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.
For this conversation, we sit down with Clayton King and discuss the leadership structure of Newspring Church and the value of healthy confrontation. PlayStop X http://www.essentialchurchconference.com/ We have lead pastors, teaching pastors, and...
For this conversation, we discuss how courageous preaching requires us to say things that are costly. PlayStop X CONFERENCE LINK: http://www.essentialchurchconference.com/. Use promo code ‘CO20’ to receive $20 OFF every registration of...
For this conversation, Pastors Brady Boyd, Andrew Arndt, and Dr. Glenn Packiam talk about the importance of prayer, and how we are called to lead ministries with prayer at their core, at their essence. PlayStop X When was the last time that you were surprised?...
For this conversation, we sit down with Louie Giglio and discuss the Passion movement, worship, and everything in-between. PlayStop X I love that crossroads of life that is the university moment… we said yes to God and 22 years later we’re still gathering...
For this conversation, we discuss the situation at Willow Creek and how this should cause us to reflect and pay attention in a deeper way. PlayStop X This situation should cause us to reflect and pay attention in a deeper way… There are three groups of...
Hey Essential Church friends— We’re really excited to share with you a resource we’ve developed. Last fall our teaching team at New Life preached through the entire book of Romans. It was a thrilling and incredibly enriching experience that left both our...
For this conversation, we were joined by Ted Egly from the Center for Creative Leadership to talk about what leaders can do to get the best out of the teams and organizations they lead. PlayStop X The research says that a high-performing team has three things:...
In this conversation, we were joined by Pete Greig to talk about the role and purpose of prayer in the local church and how we can contend for unity and revival within the Church. We were so encouraged by the stories of bridge-building that are unfolding through the...
Before His ascension, Jesus gave a Great Commission: to go and make disciples. In this essential conversation, we talk about how discipleship happens and what it looks like for us to help people become disciples of Jesus. Join in as we discuss what the long journey of...
