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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 chaos most leaders never see.
In this conversation he breaks down his volunteer triangle: the three things every volunteer needs before Sunday (resources, information, expectations) and what goes wrong when one is missing. He walks through his Monday to Friday admin rhythm that locks the set early so the whole week stays calm. And he explains why volunteers rarely disobey you: they are usually missing information or resources you never gave them.
If you hate admin, this episode won't make you love it. It will show you how to get it under control so you can get back to people. And if late setlists and unprepared teams are eating your week, Worship Online gives your whole team album-accurate tutorials, charts, and setlists so everyone shows up ready without you chasing them. Learn more at https://worshiponline.com/
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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, who you develop, what gets celebrated, what gets corrected, and what gets reinforced.
You'll hear why the biggest problem in most worship ministries isn't talent, it's a lack of top down clarity. Why unspoken expectations become resentment. And how to approach the team member who keeps showing up late without losing them, because kindness isn't avoiding hard conversations, it's having them early.
Keith Elgin hosts the Worship Online Podcast and spends much of his week coaching worship leaders and churches on team strategy one on one.
If this episode named a decision you've been avoiding, Worship Online helps you build the system side of it: 800+ song tutorials so your team shows up prepared, and Lab+ when you're ready to grow as a leader. Start at https://worshiponline.com/
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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 it.
In this conversation, you'll hear why tracks quietly became a way to replace people instead of free them, and how to fix it.
You'll get the one band conversation that changes everything: asking your guitarist what they actually worked on this week before you mute or keep a track.
You'll also hear the reframe that reorders your whole week: if it's ever music versus people, people win.
Matt is the founder of Loop Community, creator of the Looptimus pedal, and now president of CCLI.
If this one hit a nerve, Worship Online gives your team a system to learn their parts at home so rehearsal becomes refining, not reteaching. That frees you to pour into people instead of fixing parts. Start at https://worshiponline.com/
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You can play the same song a hundred times and still lose the plot. Or you can play it like it is the first time someone in the room has ever heard it.
That shift does not happen by accident. It is a posture. And it is something you can actually build.
Daniel Carson spent 24 years as the electric guitarist in Chris Tomlin's band. In this conversation we talk about what keeps a musician grounded, purposeful, and genuinely present no matter what stage they are standing on.
We cover the comparison that shows up at every level, a 30-second habit before every service that changes the culture of your team, why the supportive role is not a lesser role, and what Daniel would tell his younger self about guarding his heart when the doors start opening.
If you play on a worship team and want to grow in both skill and heart, this one is for you.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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This episode started as a conversation about vocals. It became something every musician on your worship team needs to hear.
In this episode of the Worship Online Podcast, Keith sits down with Shelby Rollins, founder of Master Vocal, to talk about what it really means to steward your instrument well. We start with the voice: sleep, diet, Sunday morning prep, and why training on a treadmill might be the most underrated vocal habit you've never tried.
But the deeper conversation is about something every musician on your team lives with: the habits and workarounds you've built around what you can't do yet. Most of us have mistaken our limitations for our style. Shelby calls that out, and the implications go way beyond singing.
Whether you lead vocals, play guitar, hold down keys or anchor the rhythm section, this episode is about showing up with the fullest version of what you've been given.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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Kristian Stanfill has been leading worship at Passion Conference for a long time. He's seen God move in ways most worship leaders only read about. And yet, the thing he keeps coming back to isn't the stage. It's the secret place.
In this episode, Keith Elgin sits down with Kristian to talk about the new Passion album Just That Good, what it looks like to prepare for something as massive as Passion Conference while still staying open-handed, and how Kristian's personal journey of healing changed the way he leads — at home, on his team, and on the platform.
They also dig into what it looks like to mentor the next generation of leaders like Landon Wolfe, JJ Hasulube, Rachel Halbach, and Chidima Craig — and what Kristian would say to his younger self if he could go back.
This one is practical. It's honest. And it will challenge the way you think about preparation, presence and what it actually means to lead from the inside out.
If you lead worship, you have to listen to this whole episode.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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What happens when a worship leader finally stops hiding?
That is the question underneath everything Jordan Colle shares in this conversation. He is a worship leader and songwriter with Bethel Music, currently touring with Phil Wickham and carrying a multigenerational ministry legacy that started long before anyone knew his name.
But the most honest moment in this episode is not about the tour or the songs. It is about what shifted when he finally laid everything at the feet of Jesus and stopped pretending some of it was not there.
In this episode you will hear how growing up in a ministry family shaped his view of worship from the very beginning, what a moment in South Florida at a worship school confirmed about his calling through Isaiah 61, what it was like returning to his home church as a 20-year-old leading a team of people twice his age, what four years writing alongside Brandon Lake taught him about finding his voice, and how he has learned to hold calling in one hand and surrender in the other without crushing either one.
This is a conversation for worship leaders who want to lead from a deeper place. Not just a more polished one.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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When you step onto the platform, it is easy to think about the setlist, the key changes, the vocal parts, the transitions, and whether the moment is landing. And of course we focus on Jesus.
But what if we miss this very important thing? Everybody in the room is carrying something.
In this episode of the Worship Online Podcast, Holly Brand shares her story of growing up in Mississippi, competing as Miss Mississippi, joining Team Kelly on The Voice, and now writing Christian music that is connecting with people in deeply personal ways. She talks about comparison, identity, and the difference between performing for people and worshiping before God.
This conversation is a powerful reminder that worship leaders are not just leading songs. They are helping people encounter Jesus in the middle of real pain, real questions, and real life.
Listen now and be reminded why your leadership matters.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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Philippa Hanna grew up singing in social clubs across Yorkshire, England, raised in a family where music was everything. She was pursuing a professional music career by her early twenties, but something was missing. Then at 21, she walked into a small church and a fearless, unpolished worship leader named Godfrey Birtle changed everything.
Not because he was impressive. Because he was free.
In this episode of the Worship Online Podcast, Philippa shares what that moment taught her about what worship leaders actually carry, why fearlessness matters more than polish, and why she believes her job is not done until the congregation is singing. Not watching. Not nodding. Singing.
She also talks about her new album Magnificent, co-written and recorded with Israel Houghton, and what she has learned leading worship across cultures, generations and continents.
This conversation will challenge the way you think about your role on Sunday.
Listen now.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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You might be leading worship for the wrong reason… and not even know it.
Andrew Holt has been leading worship since he was 12 years old. He built his life around it. And then one day he realized he had no idea who he was without it.
In this episode of the Worship Online Podcast, Andrew shares how chasing ministry became a substitute for simply being a son of God. He talks about the season that broke him open, what he learned pouring lattes at a coffee shop at 5am, and why he could not be trusted with what God had in store until he could honestly say God was enough without the platform.
Andrew is the worship pastor at The Belonging Co in Nashville, where he has spent 10 years building one of the most respected worship teams in the country. But this conversation is not really about Nashville. It is about the thing that trips up worship leaders everywhere, at every church size, at every level.
Your identity is not earned. It is received.
🎧 Listen now and lead from the right place again.
Worship Online is your new secret weapon for preparing each week. With detailed song tutorials and resources, you and your team will save hours every single week, and remove the stress from preparing for a set.
Try a free trial at WorshipOnline.com and see the transformation!
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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.
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The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.
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