Videos
Worship leader training, free on YouTube.
Gear breakdowns, team leadership, and long conversations with people who do this work. All of it lives on the NYC Worship Leader YouTube channel.
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Gear and tech
Gear I use, explained.
Mixers, in-ears, playback, and the apps that make Sunday run. What I would tell a friend before they spent the money.
Leading a team
Building a team that lasts.
Music directors, retreats, setlists, songwriting, and what to do when Sunday goes off script.
24 min
3,300 Worship Leaders Told Us the Truth
29 min
How To Be a Worship Team Music Director
1 hr 11 min
How Do You Add a Music Director to Your Worship Team
17 min
How to Plan a Worship Team Retreat That Actually Changes Your Ministry
15 min
What to Do When Worship Goes Off Script
8 min
The Worship Leader Problem: It's Not What You Think
18 min
How to Write Worship Songs: Leading Creatives Without Chaos
29 min
Make Your Sermons Work 7 Days a Week, Not Just on Sundays
54 min
The Worship Sermon That You Need To Hear
1 min
How to Write a Worship Setlist When You Are Stuck
4 min
It Is Now Illegal to Be a Worship Leader
Leading yourself
Burnout, nerves, and staying in it.
The part of the job nobody trains you for. Honest conversations about exhaustion, stage fright, and taking real time off.
The Short Set
One idea, under eight minutes.
Short episodes on setlists, Scripture, silence, and the Holy Spirit. Start at episode one.
Episode 1
Stop Picking Songs. Start Planning Formation.
Episode 2
The Space Between Songs Matters
Episode 3
Don't Apologize for the Worship
Episode 4
Your Setlist Is Discipleship
Episode 5
Scripture vs. Songs
Episode 6
Sermons vs. Songs
Episode 7
Is The Holy Spirit Chaotic?
Undignified interviews
Long conversations with people who do the work.
Full video episodes of the Undignified podcast: worship pastors, songwriters, tech directors, and authors on worship, the church, and everything else.
46 min
Tyler Staton: Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
1 hr 8 min
A Conversation With Jon Tyson's Original Worship Pastor
55 min
Emily Lindquist Talks Worship and Songwriting in NYC
1 hr 9 min
We Should Not Use the Term "Worship Music" with Young Oceans (Eric Marshall)
1 hr 9 min
Passion Worship Leader Brett Younker on Songwriting and Worship
1 hr 6 min
How Do We Train New Worship Leaders, with Mike O'Brien
1 hr 12 min
How Has Social Media Shaped the Church?
1 hr 10 min
Loving Artists and Leaving Ministry with David Gungor (The Brilliance)
1 hr 15 min
What Does the Church Need to Learn About Mental Health?
1 hr 14 min
An Honest Conversation Between a Worship Pastor and a Tech Director
1 hr 9 min
The Carlos Whittaker Interview: Be Human, See Human, Free Human
1 hr 6 min
How Do Worship and Prayer Ministry Work Together?
1 hr 36 min
What Do Worship Leaders Need to Learn About Race and Culture?
Episode 1, 40 min
Welcome to the Undignified Podcast: My Story
Trailer, 1 min
The Undignified Podcast: Worship, The Church, and Everything Else
Podcast
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