The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

Welcome to the show.    Today we're talking with author and pastor Talbot Davis. Talbot has been a pastor for almost 30 years.   He had a revelation of sorts a few years ago where he realized that the sermon outline like he had been doing, with fill in the blanks, alliteration, quippy points that all start with the same letter - that this approach was not making the impact with his...

Today we welcome to the show Paul Ranheim and Kirk Sauers. Paul is a minister and songwriter in Colorado with a heart for resourcing the church’s worship through song and cultivating leaders. Kirk is a Worship Leader in Georgia with a passion to shepherd a diverse body of Christ through music. These guys collectively are known as The Wood Drake Sessions. Their brand new album From the Valley to th...

We’re talking with two pastors who are experimenting with VR at their church. First up is Gerald Faulkner, who has just started to implement VR at his church in North Carolina. And then we chat with with Jason Poling. Jason is the Lead Pastor at Cornerstone Yuba City, in Yuba City, CA. They both have a full VR campus and are staffing the campus just like they would a physical campus. At both of th...

Summer is usually a time in church world where we catch our breath a little due to the the nature of the church calendar. So we hope you are getting some rest and maybe even a little vacation. We have a lot of audio listeners to our podcast that listen on drives or on vacation or while they are setting lyrics for Sunday in the booth - you know who you are. Today on the podcast we're talking with C...

This week we welcome back to the podcast our friend Jason Moore. Jason has a new book out called BOTH/AND Maximizing Hybrid Worship Experiences for In Person and Online Engagement. Jason and 1230media have a lot of the same views and thinking around Hybrid Worship Experiences. We believe it should be BOTH/AND. We should have great In Person Gatherings. We should also have great Online Gatherings....

This week on the show, we welcome two veteran ministry leaders.  Author of The 5 Love Languages and many other books Dr. Gary Chapman returns to the podcast, along with another incredible author, speaker and pastor - Clarence Shuler. Gary and Clarence have been friends for decades and they wrote a book together on race relationships. We’re going to talk about Healing Racial Divides in your Co...

This week on the show we welcome Ryan Dahl. Ryan has served churches like North Langley Community Church and Pacific Rim Church in Langley British Columbia. Ryan is the founder and owner of PraiseCharts. Praise Charts serves Worship Leaders and churches with sheet music, chord and lyric sheets, arrangements and more.  We talk with Ryan about the history of PraiseCharts, some big projects they...

Family episode this week as we welcome Jason Noble.  Jason is the former children’s ministry lead for the Assemblies of God denomination. He is a pastor and church planter. Jason was also the real life pastor in the story of Breakthrough - if you saw that movie about the kid that fell through the ice and died and the prayers of his mom and those around him brought him back to life. Jason is a...

Welcome to this bonus episode of Making Sunday Happen. In this episode we welcome Abby Johnson to the show. Abby was a Director at Planned Parenthood before she saw what really happened in an abortion and decided to resign and is now the founder of And Then There Were None which helps abortion doctors and workers come out of the abortion industry. We wanted to have Abby on to talk about the recent...

Huge milestone for us, 350 Episodes of our show! In the last year, we’ve had some amazing guests on the show. Folks like Phil Joel from the Newsboys, Dr. Gary Chapman, Carey Nieuwhof, Gabe Lyons, Alex Kendrick, Will Doggett, Lee Strobel, Dennis Worley, William Vanderbloemen and dozens of other incredible guests. We’ve talked about production, worship leading, staffing trends and culture, songwriti...

On this episode of our show, we welcome Ron Hunter. Ron is the co founder and director of the D6 Conference. He is the CEO of Randall House and D6, a family discipleship ministry that produces incredible curriculum for all ages. Ron talks with Carl about Family Discipleship on Sunday and beyond. Ron has some great insights how to incorporate family discipleship into your sermons, how to craft Wors...

On this week’s episode of the show, we welcome Conservative Commentator Andrew Klavan. Andrew was a part of starting Daily Wire, that’s right Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Candace Owens and that team. He has a brand new book out called The Truth and Beauty - about how he researched the great Romantic poets of history and how they were seeking after Jesus and how you can see that in their writing....

On this week’s episode of the show, we welcome Worship Leader Justin Rizzo.  Justin serves on staff at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. He has been there for over 15 years. He is a Coach that leads other Worship Leaders across the country. He also owns Firelight Creative - a great production company putting on some amazing shows. Today, we’re talking with Justin about 10 Keys...

Today we have an interview with International Evangelist Nick Hall. Nick is an incredible speaker and evangelist. He was mentored and influenced by Billy Graham, Greg Laurie and others. Nick is the founder of the Pulse Movement and their big event - Together 22 is happening in just a few months - June 24-25th at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Nick has preached the Gospel to more than 5 Million people...

On this week’s show, we’re talking with Trey Van Camp. Trey is a pastor, church planter, and YouTuber. He is the pastor at Passion Creek Church. We are going to talk with Trey today about creating killer digital content for your platforms. Trey has been vlogger for a long time, he has made hundreds of YouTube videos. You’ll get to see how Trey creates content. So if you are a pastor, a t...

On this week’s show, we’re talking with our friend Mark Harvard. Mark is the Communications Director at Clearbranch United Methodist Church in Alabama. He has had a career in radio and broadcast ministries as well as Communications.  We’re going to talk about Crisis Management and controlling the narrative if your church gets in the news. Whether that’s for a good reason or negative attention...

On this week’s show, we’re talking with Dave Fry. Dave is the Director of Product Development and Senior Technician at MediaShout. We’re going to talk all about the software, all about some great tips for Lyric and Video Operators - no matter which presentation software you use. Dave is an integral part of the inner workings of designing the Mediashout software really gives some great insight into...

This week on the show, we welcome back our friend Mark MacDonald. Mark talks with us today about church websites and how to fix them. We’ll talk about what kinds of visitors you are getting on your site, why they are visiting, and what they are looking for. We’re going to press into what makes a bad church website and some things we can do to improve it. We’ll talk about the most visited pages on...

It's a amily episode this week as we welcome our Director of Ready Made Media at 12:30 - Anthony Racaneillo (RAC for short). Rac also serves on staff at one of the largest churches in Philadelphia - Epic Church. He has an incredible story that we talk about on the show, he has a background as an entrepreneur, a business owner, a fashion mogul - he has designed shoes for some of our country’s top a...

We rearranged our schedule this week for you to hear from our friend Oksana Vijuk, who is from the Ukraine.  She is currently a Worship Leader at the church at Harpeth Heights in Nashville and we had recorded an interview with her for the podcast. We spoke with her about worship and women in leadership and we think this episode will encourage you.  In light of her episode airing and all...

This week on the podcast, we welcome back our good friend Yancy. Yancy is a Singer / Songwriter, Worship Leader and now author. Her brand new book Sweet Sound is available now and we’re talking all about the book and the power of discipleship in Worship. A great book for Worship Leaders and especially those who lead the song set for Kids. Still, great insight today for anyone who leads people in w...

This week on the Podcast we welcome Grant Norsworthy back to the show. Grant is a Worship Leader and artist in New Zealand.  We've had Grant on before to chat about Virtual Choir Videos - this time we’re going to talk about how Worship is More than Music. He will give us great encouragement on how we can use our language a posture a little different when it comes to worship. Is worship more t...

New episode of our podcast is ready. Carl, our host, attended Winshape Retreat - put on by the Winshape Foundation, from Chick Fil-A - and was invited to join the Fatherhood Commission to talk about fatherhood and small business. There he met a new friend by the name of David Murrow. David is the author of Why Men Hate Going to Church and Drowning in Screen Time, to name a few. Great books that he...

On today’s episode of the show, we welcome Worship Leader Michael Boggs. Michael was a member of the band FFH back in the day. Currently, he is a Worship Leader of the College experience Kairos, in Nashville.  He is a songwriter whose songs have been sung by great Christian artists over the years. Great guy. You’re going to love hearing from Michael. SHOW NOTES

Today we welcome Barbara Carnero to the show to talk about discovering your church's voice!  Barbara has a background working in the agency world and she gave it all up to work for the Local Church. Quite an amazing story. We'll be talking with Barbara about some of this on the show today. SHOW NOTES