Author: Sean Cronin
7 Weird Lies About Online Church Pastors Need To Stop Believing
by Carey Nieuwhof: You’ve had so much change thrown at you this year, it’s hard to know what to do. Especially about church online. As more and more churches re-gather, it will be easier than ever to look at church online as something you had to do to survive, or […]
Why You Shouldn’t Quit Ministry Right Now, Even Though You Feel Like It
by Carey Nieuwhof: You’ve probably thought about quitting recently. The data David Kinnaman, President of Barna Group shares weekly on our joint podcast, Church Pulse Weekly, shows that pastors are more discouraged than ever, are worried about much lower effectiveness in their ministry post-COVID, and that 20% of churches might […]
Leading #beyondthehashtag
By Doug Holliday: Last week I was in Denver for meetings with our ministry partner, Dare 2 Share, when the words of a respected Christian leader blew up social media. As we all have seen in the past month and even recent years, the words of leaders have an effect […]
Episode 528: Challenges Multisite Churches Face During COVID
by NewChurches.com: In Episode 528 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the dilemma that many multisite churches are facing. “There seems to be a common question between my multisite friends. We have two locations and they are both meeting at schools and because of COVID we have […]
PODCAST 095: Launching & Elevating Church Communication Teams
COVID is teaching us, the church, many lessons. Obviously, there are many lessons about the value of Church Online or Discipleship Online. But why stop there? Church Communications Directors have been working overtime in this COVID season, managing the chaos that has been 2020. While we don’t talk about Communications […]
Streaming is the New Traditional Service
by The Church.Digital: I think most of us can relate to the expression “traditional service” from our church experiences. Some of us might even remember the time when singing hymns followed by a 3-point message was no longer keeping people in church. At that time, the idea to add contemporary […]
Leading a Thriving Small Groups Ministry with Ryan Hartwig
by unSeminary: Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Ryan T. Hartwig with us today. Ryan is Professor of Communication at Colorado Christian University and has studied collaborative organizations within the church, such as groups and teams. Ryan is with us to talk about a new book that […]
Pandemic Disciple Making: Lessons for the In-Between
By Justin Gravitt: “Ladies and gentleman, this is Justin, and I’ll be your captain today. On behalf of Jesus, welcome aboard Pandemic Flight COVID-19, offering non-stop service from your sense of normalcy to an undisclosed final destination. Flight time will be three weeks…uh, I mean three months… actually it could […]
Projected Leadership
by Josh Chumley: I was a psych major in college and any good or bad psych major knows the infamous Sigmund Freud. One of the staples of a good Freudian theorist is the concept of projection. Basically, how you feel (anger, sadness, etc.) about your parents, authorities, other people in […]
What are leading churches doing for weekend programming this fall? Roundtable discussion with Ben Stapley, Chris Vacher & Brian Tome.
by unSeminary: How committed are we really to forging the future rather than preserving the past? Today we’ve got another special episode of the unSeminary podcast where we sit down with three fantastic church leaders from around North America—Ben Stapley, Chris Vacher and Brian Tome—and ask them some questions about […]