The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast

The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast helps Christian leaders navigate and lead through the cultural issues of our day by giving voice to recognizable names in ministry, subject matter experts, and local pastors and leaders. Whatever area of ministry you serve in, our goal is to help you lead better every day.

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Jarrid Wilson: De-Stigmatizing Mental Illness in the Church

“If the local church really wants to be the hope of the world, then the local church needs to step into areas in which the world finds itself hopeless: Mental health." - Jarrid Wilson

Max Lucado: How Pastors Can Be Anxious for Nothing

People can be anxious for nothing. “Helping people disentangle this problem with anxiety is one of the great privileges of the church.” - Max Lucado

Efrem Smith: Being God’s Reconcilers in a Volatile Mission Field

“We have to challenge, lovingly, folks in the church to remember that our citizenship in the Kingdom of God actually supersedes even our citizenship in the United States of America.” - Efrem Smith

Todd Adkins: Why We Struggle to Develop Leaders in the Church

“Our job as pastors is to develop people. When you get to heaven, your legacy is not going to be something you’ve done; it’s going to be the people that you’ve developed.”

Shane Claiborne: When Christians Are Compelled to Protest

“I don’t know many people who get argued into thinking differently. I know a whole lot of people who get moved by their heart and they get story-ed in.”

William Vanderbloemen: How to Find and Keep Great Church Staff

“Unwinding a hire is bad in the corporate world—it’s way worse in the church world."

Mark MacDonald: How to Make Your Church Known for Something

“Every pastor needs to know that oftentimes we’re doing far too much stuff.”

Dave Gibbons: Leading Your Church through Desert Moments

"When you think of [Jesus] in his perfect state and we’re all with him in heaven, he’s the only one that’s going to bear scars, and he’s still perfect."

Jodi Hickerson: The No-Strings-Attached Approach to Church Planting

"We like to throw these parties for people who are often overlooked or often under-celebrated, that couldn't pay us back."

Adam Hamilton: Lessons on Leadership from Moses, the Reluctant Prophet

“I think for Moses [the Promised Land] was always more than a just a piece of real estate. It was a place where God’s Kingdom was lived out on earth as it is in heaven."

Kyle Idleman: How Pastors Miss the Grace of God

“Paul’s discovery of God’s grace did not come through God’s blessing in the way that Paul would have wanted or Paul would have been looking for. It came unexpectedly. It came through disappointment. It came through discouragement."

Peyton Jones: What We Miss about the Apostles’ Approach to Reaching the Unreached

“I see the similarities between today and the first century. I believe that a post-Christian world is very similar to a pre-Christian world…And if the conditions are the same, then the solutions are the same.”

Jeff Myers: Exposing the Non-Biblical Worldviews that Influence the Church

“I want you to imagine looking at your congregation right now. Only one out of five of the people you see has a biblical worldview.”

Shawn Lovejoy: Building Healthy Cultures, Teams, and Systems in the Church

“I really believe that if one more program would save the day, the church would have already saved it.”

Mark DeYmaz: Repurposing the Church—Living Out the Gospel and Leading Change in Culture

“We are way past sharing four spiritual laws on the beach. People don’t need the words. They need the works.”

Chad Robichaux: Helping Broken Warriors Win the Most Important Battles in Life

“There’s an 85 percent divorce rate in military veterans. There are 20 plus suicides a day."

Derwin Gray: Why Sunday Is Still the Most Segregated Time of the Week and What to Do about It

"We as the church are to be a tutor to the world to say ‘This is what love looks like across ethnic, social-economic, and gender barriers' as we go about our sacred vocations of bringing glory to Jesus."

Mark Batterson: How Jesus Modeled Manhood

“What I’m calling for is a holy use of testosterone.”

Carolyn Custis James: Helping Men and Women Embrace a Blessed Alliance Based on Biblical Understanding

“What happened at the fall was the destruction of the relationship between humanity and our creator, and the destruction of the relationship between male and female.”
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Jody Dean Gives Church Administration Advice to Pastors Who Hate It

Dr. Jody Dean joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to explain why church administration is an essential part of ministry and how, far from taking away from ministry’s personal side, administration supports and empowers pastoral care.

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