The Worship Catalyst Podcast
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Description
The Worship Catalyst Podcast is a podcast designed to train and inspire you to be a more godly leader. Each season, Austin and a co-host dive into different topics about worship.
Season 1: Sports & Worship Leading w/co-host Stephen Handley
Season 2: From Attending to Encountering God w/co-host Corey Coogan
Season 3: What Worship Leaders Need to Know from Seminary w/co-host Stephen Handley
The Worship Catalyst Podcast is produced by Worship Catalyst. A non-profit ministry that serves churches through training, mentoring and coaching worship leaders and their teams.
For more information:
Website: www.worshipcatalyst.com
Facebook: facebook.com/worshipcatalyst
Instagram: instagram.com/worshipcatalyst
Youtube: youtube.com/worshipcatalyst
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The Worship Catalyst Podcast used to be called the Worship Leader Essentials podcast! You can still find all previous episodes here!
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Engaging the Congregation in Worship
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May 19, 2026 |
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Leading Worship Band Practice Well
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May 05, 2026 |
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A Week in the Life of a Worship Leader
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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How Jesus Cared for His Team
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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10 Ways Leaders Can Care for Their Own Soul
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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When Your Team Spans Generations: How to Lead Well
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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23 Proven Ways to Keep Your Team Healthy
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Soul Care for Leaders: Why It Matters More Than You Think
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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How to Build the Team of Your Dreams: Co-Leadership Builds Stronger Teams
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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How to Build the Team of Your Dreams: Building a Healthy Team Culture that Lasts
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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How to Build the Team of Your Dreams: 11 Reasons for Covenant Relationships
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How to Build the Team of Your Dreams: The 3 Covenants
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Perspectives from the Pew: What Does A Church Member Expect From A Worship Pastor?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Perspectives from the Pew: What Theology are we Missing in our Songs
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Perspectives from the Pew: Hearing the Holy Spirit While Leading Worship
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Perspectives from the Pew: The Worship Pattern that Facilitates True Worship
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Perspectives from the Pew: Leading Worship IN and WITH the Holy Spirit
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 5 Questions to Answer when Planning Your Services
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May 27, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: Writing Great Songs for Your Church
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May 13, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 7 Spiritual Disciplines of Every Worship Leader
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 7 Influential Worship Leaders
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 4 Reasons Your Worship Team Must Prioritize Evangelism
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 8 Practical Ways to Lead Your Music Teams
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 4 Things Worship Leaders MUST Know About Theology and Ecclesiology
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 6 Ways to Disciple Your Worship Team
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 6 Action Steps for Guiding the Worship Ministry
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Digging Deep: 4 Truths Worship Leaders Need to Know from Old and New Testaments
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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BONUS: How to Implement A Producer in Your Church Services
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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BONUS: 4 Reasons You NEED a Producer for Your Church Services
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: What to Say Between Songs
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: 4 Things we MUST Know About Worship
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: 5 Ways to Generate Energy in Your Services
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: 19 Creative Ideas for Your Worship Services
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: The Science of Boredom
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: How to Pick Songs that Help People Encounter God
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: 7 Ways to DIS-engage Your Congregation
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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From Attending to Encountering God: 2 Non-Negotiable Weekly Practices
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: 6 Traits of Highly Effective Worship Leaders
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: Strategies for Handling Worship Service Setbacks
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May 21, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: Leading Effective Worship Rehearsals
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May 07, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: A Worship Leader's Guide to Engaging the Congregation
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: 5 Essential Strategies to Align Your Worship Team's Mission
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: Key Tips for Cultivating Excellence
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Sports & Worship Leading: 5 Proven Strategies to Build Trust on Your Worship Team
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Am I functioning as a worship leader or a worship pastor?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Should I sing songs in English AND Spanish...at least sometimes?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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11 Things Worship Leaders Should NEVER Do
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Our 100th Episode...and Top 5 Favorite Moments
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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How to Handle Criticism as a Leader
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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7 Ways to Know if You Are Too Invested in Your Local Church...
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Elevation Concert vs. Church Service: Why are they so different?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Saying NO To Potential Team Members
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Worship in the Persecuted Church
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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How to LOSE Your Team
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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How to Win Your Team to Yourself and the Mission
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Military to Full-Time Worship Leader
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Creating a “Party” Attitude in Your Team
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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What do I need to know about worship?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Do One Thing that Will Make Lasting Changes...the ins and outs of arts retreats
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May 30, 2023 |
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Tiny is Different than Big: Learning to lead worship to very small crowds
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May 09, 2023 |
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Get better at communicating! The 4 Communication Styles we all need!
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes! How to manage the big and small changes YOU need to make
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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How Do I Get My Congregation to Worship Better?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Leading the Future...and Present Worship Leaders: The Differences in Leading Student Leaders
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The Seven Temptations of the Western Church: A Conversation with Jeff Christopherson
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Announcements: That Thing We LOVE to Hate
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Now What Do We Do? Finding a New Church to Serve...OR Finding a Qualified Worship Leader
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Point Guard to Coach: The Transition from doing it all to leading others
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Killing it - Turning your band from a group of musicians to a GREAT sounding group! (Pt. 2)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Killing it - Turning your band from a group of musicians to a GREAT sounding group! (Pt. 1)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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'Tis the Season... For Planning Christmas Services!
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Keeping Everybody on the Same Page: Instilling (and keeping) Your Mission in Every Team Member
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Liturgy is So Boring!...and other stereotypical things we hear
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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To Pay or Not to Pay (sound guys)...that is the Question
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Nuances of Leading Tech People
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Worship Leader Essentials Workshop & Mentoring
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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A conversation with Jason Houtsma from Worship Artistry
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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How to FIND, AUDITION and TRAIN Technologists for Your Church
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Stage Energy and Taking a Break: Answers to two Common Worship Leader Questions
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Producing Videos for Church: Going from OK to Pro Level with a Few Tips and Tricks
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May 31, 2022 |
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Getting the MOST Out of Your Loops and Tracks...from a Loop and Track Expert
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May 17, 2022 |
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To Track or Not To Track...
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May 03, 2022 |
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Learn to Walk Before You Run: The Value of Being an Intern (or Assistant)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Casting a Winning Vision for Your Sound Mix
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Starting a Business to Fund Your Ministry Goals: A conversation with Pastor John Reinagel
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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It's Easter Again?! Planning Easter Services That Are Engaging and Fresh
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Don't Waste Sundays pt 2: An Argument For (and Guide to) Worship Planning
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Don't Waste Sundays: An Argument For (and Guide to) Worship Planning
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The Things That REPEL People from Your Church with Jim Collins
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Triplets and Terrible Australian Accents: Should we ALWAYS clap after every song?
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Show Some Respect: Unique Opportunities of Women Worship Leaders
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Leading Worship Multi-Culturally
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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5 Things to Do in Your First 5 Months
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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2 Minutes on Worship
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Q&A: Austin answers a few of the most common questions
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Performing and Leading Worship: A Conversation with Jason Andino (part 2)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Performing and Leading Worship: A Conversation with Jason Andino (part 1)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Storytelling and Engaging Your Media Team:A conversation with Micah Ogle pt. 2
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Storytelling and Engaging Your Media Team:A conversation with Micah Ogle pt. 1
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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A Journey to Restored Sound: A Conversation with Kay Ashley
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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From Tech Director to Worship Pastor: A Conversation with Garrett Garner
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Self Assessment: A conversation with Ben Barfield
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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A Reason to Give
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Multiplying Leaders: A conversation with Jeff Nail
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The Fastest Way to Derail Your Ministry and How to Avoid it: An interview with Nate Schloesser
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Challenges of Church Revitalization: A conversation with Shane Schauer
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Dealing with Stage Presence : An interview with Karen Miller
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Caring For Your Team: A Conversation with Teddy Johnson (Part 2)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Caring For Your Team: A Conversation with Teddy Johnson (Part 1)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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A Sneak Peek at What’s Next for Worship Catalyst!
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May 04, 2021 |
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When Ministry Doesn’t Turn Out Like You Hoped : A Conversation with Ken Smith
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Articulating Your Worship Ministry Mission to Your Team
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Recording. Making it Simple...and Affordable - from a PRO!
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Stepping Out In FAITH to Do Something AWESOME for God! - A Conversation with Trenton Mueller
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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One Example of a Streaming Set Up - and WHY that set up was chosen
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Knowing WHY You Stream - Three Ways to Determine Your Online Audience?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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What We Are Learning about Worship Leading in COVID. A Panel Discussion.
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Don't Hate on the "Vintage" Worship Songs! A #throwback Conversation with a Few Worship Leaders
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Discipling Worship Leaders - A Conversation with Jeff Goodman
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Fixing Exhaustion...and a million other problems - The Seven Worship Ministry Roles of Every Single Church
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Auditions! Why? How? Who? When? A Conversation with Mark Warnock
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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From Worship Pastor to Lead Pastor - A Conversation with Josh Jones
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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How Do I Find New Music? Some Practical Steps with Ben Lunn
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Developing a Worship Culture In Your Church - Part 2
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Developing a Worship Culture In Your Church - Part 1
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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What Does a Worship Leader REALLY Need to Know About Technology?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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No Fighting! The Productive and Healthy Relationship of Worship Leader and Tech Leader
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Leading BIG vs. Leading small...a Conversation with worship leader Jeff Crandall
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Hiring a Worship Leader When You Don't Have Much Money - Part 2 of Derrick and Paul
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Leading Worship and Planting Rural - A Conversation with Derrick Carpenter and Paul Ingram
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Live from Worship Leader Essentials - A PERFECT training opportunity for YOU!
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Worship Leaders Have a Shelf Life - What to do when it's time to transition
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Building a Community of Worship Leaders in Your City
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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What do Pastors Really Want from Worship Leaders?
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Evaluating Your Service or Ministry in 10 Minutes or Less - A Conversation with Jonathan Reitz
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Leading Through Liturgy - An Interview with Brian Gurney
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Top Worship Leader Questions...and a few answers
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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The Requirements of Shared Leadership - A Discussion with Ben Barfield
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Finding Band, Tech and other Creative People for My Team
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Leading as an Introvert - An Interview with Nathan Haskins
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Engaging and Unleashing Leaders Around You - an interview with Joe Kibbey
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Leading Worship Online (to people in their pajamas)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Leading Worship to Far From God People - an interview with Chris Allen
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Welcome To the Worship Leader Essentials Podcast
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Jul 17, 2020 |