Setting the Table: When Dinner Church Filled Rooms with the Unchurched
Dr. Verlon Fosner's Seattle congregation was declining 14% every year despite doing everything right—improved worship, new programs, upgraded tech. So Verlon stopped trying to fix the decline and star...
26 Feb 44min
What If Lent Wasn't About Giving Up, But Showing Up?
Church leaders often approach Lent with a familiar script: add a devotional practice, give something up, host a midweek service. But what if this season called us to something deeper? In this special ...
17 Feb 11min
The Problem With Trying to Make God Show Up
Many church leaders feel crushing church growth pressure—the constant anxiety that if you don't reverse decline or manage outcomes perfectly, you've failed. But what if that pressure is actually destr...
12 Feb 35min
What If You Stopped Doing Everything? A Q&A on Lay-Led Ministry
Many church leaders love the idea of lay ministry in theory, but struggle to understand what it actually looks like in practice. In this special Q&A episode, Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm answer...
5 Feb 31min
The Church Planters Hiding in Your Congregation
What if the church planters God is calling are already in your congregation? John McGinley, executive director of Myriad in the UK, shares how they're equipping everyday disciples to start new worship...
29 Jan 46min
Why Stay Protestant?
What does Protestant identity in Christ mean for today's church leaders? In this conversation, theologian Beth Felker Jones explores why Protestant faith still matters in a moment when many are conver...
22 Jan 37min
What Happens When Familiarity Wears Off the Edge
Discover how to read the financial parables of Jesus Christ with fresh eyes in this conversation with Dr. Keith Bodner, author of "Exploring the Financial Parables of Jesus." Keith shares how a moment...
15 Jan 34min
Two Pastors, One Vision, and a Merger That Changed Everything
In November 2020, amid a pandemic and national racial reckoning, two congregations in Des Moines made a bold decision to merge. Hope Des Moines, a primarily white Lutheran church, and Elim Christian F...
8 Jan 40min
