Worship ministry, with the messy parts included.
Worship Probs mixes worship-ministry shop talk with interviews, listener prompts, and practical leadership counsel. Its sweet spot is the space between funny church-staff moments and serious questions about serving people well.
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Worship Probs is a worship-ministry podcast with a big community feel and a very practical center. It knows the work is meaningful. It also knows the problems are real. The show speaks to worship leaders, tech teams, church creatives, and ministry staff who spend their weeks balancing planning meetings, volunteer care, song choices, production needs, and the spiritual weight of leading people. Brian Tabor is named as host, and recent episodes also feature Kim Tabor, guests, live-event conversations, and listener-driven segments. The rhythm is brisk and informal. Episodes often open with jokes, quick updates, YouTube reminders, or prayer concerns before turning toward interviews and usable counsel. The best moments come when the show lets ministry chaos stay visible. A discussion about an unsingable song becomes a lesson in adapting arrangements for a local church. A conversation about confrontation becomes a reminder that avoiding a hard talk can silently give permission to unhealthy patterns. A live conference segment about recruiting volunteers turns into a broader challenge to describe service as meaningful mission, not emergency staffing. There is plenty of worship-world shorthand, but the show rarely gets abstract for long. It talks about set lists, staff culture, worship leaders, comms teams, social media, music theory, Good Friday services, church-member comments, and the small decisions that shape a weekend. It also brings in artist conversations, including Kristian Stanfill, Melodie Malone, Tommee Profitt, Alexandra Osteen, and Josh Wilson. Those interviews widen the scope from local-church operations to songwriting, stewardship, new music, and faithfulness over time. The show’s humor keeps it loose. Its heart keeps it from becoming cynical. Worship Probs is strongest for listeners who want encouragement, practical ministry ideas, and a little comic relief from people who sound like they have sat through the same meetings.
Made for: Worship leaders, tech volunteers, church creatives, and ministry staff who want practical help without losing the humor of church life. It especially fits listeners already fluent in Sunday-service planning and team leadership.
What sets it apart: The show pairs worship-world memes and listener-driven bits with concrete ministry coaching. It can joke about staff-meeting absurdity, then turn around and offer direct counsel on confrontation, creativity, volunteers, and spiritual focus.
Worship Probs exists to entertain, encourage and equip worship and tech leaders all over the world.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Worship Probs connects worship music to the planning, arranging, leadership, and team decisions that determine how it works in practice.
Worship Probs treats worship music as work shaped in planning meetings, rehearsals, and difficult conversations before anyone reaches the stage.
A no-shorts office rule becomes your cue to stop postponing that awkward worship-team conversation.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical case for giving difficult worship ideas enough room to become workable.
Creative planning comes across here as a sequence of concrete choices: shaping a service vision, choosing songs, mapping production needs, and deciding who should be part of the room.
Kim's host turn reframes Worship Probs' origin story as a grounded ministry check-in.
Kim takes the host chair for a clean role reversal, making Brian Tabor the focus as Worship Probs looks back on its own beginnings. The episode follows the show from anonymous worship-leader memes in 2016 through its Instagram growth and the 2019 identity reveal after the…
A Passion conversation about stewardship and weekly worship work carried with a lighter grip.
Worship Probs takes a familiar worship-leader strain and frames it as stewardship: how can a calling feel like Jesus' easy yoke and light burden when the work returns every week?
A candid ministry conversation about correcting patterns early, explaining the why, and caring for the person behind the behavior.
Confrontation is treated here as a form of stewardship, as Brian Tabor, Pastor Scott Longyear, and Heath Bottomley talk through why delayed correction usually gets heavier with time.
A warm live conversation about recruiting worship volunteers without letting need sound like desperation.
This live Worship 424 conversation treats worship-team recruiting as a matter of posture. Leaders can advertise a shortage, or they can invite people into meaningful work: helping lead a congregation in worship.
Josh Wilson reflects on a difficult stretch while looking ahead to his forthcoming Mental Help record.
Episode 285 centers on Josh Wilson at a reflective point, with the conversation opening on his sense that 2024 is the first year in maybe four that he has truly been enjoying.
A warm, knowing Christmas pick-me-up for worship and production teams deep in the December rush.
Christmas cheer runs into the worn-out reality of December ministry in this compact seasonal episode for worship and production teams. The host makes room for the difficulty of Christmas after a loss, then turns toward encouragement, community contributions, and affectionate…
Brian Tabor and his wife Kim discuss the upcoming conversation with Jesus Culture on the Worship Probs Podcast.
Brian and Kim Tabor introduce an upcoming conversation with Jonathan Traylor, discussing his new single 'Feels Like' and sharing prayer concerns.
Brian Tabor interviews Luke Anderson about the necessity of community for leaders in worship and tech ministry.
Brian Tabor interviews Matt Redman about the inspiration and meaning behind the song 'Blessed Be Your Name' and the importance of trusting God through hardship.
A conversation with Ellie Holcomb about lingering in the presence of Jesus and the importance of worship.
In episode 314 of Worship Probs, the host delivers a solo episode focusing on joy during the third week of Advent.
Hosts Brian Tabor and Jen interview musician Josh Wilson on the Worship Probs podcast.
Alex Gomez says a crashed computer should not stop worship, and she contrasts a reboot countdown with concern for the Holy Spirit.
Worship Probs Episode 383 centers on Ali Bahanos and Michael Hasman explaining how The Bridge Community Church planned a Good Friday service around a "broken heart" theme.
Episode 382 of Worship Probs reintroduces Brian Tabor through Kim Tabor's hot-seat interview and a rapid-fire opener that covers pizza, Neil Diamond, teleportation, and a screened-porch day off.
Brian Tabor and Kim Tabor talk with Christian Stanfill and Melody Malone from Passion Music about Just That Good, the live album recorded at Passion 2026 in Fishers, Indiana.
Brian Tabor interviews Tommee Profitt about his new record 'The Resurrection of a King' on the Worship Probs podcast.
Brian Tamer interviews Alexandra Osteen from Lakewood Music about their new single 'Rejoice Again' on the Worship Probs Podcast.
Brian Tabor, Pastor Scott Longyear, and Heath Bottomley use episode 378 of Worship Probs to unpack "the gentle art of confrontation" for worship and production leaders.
Brian Taylor and Kim Tabor record Episode 377 of Worship Probs live from Worship 4.24 at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, with Kim Tabor joining Brian onstage and Paul Balash referenced from the previous night’s worship set.