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 (part 1 of 2) Andrew Arndt, Glenn Packiam, and Daniel Grothe sit down with Pastor Brady to talk about his new book Remarkable. PlayStop X Paul had the same challenge that we have when he went into Corinth… the city of Corinth was sexualized and...
In this episode Glenn Packiam and Andrew Arndt sit down to talk about how to walk wisely, compassionately, and pastorally with people experiencing a crisis of faith. PlayStop X I want people to know when they come to me that they are okay and that they are not the...
In this episode we pick up our conversation on summers to talk about the purpose of pastoral sabbaticals. PlayStop X Every fulltime employee on our staff gets a sabbatical at least once every seven years… More and more companies around the country are allowing...
In Part 1 of What Are Summers For?, we talk about the personal side and the organizational side of summers and how to make the best use of them. PlayStop X It’s important for pastors to plan to rest… if you don’t plan to rest, you won’t rest… so many pastors don’t...
This is part 2 of our conversation on how the Old Testament and the New Testament relate, and how we can faithfully preach and teach the Old Testament in the Church. PlayStop X There is no kingdom without law, without rule… if there is a king, there are people who...
In this episode Pastor Brady and Andrew sit down to talk about some “do’s” and “don’ts” for pastors in the week following Easter. PlayStop X The first thing is to celebrate the wins… that should be the focus of this week… so many great things happened… you need to...
In this episode (part 1 of 2) we sit down to talk about the challenge of preaching and teaching Christ in and from the Old Testament. PlayStop X When I first started reading the Bible I was drawn to the Old Testament because the stories seemed more colorful… but...
In this episode we sit down to talk about some of the things that make pastors want to quit the ministry, and what we can do about it. PlayStop X One of the things I’ve seen is that pastors are discouraged… social media gives people the ability to give immediate...
In this UNCUT and EXTENDED episode, Pastor Brady sits down with Jimmy Mellado, the president of Compassion International, for a wide-ranging interview on his background, the sources of poverty, and the challenges of leadership. PlayStop X...
