Best of 2023: Preaching a Theology of Sending
Episode 791 Hosts Noah Oldham and Vance Pitman sit down with Pastor Matt Carter to discuss...
New Churches Podcast
The New Churches podcast offers practical answers to your real ministry questions. We aren’t going to provide lofty pie-in-the-sky theories. Instead, we are going to help you in your real ministry context, with your real thoughts, questions, and issues.
The New Churches podcast offers practical answers to your real ministry questions. We aren’t going to provide lofty pie-in-the-sky theories. Instead, we are going to help you in your real ministry context, with your real thoughts, questions, and issues.
Best of 2023: Did the Pandemic Change Church Planting?
Episode 790 Did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your church differently than others? Host Ed Stetzer talks...
Creating a Positive Staff Culture
Episode 789 Host Ed Stetzer returns with pastor and planter Mark Lee to discuss the impact...
How Do We Keep Pastors in the Game?
Episode 788 Host Ed Stetzer chats with pastor and planter Mark Lee to discuss why we...
David Platt on Preaching with the Nations in View
Episode 787 Host Tony Merida sits down with longtime friend, pastor, and author David Platt to...
Episode 786 Host Ed Stetzer meets with Emmy award-winning producer and director of Lifeway Kids, Chuck...
Episode 785 Host Tony Merida sits down with longtime friend, pastor, and author David Platt to...
Transitions and Leaving Well: Part 2
Episode 784 In this second installment of “Transitions and Leaving Well,” host Ed Stetzer meets with...
Transitions and Leaving Well: Part 1
Episode 783 Host Ed Stetzer meets back up with Lifeway’s Director of Leadership Development Todd Adkins...
Using Demographics to Better Serve Your Community
Episode 782 Hosts Tony Merida and Vance Pitman sit back down with returning guest, author and...
How to Encourage Evangelism in Your Church
Episode 781 Host Ed Stetzer teams back up with Executive Director of Lifeway Research Scott McConnell...
Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture
Episode 780 Hosts Tony Merida and Vance Pitman spend time with author and pastor Jamaal Williams...
Are Americans Open to Talking About Their Faith?
Episode 779 Host Ed Stetzer meets with Executive Director of Lifeway Research Scott McConnell to discuss...
Episode 778 Host Tony Merida chats with pastor, author, and long-time ministry partner J.D. Greear to...
Episode 777 Host Ed Stetzer joins his with long-time friend, colleague, professor, and ethics expert Scott...
How to Make Gospel-Centered Applications
Episode 776 Host Tony Merida chats with pastor, author, and long-time ministry partner J.D. Greear to...
AI and the Ethics of Preaching
Episode 775 Host Ed Stetzer meets with author, ethics expert, and his own colleague Dr. Scott...
Renewing the Importance of the Gathered Church
Episode 774 Hosts Noah Oldham and Vance Pitman sit down with Send Network’s Vice President for...
Considerations for Buying a Building for Your Church
Episode 773 Host Ed Stetzer joins with rural pastor and planter Will Basham to discuss God’s faithfulness...
Episode 772 In this episode, hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham talk with pastor, planter, and...
Episode 771 Host Ed Stetzer sits down with rural pastor and planter Will Basham to discuss...
Episode 770 What exactly are the benefits of engaging with social media? Hosts Vance Pitman and...
Habits of Healthy Church Planting Couples
Episode 769 Host Ed Stetzer teams back up with long-time ministry leaders Christine and Kyle Hoover...
Leading and Supporting Planters from a Large Network
Episode 768 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham spend time with pastor and planter Josh Howerton...
Episode 767 Host Ed Stetzer chats with ministry leaders Christine and Kyle Hoover about how church...
Episode 766 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham offer their insights into what it means for...
Episode 765 Host Ed Stetzer teams back up with writer, professor, and missionary Trevin Wax to hone in...
Episode 764 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham spend some time with Strategic Renewal President Daniel...
Episode 763 Host Ed Stetzer teams back up with author, pastor, and leadership expert Eric Geiger...
Episode 762 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham join with small group guru, leadership expert, and...
Lead Your Church Through Change
Episode 761 Host Ed Stetzer meets with author, pastor, and leadership expert Eric Geiger to discuss...
Starting Small Groups in a New Church
Episode 760 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham spend some time with pastor, author, and discipleship...
Leadership Development for the Next Generation
Episode 759 Host Ed Stetzer meets with Lifeway’s Director of Leadership Todd Adkins to explore the...
Warning Signs for Leadership Failure
Episode 758 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham team back up with author, speaker, and church...
Episode 757 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham team up with pastor, author, and church planting...
Leadership Challenges Post-Pandemic
Episode 756 Host Ed Stetzer meets with leadership extraordinaire Todd Adkins to dive into the ways...
Introducing Start to Finish: The Life and Ministry of Tony Evans. Podcast episodes drop soon. Subscribe...
Episode 755 Host Ed Stetzer meets with writer, professor, and missionary Trevin Wax to discuss the...
Episode 754 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham join Brad Lomenick for the second installment of...
Episode 753 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham spend time with author, speaker, and consultant Brad...
Sending Churches: From Parent to Partner
Episode 752 Host Ed Stetzer meets with Tony Merida and Adam Muhtaseb to discuss the complex...
The Legacy of Tim Keller on Church Planting
Episode 751 Hosts Ed Stetzer and Trevin Wax sit down to discuss the life and impact...
Trauma-Informed Care in Your Church: Response
Episode 750 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham team back up with The Hub Urban Ministries’...
The Seasons of Preaching for a Pastor
Episode 749 Host Ed Stetzer meets with Tony Merida and Adam Muhtaseb to discuss the ins...
Trauma-Informed Care in Your Church: Assessment
Episode 748 Hosts Vance Pitman and Noah Oldham meet with The Hub Urban Ministries’ Cassie Hammett...
Evangelizing the Next Generation
Episode 747 What is the next generation looking for in discipleship relationships? Host Ed Stetzer chats...
Episode 746 We talk about “mobilizing the church” but what do that really mean? Noah Oldham,...
Giving an Effective Gospel Presentation
Episode 745 As our society tips toward majority non-Christian, the need for clearer calls to the...
Episode 744 One way we build a sending culture in a church is preaching about “living...
Managing Your Time as a Bivocational Church Planter
Episode 743 Time is our most precious commodity, and most bivocational leaders say they have trouble...
Connecting to Your Community as a New Church Planter
Episode 742 What does it look like to connect with your community? Noah Oldham and Vance...
Episode 741 You’ve heard about “having a multiplication mindset” but what is it and why does...
Build Your Church Plant Through Evangelism
Episode 740 New churches must be built on a foundation of evangelism. Noah Oldham and Vance...
Leading an Established Church to Support Church Planting
Episode 739 Establishing healthy partnership between an established church and a plant can be a challenge....
Episode 738 Planters, lead pastors, apprentices – we all need to grow as preachers. Clint Clifton...
Creating Faith Goals for Your Church
Episode 737 How do you set goals for your church without slipping into pragmatism? Ed Stetzer...
Pastor Dad: Pastoral Ministry and Fatherhood
Episode 736 “Pastor Dads” face tremendous challenges in raising children. Clint Clifton talks with Bryan Loritts...
Fighting Feelings of Inferiority
Episode 735 Most, if not all, church planters struggle with feeling inferior. Ed Stetzer, Scotty Smith...
Best Hiring Practices for a New Church
Episode 734 We know the value of building leaders, but what about when we need to...
The Long View: Church Planting with End Goals in Mind
Episode 733 Everything about planting screams, “Emergency!” Host Ed Stetzer talks with Scotty Smith and Adam...
Executive Leadership in New Churches
Episode 732 Regardless of a church’s financial situation, every pastor can benefit from having a “No....
Did the Pandemic Change Church Planting?
Episode 731 Did the pandemic affect your church differently than others? Host Ed Stetzer talks with...
Episode 730 Jesus said to make disciples, but how do we make disciples who make disciples?...
What Clint Clifton Would Want You to Know About Church Planting
Episode 728 Clint Clifton believed our love of the Lord compels us to evangelize and multiply...
Funding: What Does it Cost to Plant a Church?
Episode 727 What does it actually cost to plant a church? Host Ed Stetzer talks with...
Set Yourself Up for a Great Year!
Episode 726 Looking at this past year, many of us think, “Wow, that could’ve gone better.”...
Year in Review: 3 Ways to Improve Your Preaching
Year in Review: Episode 725 One of the most important topics for pastors and church planters...
Year in Review: Organizing Your Week
Year in Review | Episode 723 Pastors and church planters feel the pinch of not having...
Year in Review: Reaching People Far from God
Year in Review: Episode 722 Many church planters set out to reach people with the gospel...
What Churches that Multiply Do Differently
Episode 721 Many pastors intend for their church to multiply, but very few actually start new...
From Maintenance to Multiplication
Episode 719 Pastors are so overwhelmed with responsibilities that they often move the bar really low...
Episode 717 What happens in churches when pastors don’t properly plan for someone to succeed them?...
Financing Ministry in the Expensive Urban Core
Episode 716 Raising funds for a church plant in the expensive urban core of a city...
Episode 715 Even if we say growth is really not a congregation’s goal, there’s a subtle...
Church Planting in the Big Apple
Episode 714 The complex diversity of places like New York City poses challenges and creates opportunities...
Episode 713 People talk about calling in such a subjective way that it’s a little hard...
Episode 712 Seasonal community outreach isn’t a topic of widespread discussion but it’s a very practical...
Episode 711 Is a multi-leader organization really a “two-headed snake”? Or is co-pastoring a restoration of...
Episode 710 Planters face challenges trying to raise up pastors, but they also have some advantages....
Episode 709 As you reach people for Jesus, inevitably they are going to ask what the...
Episode 708 Leveraging business for mission presents numerous challenges, yet there are strong arguments to be...
Episode 707 There’s so much to book writing that’s unknown and kind of mysterious to those...
How to Help When Disaster Strikes Your Community
Episode 706 When disaster strikes your community, every church planter must see it as a God-given...
Increasing Your Congregation’s Church Planting IQ
Episode 705 As we’re coming out of Covid, how do we get churches thinking about church...
Episode 704 Planters and church-planting networks and organizations are trying to figure out how they fit...
Introducing Reconstructing Faith
I’m Trevin Wax. In October, I’m starting a new podcast called Reconstructing Faith that examines the...
Kids Ministry for Church Plants
Episode 703 Church planters and their teams are on the lookout for best practices in starting...
Disciple-Making Strategies for New Churches
Episode 702 We often think of discipleship as a post-conversion process, but it also can be...
Engage the City, Make Disciples, Build the Church
Episode 701 Most, if not all, church planters aspire to start a multiplying church. Yet often...
Episode 700 Ministry wives face unique challenges, and fewer resources are produced to help them than...
Demystifying Church Facility Financing
Episode 699 Church planters are thinking about financing permanent facilities, but probably no group of people...
Finding a Facility for Your Growing Church
Episode 698: Finding a facility for a new church is is one of the most challenging...
Episode 697: No planter goes in thinking it’s going to be easy, but none knows quite...
Episode 696: When a church sends out a planter, the relationship hasn’t ended; it’s just begun....
What is the Mission? Why Does it Matter? Part 2
Episode 695: How you plant a church is shaped by missiology and what you end up...
What is the Mission? Why Does it Matter? Part 1
Episode 694: What is the mission of the church? To many, the answer seems obvious but...
Why I Would Never Support Your Church Plant
Episode 693: Many times, church planters are disappointed when they work hard to rustle up support...
Embedding Into the Fabric of Your City
Episode 692: When you are planting a church in a community that’s new to you, getting...
Build in the Beginning What You Want in the End
Episode 691: Whatever you want to be true of your church in maturity must be embedded...
Pastors are Professional Forgivers
Episode 690: Pastors often are criticized unfairly and need to forgive the sin, yet they also...