Today we're honored to have Steve Caton guest posting for us. Steve serves as a member of the Leadership Team at Church Community Builder and is passionate about helping churches make disciples. Having an incredible weekly worship experience is awesome. There is most definitely power in having the people of God gathering together to praise and celebrate....

  Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for joining us today for the unSeminary podcast. We have a great guest today, Joel Schmidgall of National Community Church in Washington, DC. National Community Church was started in 1996 by Mark Batterson and is known as the Theater Church because it has several...

  Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Thank you for joining us today. Our guest for this week’s episode is John Cox from Watermark Church. Watermark Church is in Dallas, Texas, and has three campuses with an average of 14,000 people each Sunday. Watermark has set out to reach people...

  Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast! We’re honored to have you join us today and we are honored to have Mike Ash from Next Level Church in Florida talking with us. Next Level started in 2002 and is a multisite church with two campuses and about 3000 people attending each...

Giving through a church's website continues to be a preferred channel and it isn't showing any signs of slowing down. Looking at the broader non-profit sector, it's clear that we're in the midst of a shift toward giving through online channels: 2 billion dollars a year is given to non-profits...

Way back in the mid-1990s there were a lot of companies gunning to be the leader in "online retailing." (Who remembers Pets.com?) Amazon was an early leader. Since then, it has cemented its place as the "everything store" by offering a massive selection of items that are delivered at a...

  Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re honored to have Layne Schranz from Church of the Highlands. Church of the Highlands was started in 2001 and now has 12 campuses with 31,000 members. It was started as part of an experiment among a small group of pastors and was so...

  Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining in to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today our guest is Mark Mellen at Elevate Life Church in Florida. Elevate Life has about 1200 attendees and is one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Mark describes Elevate Life as...

There are two kinds of church leaders ... those who worry about finances and those who lie about not worrying about it. If we're honest, many of us have lost sleep over the generosity of our churches. We're filled with God-given vision but we wonder how that vision will be...

  Welcome back to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Darin Poli, Executive Pastor of River Valley Church, with me today. River Valley Church is a great church in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota and is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. They...