Have you ever been in a worship service where the band sounds incredible, the light show is on point, and everything seems to be going right, but when you get to the end of the set and the worship leader starts to pray, the whole thing seems to lose momentum? The problem is the prayer has no focus or direction and the leader is just saying a bunch of different phrases that don't make sense. This is one of my pet peeves with worship leaders. We have to do a better job of directing our prayers at the end of our worship sets. If you lead worship often, your prayers can have the tendency to get stale and lack purpose. So I started using this three-step process in all of my prayers.

What do you feel when you realize that Easter is right around the corner? I get excited, but I also get a little anxious. The reason for conflicting emotions is because I realize what's at stake. More people come through our church doors that weekend than any other weekend of the year. There's no better time to have a clear presentation of the gospel than on Easter, so we better bring our A- Game. Here are 5 ways to make sure your Easter experience is awesome this year.

I’ve been a worship leader for over 20 years and, until recently,  if you were the worship leader of a church that meant you led all the songs, all the time, every week. Now... I know people really like me but that’s a lot of me. What I have learned over the years is the importance of having other worship leaders. Here are 3 reasons why I use more than one worship leader.

Life can be so busy and demanding sometimes…..We have so many responsibilities. We have deadlines at work….we have obligations at church….we have all of the different activities with our kids and it can be so overwhelming. 

Worship is our response to God for who He is and for what He's done. So often we limit that response to what we do in church on Sunday as we sing,  but worship is so much more than just singing songs.

I don’t know about you but over the years of my ministry one of the things I have dreaded has been worship team auditions.  I came to realize that I felt this way because I didn’t have a good audition process.  So this is how most situations would play out: