If you get a group of pastors and church leaders together in a room and ask them what they wish they could change about their church, often the topic of discipleship comes up. Leaders want to see people more engaged in spiritual growth. Engagement with the Bible is high on...

Welcome, everyone, to this week’s podcast. I’m happy to have you with us as we talk with Julie Liem from Eastside Church in Anaheim, California. As long as Julie had been at Eastside she always worked in a volunteer role, but a few years ago the position of Director of Volunteers...

Churches that make a difference in their community have figured out relationships and how to scale. Thirty years ago, the small group movement helped churches break through growth barriers. Large churches felt small when people met in homes and developed a deeper sense of community. In fact, small groups are...

Every weekend hundreds of churches meet in rented movie theaters. Whether they are multisite campuses, church plants or established churches, movie theaters continue to be a great choice for churches that need a place to meet. Recently, we talked with 12 leading movie theater churches and today we're sharing what we...

There seems to be renewed interest in the "women in leadership" conversation in the local church. I've recently bumped into a number of posts, articles and discussions online about this topic. Here are just a few: 3 Questions Church Leaders Should Be Asking About Women in Leadership (Amy Anderson on...

Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we have Phil Taylor from Mosaic Church in central Florida on the show. Mosaic Church started on Easter 2003 and currently has three locations. Being in the backyard of Disney World, Mosaic serves a lot of people...

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. - Colossians 4:5 How do first-time guests go from not knowing anything about your church to being engaged in your ministry? There are at least four distinct stages that I believe the guests who arrive...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thanks for joining us with Reggie McNeal of Leadership Network. Leadership Network began in 1984 with just 20 leaders and now serves over 200,000 leaders around the world. They help identify where God is working at the edges of his kingdom and help...

We may be heading into another economic recession soon. Over the last 3 decades, they have come around with uncanny regularity, although we seem to be caught by surprise every time. The fact is that we will once again face widespread economic pressure in the future. I'm not an economist...

Thanks so much for joining us today for this episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re absolutely honored to have Brad Lomenick with us today. Brad is one of those guys who knows everyone, so you’ve probably heard of him or seen him a time or two. He spent 12 years...