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Episode 839: Philip Anthony Mitchell on Overcoming Jealousy, Surviving a Suicidal Season, How to Lead If Your Church Doesn’t Grow (And If It Explodes), and Answering His Critics
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Philip Anthony Mitchell has the number-one book in the world, but only a few years ago, he nearly quit and nearly…
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Episode 838: “I Don’t Want to Be That Guy”: Chuck DeGroat on Shame, Burnout, the Limits of Spiritual Disciplines and the Nervous System
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Chuck DeGroat has spent years helping pastors after the crisis hits. In this conversation, he explains why shame does…
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Episode 837: The Overcorrection Against Church Growth: Andrew Hopper on Why We Shouldn’t Celebrate Church Decline
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Andrew Hopper saw his church plant grow to 1000 in two years, and almost nobody understood how hard that actually…
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Episode 836: The Strengths, Weaknesses, and Moral Failures of the Mega-Church Movement: Jimmy Mellado on Healthy Growth, Scale, and Lessons from an Olympian
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Jimmy Mellado unpacks what the church growth movement got right and wrong from the 90s through 2010s, why…
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How Churches Can Use Technology Without Losing Sight of the Mission
This post is in partnership with VisitorReach, written by Poncho Lowder, Founder and CTO, and Kalye Antonyuk, Content Marketing. A practical approach to using…
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Episode 835: How to Trust God When You Don’t Understand: John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof on Wanting to Give Up and What They Would Believe If They Weren’t Christians
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof get personal about the questions faith doesn’t answer easily: what…
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5 Leadership Lessons from the Persecuted Church
This post is in partnership with Global Christian Relief, written by Brian Orme, CEO of Global Christian Relief Father Boutros and I sat in front of a large…
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Episode 834: Everything You Know About Multisite Church is Wrong! What the Largest Multisite Study Ever Done Actually Found with Warren Bird and Sean Morgan
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Warren Bird and Sean bust the “8,000 multisite churches” myth with real numbers from the largest…
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Episode 833: The Problem with Going Viral: Seth Godin on the Truth About Influencers, Status and Affiliation, and Why You Should Avoid The Race to the Bottom in AI
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Seth Godin returns to explore the problem with going viral, the truth about influencers, why you don’t want to…
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Episode 832: Building Your Personal Board of Directors: Annie F. Downs on AI Friendship vs. Real Friends and Why Christians Need to Stay in the Secular World
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Annie F. Downs joins the show to talk about why every leader needs a personal board of directors and who actually…
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Episode 831: Is AI Worse for Mental Health Than Social Media? Andy Stanley and Holly Goddard Interview Carey Nieuwhof
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: We missed what social media would do to human flourishing. We can’t afford to miss what AI is about to do…
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Episode 830: AI Parenting Advice: James Kelly on Whether AI Is Sinful in Nature and the Killer App Trap
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Faith Tech’s James Kelly sits in rooms with the people building AI companies and models, and he’s blunt…
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Episode 829: The Race To Replace Humans Is Already On: Will Jones’ Fight To Ban Superintelligent AI and What Most Leaders Have No Idea Is Coming
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: The AI Frontier labs are building AI to do what YOU do, only faster and cheaper. And most leaders have no idea…
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Episode 828: The Giving Disruption Coming for the Church: Pat Gelsinger on AI and Mental Health
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Former Intel and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger talks about what AI is doing to us. He unpacks the mental health toll of…
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Episode 827: AI Series – The Questions About AI Leaders Never Ask: AI Girlfriends, Truth and Deepfakes, and Best and Worst Case Scenarios
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: You use AI. Have you thought about what it’s doing to your church, the people you’re reaching, or your…
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Episode 826: How to Preach Through Controversial Topics: Charlie Dates on What White Preachers and Black Preachers Can Learn From Each Other and Preaching So a Dead Room Wakes Up
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Charlie Dates started preaching at eight, lining up chairs in his living room. Now he’s one of Chicago’s…
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Turn Your Church Data Into Deeper Discipleship
This post is in partnership with Subsplash, written by Jeff Harvey, Senior Content Manager. Subsplash is one platform that does it all—build your church…
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Episode 825: What Destroys Leaders: Eric Geiger on Preaching to Your Own Sins and On Disappointing Your Staff
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Eric Geiger, senior pastor of Mariners Church, joins Carey to talk about what actually brings leaders down, the…
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Episode 824: A $37 Million Building Campaign with a Church of 900 People: Aaron Graham on Big Vision and The Key to Talking About Hot Button Topics
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Aaron Graham is leading a $37 million building campaign with 900 people and explains exactly how to inspire people to…
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The Hidden Way AI Is About to Test Every Pastor’s Soul
A core human problem since Adam and Eve strolled through the garden—and a snake grabbed Eve’s attention—is what to do with the knowledge we received when…
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Episode 823: Winning Back Lost Customers: Will Guidara on Customer Service Pet Peeves, What Simon Sinek Taught Him About Speaking, and Whether AI Will Harm (or Help) Hospitality
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Every leader loses customers. Few know how to win them back. Will Guidara, the restaurateur behind Eleven Madison…
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Episode 822: Seven Signs AI Wrote Your Sermon, Finding and Developing Your Preaching Voice, and A New Study on AI’s Impact on the Brain That Should Scare Every Pastor
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Should you use AI to write your sermon? Maybe not. Three years after ChatGPT, we don’t just sound the same…
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AI is Trying to Erase Death. Toward a Christian Response.
For all of human history, death has been final. AI is about to make it feel optional. And if that’s the case, what does that do to sound theology, your church…
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Episode 821: Finding Your Voice as a Young Preacher: Tyler Staton on the Gift of Imagination and What Getting Sick Taught Him About Pace
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most young leaders try to sound like someone else long before they sound like themselves. Tyler Staton, lead pastor…
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The Discipleship Crisis Nobody Saw Coming: When AI Answers Meet a Silent God
You know this as a preacher: patience is a Christian virtue, something you’re probably working on, and something you encourage people to develop. Well, welcome…
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Episode 820: Required Listening: Eric Peterson and Winn Collier on Eugene Peterson’s Battle Over Not Losing His Soul, Workaholism, Bono and Celebrity, And the Tension to Create a Contemplative Life
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In Part 3 of this summer’s Required Listening, Eugene Peterson’s son Eric Peterson and biographer Winn…
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The Church’s Competitive Advantage Isn’t Your Sermon Anymore
If you look at the social media channels of a variety of churches, most churches are still leading with the sermon as their main way to attract people. And…
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Episode 819: Required Listening: Eugene Peterson on the Rhythms of a Reflective Life, The Challenges of Leading Through the 1960s, and the Origin of the Message
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In Part 2 of this summer’s Required Listening, Carey interviews Eugene Peterson weeks before he retired from…
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Episode 818: Required Listening: Gordon MacDonald on the View From 80 and 15 Lessons On What Really Matter in Life and Leadership
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In this inaugural episode of Required Listening, Carey talks to Gordon MacDonald. For his 80th birthday, Gordon…
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5 Signs Your Church Has Outgrown You Doing Everything Yourself
This post is written by Lisa Zeeveld, CFO at BELAY. With over 23 years of experience in financial management, strategic partnerships, talent management, and…
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Episode 817: Grieving Your Ministry Wounds: Father Ronald Rolheiser and John Mark Comer on Getting Past Bitterness and Giving Your Life and Death Away
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Father Ron Rolheiser has thought longer and harder about grief, aging, leadership, bitterness, and surrender than…
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Does AI Expand Your Green Zone? Nope. But Your Life Might Get Better Anyway.
Here’s an opportunity with AI almost nobody’s talking about. AI is about to free up your Red Zone and Yellow Zone considerably. The inbox triage…
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Episode 815: The Death of Secularism: Matt Chandler on Why Pastors Shouldn’t Wear Capes and When the Church Is All Wood and No Fire
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Matt Chandler doesn’t pull punches. The lead pastor of The Village Church joins Carey to talk about why wearing…
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Episode 816: The Brutal Reality of Pastoring: John Ortberg on Leadership Pain, the Introvert’s Ministry Dilemma, and Dealing With the Job You Didn’t Sign Up For
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: John Ortberg has spent decades leading churches, writing books, and teaching leaders. But every leader has parts of…
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Episode 814: Networking Without the Awkward: Michael Bungay Stanier on Better 1:1s and Building a Path No One Else Is Walking
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Networking feels fake because most people do it wrong. Michael Bungay Stanier has a better way. In this conversation…
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Episode 813: Church Trends Update: Your Congregation Is Being Discipled 49 Hours a Week (And Not By You), The Wrong Convo About AI, Women Leaving, and the Anti-Celebrity Pastor
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Six months into 2026, four church trends deserve a closer look. Algorithms are discipling your congregation 49 hours…
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Episode 812: Creativity Is the Church’s Lost Superpower: Al Gordon on How Stress and Algorithms Are Killing Your Imagination and How to Unlock Creativity in Your Team
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most leaders don’t think of themselves as creative. Al Gordon says that’s the lie keeping you stuck. Al…
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5 Conversations Your Team Needs to Have about AI in the Church
This post is in partnership with Subsplash, written by Lyndsi Bigbee, Marketing Copywriter. Subsplash is one platform that does it all—build your church…
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Episode 811: The Myth of 10,000 Hours: David Epstein on How Creativity Actually Works and Why Constraints Set You Free
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: New York Times bestselling author David Epstein talks about why Malcolm Gladwell’s 10000-hour rule isn’t…
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Episode 810: The End of Anxiety? Joshua Becker on Spiritual Minimalism and When Enough is Enough
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Former pastor, minimalist and New York Times bestselling author Joshua Becker returns to the podcast to discuss why…
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Episode 809: Get Past Broke Thinking In Your Church: The Lean Startup’s Eric Reis on When To Take A Risk and Why Harder is Easier
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: New York Times bestselling author Eric Ries applies his start up philosophy to churches. We cover how to know when to…