The Essential Church Podcast exists to strengthen and encourage pastors and thought leaders around the world through weekly conversations about some of the most important and challenging issues facing the local church.
Hosted by pastors Andrew Arndt, Brady Boyd, and Daniel Grothe, the Essential Church podcast has featured conversations with leading theologians such as N.T. Wright, Chris Green, and Cheryl Bridges-Johns, church and ministry leaders like Sharon and Ike Miller, Pete Greig, and Warren Bird, as well as a whole host of practical conversations with our team on topics like preaching and teaching, evangelism and discipleship, developing leaders, hiring and firing, much more.
In this episode we sit down to talk about how Covid-19 has impacted us as well as some best practices we’re learning as we navigate this. (Also, in a related conversation, Andrew and Glenn sat down this same week with Dr. Mark Mayfield to talk about Covid-19 from a...
In this podcast we sit down with New Testament scholar Matthew Bates to talk about what he means by “gospel allegiance”. PlayStop X We’ve missed what the gospel means and what faith means, and in light of that the whole package has been skewed… What I am trying to say...
In this episode we sit down with Jon Egan and Micah Massey to talk about the agony, ecstasy, and discipline of songwriting. PlayStop X Songs begin in the amateur’s heart and are finished in the craftsman’s hands… I have to start with childlike wonder and playfulness,...
In this episode we sit down to conclude our conversation on Andrew’s article “10 Hopes and Prayers for the next 10 years.” (The original article can be found here.) PlayStop X Church is at once the most mysterious thing on planet earth and also the most ordinary thing...
In this episode we sit down to talk about an article written by Andrew on 10 hopes and prayers for the next 10 years. (The original article can be found here.) PlayStop X I would love to see the church become more spiritual… there is a vacancy of mystery in the...
In this episode we discuss four rules for how teams should function in their meetings. PlayStop X Rule number one is you have to tell the truth… if it’s a bad idea, we want to hear about it… I need people in meetings who will tell the truth… I would rather hear that...
In this episode, we revisit a conversation to talk about the “what” and “why” behind the launch of our Essential Church Learning Community. PlayStop X Register for the Essential Church Learning Community HERE On Feb 19-20thof 2019 we’re launching our first Essential...
In this episode we sit down with the founder and director of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, Dr. Preston Sprinkle, to talk about what it looks like to really love our LGBTQ neighbors. PlayStop X This started as an academic challenge for me, but it quickly...
In this episode, with John MacArthur’s controversial comments regarding Beth Moore in the air, we sit down to talk through some of the key texts for thinking about a theology of women in leadership. PlayStop X The charismatic movement believes that God pours his...
