Heart the Mission Podcast

Connect with Heart To Mission: https://hearttomission.com Check out Brad and Studio 101: https://studio101recording.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Intro 3:00 - Brad's Music Career 11:17 - Family Continues to Grow 17:03 - The Family Band 23:01 Planting in Woodruff 30:12 - Rapid Church Growth and the Issues that follow 36:00 - Reaching the Unreached 44:12 - Plant...

▶️ Connect with Heart To Mission: https://hearttomission.com ▶️ Check Out Bridget's Book "Trigger Warning" HERE: https://amzn.to/4w3j5Un ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Intro 2:20 - Bridget's Book! 9:17 - Traveling and Singing Family 21:24 - The "Dream" 36:38 - Help for Those Seeking It... 40:48 - How will you respond? 1:05:20 - Leaving and...

Be the church, not just a church service. When Walt Tanner and Chris Barrineau moved into a Fountain Inn garage apartment on 08/08/08 — newborn in tow, both jobs left behind, house sold, no insurance, in the teeth of the Great Recession — people told them nobody wanted another church. Walt's answer became the heartbeat of everything that followed: "40% of the people love the churches her...

Chad Merrell should not be a pastor. He was a 22-year-old warehouse supervisor married to a full-blown opiate addict. He found his 3-year-old son locked out in ankle-deep snow, in a diaper, while his wife watched from the window upstairs. He lost his driver's license. He drank himself into oblivion every weekend his kids weren't with him. He was the guy in your church you'd quietly...

What do mission and identity look like when grief has taken everything from you? In this episode I sit down with pastor and AMS leader Dwight Easler, who lost his son Benji in a tragic accident. We talk about the overwhelming weight of that loss, what it does to a leader's sense of calling, and how Dwight has continued to show up faithfully in ministry in the middle of his own devastation. Th...

So many leaders are burning out, driven by unsustainable momentum instead of a clear, God-given mission. The problem often starts with leading from a "borrowed identity." This episode is the solution. In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Will Gunter to discuss the most important foundation for any Christian leader: Personal Identity. We explore the "BURDEN" of leading...

In this powerful conversation, Hank Parker opens up about the pressures leaders carry, the hidden weight of expectations, and how easily identity can get tangled in performance. This is not the side of Hank you see on TV or in the outdoor world. This is the honest, unfiltered version—the man behind the accomplishments, the trophies, and the public persona. If you’ve ever felt like you had to keep...

This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s an honest conversation about ministry, identity, burnout, leadership, and what happens when calling costs more than you expected. Pat Gillen shares the real story behind church planting, team failure, resilience, family pressure, and learning to trust God when success disappears. No hype. No formulas. Just lived experience and hard-earned wisdom. If you’re leading...

Adam didn’t get a pause button. In this episode, Adam shares what it looked like to lose his father and keep leading anyway. While his family grieved, he stepped into a new reality overnight, carrying the weight of pastoral leadership and the responsibility of becoming the patriarch in his family. This is a conversation for the leader who is still showing up while life is falling apart. In this ep...

Josh Bradley talks with Charlie Swain about life, leadership, and finding clarity when things don’t go as planned. From heartbreak to hope, Charlie’s story shows what it means to keep leading when the path gets hard.