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Episode 822: Seven Signs AI Wrote Your Sermon, Finding and Developing Your Preaching Voice, and A New Study on AI’s Impact on the Brain That Should Scare Every Pastor
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Should you use AI to write your sermon? Maybe not. Three years after ChatGPT, we don’t just sound the same. We’re starting to think the same, or not think at all. Enter brain…
Episode 821: Finding Your Voice as a Young Preacher: Tyler Staton on the Gift of Imagination and What Getting Sick Taught Him About Pace
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most young leaders try to sound like someone else long before they sound like themselves. Tyler Staton, lead pastor at Bridgetown Church, talks about finding your voice as a preacher and writer, what…
Episode 820: Required Listening: Eric Peterson and Winn Collier on Eugene Peterson’s Battle Over Not Losing His Soul, Workaholism, Bono and Celebrity, And the Tension to Create a Contemplative Life
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In Part 3 of this summer’s Required Listening, Eugene Peterson’s son Eric Peterson and biographer Winn Collier talk about Eugene Peterson’s battle over not losing his soul, overcoming his workaholic tendencies, Bono and…
Episode 819: Required Listening: Eugene Peterson on the Rhythms of a Reflective Life, The Challenges of Leading Through the 1960s, and the Origin of the Message
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In Part 2 of this summer’s Required Listening, Carey interviews Eugene Peterson weeks before he retired from public life, Carey talks to Eugene about the origin of the Message and the life rhythms…
Episode 818: Required Listening: Gordon MacDonald on the View From 80 and 15 Lessons On What Really Matter in Life and Leadership
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In this inaugural episode of Required Listening, Carey talks to Gordon MacDonald. For his 80th birthday, Gordon MacDonald wrote down the 15 leadership and life lessons he’s learned so far. He unpacks all…
Episode 817: Grieving Your Ministry Wounds: Father Ronald Rolheiser and John Mark Comer on Getting Past Bitterness and Giving Your Life and Death Away
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Father Ron Rolheiser has thought longer and harder about grief, aging, leadership, bitterness, and surrender than almost anyone alive. John Mark Comer joins me to co-interview him on what ministry actually costs, why…
Episode 816: The Brutal Reality of Pastoring: John Ortberg on Leadership Pain, the Introvert’s Ministry Dilemma, and Dealing With the Job You Didn’t Sign Up For
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: John Ortberg has spent decades leading churches, writing books, and teaching leaders. But every leader has parts of the job they’re not naturally good at. In this conversation, John opens up about pain…
Episode 815: The Death of Secularism: Matt Chandler on Why Pastors Shouldn’t Wear Capes and When the Church Is All Wood and No Fire
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Matt Chandler doesn’t pull punches. The lead pastor of The Village Church joins Carey to talk about why wearing a cape doesn’t help anyone, the death of secularism, and why the church is…
Episode 814: Networking Without the Awkward: Michael Bungay Stanier on Better 1:1s and Building a Path No One Else Is Walking
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Networking feels fake because most people do it wrong. Michael Bungay Stanier has a better way. In this conversation, MBS breaks down how to connect without the cringe, the seven questions you need…
Episode 813: Church Trends Update: Your Congregation Is Being Discipled 49 Hours a Week (And Not By You), The Wrong Convo About AI, Women Leaving, and the Anti-Celebrity Pastor
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Six months into 2026, four church trends deserve a closer look. Algorithms are discipling your congregation 49 hours a week. AI’s biggest threat isn’t prompts—it’s disruption on a scale the church isn’t ready…
Episode 812: Creativity Is the Church’s Lost Superpower: Al Gordon on How Stress and Algorithms Are Killing Your Imagination and How to Unlock Creativity in Your Team
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most leaders don’t think of themselves as creative. Al Gordon says that’s the lie keeping you stuck. Al, founder of Renaissance, lead pastor of SAINT in East London, talks about why creativity is…
Episode 811: The Myth of 10,000 Hours: David Epstein on How Creativity Actually Works and Why Constraints Set You Free
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: New York Times bestselling author David Epstein talks about why Malcolm Gladwell’s 10000-hour rule isn’t accurate, how he and Malcolm became friends, how creativity actually works (what you can learn from Dr. Seuss),…