Podcast
Dwan Hill Your congregation isn’t quiet because they don’t care. They’re quiet because they think the stage is singing for them. Dwan Hill leads worship at Cross Point in Nashville and started The Choir Room, a gathering that began with one Instagram post and a borrowed room with an organ in the corner. He expected …
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Cory Asbury He wrote one of the biggest worship songs in the world. Then he spent years walking away from worship entirely. Cory Asbury is honest about why. He let frustration with the industry fester into bitterness, and as he puts it, “Bitterness has the shelf life of a Twinkie.” In this conversation he tells …
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Naomi Raine Naomi Raine had just written what she was sure was the best song of her life. Then she decided the room was too small to waste it on. Twenty five people at a church plant. No record deal, no audience, nothing. And right before she held the song back, she heard it: if …
Clark Beckham He walked into his new church in Nashville, watched the worship team, and his first thought was: good, nobody needs me here. That is the American Idol runner up talking. He had just come off a national stage, and what he felt was relief. So he served on the parking team instead. In …
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SEU Worship Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit Every person on their worship team has an expiration date. At Southeastern University, students audition, get developed, lead for a couple of years, then graduate. The team rebuilds itself constantly. It still works. Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit lead SEU Worship, a campus ministry of sixty to eighty …
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Paul Baloche Paul Baloche has been leading worship for over thirty years. He will also tell you there were many, many weeks he never sat down with the Lord on his own, then stood on a platform anyway and said, “Hey guys, let’s worship the Lord.” He borrows his wife’s line for it: busyness is …
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Keith Elgin The best piano player in your church might be the wrong person for your team. Keith makes the case that worship team auditions are not American Idol. It’s the first thing that teaches someone what kind of team they’re joining, before they ever play a note. You’ll hear how to build an application …
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CCV Music Put a bunch of similarly gifted people on one worship team and something quietly goes bad. Jordan Howerton calls it poison: the jealousy and comparison that takes root when you start wondering why someone else got that campus, that song, that recording. He also thinks celebration is the antidote, and his teams …
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Keith Elgin A hole on the platform is easier to fix than a hole in your team’s culture. Keith Elgin learned that one the hard way, and he made a list of the other nine things he wishes every worship leader knew. You’ll get his case for why your worship ministry doesn’t need its own …
Keith Elgin: Your Worship Team Needs a Pastor, Not a Music Director Read More »
Charles Weems The song that broke him out is called Slow Me Down. He posted it on Instagram, and his life hasn’t been the same since. Which is a strange thing to build a career on, because everything about a platform says go faster. Charles Weems is 23. He started leading worship at 14, and …
