strategy

If you've been paying attention to our world over the last few months, you’ve no doubt seen some dramatic economic news.  You've probably seen things that made you wonder about the future of your church. You may be worried about what might come next.  We’ve seen the initial impact that...

We're all in the same boat but facing different storms.  This has been a difficult season for every business, organization, and church as they deal with the impacts of both the Coronavirus and the extenuating economic crisis left in its wake. No doubt your church is thinking about next steps...

Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with John Hill from First Church in Wheatfield, Indiana. Being diagnosed with a cyst in his brain made John think about where his life was going and prompted him to pursue his dream to have greater kingdom impact by pastoring a church. In...

"The opportunity is to ask the question: What will be? Not how will we preserve the past?” - Simon Sinek That is a profoundly important question that we all would do well to be asking these days. This question gets to the core of what every church leader is asking...

Thanks for listening in to this week’s unSeminary podcast. With us today is Wayne Stewart, Pastor of Support Ministries at Christ Community Church in Ames, Iowa. Christ Community Church is in central Iowa near a university and so the church is home to a very diverse crowd of international students...

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Lead Pastor Jeremy Jernigan from Abundant Life Church in Portland, Oregon. Every church out there would like to engage more people, but it's tough when you're working with finite resources. Listen in as Jeremy talks about the limits Abundant Life...

He is risen. He is risen, indeed.  This coming weekend, the church across the world will be celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus, a story at the very center of our faith. It's the story of victory over death. It's the story of lives transformed. It's central to what...

Thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Charles Stone, pastor at the very multicultural WestPark Church in London, Ontario, Canada. In seminary they don't teach pastors what to do when starting at a new church, but there's much more to the job than preaching...

Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Josh Gagnon of Next Level Church in New England. Josh leads one of the fastest growing churches in America in an area where people typically don’t go to church. He’s with us today to talk about how...

"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."Mother Teresa Have you ever had to let a team member go because of a performance issue? Without a shadow of doubt, it’s a horrible...