Worship should KILL us.

Those are the words I preached to my church a few weeks ago.

Think about it, a perfect, infinitely, holy God allows miserable sinners to have fellowship with Him. Amazing…

"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…

Find it hard to speak between songs and have it come out authentically?

Maybe you've finally started incorporating speaking between songs into your worship leading but you're still reading them off a piece of paper.

There's nothing wrong with that when you're first starting out. But what if I told you there was an easy way to memorize your speaking transitions and have them come out naturally (so that you still sound like yourself!)…

I've got a secret method I use to write worship speaking transitions in 5 minutes or less...

And I'm not talking about tiny, little "Let's stand and worship." speaking transitions. I'm talking about speaking transitions that are filled with Scripture.

I use it pretty much every single time I lead worship…

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!…

9 months ago I completely changed how I approach leading worship...

The key change for me was understanding that worship is a dialogue - it involves God speaking to us (through His Word) and us responding to Him.

As a result, I started incorporating Scripture every single week into my service. And not just a little bit of Scripture but whole passages of Scripture…

Do you know what the perfect key for congregational singing is?

How about how to transpose a female led song to a key that works for a male voice?

I've been collecting my best worship leading hacks over the last few months and it's finally time to share them!…

I've heard a lot of boring Scripture readings in my life.

Monotone, uninspired, cookie-cutter passages just thrown into the service in order for someone to say "... I read Scripture today."

I think we can do better. Especially as worship leaders.

Let me teach you how…

Earlier this year I spent $20 on one piece of worship leading gear that changed how I lead forever.

Ever since I got this piece of gear, I have used it every single Sunday. It is always right by my side. I will never lead worship again without it…

Quit overcomplicating speaking between worship songs.

I remember when I first started leading worship I had absolutely no idea what to say when I led. As a result, I just kept my mouth shut and played some worship songs.

I thought speaking between worship songs was intimidating. It was complicated. It was a mystery that I couldn't figure out…

I've been leading worship for 17 years. (Yes. The picture in the thumbnail of this video is me. I did indeed have hair at one time.)

Over those 17 years, while I have lost some hair, I have gained some worship leading wisdom.

I compiled some of the most important things I've learned into a single video. This is the advice I would have told my 13 year old self when I first started leading worship…

I made a video 4 years ago about what to say while leading worship - that video now has close to 500,000 views.

The thing is... it was one of the first videos I ever made. And since then I've grown a lot in my understanding of worship leading…

Cold and flu season is upon us and chances are... you might have to lead worship when you're not feeling well.

In fact, that was my case a few weeks ago. I came down with the flu early in the week and by the time Sunday came around I was feeling well enough to lead but still not 100%…

Let's plan a gospel-shaped worship service together!

Last week I laid out my case for why I think it's best to order our worship service in the shape of the Gospel. But what does that actually look like?…

What's the SHAPE of your worship service?

Liturgy. Order of worship. Whatever you want to call it. Every church has a SHAPE to their service. They all have a regular way they do things on Sunday mornings.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, their liturgy reveals what they believe about worship…

You already know I've been asking the same question to myself over and over again for the past few months: "What is the nature of God's presence in our worship service?"…

I've been asking myself a lot of questions about worship leading over the past year...

I'm not talking about questions like: which flannel shirt should I wear to church on Sunday?

I'm talking about FOUNDATIONAL worship leading questions. The kind of questions that don't just change small facets of your worship leading but have huge implications depending on how you answer them…

Remember the worship wars? Maybe they're still going on in your church...

In the early 2000's, there was a decided shift in the landscape of corporate worship…