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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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."

Scott Sauls: Cultivating Iron-Sharpens-Iron Friendships in the Church

“Real friendship happens when we move toward the people we are most tempted to avoid."

Greg Smalley: Fighting for Oneness in Marriage

“When we’re united; when we’re one, nothing is impossible for us. And I tell you what: Satan hates that.”

Chip Ingram: How God Longs for You to See Him

“If I really believe good is God and lavish and wants to help me, I gotta be more that way with my kids."

Joni Eareckson Tada: What Every Pastor Needs to Know About Ministering to Those With Special Needs

Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, is an international advocate for people with disabilities.

Gary Thomas: The Neglected Word That Can Change Everything For Your Marriage

“You can’t fake your marriage in front of your kids and you can’t fake your marriage behind a pulpit."

Dallas Jenkins on Faith, Film and Creating Breakthrough Stories

Subscribe to the ChurchLeaders Podcast Dallas Jenkins produced his first movie at the age of 25, a $2 million project called “Hometown Legend”, which was...
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Super Bowl LIX Players of Faith: Christian Players Speak Out

Ahead of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday (Feb. 9), players from the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs have been speaking boldly about believing in Jesus.
Joby Martin

Joby Martin: What Happens When Pastors Finally Understand Grace

Joby Martin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to discuss what happens when a church leader has truly been run over by the “grace train" and understands the profound love and grace of God.

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