I took over a worship ministry 4 years ago.

I know a lot of worship leaders in the Leading Worship Well community have been in similar positions recently…

I thought I’d share my advice for getting started at a new church.⁠

Does your worship team just sound like a wall of sound?

You could take a recording of your team, fast forward to any point in a song, and it would sound exactly the same no matter what part of the song you were in.

The truth is: verse 1 should sound different than verse 2. The first chorus should sound different than the last chorus…

Last Sunday my church hosted a Christmas night of worship.

As you know, prepping for a night of worship isn’t a “week-of” sort of thing. I’ve been planning for this for the past two months.

I’ve had planning meetings. I’ve gotten resources ready for my team. We’ve had rehearsals. The list goes on and on…

“My worship team hates each other.”

I don’t know if I’ve ever gotten those exact words emailed to me for a question for Real Talk. But some questions have come pretty close to using that language.

In fact, worship team conflict seems to be the most common type of question that gets sent to me...

Are you and your pastor the only ones who ever talk during your service?

You read all the Scripture. You pray all the prayers. You sing all the songs.

Your pastor leads some other prayers. Then he preaches.

… then you sing another song and then you pray and everyone goes home....

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…

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…

“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!⁠…

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 quit my worship team because the leaders were too controlling."

That's a comment I got on one of my videos about why people quit worship teams.

It was disheartening reading through hundreds of comments from people who recently stepped down from their worship teams…

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and start leading worship all over again...

Of course hindsight is 20/20 - but if I knew what I know now about worship leading when I first started, I'd be miles ahead of where I'm currently at.

I made so many mistakes when I first started leading worship and they could have been avoided if someone had just told me what to do…

Do you have a plan to help your team become better at what they do this year?

It's no secret that the start of the new year is the time to refocus. You do it for yourself (you probably have even set some personal goals). Why not do it for your worship ministry?…

2024 is almost here and there are some important things you've got to do at the start of the year for your worship ministry.

Don't let January 1st simply come and pass - start the year off strong!…

Ready to run a worship team workshop now that the Fall ministry season is here?

As you know, taking your team to a conference or bringing someone into your church to run a workshop can be expensive. So the next best option is to run a workshop yourself…

Applying for a new worship leading position soon?

I know it can be nerve wracking walking into the interview...

She sounds like a dying cat! I've just been muting her mic..

I constantly hear about situations like that from people who send in their questions for Real Talk…

Some of you are stuck on a worship team that needs to change but you feel like you don't have the authority to implement the change. Team members show up late on Sunday morning. They aren't prepared when they lead. Your worship team leader doesn't send out the song list until Saturday night.

What can you do to inspire change on your team when you aren't the leader?…