Speak Life: A podcast for pastors

On this week's episode, I interview Dr. John Mark Yeats. We discuss the value and necessity of managing time well and continuing in lifelong learning throughout a pastor's career.

Imagine getting up one morning and planning what your week at church will be only to live through a tornado coming through and ravaging your town and your church. On this week's episode, Dr. Wes Fowler and I talk through that experience and how dealing with crises can radically change your priorities and your scope of understanding of ministry. It's an episode you don't want to miss.

This week I interview JR Debusk, Associational Missionary for the Clear Creek Baptist Association within the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.

Conflict! A common issue in churches where we could all stand to improve. This week, Matt Kimbrough and I focus in on church conflict and best pathways for dealing with it.

This week, Dave Becker, Pastor for Teaching and Leadership at Grace Church in Waco, TX, and I talk through the challenges of being transparent before the Lord and how lack of it leads to loneliness.

Expectations - Unmet, Unspoken, Conflicting - Expectations always play a role in ministry. On this week's episode, Pastor Derrick Lewright and I talk through how to deal with expectations and isolation.

This week, I interview Dr. Daniel DeWitt, Executive Director of The Center for Worldview and Culture at Southwest Baptist University. We discuss challenges that masquerade as laziness and the need for soft skills in ministry.

This week Jimmy Scroggins and I talk through balancing personal growth across personal spiritual development and professional development to accomplish the tasks of ministry. Like and Subscribe to the #SpeakLifePodcast!

This week Jamie Caldwell and Kent Phoebus, the pastors of South Shore Church outside Annapolis, MD join me to talk about leading up and calendaring priorities to maximize ministry effectiveness.

This week, Jim Misloski is back to discuss pathways to understanding strengths and weaknesses of pastors and volunteers through good assessment strategies.

This week's guest on the #SpeakLifePodcast is Pastor Ryan Palmer from South Haven BC in Springfield, MO. We talk through how to deal with stress as a pastor and how to manage pastoring in a polarizing culture.
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This week's guest is Jim Misloski, Developing Leaders Director with the Missouri Baptist Convention. We discuss challenges related to recruiting and retaining volunteers as well as growing in self-understanding.

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Dr. Carroll Marr comes to the podcast with 45 years of ministry experience to speak into the challenges facing pastors. We talk through the need for good people skills, leadership skills, and maintaining a strong walk with the Lord.

This week's guest is longtime pastor of FBC Arnold and mentor to young pastors, Kenny Qualls. We talk through key points of staying rooted in the Word and properly prioritizing life to stay in ministry.

Dr. Randy Stone is back for a second interview, but our topic is a bit different this go around. We discuss how things are different in churches with multiple staff when the lead pastor leaves as compared with single ministry staff situations.

This week I interview my longtime friend and mentor Kenny Heath. Kenny is the Associational Missionary with the Western Baptist Association of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. We discuss challenges unique to both bivocational and rural ministry.

On this week's podcast, I interview Chadd Caldwell, pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Bolivar, MO. Chadd both pastors the church and works as a professor at SBU, which leads to good conversation about bi-vocational ministry.

In this week's episode, I interview Dr. Jonathan Hayashi. Dr. Hayashi talks through challenges he's faced in ministry and counsel for dealing with problems that show up among church members.