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Episode 808: Why Leadership Is Designed to Kill You: Nicole Martin on Leading Christianity Today in a Divided, Rapidly Changing World
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Nicole Martin made history as Christianity Today’s first Black female CEO — and took the hits that come with it. In this conversation: the backlash, Billy Graham’s original vision, how the magazine is…
Episode 807: How to Make Your Life Burnout-Proof: Burnout 20 Years Later, Part 2
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Twenty years after burnout almost took him out, Carey is back with Part 2—the recovery playbook. You don’t need to get back to normal. Normal is what burned you out. In this solo…
Episode 806: I Was Almost Ministry Road Kill: Burnout 20 Years Later, Part 1
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Twenty years ago this month, Carey almost became ministry road kill. After 11 years of 30%+ annual growth, he burned out—hard. In Part 1 of this solo episode, Carey shares 5 honest insights…
Episode 805: The Reason Your Church Isn’t Multiplying and Fresh Trends in Church Planting With Dave Ferguson
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: The vast majority of churches are plateaued or declining, and Exponential CEO Dave Ferguson explains why most churches never grow, let alone multiply. Plus, he shares the latest trends in church planting in…
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…
Episode 798: Finally Beat Sermon Deadline Procrastination: Jon Acuff on Procrastination, Building an Audience, and AI-Proofing Your Impact
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Find yourself procrastinating? You’re not alone. Jon Acuff explains how to finally stop procrastinating on your sermon writing and other projects. Plus, he explains how he continues to grow as a leader, build…
Episode 797: Bill Gurley on Why You Shouldn’t Chase Your Passion, the Delusional Factor Every Outlier Needs, and How to Find a Mentor
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Bill Gurley—legendary investor behind Uber, Snapchat, and Twitter—shares why “follow your passion” is dangerously misleading, what to chase instead, what the best startup founders do, and the delusional factor that separates outliers from…