If you’re a preacher or communicator, you realize that things have changed. Yet it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what’s happening in preaching today or in the preaching of the future. There will always be a core of people…
New York Times bestselling author, Jon Acuff, returns to the podcast with his 16-year-old daughter, McRae, to talk about who teens really listen to, why adults fail to connect with kids, and how to do it well, and what it…
Brian Koppelman, showrunner for Billions and Super Pumped, and co-writer of films like Oceans 13 and Rounders, talks about how he got into making movies and TV shows, overcoming ADHD when it felt like failure, how his first movie almost…
Reaching more people has never been more important, and it’s never been more challenging. So, as a church leader, you’d love to reach more people and would love to see your church grow. Here’s the dilemma: Reaching more people has…
Predictable Success founder, Les McKeown, discusses the difference between feeling like you’re a failure and real failure, the two keys to leaders who make it over the long haul, imposter syndrome and the problem with people-pleasing leaders—particularly in a church…
Tim Elmore returns to the podcast to talk all things Gen Z, why they mistrust authority, how to win their trust, engaging them at work, and why they have high agency and high anxiety. Plus, Tim covers all five generations…
So many leaders get nervous or triggered when church online comes up. You can hear the objections, either out loud or in a pastor’s head: I get it. It’s almost axiomatic to believe or think that online church is killing…
Bestselling author and co-lead pastor, Sharon Hodde Miller, talks about control—why so many church leaders are control freaks, the link between control and anxiety, the prosperity Gospel, and how controlling leaders create church hurt. Welcome to Episode 526 of the…
Zoe Church Pastor and bestselling author, Chad Veach, talks about the pros and cons of celebrity pastors, PreachersNSneakers, reinventing the weekend service, doubling down on digital strategy and how to reengage people in the local church. Welcome to Episode 525…
If you’re a pastor, you’ve been waiting for people to come back to church for a while now—a long while. The initial assumption was that as soon as churches could reopen after the COVID shutdown, people would come racing back.…