You've heard the recommendation a million times: Worship leaders, memorize your music and get rid of your music stands.

And maybe you're on board. Maybe you want to do it but you're just not sure how. There's no doubt that it can be intimidating to memorize your music. What if you play the wrong chords? What if you completely blank out on a section of a song?…

This chord works well in the key of G along with these chords…

The time right after your pastor preaches is the perfect time for you to give the people of your church an opportunity to respond to what they've just heard…

You know how it goes - you send out the song list and anxiously await your midweek rehearsal. The day of rehearsal you get there early and greet your team as they slowly filter in. Once everyone is there, you pray and go to run through your first song and you quickly realize: No one knows their part. So, what do you do? You spend the rest of rehearsal starting and stopping a million times trying to teach people their parts and giving them time to practice what they should have done before they came to rehearsal…

I challenge you to be a curious worship leader tomorrow…

In the video, I share 5 of my top tips for worship leaders! These tips go beyond the simple (albeit fundamental and necessary) recommendations of preparing and praying before you lead worship…

One of the most powerful things you can do for the people of your church while you lead worship is to lead into their story…

This chord works well in the key of G along with these chords…

What do you do when you aren't confident in your leading? You rush through the songs and just try to get them over with. You don't take time to speak because you're afraid of how it's going to come across. And at the end of it all, you feel like things could have gone better if you would have just been a bit more trusting…

Reading the room is an essential part of leading worship well. If you want to truly lead people, in all areas of life - not just worship leading, you need to know where they are at and lead accordingly. However, far too often in our worship leading, we say "Follow me!", run towards the destination, but never take a look back to see if the people we're leading are still behind us…

I challenge you to start on time tomorrow…

Yesterday, we looked at a few quick wins for worship leaders. These are things that you can learn quickly and apply THIS SUNDAY to improve your worship leading…

As worship leaders, we all have things that we're aiming for. Things that haven't quite happened yet. "Wins" that we have yet to achieve. And those goals are great to set and work towards. But, there are often two warnings that come along with those goals…

This chord works well in the key of E along with these chords…

How often do you intentionally sit down to work "on" your worship leading instead of just "in" your worship leading? The unfortunate truth is that it's easy to get caught in the cycle of always DOING and never IMPROVING…

Ever feel like giving up? Ever get frustrated with some aspect of leading worship? Maybe your church doesn't respond the way you hope they would. Maybe your team is inconsistent. Maybe you've dealt with too much criticism and you're tried of it…

I challenge you to run through your worship set list today…

When you first start leading worship, you typically put in tons of work in advance preparing to lead. You've got songs to learn (which takes forever especially when you're new to an instrument). You're nervous about being in front of people so you prepare even more. And so on... and so forth... until you finally feel at least a little bit ready to lead on Sunday…

How's your worship team? Is it a team people actually want to join? Or every time you ask, do people seem to come up with an excuse why they can't be a part of it?

Most worship leaders are in pursuit of more worship team members. They'd love to grow their team. And one of the best ways to make that happen is to have a team that people actually want to join! How do you do it?…

This chord works well in the key of E along with these chords…