028: Authority Issues Might Be Killing Your Ministry
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Developing Your Worship Team, Part 3 Submission to authority is NOT a fun topic. But if you want a healthy worship ministry—you’ve got to deal with this issue head on. Because if you have team members who won’t submit to your authority or the church’s authority, your ministry will suffer. In this training today, we are diving into the first 2 lessons from the class, Healthy 201: Understanding Authority, Submission, Conflict And Confrontation. Now, that's a big pile of "loaded topics" we stacked into one class. But all these hot button issues all related. And they can all...
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027: Developing Your Worship Team, Part 2
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Do your team members REALLY know how to fulfill their role as lead worshiper on the platform? And do they know how to prepare for that? And do you techs know that they ALSO play a role as lead worshipers. This episode is going to give you some practical training to help develop your team members as lead worshipers. SHOW NOTES: Today’s training comes from the first three lessons of the WorshipWorkshop.com class, Lead Worshiper 101: Lesson 0: The Introduction Lesson 1: Our Roles as Lead Worshipers Lesson 2: How To Prepare to Lead Worship Tools and Downloads To...
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026: Developing Your Worship Team, Part 1
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
SHOW NOTES: Today’s training comes from the first three lessons of the class, How To Be An Ideal Team Member. We look at the three virtues of an ideal team member. (Comes from the book, The Ideal Team Player, by Pat Lencioni To download the training audios and slides for this episode, go here: Signup page: Additional Resources: The Beginners Guide To Using Pads in Worship: Coresound Pads () If you want leave a review for us on iTunes, we’d LOVE that. Please do that...
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025: The Vocalist Episode -with Gateway's Anna Byrd and Jill Brewer
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Show Notes: In this episode, we interview Gateway vocalists/worship leaders Jill Brewer and Anna Byrd. We get into topics like: - Pop vocal technique - lead vocal teams - vocal health - fears and insecurities vocalists face Gateway Vocal Chart Samples (put in one pdf) About Jill Brewer: Jill and her husband, Robb, both serve on staff at Gateway church. Robb is an Executive Pastor at the Southlake Campus, and Jill is the Associate Director in Worship Development over vocal development. They have 4 kids ranging from 21-14 years old, and all 4 kids...
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Why Discontentment Will Ruin Your Ministry and Your Family
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Show Notes: Today’s interview is with Mike Harland of LifeWay Worship. We discuss the crucial topic of discontent. It’s a slippery slope that will lead to the ruin of both your ministry and your family. Here’s more about Mike: Mike Harland grew up in Mississippi, graduated from Delta State University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and has led churches in worship leadership roles for most of his life. Since 2005, Mike has served as the Director of LifeWay Worship Resources, the worship and music arm of LifeWay Christian Resources. He is a published author,...
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023: Diminish The Drama
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Show Notes: Today’s main training comes from our Director of Coaching, Jerimae Yoder. Besides being a full-time worship leader, Jerimae is an accomplished coach. He gives us some amazing insight on how to deal with tough situations that, frankly, would be easy for us blow up and make worse. You can connect with Jerimae at jerimae {at} worshipteamcoach [.] com. If you want to experience the kind of coaching that Jerimae talks about, the best (and most affordable) way to do that is through our Blueprint Session. Here’s more information: http://www.worshipteamcoach.com/blueprint Free PDF...
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Being Present In The Moment
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Featured Interview: Leslie Jordan with All Sons & Daughters Featured Resource: Small Church/Big Worship Coaching Group Links Poets and Saints All Sons and Daughters Album Poets and Saints by Jamie George Listen to: “Paris”: "Great Are You Lord" on Omaha Beach How The Light Gets In by Pat Schneider (amazon) Journey Church Poets & Saints Curriculum:
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021: Loving God, Loving Your Church, And How Songwriting Fits Into That
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
In this interview with Andrew Marcus, we talk about his new album, Constant, the journey to get there, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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020: How To Lead Your Team By Asking Great Questions
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
Show Notes (Intro: 3:28 / Interview: 6:12) (47:12) (47:27) (48:46) (55:14) The Interview Today's interview is with our very own Jerimae Yoder, Director of Coaching for WorshipTeamCoach.com. Jerimae is also the worship leader for the South Campus of The Chapel in Norwalk, OH. We talk about Jerimae's training and experience as a leadership coach (and being coached) and how asking great questions is really at the heart of leading your worship team members. The Free Tool This episode's free tool is a The Great Questions Cheat Sheet. It's a list of great...
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Five Ways To Better Lead Your Vocal Team
The Exceptional Worship Podcast
In today's episode, we talk about what worship leaders can do better as they lead their vocalists. ...
info_outline- How do I get people to show up prepared?
- How do I deal with chronically late team members?
- What do I do when people won’t come to rehearsals?
- And the follow up question to this is: What do I do when people legitimately CAN’T come to rehearsals?