Welcome to 2021! Who's ready for a new year?!

As we step into 2021, it's important to start things off on the right foot. We have to have direction for where we're headed in our worship ministry…

Less than a week until Christmas! I know you're busy...

Just a couple more weeks until Christmas!

By now, hopefully you have a solid plan of what you're doing for your Christmas services. But, there's something you need consider...

Christmas is coming! And you know who is going to be at your Christmas service?...

People who only come to church once or twice a year.

As a leader, you have a decision to make: you can either choose to IGNORE them or ENGAGE them in worship…

Let's be honest... your mind has wandered once or twice while you're leading worship. We've all been there.

You start singing the second chorus and while the words, "way maker, miracle worker," are coming out of your mouth; you're thinking about what you want to eat for lunch after church.

Do you ever feel nervous or awkward when you pray while leading worship?

Maybe you've heard other worship leaders pray and you think, "They always seem to know the right thing to pray for and say it in just the right way."

Want to know the secret to being more confident in your public prayers?…

You're feeling great...

You've created some space between the chorus and bridge of the worship song and you start into some spontaneous worship.

Your eyes are closed and you feel the Spirit moving.

Then, you open your eyes... and what do you see?…

Okay... we've all been there at least once in our worship leading: It's Saturday afternoon (or Sunday morning) and you realize you haven't picked out what songs you're going to lead at church.

Hopefully, after leading worship for a little while, you realize that it's best to plan your set list out a little further in advance than that. And so, you start preparing at the beginning of the week.

But, what if you took it a step further and started planning your set lists for the entire month?…

There are so many worship leading responsibilities it can be difficult to take a day off.

But, taking a day off is one of the BEST ways you can make sure you have a sustainable worship ministry…

As worship leaders, it's so important for us to understand corporate worship vs personal worship.

Too often in churches on Sunday mornings, believers gather together in the same room and all have individual personal times of worship…

What you do before you head to church on Sunday morning can set the direction of the rest of your day - for better or for worse.

You can do things that set you up for success and make the rest of your day easier OR you can do things that make the rest of your day harder…

Here are 3 simple ways to NEVER improve your worship leading…

You know the feeling. You head into the 2nd chorus of the song. You finally open your eyes and look at the people you're leading and... all you see are blank stares.

Here are 2 EASY ways to lose your congregation in worship…

This past week, I started in a new worship leading position at a new church.

I thought it'd be fun to vlog my first week and show you a behind the scenes - week in the life of a worship leader…

Sometimes improving your worship leading is less about learning a new skill and more about learning a new way of thinking.

When you shift your mindset - instead of just improving ONE area of worship leading - you improve several areas at once. Every decision you make can be filtered through this new mindset.

The result? Huge improvements in your worship leading simply by THINKING about things differently…

For those of you who didn't hear, I started a new worship leading job last week! You can read more about it in last week's post

Over these past 10 months of not leading worship, I've had a lot of time to reflect. And as I started the journey of getting back into professional ministry (I don't know if I like that term but I don't know what else to call it) - I've thought a lot about what I'd like to do differently in this season of ministry…

This is a picture of a young 15 year old Spencer Cormany leading worship.

Last week I went up to my old church camp. It got me thinking about that younger Spencer Cormany... and how little he knew about worship leading.

I thought I knew so much but, 14 years later, I realize that there is still so much more to learn…

The longer you serve in ministry, the more time false narratives have to develop.

What happens is you exchange what is REAL for what you WISH WAS REAL.

Before you continue reading this post, hear me out: I'm not looking to destroy your worship leading hopes and dreams BUT I am a realist…

Leading children in worship can be difficult. It's DIFFERENT than leading in a typical Sunday morning gathering.

If you want to lead worship well, you've got to understand the context that you're leading in…

What if I told you that the BEST MINISTRY doesn't happen at your church building? Let me explain.

The longer I'm in ministry the more I see the importance of ministry OUTSIDE of Sunday mornings. And, more specifically, OUTSIDE of a church building.

And I'm not JUST talking about evangelism - of course this applies to that as well. But, ministry outside of the church building is equally as important for the members of your church…