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A Moment Bigger than the Game – What Christians Shouldn’t Miss this Summer
This is a guest post by Andy Searles, Pastor of Church Together just outside Orlando, a chaplain for an MLS soccer team, and a leader within the Pro Soccer Chaplains Association. One of the world’s most recognizable soccer players joined…
Episode 804: How to De-escalate an Angry Church and Leading a Ministry You Didn’t Start with Rich Villodas
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Carey caught up with Rich backstage at Exponential to talk about the learnable skills that keep leaders and congregations non-anxious in an angry age, and the unique challenges and gifting needed to lead…
Episode 803: Mass-Marketed Sin, Political Warfare, and Why Your Best Staff Keep Leaving with Joel Muddamalle
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Joel Muddamalle is a theologian who thinks harder about spiritual warfare than almost anyone in the church today. In this conversation: how sin got a mass-marketing strategy, why your devices are a primary…
Episode 802: How the Modern Church Was Shaped: Church Growth, Seeker Sensitive, Attractional, Missional with Todd Wilson
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most church leaders are leading inside a model they never chose—and rarely understand. In this episode, Todd Wilson, founder of Exponential, walks through the true history of the modern church: Church Growth, Seeker…
Episode 801:When the Ministry Playbook Doesn’t Work Anymore: Robby Gallaty and Vick Green on the Keys to Discipleship and Revival
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: What do you do when you run a playbook on discipleship that’s worked for years, and it stops working? That led Robby Gallaty to a place of despair, and out of that, revival…
Episode 800: Women in Ministry: Preston Sprinkle on What the Bible Actually Says
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Preston Sprinkle studied the full biblical narrative on women in ministry — inductively, without an agenda. From Genesis to Paul, here’s what he found and where it led him. We also tackle what…
Episode 799: Christine Caine: The Real Reasons Women Are Done With Church
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Christine Caine returns to the podcast to discuss the real reasons she thinks women are done with the church, how to get them back, why playing the Holy Spirit’s role in other people’s…
Your Sermon Was Never Meant to End on Sunday
This is a guest post by Josh Burnett, Founder of Church.Tech. Most sermons are treated like events. They’re prepared over days. Sometimes weeks. They carry prayer, study, conviction, tension. They hold the hope that something eternal might shift in someone’s…
Episode 793: Carl Lentz On Preaching While Having Sex Outside Marriage, How the Pressure of Church Growth Got To Him, And Warning Signs for Other Church Leaders
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Former Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz opens up about the factors that led to the collapse of his ministry. He discusses the core issues that led to his breach of trust, what it…
Episode 792: I Wanted to Quit Everything — Jennie Allen on Suffering, Spiritual Warfare, Lies Leaders Believe and Not Giving Up
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Jennie Allen reflects on a year like no other she’s had: an ephocal global event followed by a terribly difficult sabbatical, health scares, and discouragement. Jennie talks about wanting to quit, suffering and…
Episode 791: Why Church Dating Advice No Longer Works: JJ and Kait Tomlin on the Realities Single Christians Face
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: JJ and Kait Tomlin join the podcast to give candid advice to church leaders who, um, haven’t dated in a while. It’s different out there than it used to be. They cover outdated…
Combating Complexity: Why Simple is the Secret to Multiplication
This is a guest post by Jeff Harvey, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Subsplash. We live in a world that celebrates “more.” More growth, more programs, more digital presence. We’ve been told that to reach more people, we must…