As church musicians, it's easy to get caught up in only playing and learning songs that we would lead at our church…

Much of your responsibility as a worship leader is to read the room. Learn how!…

One way to introduce a new song to your church is to teach them a part of it. Typically that part is the chorus or bridge.

It's important to teach them a part of the song because if you don't, they will just sit there trying to figure out the song the whole time you lead it…

There's no other way to say it: at Easter you're going to have people who come to church only twice a year. They don't know Glorious Day, they don't know Death was Arrested, they don't know Overcome. So give them a chance to respond!…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

It can be difficult to play dynamically when leading with just an acoustic.

Most of us think of dynamics in terms of strumming louder, strumming softer, palm muting, or finger picking.

One more way to think about dynamics is chord voicing…

If you're in leadership, you're going to receive criticism. Heck, even if you're not in leadership you're going to be criticized. It's unavoidable. The question isn't how to avoid it but what to do with it…

 I challenge you to smile while leading worship tomorrow morning…

Charts are great tools to help us learn music, but after you know the song it can become a crutch in worship rather than a launching board.

In most situations, contemporary worship music is very repetitive and the music can be memorized after a few weeks of playing a song…

There are two main schools of thought when it comes to arranging worship songs for your team: let your musicians play whatever they come up with or learn the parts note for note.

What if you could have the best of both worlds?…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

This book was brought to my attention by another worship leader about 5 years ago when we used it for a devotional for worship team practices…

Today I challenge you to go on the journey.

Any time you lead worship, you're taking people on a journey through the songs you choose to lead and the way you choose to lead them…

In part 1 and 2, we looked at how to lead people into worship so they're ready to sing and how to pick songs that people need to sing.

Maybe you've done those two things and people still aren't singing!…

This is a question I picked up from Louie Giglio.

His team tells stories about how Louie always asks "What can I do better?" It's such a powerful question…

Good leaders communicate vision. The problem is vision has a short shelf-life. People forget it. Therefore, it bears repeating. Over and over and over and over again.

In our minds, as people who are constantly thinking about the vision, it can seem repetitive to communicate it week in and week out. It seems like we're unnecessarily over-communicating. But things that are truly important need to be repeated frequently…

It's important to become a student of worship leading. Leaders are learners. We should be seeking constant improvement by learning new things.

My favorite way to learn about worship leading is to watch how other people lead worship. The good news is that there is no shortage of worship live streams today!…

Jake does an amazing job equipping churches with practical skills for worship through his blog, podcast, and Youtube channel…

Incorporate this chord into your worship leading!

Over the past month of starting Leading Worship Well, I've had numerous messages from young worship leaders. These leaders have expressed their feelings that they aren't making an impact or aren't being utilized to their full potential. Let's set the record straight: YOUR AGE DOESN'T MATTER!…