Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

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If you lead worship, this is for you. Built from the experience of training 150,000+ worship leaders and musicians, the Worship Online Podcast gives you practical leadership insight, musical clarity, and real conversations about what it actually takes to build a healthy worship team. No fluff. No vague inspiration. Just tools to help you lead better every week.

  1. 1d ago

    SEU Worship on Leading a Team That Turns Over Every Year

    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 and Austin, who everyone calls Shuff, lead SEU Worship, a campus ministry of sixty to eighty college students leading chapel three and four times a week.  In this conversation you'll hear how they frame excellence as 'prepare the offering,' a holy practice instead of a performance standard.  How five staff develop thirty-plus student leaders, who then develop everyone else, so the discipleship isn't sitting on one person.  And what stewarding ten straight days of worship actually looked like: swapping guitar players out mid-song over the talkback, two hour slots at one in the morning, and making sure people ate, slept and showered.  Plus why 'What A God' lived in their chapel for about a year before any other church started singing it.  If the 'prepare the offering' idea hit something in you, that's what Worship Online is built for: your whole team learning their exact parts at home so rehearsal is refining, not reteaching. Try it free at https://worshiponline.com/    Mentioned in the Episode  What a God  10 Days of Outpouring  Southeastern University    If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  2. Oct 8

    Paul Baloche: Ministry to the Lord Before the Setlist

    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 the enemy of intimacy.  Paul wrote "Open the Eyes of My Heart," "Above All," and "Hosanna," and spent twenty five years as worship pastor at one church of a few hundred people while turning down offers from much bigger ones.  He walks through the actual practice that has kept him steady: a guitar, the book of Psalms, a journal, fifteen minutes some days and an hour on others.  He also gets honest about grading a Sunday by how many people cried, why he tells young musicians to go serve somebody else's ministry first, and how to tell a younger player you see a calling on them without laying a heavy trip on them.  If the weekly scramble to get your team ready is eating the part of you that actually wants to worship, that is the part Worship Online takes off your plate. Every instrument, every harmony, learned at home before rehearsal starts: https://worshiponline.com/  Mentioned in the Episode  Yes, We Believe  Lead Worship  ---  If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  3. Oct 1

    Worship Team Auditions Are Not American Idol w/ Keith Elgin

    The best piano player in your church might be the wrong person for your team.  Keith makes the case that an audition is 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 that asks about someone's story and not just their instrument, the everyday conversation questions that quietly reveal character, starting with what song they listened to on the way over, and the four honest ways to respond after audition day so nobody walks out guessing.  He also gets into why handing pieces of the process to current team members develops leaders and takes weight off you.   Keith Elgin leads worship, coaches worship leaders and pastors, and hosts the Worship Online Podcast.  Since all of this starts with what you hand people before they show up, Worship Online gives you album accurate tutorials, charts, and a mixer so everyone learns their part at home, whether they're auditioning or leading this Sunday. You can try it free at https://worshiponline.com/   Mentioned in the Episode  Sign Up for Lab+    If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  4. Sep 24

    How to Keep 18 Campuses Singing the Same Songs w/ 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 practice it out loud at every huddle. In this conversation: why CCV sings the same songs at all 18 campuses but lets each leader arrange them for their own room, why he tells anyone stepping into a new church not to change a thing for the first six months to a year, and the reason jerking the wheel on culture rattles people even when the change is right. Jordan is the senior director of worship and production at Christ's Church of the Valley in Phoenix, where he has helped lead worship across 18 campuses for more than a decade. If culture change starts with people showing up ready, Worship Online gives every player and vocalist their exact part to learn at home, so rehearsal is refining instead of reteaching. See how it works at https://worshiponline.com/ Mentioned in This Episode CCV Music Nothing But Good If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  5. Sep 17

    Your Worship Team Needs a Pastor, Not a Music Director w/ 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 vision, only a clear read on your church's. Why the hard conversation you're avoiding right now becomes next year's crisis. And why eventually you shouldn't be the best musician in the room, plus how insecurity quietly keeps you there.  He also pushes on the line most leaders repeat but don't act on: Sunday reveals your team's culture, it doesn't create it. Preparation, communication, and formation happen Monday through Saturday or they don't happen at all.   In addition to hosting The Worship Online Podcast, Keith leads worship at his local church, coaches other worship teams, and created the Worship Journal.  If Monday through Saturday is where the real work happens, Worship Online gives your team a way to actually do it: every part learned at home before rehearsal, so you can spend your time on people instead of parts. Take a look at https://worshiponline.com/    Mentioned in the Episode  Alive Church  The Worship Journal    If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  6. Sep 10

    Gen Z Worship: Zeal Without Submission w/ 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 he still leads Sundays at a church of about 100 to 150 people while he travels the rest of the week. In this conversation he talks about the year and a half he spent setting up sound gear in a middle school with one other guy, and the complaining that went with it. He explains how to receive a prophetic word without wearing it like a crown you never take off. And he gives the most honest answer to comparison we've heard: someone can be on a stage in front of a million people and be out of God's will, while you lead ten people and are exactly where He asked you to be. If you're the one doing setlists, charts, and setup alone, Worship Online gives your team a way to show up already knowing their parts. Learn more at https://worshiponline.com/   Mentioned In This Episode Slow Me Down   If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  7. Sep 3

    Bethany Wohrle: Leading Worship When Miracles Don't Come

    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 note became the bridge of a song. Inside: Josh Baldwin's yellow light analogy that changed how she leads a room, the older man who could only lift his hands to his shoulders and felt God for the first time, and how she tells whether what she is carrying on stage is for her or for the congregation. Bethany has been with Bethel Music since 2018, served as a worship pastor in Texas, and now lives in Nashville, where her album Reason That I Sing was born out of her family's loss. Weeks like hers are heavy enough without wondering if your team knows their parts. Worship Online gets every player and vocalist their exact part before rehearsal, so you have room to actually lead. https://worshiponline.com/   Mentioned in the Episode  The Reason That I Sing  John Wilds   If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

  8. Aug 27

    You Can't Fake a Multicultural Worship Sound w/ 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 record called Shiloh with three generations of her family on it. In this conversation she unpacks what she calls posturing yourself like a landing strip: the space between having prepared hard and still asking God mid-set if he wants to change direction, while the click is in your ear and your MD is cracking jokes. She also names the thing most of us won't say out loud, that quiet pull to build a worship culture where everyone looks and thinks like you. And she asks who picked up the baton Israel Houghton left, plus how to tell real cultural bridge-building from borrowing a sound because it's popular right now. Preparation is what buys you the freedom to actually listen mid-song. If your team is still learning parts at rehearsal, Worship Online gets everyone Sunday-ready before they walk in: https://worshiponline.com/ Mentioned in this Episode Shiloh If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast.  Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com!  The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

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If you lead worship, this is for you. Built from the experience of training 150,000+ worship leaders and musicians, the Worship Online Podcast gives you practical leadership insight, musical clarity, and real conversations about what it actually takes to build a healthy worship team. No fluff. No vague inspiration. Just tools to help you lead better every week.

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  • Creator
    Worship Online
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    420
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    Copyright ©2023 Worship Online. All Rights Reserved. Produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.
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