Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Programming Note // The unSeminary Podcast is going to be on a hiatus until September. We'll return then with lots of great new episodes with some fascinating church leaders. Enjoy the summer! Today’s episode is a little different than usual. Instead of hosting an interview...

Brian Williams seems like a good guy. He’s been married for almost 30 years … consistently reported news to the American public for NBC News for almost as long … gosh, the guy even won “Father of the Year”!

  Once again, Frank Bealer from Elevation Church is joining me on today’s podcast. Elevation Church is doing a lot of exciting things in their growth and Frank is here to tell us how they’ve learned to help each other. Helping each other grow It can be hard sometimes to...

  I’m super excited to have Adrian Schoonmaker from Grace Community Church in the Hudson Valley, New York, with us today. We’ll be talking about what it takes to develop spiritual coaches that can go out and really spread the church’s message and bring people to Christ. About Grace Community...

Email continues to be the killer communication tool for churches today. It's ubiquitous, inexpensive, response driven and easy to use. It's a great way to move people to action within your church ... whether it's getting them to attend, volunteer on a team, give to your mission or anything else....

  Have you ever stopped to think how amazing the human brain is? It’s capable of so many reactions in an amazingly short time. God gave us this brain, so doesn’t it make sense to understand it and learn how to use it to the full advantage within your ministry?...

A few weekends ago, I had the honor of joining a bunch of Young Life leaders as they hosted a leadership development weekend. Young Life is an international student ministry with hundreds of local clubs and 31 premium camps. I was privileged to spend time teaching them and seeing their...

Last Sunday we canceled all 11 of our regular services at Liquid Church and asked people to join us at the Jersey Shore for one large service. It was an amazing Sunday as thousands of people from all our locations came together to celebrate what God has done through our church...

Our culture is placing increasing value on the look of our church materials. Many church leaders work with graphic designers to ensure that the visual aspects of their ministries are compelling. I've made some bone-headed comments to designers over the years and seen the consequences in the work that they then...

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global series of conferences run under the slogan "Ideas worth spreading". TED Talks are a maximum of 18 minutes long and serve as cultural touchstones on a wide variety of topics. They are fascinating to study as church leaders because they are the closest...