The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast

The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast helps Christian leaders navigate and lead through the cultural issues of our day by giving voice to recognizable names in ministry, subject matter experts, and local pastors and leaders. Whatever area of ministry you serve in, our goal is to help you lead better every day.

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Adam Hamilton: Lessons on Leadership from Moses, the Reluctant Prophet

“I think for Moses [the Promised Land] was always more than a just a piece of real estate. It was a place where God’s Kingdom was lived out on earth as it is in heaven."

Kyle Idleman: How Pastors Miss the Grace of God

“Paul’s discovery of God’s grace did not come through God’s blessing in the way that Paul would have wanted or Paul would have been looking for. It came unexpectedly. It came through disappointment. It came through discouragement."

Peyton Jones: What We Miss about the Apostles’ Approach to Reaching the Unreached

“I see the similarities between today and the first century. I believe that a post-Christian world is very similar to a pre-Christian world…And if the conditions are the same, then the solutions are the same.”

Jeff Myers: Exposing the Non-Biblical Worldviews that Influence the Church

“I want you to imagine looking at your congregation right now. Only one out of five of the people you see has a biblical worldview.”

Shawn Lovejoy: Building Healthy Cultures, Teams, and Systems in the Church

“I really believe that if one more program would save the day, the church would have already saved it.”

Mark DeYmaz: Repurposing the Church—Living Out the Gospel and Leading Change in Culture

“We are way past sharing four spiritual laws on the beach. People don’t need the words. They need the works.”

Chad Robichaux: Helping Broken Warriors Win the Most Important Battles in Life

“There’s an 85 percent divorce rate in military veterans. There are 20 plus suicides a day."

Derwin Gray: Why Sunday Is Still the Most Segregated Time of the Week and What to Do about It

"We as the church are to be a tutor to the world to say ‘This is what love looks like across ethnic, social-economic, and gender barriers' as we go about our sacred vocations of bringing glory to Jesus."

Mark Batterson: How Jesus Modeled Manhood

“What I’m calling for is a holy use of testosterone.”

Carolyn Custis James: Helping Men and Women Embrace a Blessed Alliance Based on Biblical Understanding

“What happened at the fall was the destruction of the relationship between humanity and our creator, and the destruction of the relationship between male and female.”

Robby Gallaty: How the Jewish Jesus Did Discipleship and Other Things We’ve Forgotten

“Jesus is not a western, blond hair, blue-eyed surfer dude American….He’s a middle eastern, dark-skinned rabbi.”

Steve Adams: How to Be a Great Staff Pastor under a Senior Pastor

“You can’t really become the leader that God intends you to be until you first become the follower that God wants you to be.”

Christian George: What Charles Spurgeon Has to Say to the Church Today

“You’d be hard-pressed to find any other preacher in the last 500 years who is so Christo-centric.”

Glenn Paauw: Pulling Back Bible Tradition in the Modern Era to Uncover God’s Intention for the Scriptures

“I’m really trying to undo—if you will, completely, audaciously, perhaps ridiculously—500 years-worth of Bible tradition and paradigm, which we need to distinguish from the Bible itself."

Bible Literacy Experts Address the Problem of Bible-Less Christianity

“We have normally pointed the finger outside the church and said ‘It’s the culture. It’s against us.’…But actually, the more we’ve looked into it...some of the problem is within the church itself, and specifically, historically, what the church has done with the Bible in the modern period."

Adam Weber: Giving Up Ego and Shame to Pray and Preach Better

“What you have to do as a pastor is you have to set aside your ego—you are not God’s gift to the world."

Our Most Popular Interview: Kara Powell and the #1 Reason Youth Leave the Church

"It’s not doubt that is toxic, but unexpressed or unexplored doubt that is toxic."

Lee Strobel: Creating Dialogue Around the Gospel

“We have an unfair advantage—I think Christians do—in the marketplace of ideas, which is: Truth is on our side."

Craig Groeschel: The Small, Everyday Decisions that Reveal Divine Direction

“A life of faithfulness is made of up hundreds of thousands of small decisions that compound over time that actually lead us in the right direction."

Jennifer Rothschild: Understanding God’s Love from Every Book of the Bible

“I’m going to receive the love of God, even if it’s by faith—having nothing to do with my feelings."

‘The Church Is Called To Salt, Not Sugar,’ Says Pastor John...

John Amanchukwu Sr. serves as the First Assistant to the Senior Pastor and the Youth Pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Andy Bannister: How Pastors and Churches Can Stop Living as ‘Undercover...

Dr. Andy Bannister joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how pastors and church members can share their faith boldly, strategically, and without fear.

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