If you want to be excellent with whatever you have, we must first ask why we pursue excellence?

This is a common question as I travel leading worship and training teams. We want to honor God as we are leading while doing our best. But the reason we pursue excellence isn’t so that people look at us. We do it so people aren’t distracted by us. This is key. Leaders, lay a healthy foundation for your teams. We all need to align in this vision from the beginning…

Dynamics are essential to modern worship music. However, in smaller churches with small worship bands, it can be hard to get the same dynamic range as you hear on recordings. That's because there are 30 different instrumental parts on the recording you're listening to. It's difficult to emulate that when all you have are a few acoustic guitars and a cajon!…