Episode Summary Most ministry leaders don’t burn out because they stop loving the mission. They burn out because somewhere along the way they lose the intimacy with Jesus that started it all. In this episode, Zach Leighton sits down with Kristen Welch, founder of Mercy House Global, to talk about the hidden cost of leading […]

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Conservation Agriculture, Discipleship, and the Church’s Call to Restore Creation The Bible opens in a garden. A gardener. A calling. Work it. Keep it. And somewhere along the way, many ministry leaders were taught that discipleship is mostly about words. Preaching. Teaching. Programs. What happens inside a sanctuary. But what if discipleship also includes soil? […]

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Polycentric Mission: What Locally Led Ministry Really Requires A donor wants a clean story. A sending church wants a clean plan. A mission leader wants clean metrics. But the global church is not clean. It is growing in places many Western leaders do not control. And that reality is forcing a change, not just in […]

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From Testimony to Transformation: Why Storytelling Must Lead Somewhere Ministry storytelling works because it connects before it convinces. Most ministry leaders know that now. They’ve seen the engagement. They’ve watched testimony videos outperform announcements, sermons clipped for social, and event promos combined. Stories get watched. They get shared. They move people. But there’s a quieter […]

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Prison Ministry Isn’t Just Evangelism Anymore: Meet the Church Inside For decades, churches have gone into prisons to bring the gospel.Faithfully. Consistently. Quietly. What many leaders haven’t seen yet is this: the gospel didn’t just arrive. It took root. Across the U.S., there is a mature, functioning, indigenous church operating inside prisons. Not as an […]

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Dignity-First Ministry: How to Help Without Replacing Parents A child shows up for school without supplies. It would take almost nothing to fix. A few pencils. Some paper. The kind of problem you can solve with pocket change. But what if solving it the fast way teaches the wrong lesson. In a recent conversation on […]

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Discipleship that actually reaches the hours people live Holistic discipleship is what ministry leaders say they want, and what many church cultures still struggle to practice. We preach Sunday, but we rarely train people for Monday. Work, provision, family stress, and the created world shape our people far more hours each week than a sermon […]

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The Gospel Is Bigger Than a Golden Ticket Gospel and work theology asks a simple but disruptive question: what if the good news of Jesus was never meant to stop at personal salvation, but was always meant to reshape how we lead, employ, build, and steward? A ministry leader told me once, “We’re just trying […]

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The Gospel Your Heart Can Live Inside Deep discipleship is what many ministry leaders want, but few feel like they’re actually practicing. We can teach the right things and still panic when pressure hits. The gap is not usually information. It’s formation. You can teach the right things.You can write the statement of faith.You can […]

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From Water Pump to Rice Field Leadership A Jesus-centered alternative to pressure-driven ministry The hidden pressure shaping how ministry leaders lead The church leadership model most pastors inherit trains them to apply pressure instead of cultivate people. Most ministry leaders do not intend to control people. They intend to be faithful. But faithfulness quietly gets […]

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