Try this before rehearsal: finish the sentence, ‘I need someone else on this team because…’
Devotionals
Leading While Grieving
The song was fine last month. This week you can’t get through the second verse. Psalm 13 gives that room language.
The Pastor Who Was Never Going to Pastor You
There is a senior pastor you keep hoping will become your pastor. They are not going to. A devotional for worship leaders learning where their pastoring has to come from.
When Ministry Replaced the Love That Started It
There was a love that started this. There is a ministry that replaced it. A devotional for worship leaders who can still feel the difference between the two.
The Slow Drift From Joy
When did the joy get this quiet? A devotional for worship leaders who can still do the work but cannot remember when the doing of it became heavy.
What Your Set List Is Doing To You
We come to believe what we sing. A devotional for worship leaders watching their own theology drift from the songs they program.
The Three Calls You Haven’t Made
There are three calls you keep meaning to make. A devotional for worship leaders carrying the loneliest job in the building.
How You Talk to Your Team When No One Is Listening
How you talk to your team when no one is listening tells the truth about the leader you have been all week. A devotional for worship leaders pastoring with their words.
Nobody Built This Job to Be Survivable
Why worship leaders burn out has less to do with your character than the shape of the job. A look at the pressure chain, and what it costs to keep absorbing it.
What You Say Yes To Tells the Truth
Boundaries in ministry are not about saying no. They are about telling the truth with your yes. A devotional for worship leaders whose plate keeps getting fuller.
The Monday That Decides Sunday
Sunday is the test, not the work. A devotional for worship leaders who keep trying to win the week between Saturday rehearsal and the first downbeat.
Excellence Was Never the Goal
Excellence as the goal will quietly turn your Sunday into a product and your team into a workforce. A reframe for worship leaders who keep chasing the wrong target.
The Team You Inherited Is the Team You Lead
You did not pick this team. You inherited them. A devotional for worship leaders learning to lead the people in the room instead of the team in their head.
The Practice of Stillness
You set the metronome at the start of rehearsal because the band can’t feel a tempo. The whole week of your life is on the metronome. You haven’t been still in days. Not even for thirty seconds. And some part of you suspects that’s the actual problem underneath the other problems. Be still, and know …
Confession That Heals
There’s a thing you have been carrying for nine months. Maybe longer. You haven’t said it out loud to anyone. You have prayed about it. You have promised God you’d handle it. You have not handled it. And the weight of it is starting to leak into the rest of your life. Confess your sins …