Ego or service, that is the choice all of us make at some time as worship leaders.

All of us as musicians and singers grapple with our egos, and if we are honest, most of us want some kind of recognition for our gift.

So how do you put that desire aside and just serve.  I don't mean do what you are told, I am talking about genuine servant-hood.  Christ calls us to be servants, but if we take a few moments and look honestly at our hearts, while we want to serve there is always a tension with our egos. 

So listen to this podcast and examine your heart, and ask yourself the question about your ministry.. is it about ego or service?

When we lead worship we want to see our people worshipping the Lord freely and in power, but to do this we must choose songs that work.

When leading it is tempting to choose songs that we like, that perhaps we feel comfortable with, but if your congregation doesn't know them or doesn't like them, your have a problem ob your hands!

In this 12 minute for Worship Leaders Pod, we look at how you can choose songs that work every time, so every worship leader should listen to this...

Multiple Church Services can be incredibly taxing, but they can also create huge blessings for you, your worship team and the whole congregation.

Most often we turn to multiple church services because we cannot fit people into a single service, or because we have people who want something different from the service, and we feel it is impossible to join the different needs and cater for them in the single service.\

So how do multiple services work, what times can you use, should the same worship songs or even the same sermon be used in each.  these are the pressing questions the guys answer in this week's 12 minutes for worship leaders...

Organising your song list might sound like a pretty dull thing to talk about on the 12 minutes for worship leader's podcast, but organising your song list correctly can be one of the most rewarding things in your ministry.

So this is 12 minutes on how you can transform your worship team, help them cope with new songs, old songs and everything in between, and make life and ministry a whole lot easier.

Check it our now on the all new pod right here...

The Dream Team for worship might look different to different worship leaders, but we all have one in mind, or somewhere deep in our heart.  What does your perfect dream team for worship look like, and who fulfils those roles.  

This is 12 minutes that you can invest right now that might make a difference for your entire year, so check it out now...

Hi and welcome to a new year, but also to a new podcast format.

Wow, that's some resolution, right?

We know that so many people in our modern world have so little time, so we decided to compact our teaching and free podcast into just 12 minutes, the perfect time for you to listen on the way to work, or while you're vacuuming the floor.

So worship leaders, this new podcast format is for you.  Just 12 minutes a week, and you will be encouraged, challenged and at times amused by the wisdom and insight of two longstanding worship leaders.

So please, check out the new look worship leader podcast, and invest 12 minutes a week into something that will change your life and ministry...

Worship teams are made up of real people, and these people, while they might be musicians and singers, actually have real needs in the real world.

Worship teams should be come worship connect groups. You can share your struggles, you can encourage one another and because of your mutual love of music, you can connect on a level far different that most other people in the church.

So we thought we would finish this year off with an inspirational podcast that might just transform your ministry and your worship team.  Check it out now... 

Your worship team, like your own ministry, would benefit from a close examination. 

When you evaluate your worship team, you may find that certain individuals are resistant to this, and they may offer up all kinds of spiritual reasons why you should not evaluate them, but if you want your worship team to improve, you simply cannot adequately improve that which you cannot assess!

So at the year nears the end, it is a great time to reassess your team, building up the positives and working together to overcome the negatives.  Listen to this week's podcast to learn how to evaluate not only your team's musical performance, but also the individual walks with the Lord.  At the end of the year, this podcast is a must!!!

Evaluating your ministry is an essential part of growing your ministry and improving your skills in ministry.  Sometimes we are afraid to evaluate what it is we are doing and how we do it, but if we ever want to improve our skills and abilities in worship ministry, we have to have some means of evaluating our performance.

The end of the year is a great time to look back and have a frank and earnest look at how we have lead our worship team over the last 12 months. 

So settle back, grab a pen and paper and take the time to evaluate your ministry during and after this podcast.  It could make all the difference as you face the New Year, and see God's power unleashed in your worship leading...

Leading worship is an important task at any time, and especially if you have a guest speaker in your church service.

Having been the guest many times as visiting ministry, in many denominations and nations around the world, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly among worship leaders.

And leading worship for someone whose ministry style you are unfamiliar with is always a challenge.  This pod is designed to help worship leaders everywhere for those special and sometimes challenging occasions where you need to provide worship in and around a guest speaker...