In this episode, Pastor Matt and I discuss how to engage your volunteers, even if they aren't coming to your live services. Just because your volunteers are not able to come, doesn't mean they can't serve. Some of them are even looking for opportunities to serve but aren't sure how. We give you some practical tips on how to keep people engaged and feeling part of what is going on at your church.

In this episode, I am joined by Jake Johnson, author of the book "A King's Return". This first book in a trilogy explores the fantasy world of Islandia. When there was already a lack of peace among the kingdoms, the Steward King is killed and his young son is thrust into the seat of King. He must find a way to bring Islandia together while they continue to wait for the return of their beloved King Eloy.

In this episode, I unpack the parable of the sower with a little bit of a different application of the lesson Jesus was teaching. We can invest our time, energy, and resources into many different people, but too often we invest our time and energy into the wrong people and miss out on some great leaders along the way.

In this episode, I touch on the hot topic in ministry: online church. I reveal the reason that even though I believe that online church is here to stay, and should, why I think it isn't the answer to church growth. Before you stone me, or pat me on the back, make sure you listen to the reason why because it may not be what you expect.

In this episode, I share a personal hack I have used for a couple of years now. I am always trying to find ways to make my time more efficient and systems that run themselves. This one helps me get all the resources and steps in front of me in one place, and it is pretty simple to put together and maintain. This episode is inspired by Chris McClure's The Great Life Podcast episode titled "Use Your Resources" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-life-podcast/id1475553119?i=1000491300830) If you haven't done it yet, you need to jump over to our website and join our growing community of pastors and ministry leaders. If you are looking for encouragement, support, and great ministry ideas, you need to come on over to the community. http://ministryhackers.com/home

In this episode, I discuss how we are all facing change at a level most of us are not used to. We have two choices presented to us...we can either choose to change on our own and orchestrate it ourselves, or we can wait till it is forced upon us. The choice is in our hands now. What will we do?

In this episode, I pull from a chapter in my book, Millennial Leadership, and discuss how you can increase your influence by facilitating the success of others. As leaders, our focus should not be leveraging people to facilitate our own success, but we should leverage our influence to make others around us successful.

In this episode, I steal a page from the Pastor's Secret Blueprint for an Engaging Church. We are all looking for ways to engage people in our communities, so I thought it would be a good time to share a simple strategy for creating a virtual relationship with local businesses.

In this episode, Pastor Matt and I talk about my book Millennial Leadership and how it is designed to create common ground, collaboration, and increased team morale.

In this episode, I discuss the incredible impact this COVID pandemic has had on the church, how the numbers are not looking good for the church in America, but how I believe we should be responding to glorify God. This could be our greatest moment, I believe.