The Church Collective Worship Leader Podcast

In this episode I talk with Audrey Assad about: Here latest project, Inheritance. How she intentionally recorded this album of hymns without the addition of new choruses. The roll of hymns in the formation of our theology. How she worked with some charites for this project. Some stories about the depth of the lyrics in some of the hymns she has on this album. How modern worship can also be theolog...

In this episode I talk with Jason Ingram about: What's going on with One Sonic Society. Check out our interview with Stu G here! The balance between songwriting and worship leading. Moving from leading in a local church to writing for the global church. How Jason got involved in worship music. CCM vs church music. The evolution and balance of both. The need to select music for our church that reso...

In this episode we talk with Chris from Brothers McClurg about the heart of selecting music for our church. Some topics covered: How every church will have it's own unique needs for worship. The desire to sound just like the recordings of bigger worship ministries and the struggle that can cause. The need for songs in our sets that cause thought for our congregation. How it is ok to do stripped do...

In this episode I talk with Chris Cleveland from Stars Go Dim about: The heart behind their latest project. How each member of the band are worship leaders. The balance between touring and doing local church ministry. Having feet in both local church worship ministry and the CCM world. The need to understand who we are leading in worship at our church. Serving our body by choosing the songs that t...

In this episode I talk with Meredith Andrews about: The importance of trials in our life for the sake of our growth. The songwriting process for her latest project. How God uses seasons of difficulty to grow us. The importance of focusing on God in the midst of difficulty in ministry. Why we have to make margin in our lives so that we can grow. How to take care of our voice. Ways to find time to c...

In this episode I talk with Brett Younker about: What's going on with Passion conference this year. The writing process for their latest single Remember. The importance of being open to feedback from others when we are writing. Why we have to make sure the God is the focus of our lives before we are worried about what we can write. Why we need to trust people that can speak into our lives. The nut...

In this Episode, Adam, Chris, and I talk to Chris Quilala about: Jesus Culture Sacramento. Their latest album "Let it Echo." The songwriting process and how the songs on this album are being used in their church. Why they decided to have this project come out of their local church rather than their conferences. Staying close to God in the midst of pain. Local church worship ministry vs conferences...

This was a fantastic convo! Here's what's we talked about: Their rerelease of "Have You Heard" and how they went about making it fresh. You can grab it here. What it was like pioneering worship in the early days of Delirious? Encouragement for worship leaders and teams in how to help their church embrace new forms of music. The process of staying inspired as a musician. How our innovation mustn't...

In this Episode Adam Dolhanyk, Chris Bellamy and myself talk with James Mead from Kutless about: The process of writing this new album and the shift toward Kutless as a rock band. How Kutless got started. The balance of working with a team of musicians and writers. The need to be adaptable with the musicians and leaders you play with. The importance of humility in our teams. Their new guitar playe...

In this episode Cliff Lampbert, Spence Parkerson, and myself answer a called in question about: The relationship between leading the congregation in worship both on and off the platform. Taking the chance to connect with the congregation. The importance of spending time talking with church members. How we need to work toward helping our worship ministry team members get involved in other ministrie...

In this episode I talk with Chris Rohman from Sanctus Real about: How Sanctus Real started through getting involved in a student worship team. What's coming now that Matt is leaving the band. The process of finding a new singer for the band and how God has moved in the process. Chris's personal songwriting process. The importance of the daily songwriting habit. The mindset of songwriting as a prof...

In this episode Callie Garret, Ryan Loche, and Paul Zach talk about: How it can be lonely to be the only creative on staff at church. How the Charlottesville Worship Collective came about. The importance of joint ownership of a local worship leader group. Why we need community with other artists and people that are going through the same things we are. How to actually find worship leaders local to...

In this episode I talked with Jon Guerra about: How he and his wife ended up recording an entire album of Christmas music. Writing music with your spouse. What God has been doing with his previous project "Little Songs" The calling God has placed on Jon's life to minister to the inner life of those that listen to his music. The balance between songwriting for corporate worship and for private conn...

In this episode Adam Dolhanyk, Miles Nelson, Chris Bellamy, and Ryan Loche talk about: The process we use to select music in our churches. The method we go through to bring in a new song. The roll that hymns can play in our churches. Looking for participation as a gauge for wether a song is working. How to go about blending hymns with more modern choruses and how the demographic of our congregatio...

In this episode I talk with Aaron Ivey from Austin Stone Worship about: How songwriting began at their church. How Aaron got involved in music and songwriting. Why worship music tends to be best birthed from a local worship context. How to foster an environment for songwriting. How to go about having a songwriting retreat. Why it's ok to write on a theme that has already been written about. How to...

In this episode, Fox and I go at it with a big debate that he and I have at our church. He believes that the tech and worship teams need not mix. I believe that he's just wrong. Many of our contributors are somewhere in between. Why our heart for what we're doing matters. How we as leaders need to make sure that we are protecting our volunteers from burnout. Why we have to ensure our volunteers ar...

In this Episode I talk with BJ Pridham from Planetshakers about: The heart behind their youtube series "The Well." How a local church can begin to have a passionate worship ministry. The importance of being connected in the lifeblood of your church. The synergy that can come from the pastor and worship leader having a strong relationship. The story and heart behind their latest album "Let's Go." A...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Ask the Church Collective Podcast! You can submit your questions for future episodes via the phone number given on the podcast so we can play it back for everyone to hear! Cliff Lambert, Christopher Bellamy, Laura Blankenship, Syndey Merrel, Ricky Ragone, Fox Watterson In this episode we talk about: How to effectively go about choosing the songs in our setl...

In this episode myself, Chris Bellamy, and Bryan Lopez got to talk with John Mark McMillan about: What's going on in his life now. His latest live recording. His songwriting process, how he combines beautiful lyrics with strong theology. How we need to be open to what God's doing with our own songwriting process. The philosophy behind his songwriting. How God comes out of his music through having...

In this episode I talk with Big Daddy Weave about: The story behind their latest project Beautiful Offerings and what God has done with it. Stories behind the songs they have been writing. How God has used the difficulties of life to minister to others through music. The importance of understanding who we are in Christ. Advice on how to stay close to God in the midst of the busyness of ministry. W...

In this episode I talked with Tim Timmons about: How God got him involved in worship ministry. How God has used his incurable cancer. The importance of having mentors in their life. His style of leading worship and how we need to be ourselves when we lead. Why our worship must be pointing people to Christ. Thoughts on what worship actually is. The balance between connecting with the crowd and conn...

In this episode Chris Bellamy talks with Phil Joel of Zealand Worship about: His involvement with the Newsboys. How God has been moving him toward ministry with Deliberate People. How God moved through Acquire the Fire and how Phil stepped into leading worship. The heart behind Zeeland worship. The recording process for their new project. The equipment they used during recording. Their touring pla...

Wow guys, this episode has so much practical, spiritual, and musical help for us. You're going to love it! In this episode I talk with Paul Baloche about: How you can get superior quality recordings from your closet at home. (seriously, give it a try). His latest efforts on periscope to offer some simple music theory and guitar help. The importance for knowing guitar theory in our worship leadersh...

In this episode we talk about: Her background and love for scripture. The practice of singing scripture and pulling from the great hymns in church history. Her experience at International House of Prayer. The importance of writing music that can minister to multiple generations. The balance between singing with chest and head voice and the effect it can have on our worship leading. The writing pro...

In this episode I talk with Josh Wilson about: How he got involved in worship leading and song writing. The process of writing music and the need to be ok with writing some music that aren't that good. The importance of the context of who you are writing music for. The balance between entertaining and leading worship. The value of storytelling in music. Dealing with fear and anxiety in serving in...