Mike & Zach take up the issue of how a pastor deals with criticism. 

Mike & Zach discuss the pastor's use of social media. What are the potential ministry advantages? Dangers? What are some helpful principles to guide our engagement of various media platforms? 

Mike & Zach launch season 2 of the podcast by recasting the vision for the program and explaining the value they hope to add to the sea of podcasts dealing with pastoral ministry. 

Mike & Zach ask what constitutes ministry success. Rather than pastors measuring their ministries by worldly standards, the pastor must ask first and foremost, "Is my ministry being faithful to the Word of God?" Faithfulness is the measure of ministry success. 

Mike & Zach take up the craving of pastors and churches to be accepted by the world and consider how this pursuit can actually take us away from the gospel--the "offensive" good news that the world desperately needs. 

Mike & Zach consider how God's redemptive goal of creating "one new humanity" influences how we treat each other today. 

Mike & Zach take up the unique contribution the pastor must make to the important conversation taking place today on the issue of racial reconciliation. How should pastors and their congregations think about humanity? What is the theological perspective missing in so much of this conversation today? 

Join Mike & Zach as they discuss the marks of a true church. What is required of a "true" church? Does this imply that there is such a thing as a "false" church? How can a person know if they are attending the "right" church? 

For the article that became the topic of this program, see "Am I Attending the Right Church?" by Zachariah Carter.  

Join Mike & Zach as they continue their discussion of the shepherd as sheep and the ongoing need to wage war against indwelling sin. After all, our churches need holy pastors. 

Mike & Zach continue their series in the shepherd as sheep by taking up the doctrine of mortification. How does a pastor mortify sin? The same way any Christian does.