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Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’m honored to have you with us today as we speak with Mitch Harrison , executive pastor at Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas . Canyon Ridge has been around for about 20 years and has two locations, as well as church online. It is a contemporary church that has experienced both incredible growth and then loss during the 2008 recession, learning t...

Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Mark Crull , executive pastor at Northview Church in Indiana . Northview is a fast growing church with five campuses as well as online services. The church started in 1980 with 29 people meeting in an elementary school cafeteria and has grown to over 7000 attendees. So how does such a large church feel personal? Mark is...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thank you for joining us. I’m honored to talk today with Bobby Herrington , the executive pastor at Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, North Carolina . Mercy Hill started in 2012 as a plant of the Summit Church, and is now one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Mercy Hill has an attractional-feel with a simple church model; their primary goa...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re honored to have Pastor Danny Anderson with us from Emmanuel Church in Indiana. Jim Devney founded Emmanuel Church in 1977 and Danny, who was originally the church’s high school pastor, took over in 2006 at the age of 28. The church continues to grow and became a multi-site church in 2013. Emmanuel’s message is about life and how the bible intersects...

Thank you for joining us today for this episode of the unSeminary podcast. We have Kevin Peck from Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, Texas  with us today. Austin Stone began 15 years ago and now has seven campuses at five locations in and around Austin. Kevin began working with the church about a year after it first began, when he moved back to Austin to take care of his father. Kevin curre...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today we have a two for one special with guests, Clayton Hentzel and Ben Ellefritz of The Crossing Church. The Crossing has 10 locations in four different states across the Midwest. Clayton has been a part of the church for about 12 years, since he graduated from bible college. He started as youth pastor and now works a...

Hey, everyone, and welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re happy to have you with us as we talk with David Fletcher . He is the executive pastor at EvFree Fullerton in California and also runs a ministry called XPastor . EvFree Fullerton is a historic church where Chuck Swindoll once pastored. As he became well known, more people came to the church to hear him speak and so EvFree grew. Ch...

Welcome, everyone, to the unSeminary podcast. Thank you for taking the time to join us today as we talk with author and speaker Mike Bonem . Mike is the author of the book Leading From the Second Chair . He started as an engineer and then went back to school to get his MBA and work as a consultant. He began working more consulting with churches and it was from there that God opened the door for hi...

Welcome, everyone, to this week’s podcast. I’m happy to have you with us as we talk with Julie Liem from Eastside Church in Anaheim, California. As long as Julie had been at Eastside she always worked in a volunteer role, but a few years ago the position of Director of Volunteers was created and she was invited to step into it. It’s very common for the different ministries and teams at churches to...

Hey, everyone, and welcome to this episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re honored to have Jason Berry from 12Stone Church in Georgia . 12Stone currently has nine campuses and is one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Their goal is to be engaging and relevant in a way that encourages people to apply God’s teachings to their lives outside the church. 12Stone tries to create a place wh...

Today we’re doing a special Monday edition of the unSeminary Podcast and we’re talking with Meagan Ranson from 2|42 Community Church in Michigan about how they are leveraging Pokémon GO game as a community service tool. We’re doing this episode today to bring you up to speed on what the game is and explain how you could use it to reach out to people coming to your church. Pokémon...

Welcome, everyone, to the unSeminary podcast. Thank you for taking the time to join us today as we talk with Heather Larson of Willow Creek Community Church . Willow Creek Community Church is located in Chicago, and it started 40 years ago at the Willow Creek Theater. Willow Creek now has 8 campuses total. Heather started on staff eighteen years ago as part of the college ministry. She has now bee...

Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we have Phil Taylor from Mosaic Church in central Florida on the show. Mosaic Church started on Easter 2003 and currently has three locations. Being in the backyard of Disney World, Mosaic serves a lot of people involved in the entertainment and theme park industry and so that culture is one of their biggest focus...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thanks for joining us with Reggie McNeal of Leadership Network . Leadership Network began in 1984 with just 20 leaders and now serves over 200,000 leaders around the world. They help identify where God is working at the edges of his kingdom and help His work spread. Reggie currently works in the area of city impact within Leadership Network. He works w...

Thanks so much for joining us today for this episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re absolutely honored to have Brad Lomenick with us today. Brad is one of those guys who knows everyone, so you’ve probably heard of him or seen him a time or two. He spent 12 years leading the Catalyst Movement. Currently he’s an author as well as a consultant and speaker for Blinc Consulting . Brad grew up in Okla...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re so happy to have you with us today as we talk with Shaun Nepstad from Fellowship Church in Antioch, California . Shaun is a fifth generation pastor on both sides of his family. He always wanted to become a pastor but wasn’t sure at first if he was doing it because it was the “family business,” or if it was what God wanted...

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Thanks so much for spending time with us today as we speak with Dino Rizzo of ARC, the Association of Related Churches . He’s also an associate pastor at Church of the Highlands . ARC began as a conversation about how great it would be if these pastors came together and planted churches already with a support team rather...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week we’re talking with Sean Seay of Athens Church in Athens, Georgia . Athens Church has been around since 2004 and is a strategic partner of North Point Ministries. Athens, GA is a diverse college town and that is represented within Athens Church itself. While God has blessed Athens Church and things were going well from afar, up close...

  Thanks for taking the time today to listen as we talk with Richard Lee , Director of Church Mobilization with International Justice Mission . International Justice Mission (IJM) was started 18 years ago and is the largest anti-slavery organization in the world today. They currently have 17 field offices around the world and start them in remote, impoverished areas. IJM identifies problems a...

  Hey, everybody, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today as we talk with Troy Palermo from Life Point Church in Ohio . If you don’t know Life Point Church, you should. It started just over 10 years ago and is now made up of about 2,000 people. A more contemporary church with a lot of young families, they currently have two campuses and are working to launch...

  Thanks for joining us for this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Dr. Thom Rainer , president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources , for this episode. Thom has written over two dozen books, has a great blog and podcast, and we’re very excited to have him with us today. Thom started out as a fifth generation banker after college, but he left the banking world in...

  Hey, everybody, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week’s guest is Lane Sebring of the website PreachingDonkey.com and author of the new book Preaching Killer Sermons . Coming out of seminary, Lane saw that much of the focus was on having a biblically accurate sermon about the life and teachings of Jesus, but there wasn’t much help for how to best communicate those teachings. Too m...

  Welcome to the unSeminary podcast and thanks for spending some time with us today. We have Lori Wilhite speaking with us for this episode. Lori leads a ministry called Leading and Loving It targeted at pastors’ wives and women in ministry. Her husband is the senior pastor at Central Christian Church in Las Vegas. She went to school to become a teacher and never intended to marry a pastor. B...

Hey, everybody, and welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Thanks for listen in as we speak with Jim Nicodem from Christ Community Church. Christ Community Church is located in Chicago and has four locations, with about 5,000 people attending services there. Jim has a passion for teaching God’s word and he is one of the original founders of Christ Community. Listen in as Jim explains how Christ C...

  Thanks so much for taking the time to be with us today. Across the country, churches are struggling with the task of trying to gain ground in their community and make a lasting impact. On today’s episode, we’re chatting with Terry Parkman of River Valley Church . We’ve had a few members of River Valley on in the past because it’s such a fantastic church. They have 8 campuses in the Twin Cit...