Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Tim Stevens returns to the podcast to discuss the hardest assignment in ministry: his three years at Willow Creek. He also talks about how to spot talent, firing well, how to recapture momentum,…
One of the most pressing questions church leaders face is also one of the most complex: “How do I know what to pay our church staff?” Set pay too low, and you risk losing talented team members or burning them…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Judah Smith and Dr. Les Parrot talk about the unique pressures pastors face. Les Parrot has been Judah’s therapist for 15 years, and Les and Judah explain why your brain is lying to…
. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Preaching is hard, no matter how you approach it. But throw planting a church during lockdown, a lifelong struggle with mental health and anxiety, and planting in a tough to reach area…
. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Nearly twenty years after releasing his groundbreaking book Simple Church, Eric Geiger reflects on why complexity still doesn’t scale, how complexity subtly creeps in as you grow, and what he’s learned since…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Megan Fate Marshman is an incredibly compelling preacher who speaks in many of the largest churches in America. She shares how her preaching has evolved since she started, what she does right before…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: 83% of Americans say preaching impacts their decision on a church home. Having just filmed a new 45 video course called the Art of Preaching, Carey Nieuwhof and Mark Clark share 90 minutes…
. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Twenty-nine stressful events in 14 months. One major health crisis. Zero sugar-coating. In this flip-the-mic episode, Sean Morgan interviews Carey to dissect the hardest year Carey’s faced in two decades: how external…
. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Rick Warren returns to the podcast to explain what 99% of churches don’t do, the extraordinary rise of the global church and how it’s outpacing population growth, and he outlines the call…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Julian Lowe never expected to be a pastor, which ironically freed him up to become one. He talks about what he learned at the Groundlings, in Music, and in ministry, sharing why he…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Many church leaders think of their staff as family. But if they’re family, can you fire them? Jon Gordon has coached hundreds of professional sports teams and companies and explains what it takes…
. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick, The Power of Moments, and other seminal leadership books, talks about the 6 surprising traits of sticky sermons, how to design church experiences people never…