as a believer? Can we do better? If so, what should our worship services look like? What elements should they include?

These are all the questions I explore with Aaron Niequi...

A huge part of the modern worship sound is amazing sounding keyboards and synthesizers. But it's not just the sounds of the keys that matter. It's also how our keyboardists approach what they're playing. In this podcast episode, I talk with David Pfaltzgraff of Sunday Sounds about how our keyboardists should approach their playing in a modern worship, live band context. We discuss mindset, hand placement, general technique, frequen...

We can't expect anything from our worship team volunteers if we haven't clearly communicated what we want from them! The job of a leader is to provide clarity. Clarity around what we want our volunteers to do, why it matters, and how to do it successfully. In this episode, Jason Squires and I talk all about setting volunteer expectations for worship team members. If you were helped by this content, forward it on to a friend. 

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It seems that since Covid, people's attention spans and commitment levels have plummeted to near zero. This is a problem when we're trying to lead a team! How do we get our scattered teams re-engaged, especially when it comes to responding to our digital communication (emails, texts, group chats, etc)? Should we expect responses in a timely manner? How can we train them to be more responsive? This is the topic we tackle in this sho...

Everybody wants to build a thriving worship team. The truth is, building anything in life is HARD! This is especially true regarding team building. Healthy teams take work, sacrifice, time, and COST us. In this episode, Jenni McGrew and I discuss 3 hard (unpopular) truths about team building. Jenni has a lot of depth and wisdom, so you'll want to see what the Lord is trying to speak specifically to you. If you like this episode, fo...

The average church in America is 80 people. And the vast majority of churches in the US are under 200 people. Small churches are not small…they are actually NORMAL. Big churches are abnormal. So how can we stop comparing ourselves to big churches and try to be who God made us to be? How can we be excellent with what we have? Jason Houtsma from Worship Artistry joins me to discuss. We talk recruiting, training, arranging, and improv...

We live in a noisy world. But God speaks to us in a "still small voice". It's easy to miss. As worship leaders, we need to make time and space to hear from the Lord. We can't give to others if we're not receiving ourselves. But how do we do that in a world full of distractions? That's what I talk about this month with Andrea Olson from Overflow Worship. If this episode encouraged you, share it with a friend. 

Many worship leaders have never been taught the purpose of a worship set. Nor have they been taught HOW to build a set that flows musically and thematically toward a climactic destination of God's glory and grandeur. If that sounds complicated, don't worry. This episode is me teaching a group of worship leaders how to improve their worship sets by understanding a few simple frameworks. By the time you finish this episode, you'll kn...

Many of us lost team members after the pandemic. In fact, some of us feel like our teams were decimated. We don't have enough musicians, and the musicians we DO still have are stressed and less reliable. How do we go about rebuilding healthy worship teams after Covid? That's exactly what I discuss with Brian Wahl (Worship Tutorials), Jenni McGrew (Worship Leader's Collective), and Jason Squires (Creative Launch). Enjoy and be encou...