Welcome to the church media podcast! Ben Stapley will be joining Carl this week and next. They’ll be talking about how to Maximize your Message Content. For show notes, a transcript and resources for your production team, visit thechurchmediapodcast.com/137

This week, we’re going to wrap up our 3-part series with author, speaker, coach Dr. Andrew Johnston about Firing up your Creative Team. If you’ve missed the last 2 episodes of the podcast, we give you permission right now to stop this episode and go catch up. Andrew has shared some fantastic thoughts on how to kindle the spark in your team. For show notes, transcripts and free resources for your team, visit thechurchmediapodcast.com/136

This week on the show, Carl’s discussion with Andrew Johnston continues as they walk through his book Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams. This is a must have book for any creative leader. thechurchmediapodcast.com/135

Guys – this week on the show, another prominent member of the SALT Community stops by – Andrew Johnston. Over the next 3 weeks we’re going to be chatting with Andrew walking through a lot of the content of his new book Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams.  For Episode Show Notes visit: thechurchmediapodcast.com/134

This week, we’ll wrap up Carl’s discussion with our friend Luke McElroy about Discerning your Creative Calling. Luke’s book Creative Potential is broken up into two Acts – Act 1 is all about Luke’s story and how he found is calling in creative ministry. We’ll follow up in a few weeks and have him back to talk about Act 2 of the book. That’s coming your way in a few weeks. Today on the show, Luke and Carl continue their chat about wrestling with how to know your call, hopefully you may find yourself in his story and it will encourage you today. thechurchmediapodcast.com/133

This week on the show Luke McElroy from OrangeThread Media and SALT Conferences stops by. We’ve had Luke on the show a couple of times to share. We serve with each other a few times a year, whether at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention or be hanging out a SALT conference, or just calling each other up every now and then to shoot ideas around – this is a guy to follow. He has a new book coming out called Creative Potential: Principles for Unleashing Your God-Given Calling. We’ll talk all about it today.  thechurchmediapodcast.com/132

This week we have an incredible interview that we can’t wait to share with you. The CEO of Precept Ministries International, David Arthur will be joining Carl. David’s mother is Kay Arthur, who is an internationally known Bible Teacher – she has written literally hundreds of books and bible studies and has taught people all of the world how to study God’s word for themselves. David took over the ministry for her a few years ago.

You might be thinking what does Precept have to do with church media? David is going to share how you can teach your volunteers how to study the bible for themselves and give you some resources you can use with your team to help them grow in their walk with Christ. thechurchmediapodcast.com/131

This week you get Carl again. We’re hoping the title of today’s episode caught your eye as you’re thinking – what, Fire a Volunteer? Why on earth would you do that? Well, if you’ve led a volunteer team of any kind, you know you wish you could get rid of some people. Come on be honest, there are some people that just are not a good fit for your ministry team. Carl’s going to teach you today the best way he’s found to encourage those folks. thechurchmediapodcast.com/130

Welcome to the podcast. This week, you get Carl all the way through. He’ll be sharing with you 8 Resources you can put in your control room or tech booth that will transform your volunteer culture. thechurchmediapodcast.com/129

This week we have Kyle Kutter who leads the Open Team at LifeChurch.tv. He also oversees Church Metrics, Church Online Platform and Develop.me. Open is LifeChurch.tv’s media content – they produce all sorts of sermon series and ministry graphics. Kyle will walk through how you can pick up tons of free content for your church here in a bit. thechurchmediapodcast.com/128