Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

He gave the stage away on purpose. He still says it hurt more than he expected. 

Heath Michael Bottomly led worship for years before moving into senior leadership, and he is honest about what happened when the platform went away: he had no idea how much of his identity was sitting on it. 

You'll hear the one regret a mentor handed him about holding onto the stage too long, why churches keep hiring an artist when they think they are hiring a pastor, and what changes when a leader's real job becomes clearing roadblocks so the team can run. 

He also pushes back on how most of us talk about worship, arguing your weekend song selection was never meant to carry the weight of a life lived worshipfully. 

Heath is executive pastor over creative teams at Pure Heart Church in Arizona, director of the Experience Conference, and author of Unimaginable. 

If you're carrying Sunday mostly alone, prep is one weight you can actually hand off. Worship Online gives your whole team the exact parts to learn at home, so rehearsal becomes refining instead of reteaching. Start at https://worshiponline.com/ 

 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Experience Conference 

Unimaginable 

Pure Heart Church 

 

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.

If your team can only be healthy when you're in the room, then your team isn't healthy yet.  

That's where this one starts. The unprepared team, the rehearsal that runs long because people showed up late, the communication lost somewhere between texts, email, and Planning Center. Somehow you end up being the solution to all of it. Keith makes a different case.  

A lot of your frustration isn't the people. You're frustrated that someone isn't doing something you've never actually clearly taught them to do. So he walks through 10 resources every worship team needs. Not 10 things to buy. Documents, systems, and rhythms that take what's currently living in your head and put it somewhere your team can actually access it.  

You'll hear why undefined standards create the exact disappointment you feel on Sunday, how to stop being the answer to every question, and which of these you could go build this afternoon. Keith coaches worship leaders and helps churches with strategy, and he's watched this same pattern show up over and over.  

If this one hits a nerve, Worship Online is the piece that gets your team learning their parts at home instead of during rehearsal. You can see how it works at https://worshiponline.com/ 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Lab+

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.

"You can sing the gospel and still not live it."  

That's the line that stopped Justin Roethlingshoefer cold when Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham told him they'd surrendered everything to God except their health. It was the one thing they were resisting, and the place their growth kept stalling.  

In this conversation you'll learn why your habits are just your identity made visible, and how that changes what you actually do on Monday. You'll hear the simple evening rhythm Justin uses to fix the wrecked sleep most worship leaders run on, the three-two-one rule that gets you into the deep sleep that lets your body repair. And you'll get the reframe on Romans 12: your health doesn't die on the altar of your ministry, and rest is the obedience, not the weakness.  

Justin spent over a decade as a health coach in the NHL before touring the world with Brandon and Phil, and he's the founder of Holy Health.  

If you've ever come home Sunday wiped out and wondered if you're the only one losing sleep over the weekend, this one's for you. When Sunday prep is handled, you have room to steward the rest. Worship Online gives your whole team a system to show up ready, so rehearsal refines instead of fixing. Learn more at https://worshiponline.com/ 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Holy Health Book 

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.

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. 

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.

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.