Paul Baloche: Ministry to the Lord Before the Setlist

Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders) · Oct 8, 2026 · 1h 1m

Paul Baloche has been leading worship for over thirty years. He will also tell you there were many, many weeks he never sat down with the Lord on his own, then stood on a platform anyway and said, "Hey guys, let's worship the Lord."

He borrows his wife's line for it: busyness is the enemy of intimacy.

Paul wrote "Open the Eyes of My Heart," "Above All," and "Hosanna," and spent twenty five years as worship pastor at one church of a few hundred people while turning down offers from much bigger ones.

He walks through the actual practice that has kept him steady: a guitar, the book of Psalms, a…