In part 1 and 2, we looked at how to lead people into worship so they're ready to sing and how to pick songs that people need to sing.

Maybe you've done those two things and people still aren't singing!…

This is a question I picked up from Louie Giglio.

His team tells stories about how Louie always asks "What can I do better?" It's such a powerful question…

Good leaders communicate vision. The problem is vision has a short shelf-life. People forget it. Therefore, it bears repeating. Over and over and over and over again.

In our minds, as people who are constantly thinking about the vision, it can seem repetitive to communicate it week in and week out. It seems like we're unnecessarily over-communicating. But things that are truly important need to be repeated frequently…

It's important to become a student of worship leading. Leaders are learners. We should be seeking constant improvement by learning new things.

My favorite way to learn about worship leading is to watch how other people lead worship. The good news is that there is no shortage of worship live streams today!…

Jake does an amazing job equipping churches with practical skills for worship through his blog, podcast, and Youtube channel…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

Over the past month of starting Leading Worship Well, I've had numerous messages from young worship leaders. These leaders have expressed their feelings that they aren't making an impact or aren't being utilized to their full potential. Let's set the record straight: YOUR AGE DOESN'T MATTER!…

Over my years of being a worship leader, I've found one thing to always be true: worship always beats entertainment…

The single greatest advantage that you have when you lead with only an acoustic guitar is intimacy.

There's just something about the stripped down nature of an acoustic guitar that feels intimate. And here's the crazy part: people long for that intimacy…

We've all been there. You messed up. It's frustrating but it's inevitable.

Maybe you started How He Loves in 4/4. (Please tell me I'm not the only one who has done this.) Maybe you started a song in an unsingable key (search Wake the Dawn - Like A Lion on Youtube if you want to see one of my biggest mistakes ever. Enjoy!)…

At your next rehearsal, have your team walk through the worship space and pray over the seats.

This is something my team has been doing for the past two years and it has had a tremendous impact on our prayer time. There's something amazing about going seat to seat and praying over the specific person who will be sitting there during your Sunday morning gathering…

I challenge you to learn someone's story tomorrow.

Start a conversation with someone that you don't know very well tomorrow before you lead worship. Aim to learn their story. It doesn't have to be their whole story but seek to learn one thing about their life…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!…

Do you ever find it difficult to evaluate how your worship leading was? You ask the team and they reply with "It was good." Or "It felt right." Or "No one fell asleep this time." But there's never really any qualitative evaluation. It either felt good or it didn't…

The truth is whether you are a leader or not you are setting an expectation.

I'll talk about what this means in your worship leading in a future post but for now let's examine what this means for leading your team…

Just do it…

There are a lot of good practices when it comes to introducing new songs in your church but it all starts here: give your team ample time to prepare to lead it…

Today I challenge you to send a text of encouragement to another worship leader you know!…

This is Andrew. He's my friend, fellow worship leader, and accountability partner.

I used to work with Andrew and we would eat lunch together every Tuesday and talk about ministry. Once I started my new job as a full-time worship pastor I didn't get to see Andrew as often and I missed our time together. So we made the decision that our relationship was…

Over the past week I've gotten a lot of DMs and looked at a lot of posts from people who feel like they're failing…