Have you ever met a person that seems like they walked into the phone booth right before they stepped on stage and quickly changed into the "worship leader" version of themselves? (ala superman)

Don't be that person. You can be a worship leader on and off the stage…

There's no question that music is powerful. There's something special about it that affects our memories.

That's why you can remember all the lyrics to those 90's pop songs. Or that song that your mom used to always play in the car.

Many factors contribute to how your voice functions: how much sleep you’ve had, sickness or recovery, how often you use your voice, using your voice correctly/incorrectly, seasons (pollens/illness), even air conditioning can dry your vocal cords out.

Your instrument isn’t like a guitar or piano, you can’t pick it up & expect it be 110% reliable every time. It’s part of your body & as singers we need to view the voice holistically.

Prayer is an act of worship. Therefore, as a worship leader, it makes sense that part of your responsibility is to lead people in prayer.

One thing many new worship leaders are self-conscious about is the way that they pray. 

How do I know what to pray? What do I say when I pray? What if I get stuck while praying in front of people?…

Simply put, soloing can quickly become performance when leading worship.

So, should worship team musicians solo during worship?…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

I challenge you to read the room when you lead worship tomorrow.

As church musicians, it's easy to get caught up in only playing and learning songs that we would lead at our church…

Much of your responsibility as a worship leader is to read the room. Learn how!…

One way to introduce a new song to your church is to teach them a part of it. Typically that part is the chorus or bridge.

It's important to teach them a part of the song because if you don't, they will just sit there trying to figure out the song the whole time you lead it…

There's no other way to say it: at Easter you're going to have people who come to church only twice a year. They don't know Glorious Day, they don't know Death was Arrested, they don't know Overcome. So give them a chance to respond!…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

It can be difficult to play dynamically when leading with just an acoustic.

Most of us think of dynamics in terms of strumming louder, strumming softer, palm muting, or finger picking.

One more way to think about dynamics is chord voicing…

If you're in leadership, you're going to receive criticism. Heck, even if you're not in leadership you're going to be criticized. It's unavoidable. The question isn't how to avoid it but what to do with it…

 I challenge you to smile while leading worship tomorrow morning…

Charts are great tools to help us learn music, but after you know the song it can become a crutch in worship rather than a launching board.

In most situations, contemporary worship music is very repetitive and the music can be memorized after a few weeks of playing a song…

There are two main schools of thought when it comes to arranging worship songs for your team: let your musicians play whatever they come up with or learn the parts note for note.

What if you could have the best of both worlds?…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

This book was brought to my attention by another worship leader about 5 years ago when we used it for a devotional for worship team practices…

Today I challenge you to go on the journey.

Any time you lead worship, you're taking people on a journey through the songs you choose to lead and the way you choose to lead them…