Looking for the perfect way to thank your worship team?

⁠I hear worship leaders asking how to thank their team all the time. There’s only one caveat… they don’t have a big budget to do it…

I hear it all the time: “I inherited a horrible worship team member. Help!”

⁠Whether you’ve recently started at a new church or implemented new expectations for your worship team, sometimes we get stuck with team members who aren’t living up to our expectations…

Here’s an anonymous comment card Charles Spurgeon once received:

“He remarked on one occasion that I too often quoted the line, ‘nothing in my hands I bring,” and, he added, ‘we are sufficiently informed of the vacuity of your hands.’”

⁠See, you aren’t the only one who receives anonymous criticism in your church! Even Spurgeon was criticized by his congregation members…

Ever struggle with knowing what to say between worship songs?

⁠Maybe you know you should say something before you transition to the next song but you don’t even know where to start…

Ever feel like you’re just praying the same thing over and over again during your service?

⁠Or maybe you aren’t comfortable with praying in public so you never lead prayer at all?

As a worship leader, we’re often called upon to lead times of corporate prayer. But a lot of leaders struggle with knowing HOW to pray and WHAT to pray for.

We must worship in spirit and in truth. How many times have you heard that verse quoted?

⁠If Jesus tells us that is how we MUST worship, then as worship leaders we better know what it means!…

There are 7 mistakes I see beginner worship leaders make over and over again…

In fact, some worship leaders who AREN’T beginners make these mistakes too…

“Plan your setlist based on what your pastor is preaching on.” That’s the advice I USED TO give.

As I’ve grown in my understanding of corporate worship over the past few years, I’ve realized that that’s actually not very good advice…

I understand the desire to pick a song based on what your pastor is preaching on. In fact, I think it’s a great idea to plan a response song after the sermon that matches what your pastor just preached on.

The thing is: there are 5 places you can go to find songs based on a specific topic. And I get the sense that not many people know about them…

“Sing lustily!”

Those are the interesting instructions I found in a document from 1761 about directions for singing in church.

Can you guess who wrote those words?⁠…

The countdown hits zero and the lights come up. It’s time to welcome your church.

This can be one of the most nerve-wracking times of the service for worship leaders. How do you get things kicked off?…

Do you struggle to memorize worship songs?

I’ve been memorizing worship songs for the past 15 years (mostly because the church I served at didn’t have a confidence monitor).

Over those 15 years, I’ve boiled down the essential steps to memorizing chords to songs…

“Eight singers on the stage at the same time all singing melody.”

That phrase perfect describes my early days in worship ministry.

I repeat: we had EIGHT singers on stage who were all singing melody throughout the entire song!⁠…

It’s been 10 years, 3 months, and 2 days since I’ve been nervous to lead worship.

Okay… I just made that number up to get your attention BUT it’s been a really long time since I’ve felt nervous before leading worship…

Buzz word alert: Anointed!

We hear this word everywhere in worship circles these days. ⁠

“That was such an ANOINTED time of worship.”

“She’s such an ANOINTED worship leader.”…

You know my disdain for misquoted Bible verses...⁠

I’ve talked about Psalm 22:3 - you inhabit the praise of your people.

I’ve talked about Matthew 18:20 - where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them…

I used to be terrified to speak between worship songs.

I saw all of these other worship leaders speaking so eloquently and I thought to myself, “I could never do that… so why even try?”…

Everyone hates my worship team code of conduct.

Well… not everyone. But ever since I shared my code of conduct with the world over 2 years ago, I’ve had quite a few worship leaders tell me how much they dislike it.⁠..

I've never met a worship leader who doesn't like A. W. Tozer. Many worship leaders quote him all the time.

But I get the feeling that not a lot of worship leaders know what Tozer has said about them…

Worship should KILL us.

Those are the words I preached to my church a few weeks ago.

Think about it, a perfect, infinitely, holy God allows miserable sinners to have fellowship with Him. Amazing…