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Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today I’m excited to talk with returning guest, Dan Zimbardi, Executive Pastor at Sandals Church in California. Sandals started 22 years ago in the living room of lead pastor, Matt Brown, and today has 11 locations throughout the middle and southern parts of California....

Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week we are joined by Tim Lucas, lead pastor of Liquid Church in New Jersey. Liquid Church's name is a reference to how Jesus called Himself the living water; the founders of Liquid use the name as a way to remind people that church...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast - I’m super excited to have Heather Zempel with us. Heather is the Discipleship Pastor and Campus Ministries Director at National Community Church in Washington, DC. In Heather’s role as Discipleship Pastor, she spends a lot of time working with small groups. We’ve talked...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Bruce Miller, senior pastor of Christ Fellowship in Texas. Today we’ll be talking to Bruce about his book Leading a Church in a Time of Sexual Questioning. Reach out. // Bruce mentions that the idea for the book came from...

Thanks for listening to this week’s unSeminary podcast. This week we have Judy West chatting with us. She is the Pastor of Leadership Development at The Crossing in St. Louis. The Crossing has four locations in St. Louis and can also be experienced online. Judy is with us today to...

Thank you for joining in for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we have a fantastic conversation with Matt Piland, the executive pastor at Bethlehem Church in Georgia. Bethlehem Church is a church that's 110 years old and for years it was in decline with about 200 people in attendance. Eight...

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Today Bobby Sasser from Radiant Church joins us. He serves as the executive pastor in multiple locations. Radiant Church, which opened almost six years ago, is based in the Tampa Bay area. They first launched in an old movie theater with about 350 people...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today Pastor Mark Zweifel of True North Church in Fairbanks, Alaska is joining us. True North is an 80 year old church and when Mark first came to the church, he was the fourth pastor in four years and there were...

This summer millions of children and youth across the country will attend a Christian camp. While this subculture has its own robust ecosystem of conferences, books, and thought leaders, there seems to be a strange disconnect between local churches and Christian camping ministries. From my perspective, local churches miss out...

Here we are in the middle of another hazy summer, and it could be tempting for you to sit back and think that this isn't a season to expect church growth. Many church leaders view the typically lower attendance of the summer as a chance to regroup. While it's a...