Worship Ministry Training Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

🚩 https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/  Want your worship vocalists to sound better together? Would having a designated leader help your background vocalists improve their singing? Imagine having a volunteer vocal director who schedules your background vocalists, provides harmony parts, helps them improve their tone, pitch, and timing, helps them warm up their voice, and even confronts them a...

Want to ACTUALLY hit your goals this year? In this episode I'll teach you the proven system I use to hit the majority of my goals every year. This works for both your ministry and your personal life. Good intentions are not enough. We need to determine the highest impact goals, break them into repeatable actions, and keep them visible through regular review. This live training will teach you the s...

🚩 https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/ How can we move our worship teams in a more spiritual direction? How can we move beyond simply playing music or doing life together, to intentionally make disciples of our team members? What does discipleship look like day to day in our ministries? Can we even set goals for (and measure) spiritual growth? We talk about all of these topics in this month's...

If you're struggling with engagement from your people during worship, this little episode should help! In this bonus episode, we answer an academy member question: "How do I increase participation in my old, traditional, country church?" If you'd like to join the academy to get support, coaching, guidance, and training, check out our $1 trial! 🔥 Free Worship Leader Starter Kit -  https://sendfox....

Worship leaders often struggle with what to say and pray from the platform. In fact, "confident stage leadership" is one of the biggest challenges we hear from worship leaders all over the globe, regardless of their experience level. If you want to learn how to be a clearer, more confident, and intentional leader when on stage, this episode is for you. In this episode, Jason Squires interviews me...

So much of worship music today has focused on creativity over clarity and catchiness over truthfulness. The problem with that is that Biblical worship is always revelation, then response. When Christ is clearly revealed in our songs, people will passionately respond in praise. Brett and the team at Journey Co Worship have decided to emphasize clarity over creativity as they write songs for their c...

As worship leaders we are at our best when we are invisible. Transparency is the goal. When people see through us and see Jesus instead, we are successful. But that can be hard to accomplish both on a practical level and a spiritual level. When we stand on stage with bright lights shining on us, how can we lead in a way that's invisible? And when we're off stage, how can we fight our pride and ego...

Do you have background vocalists that would like to start leading songs? What if they aren't quite good enough to sing lead? How can you help them "get there"? What if they are putting pressure on you? How do you handle that as a worship leader? These are all of the questions I cover in today's bonus episode about worship background vocalists wanting to sing lead.  🔥 Free Worship Leader Starter K...

Writing worship songs can be hard. Co-writing worship songs can be even harder. Especially if you're new to songwriting, or your church wants to start a songwriting ministry. It can be difficult to get a diverse group of people writing worship songs together (also known as co-writing). In this bonus episode (taken from our live, private academy Q&A) Stephen Duncan shares some gold nuggets about ho...

Many worship leaders want to become worship songwriters. This is a great desire. In fact, we SHOULD be writing songs for our own local churches. Who else knows our congregation's needs better than us? Stephen Duncan of the Worship Coalition teaches us how to write pastoral worship songs for our churches. Stephen is an award-winning song publisher and was instrumental in launching Lauren Daigle's c...

We all deal with sin on our lives. But how do we as worship leaders deal with sin on our worship team? In this episode, I give real life counsel to an Academy member who's electric guitar player cheated on the pastor's sister with someone else in the church and got them pregnant! Yikes! How do we handle this mess? I hope my counsel to our Academy member, helps you know how you should process these...

Pride. It's something many worship leaders and musicians struggle with. Yet, as Christians, we follow the most humble human who ever lived: Jesus. Though Jesus was God, He laid down His rights (and His life) for the good of others. How can we become more humble as worship leaders? And why is it important? How do we handle team members who are exhibiting pride? These are some of the questions I ask...

🚩 https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/ In a distracted and shallow society, have we become equally distracted and shallow worship leaders? Join me as I interview Matt Redman about how we can get back to a Biblically rich, theologically vibrant worship culture in our own lives and in our churches. 💻 https://www.worthworship.com/ 🤳 Matt's Social Profiles https://twitter.com/matt_redman https:...

🚩 Church Access to WMT Academy! - https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/church-plan 🚀 Limited time launch offer - $60 / mo for unlimited worship leaders! Looking to train up better worship leaders at your church? This 3 part mini series is for you! In this video we'll cover the 3 main obstacles you'll face while raising up worship leaders at your church, and I'll give you 3 solid solutions to...

🚩 Church Access to WMT Academy! - https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/church-plan 🚀 Limited time launch offer - $60 / mo for unlimited worship leaders! Looking to train up better worship leaders at your church? This 3 part mini series is for you! In this video I'll teach you the proven 7-step process I use at my church (of 10,000 people) to train up humble, excellent, and God-honoring worshi...

 🚩 Church Access to WMT Academy! - https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/church-plan 🚀 Limited time launch offer - $60 / mo for unlimited worship leaders! Looking to train up better worship leaders at your church? This 3 part mini series is for you! In this episode we'll 5 reasons WHY we should raise up worship leaders, so you have motivation and understanding as to why the effort is worth it!...

Do you feel like you're in a rut spiritually? Do you ever get on stage and lead worship and not even feel God's presence? Are you going through the motions and missing communing with Him? Have things become a routine? The truth is, this happens to most worship leaders at some point in their journey. Standing on stage week after week, we can get into the "mechanics" of the position. Pretty soon we'...

Is that a click bait title? Sort of. The truth is, a recent academic study revealed that the top 35 worship songs sung in churches around the globe are directly traceable to only four church groups (Bethel, Hillsong, Elevation, and Passion) and a handful of other artists. This means that a tiny minority of churches are shaping the worship vocabulary, theology, and liturgical methods of millions of...

How can we show appreciation to our faithful worship volunteers? Should we buy them gifts? Do something special? How can we make them feel loved, encouraged, and cared for...especially those who have been serving on the team for a very long time? This was a question one of our academy members asked in our weekly Q&A session, and this was our response. If it helps you, please forward it on to a fri...

The path to becoming a full-time worship leader can seem confusing and unclear. How do you get hired for a full-time ministry job? What do you need to do to prepare yourself? What makes for a compelling resume and sample video? How do you know if a hiring church is compatible with your personality, theology, and skill-set? I ask all these questions (and way more) to Alex Purtell from Froot Group....

We've all heard about "onboarding" new team members, but how should we "offboard" a team member who is leaving to another church? Is there anything we should do to make it special? Should we conduct an exit interview? How can we make the transition helpful and encouraging for both them AND ourselves (as their leaders). This was a question one of our academy members asked in our weekly Q&A session,...

Does your church's livestream mix sound bad? You're not alone. Most church's don't have professional audio engineers on staff. It's usually a volunteer who's managing the "front of house" mix and the livestream mix at the same time (and usually with cheap or antiquated sound gear). It's no wonder churches struggle to make their livestream mixes sound great. John Dirks (from The Livestream Mix Co )...

What makes someone a great worship leader? What are the common traits of some of the best and most impactful worship leaders in the world today? That's exactly what we're talking about in this episode! Shalon Palmer (founder of Worship Online) interviewed many of the world's most influential worship leaders and synthesized his findings in a new book called "Worship Mentors". In this episode we tal...

Want to become a world-class worship leader without it taking years and years? There is no magic pill you can take, but there IS something you can do to fast track your success. Find mentors. In this episode, I talk with Shalon Palmer (Founder of Worship Online) about how mentors can help us skip past much of the pain and failure and achieve our goals faster. We talk about how to find good mentors...

Worship leaders, artists (and really most humans) can be quite insecure. Any time we are stepping into new territory we can feel unsure of ourselves and our abilities. How can we battle insecurity and become all that God is calling us to be? Patrick Mayberry says through having the right identity. More than what we do, or what we accomplish, or how well we 'perform', we are God's beloved children....