The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

Today on the show we welcome Von Glitschka. Von has been in the world of design a long time. He is well known from his books used as college textbooks on design and for his branding expertise. We’re talking with Von about Design Apologetics —how can we understand God's aesthetic and how can it influence our design. SHOW NOTES

We hope you had a great Christmas and are getting some time away with your family. We have a lot of folks on this end of year episode of the show listen while they are traveling back from the holidays so if that's you, be safe on the road.    On this episode you get our host, Carl Barnhill and he'll be sharing the talk that he's given several times this year at conferences. It's all abou...

Today we welcome Ryan Hollingsworth to the podcast. Ryan is the Creative Director at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. We're talking with Ryan today about the ups and downs of ministry. He has been in the game a while and will try to speak to some topics that ministry leaders face when it comes to staying in ministry for the long haul. You might have noticed on the podcast, that Making Sunday Hap...

This week is going to look a little different. We want to give you a big introduction into the MetaVerse and our thoughts on where this is going for the church. For this episode, we interviewed DJ Soto who is the pastor of VR Church - a 100% Virtual Church experience in the MetaVerse. We have attended VR Church with DJ and what we found, which we talk to DJ about is it is not just your avatar watc...

Today on the show, we welcome Jim Keat. Jim is the Digital Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. Today, we’re going to be discussing how to track your online attendance. Should you stream to one place or should you be on all the platforms? What is peak concurrent viewers? What if there are multiple people watching our Church Online Experience in the same house? How...

Do you struggle with comparing yourself to others and find yourself lacking? How do we identify that? Why does it matter to us? How can the Holy Spirit help us deal with it? We’ll talk about this today on the show with Nona Jones. Nona is a much in demand author and speaker. She works for Meta or Facebook. Nona and I could talk about a lot of different topics, but we chose one that really roars it...

Today on the show, we welcome Justin Kendrick. Justin is an author, and the pastor of Vox Church. We're talking with Justin about The Call to Radical Christian Community and how that relates to those who make Sunday Happen. We’re going to hit on the theology of "us," how Christians see themselves as a connected member of the body of Jesus, can we really be connected with people online, and more. W...

Today on the show, our guest is Chris Abbott. Abbo has been friends with our host Carl for a while. He has been a great voice in the church marketing space.  On this episode we’re talking about Landing Pages. Specifically, how to be intentional about building Landing Pages to drive people to visit your church.  Talking mainly physical Worship Experiences. How can we be intentio...

Today on the show, we have a really special guest, Davy Flowers. Davy is a Worship Leader and Songwriter. Our host, Carl actually served on staff at the same church just at different times. After Carl left, she came in to lead worship. Her first album is being released - produced by Shane Bernard of Shane and Shane. She has been in ministry a while, and has a diverse background of denominations an...

Today on the show, we're talking with our friend Darrel Girardier from Brentwood baptist church. We're talking about how to evaluate your Worship Experiences - specifically your big Sundays of the year, but some of techniques we discuss can apply week in and week out for you. SHOW NOTES

Today on the show we’re talking with Dave Shrein.  Our host Carl has known Dave for a while - he is a former Communications Pastor and is currently a podcast host and ministry leader and continues to serve those in ministry through his marketing work. We’re talking with Dave today about preaching through the Bible. We'll dive into several topics and tips for pastors on how to preach through b...

Today on the show we welcome Tyler Staton. Tyler is a pastor in Oregon and the author of the new book Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools. We're talking today about how you can enhance your prayer life personally, how you can pray for the team you serve and how your prayers can be a major factor in making Sunday happen. We think this interview will bless you. SHOW NOTES

On today’s show, we welcome Justin Trapp. Justin is the founder of Ministry Pass and Sermonary. They help pastors with media content and sermon helps.  We'll be talking with Justin about Sermon Illustrations.   How we can use Illustrations to explain scripture.   How to deliver great illustrations.   How to use visual aids and props.   All this and more, on today's episode...

On today’s show, we welcome Adam Muhtaseb. You’re going to love this guy. He is a former Muslim. He is now a Church Planter in Baltimore, Maryland. We are going to talk about how the American Church can be about flash, show, lights, camera entertainment at times and how we need to rely on God’s Word and the Holy Spirit to transform - that God’s Word is enough.  Powerful insight from a former...

On today’s show, we welcome Elias Dummer.  He led the band The City Harmonic for years. Absolutely no stranger to ministry, music and the stage.  We're talking with Elias about the term Worship Leader, we’ll talk about worship vs. performance and more. SHOW NOTES

Today on the show, we welcome interior designer Jillian Lawson. Jillian focuses her company on helping churches create great physical spaces.  Spaces that are inviting and that really help you share your branding and vision with guests and attendees. Environments really do matter when it comes to Making Sunday Happen. We’ll talk all about this with Jillian. SHOW NOTES

Today on the show, we welcome our friend David Olshine. David is the Lead professor of Youth Ministry, Family and Culture Department at Columbia International University. He has a brand new book out called The Mystery of Silence and we’re going to talk today about the times when you feel like God is completely distant, silent or not giving you answers. How do we wrestle with that in ministry?&nbsp...

Today on the show, we welcome our dear friend Trevor Miller. Trevor writes a lot of our content at 12:30 - our scripts for videos, scripts for custom media work we do for clients and more. Today we’ll be talking with Trevor about Sermon Prep ideas. He is a full time pastor at one of the largest methodist churches in the country. There he helps lead the teaching team in preaching and developing new...

Today we welcome George Klippel. George is the Sales Director for Live U. Live U could be used in your church for your Livestream. Today we’re going to learn about what it offers, what equipment you need, some next steps to test and use the platform at your church and more. We hope this helps your ministry! SHOW NOTES

Today we welcome our good friend Ben Stapley. Ben and Carl are talking today about the importance of a Sermon Review. Carl is not a pastor or keynote speaker, but have been the Video Director on staff at large churches. He has has been the content creator for the pastor’s sermons - from Bumper Videos, Testimonies, photos to show to help illustrate a point. So what you’re going to hear in this inte...

Today on the podcast, we welcome Sean Feucht.  A couple of years ago when the government told churches they weren't essential and they issued a temporary ban on indoor singing in places of worship, Sean stood up. Speaking to CBN, Sean said: “The freedom to worship God is the constitutional right of every American citizen and those who exercise this right should not be unfairly targeted for cr...

Today we are talking with Marty Sawyers. Marty is the CEO of Full Strength Network. Full Strength Network exists to help ministry leaders discover full strength in wellbeing in areas like richer spiritual health, deeper relationships, and increased leadership capacity. They pastor pastors. Marty is going to share some great tools for us to overcome loneliness as a leader. SHOW NOTES

Today is a family episode as we're talking with our Director of Ready Made Media and Creative Director Geoff McLarty.   Geoff leads the charge in helping craft amazing ready made and custom media at our ministry. And also has experience as a communication director in the church world.    So today we'll cover how can you structure your church's communication team to serve the other m...

Today we’re diving into the topic of business practices for ministry. Now, we understand you’re a church, not a business. Trust us, we’re fully aware that we are in the spiritual business. In the business of seeing Life Change happen - salvation and discipleship. If we have an open mind, we must ask though, are there things we can learn from Business practices that can help us Make Sunday Happen?...

Today we welcome back our good friend Phil Cooke. He has been a guest on the show a few times. Our host, Carl, and Phil help at an event together each year - the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Phil has a brand new book out called Ideas on a Deadline that we're going to talk about. There's no deadline quite like Sunday. Sunday is always coming down the track. So how do we execute high...