Leading Simple with Rusty George

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

On the final episode of Simple Succession, a Simple Faith Podcast Series, Rusty interviews Sean Morgan, who supports incoming pastors through megachurch transitions via cohort coaching. Morgan says he assesses succession health by whether a church has recently sacrificed for the mission versus pursuing comfort, arguing inward focus fuels conflict during change. He warns churches often over-center...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

In the final episode of the Simple Faith Q&A, Rusty is joined by Michael and Bryan to answer two final listener questions from Instagram. First, they address Matthew 5:32 and whether God intends a divorced woman to never remarry, explaining that Jesus was confronting men who discarded wives for trivial reasons and emphasizing the sanctity of marriage while noting biblical grounds discussed for...

On day four of Simple Faith’s Q&A Rusty joins Michael Hinton and Bryan Mrazek, as they answer two listener questions from Instagram. First, they discuss what happens when a believer dies, emphasizing the promise that to be absent from the body is to be present with Jesus, citing Jesus’ words to the thief on the cross (“Today you will be with me in paradise”) while also affirming a future bodil...

On day three of Simple Faith’s Q&A week, Rusty George sits down with Michael Hinton and Bryan Mrazek as they answer two commonly misused Bible verses about expecting “the best.” They explain Philippians 4:13 (“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”) in its context of Paul writing from prison, emphasizing that Christ gives strength to endure trials and remain faithful “even if”...

On Simple Faith, Rusty, Michael, and Bryan kick off a week of listener Q&A (two questions a day for five days) and tackle two intense topics: knowing when it’s time to leave a church and how to share the gospel without being pushy. They caution against “church shopping,” urge listeners to distinguish between preferences and principles, and emphasize evaluating doctrine, truth-telling, disciple...

In episode 2 of the Simple Faith Q&A, Rusty George joins guests Michael Hinton and Brian Mrazek answer two listener questions. First, they discuss how to discern whether you’re truly being led by the Holy Spirit or just your own thoughts, emphasizing alignment with God’s Word, seeking wisdom from trusted people, gathering counsel, and practicing silence and solitude rather than letting emotion...

In episode 5 of Simple Succession, Rusty interviews search-firm leader and former Presbyterian pastor William Vanderbloemen. William shares how a corporate CEO succession completed in 90 days versus a church search that took years sparked his “holy discontent,” leading him to start Vanderbloemen Search in 2008; the firm has since completed about 4,000 church searches and helped move succession con...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

On episode four of Simple Succession , Rusty George interviews Cam Huxford and Marcus Johnson about leadership transition at Savannah Christian Church (now Compassion Christian). Cam shares the church’s history from its 1964 start, his arrival in 1984 at age 27, and growth to seven campuses across two states. He explains how he began thinking and praying about succession from day one, later influe...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Faith: Faith in Five with Rusty George is a daily podcast designed to refocus your heart on Jesus—one moment at a time. In just five minutes a day, Rusty explores who Jesus is, why He matters, and how simple faith can transform everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, these short, meaningful episodes offer clarity, encouragement, and truth you can carry w...

Simple Succession episode 3 is here, a podcast series focused on helping churches navigate leadership transitions well. This week, Rusty George welcomes Dave Stone and Kyle Idleman to discuss the widely noticed successions at Southeast Christian Church from Bob Russell to Dave and then Dave to Kyle. Dave shares how Bob gradually increased his preaching, publicly affirmed him (including sitting fro...