Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

Red Rocks Worship didn't start with an artist dream. It started with a disagreement over song sets. When the church opened a second campus, the worship leaders couldn't agree on what to sing. So they started meeting to pray together, and songs came out of that room.
In this conversation, Tyler Roberts unpacks how a logistics problem became a songwriting movement, how a church with campuses in Colorado, Texas, and Belgium manages the tension between creative freedom and alignment, and why he stays open handed with a team where people come and go.
Tyler is a founding member of Red Rocks Worship, worship pastor at Red Rocks Church, fifteen years in, with the new record Promised Land out now. The thread underneath it all: the strongest worship teams aren't the ones that sound the best. They're the ones that are unified.
Unity starts with a team that shows up prepared. Worship Online gives every member the exact parts, charts, and setlists to walk into rehearsal ready, so your time together builds the team instead of fixing it. Start at https://worshiponline.com  
 
Mentioned in the Episode 

Promised Land – Red Rocks 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. 

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The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

You've seen a lot in ministry, and you think you have to choose between shutting down or running away. There is a better option.
Brett Younker has led worship at Passion City Church for more than 15 years, writing songs that have lived on Passion Music albums. His new record, Keep the Faith, came from one question: what is actually essential?
In this conversation you'll hear how Brett picks keys for a real room instead of chasing the highest note. Why a producer saying "sing to me like you're in your bedroom" reshaped the whole album. And what he tells leaders in ministry who feel themselves getting jaded. You'll also get a simple practice for staying close to God when Sunday is always coming: let the drive be your sanctuary.
If this episode has you rethinking your keys, Worship Online helps your whole team learn album-accurate parts and change keys instantly, so everyone walks in Sunday-ready. Start at https://worshiponline.com/
 
Mentioned in the Episode 

Keep the Faith 

Passion Music 
 

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.

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/ 

 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Teelmerrick.com 

Worship Admin on IG 

 

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.

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/ 

 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Clear Expectations Podcast - WP Episode 384

 

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.

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/
 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Loop Community 

CCLI Global 

Worship Innovators 

 

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.