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CNLP 026: Creating a Great Leadership Culture—An Interview with Tim Stevens

How do you create a great leadership culture? Tim Stevens, author of Fairness is Overrated, talks about the essential elements every church leader needs to have in place in terms of personal integrity, finding the right team, building the right…
CNLP 025: The Changes You Need to Make As Your Church Grows—An Interview With Jenni Catron

How do you handle growth when it comes your way? What do you need to do with staff, structure and scale as your church grows? From record industry executive, to executive leadership at Cross Point Church and Menlo Park Presbyterian…
CNLP 024: Churchless: Why And How America is Learning to Live Without the Church—An Interview with David Kinnaman

What does it mean to be the church in a post-Christian culture? And why are more and more American Christians becoming churchless? David Kinnaman, President of Barna Research Group, talks about why Americans are becoming churchless more quickly than ever…
CNLP 023: Why People Are Attending Church Less Often And How to Respond—An Interview with Will Mancini

One trend almost every church leader is talking about today: people who attend church are attending less often. This podcast episode is the second part of a 5 part series on why people are attending church less often. Part 1: 10 Reasons…
CNLP 022: How to Kill—And Rebuild—Your Marriage. An Interview With Justin And Trisha Davis

So you were in love. And then life and leadership happened, jeopardizing, and sometimes even killing, almost everything you once valued in each other. Justin and Trisha Davis honestly and candidly share how their marriage fell apart, and—more important—how God rebuilt…
CNLP 021: 90 Days To Momentum—A 10 Step Process to Regaining Lost Momentum. An Interview With Brian Dodd

Momentum is such a difficult thing to gain and such an easy thing to lose. What happens if you don’t have it? Can you regain it? And can you regain it quickly? Brian Dodd explains the 10 steps he used…
CNLP 020: How to Get Volunteers to Own Your Mission Like Staff Do—An Interview With Elevation Church’s Frank Bealer

Feel like nobody owns the mission like you do? What if you could change that? Frank Bealer from Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina shares how they have motivated thousands of volunteers to own the mission as much as staff…
CNLP 019: How to Replace Yourself: Why Every Leader (Even Young Leaders) Need a Succession Plan to be Successful—An Interview with William Vanderbloemen

Why on earth would you think about succession, especially if you’re a young leader? Well, one of the hallmarks of great leadership is replacing yourself. Second, there is no success without a succession plan for any leadership role. William Vandenbloemen…
CNLP 018: What Makes Content Go Viral and How You Can Make A Bigger Impact Online. An Interview with Brian Orme

How do you get people to share the content you create? Ever wonder if you can you make something go viral? Those are great questions that most leaders wonder about at one time or another. In this episode, we answer those…
CNLP 016: How Anyone Can Become a Better Communicator — An Interview With Jeff Henderson

Can anyone become a better communicator? Jeff Henderson thinks so. Whether you speak every weekend or are simply trying to improve your presentations in the boardroom, Jeff shares what will kill your next presentations or talk and what will make…
CNLP 015: Turning Around a Declining Church without Blowing It Apart – An Interview with Dom Ruso

So how do you turn around a declining church without blowing it apart? Can it even be done? Or will it always take years to do, if it’s even possible? Dom Ruso talks about how he leveraged the past to…
CNLP 014: Why Sex is So Seductive – An Interview with XXXchurch.com’s Ryan Russell

Sex takes down more than its fair share of leaders and families. So why is sex so seductive? How do you open up an honest dialogue about sex with your kids or with your church? I interview XXXChurch.com’s Ryan Russell.…
