Podcast
Bethany Wohrle She got to her sister’s apartment right behind the paramedics. She prayed with more faith than she had ever felt in her life, and the miracle didn’t come. Bethany Wohrle kept leading worship anyway. Then she opened a note on her phone, wrote down every angry, honest thing she was feeling, and that …
Bethany Wohrle: Leading Worship When Miracles Don’t Come Read More »
DOE Jones “You don’t ever need to get up there and feel like, I got this.” That’s DOE Jones on leading worship, and she means it as a good thing. She grew up a pastor’s kid, earned GRAMMY nominations with her family group Forever Jones, spent 12 years in youth ministry, and just made a …
DOE Jones: You Can’t Fake a Multi-Cultural Worship Sound Read More »
Heath Michael Bottomly He gave the stage away on purpose. He still says it hurt more than he expected. Heath Michael Bottomly led worship for years before moving into senior leadership, and he is honest about what happened when the platform went away: he had no idea how much of his identity was sitting on …
Heath Michael Bottomly: Why Worship Leaders Should Hand Off the Stage Sooner Read More »
Keith Elgin If your team can only be healthy when you’re in the room, then your team isn’t healthy yet. That’s where this one starts. The unprepared team, the rehearsal that runs long because people showed up late, the communication lost somewhere between texts, email, and Planning Center. Somehow you end up being the solution …
Keith Elgin: 10 Resources Every Worship Team Needs Read More »
Justin Roethlingshoefer “You can sing the gospel and still not live it.” That’s the line that stopped Justin Roethlingshoefer cold when Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham told him they’d surrendered everything to God except their health. It was the one thing they were resisting, and the place their growth kept stalling. In this conversation you’ll …
Justin Roethlingshoefer: Your Health Doesn’t Die on the Altar of Ministry Read More »
Tyler Roberts Red Rocks Worship didn’t start with an artist dream. It started with a disagreement over song sets. When the church opened a second campus, the worship leaders couldn’t agree on what to sing. So they started meeting to pray together, and songs came out of that room. In this conversation, Tyler Roberts unpacks …
Brett Younker You’ve seen a lot in ministry, and you think you have to choose between shutting down or running away. There is a better option. Brett Younker has led worship at Passion City Church for more than 15 years, writing songs that have lived on Passion Music albums. His new record, Keep the Faith, …
Brett Younker: Why Worship Leaders Get Jaded (and How to Keep the Faith) Read More »
Teel Merrick Posting the setlist late doesn’t just stress you out. It costs your drummer a Friday night with his kids. Teel Merrick spent 17 years as a music director and worship pastor before turning Worship Admin into his full time job. Now he lives inside other churches’ Planning Center accounts all week, cleaning up …
Teel Merrick: Why Planning Center Admin is Actually Pastoral Care Read More »
Keith Elgin Your team is becoming whatever your decisions repeatedly produce. Not your best Sundays, your most consistent choices. Worship leadership doesn’t happen when you stand up front. It happens Monday through Saturday, in five decisions you’re making every week whether you realize it or not. Keith walks through all five: what winning looks like, …
Keith Elgin: The 5 Decisions Quietly Shaping Your Worship Team Read More »
Matt McCoy Somewhere along the way, worship leaders started believing they had to sound exactly like the recording. Matt McCoy lived in that pressure too. He admits there was a season he cared more about the music than his band, hard on volunteers for missing a fill, and he says he burned people out doing …
