Stacey Shiflett Podcast

When The Brook Dries Up

How do you know it's time to leave your church? This episode is for pastors as well as laymen that find themselves facing this decision.

Random Ramblings

This episode is a mixture of ministry updates, praise reports, prayer requests, musings about apostasy, ideas for resurrecting dead churches, upcoming events and more.

Episode 52 - Compromisers In Denial

The current trend to lower the bar, back up, relinquish hard-earned territory and change positions on key issues is only being made worse by those that deny they are even doing it. This episode deals with the definition of compromise and what it looks like in our churches today.

Episode 51 - Take the Gloves Off!

This episode deals with the struggle of when to be patient, longsuffering and forbearing with a person, and when to assert your leadership and fix a problem or potential threat to the church. Catch The Stacey Shiflett Podcast on multiple platforms: Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1PgFgpC...⁠ Stacey Shiflett is the Senior Pastor at: Calvary Baptist Church 7321 Manchester RoadDundalk, Maryland 21222Every service is LIVESTREAMED on YouTube, ...

Episode 50 - Serving the Lord with Gladness

What better life is there than to serve the King of Kings and Lord of Lords every day? Let's do it with a smile on our face and a song in our hearts!! Catch The Stacey Shiflett Podcast on multiple platforms:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PgFgpC... Stacey Shiflett is the Senior Pastor at: Calvary Baptist Church 7321 Manchester RoadDundalk, Maryland 21222Every service is LIVESTREAMED on YouTube, Facebook and on the church website. http://www...

Episode 49 - The Benefits of Missions Trips

A subject dear to my heart is world missions. Jesus didn't say SEND - He said GO!! The benefits of taking a missions trip are innumerable, but we look at some of them in this episode. Catch The Stacey Shiflett Podcast on multiple platforms:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PgFgpC... Stacey Shiflett is the Senior Pastor at: Calvary Baptist Church 7321 Manchester RoadDundalk, Maryland 21222Every service is LIVESTREAMED on YouTube, Facebook and ...

Episode 48 - Turn the Doorknob

Too many people use the excuse that they are not doing anything for God because they are waiting for Him to "open a door." This episode challenges each person to take their hands out of their pockets and turn the doorknob! There are so many opportunities to serve the Lord. Let's get busy!

Episode 47 - The Lonely Leader

Being the leader is sometimes a very lonely and isolated position. This episode explains why there are times of loneliness and how you can embrace the importance of what you do for God.

Episode 46 - Discouraged In The Ministry

Even the best of Christians get discouraged sometimes! This episode gives a short list of remedies for those times when you are feeling down.

Episode 45 - Masculine Maximalism

As a leader, you cannot always be sweet and kind and patient and forbearing. There will be times that require you to be bold, firm, blunt, unpopular and unflinching. You might even have to ask God to help you harden your heart so you can gird up your loins like a man and do what needs to be done. If you cannot do this, you do not deserve to be in a position of leadership.

Episode 44 - Without Excuse

"To whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." Luke 12:48 What a sobering realization, that we will be held accountable for what God has given us. Ultimately, we will be without excuse when we stand before Him at the Judgment Seat.

Episode 43 - Changing Churches: When & How

One of the most consequential decisions a person can make is to leave their church. This episode gives a list of biblical reasons to change churches, and how to do it correctly.

Episode 42 - Taking Ownership

The secret ingredient to success is taking ownership of the problem rather than passing the blame. This episode deals with the importance of a rare leadership quality that could change your life.

Episode 41 - Embrace the Learning Curves

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can if that old dog wants to learn it bad enough! Learn more about Pastor Shiflett at surewordpublications.com

Episode 40 - When Your Church Changes Bibles

What do you do when your pastor stands up in the pulpit and announces that they are ditching the King James Bible? This is the subject of this episode.

Episode 39 - Juggling Family and Ministry

This episode stresses the importance of making sure you do not neglect your family while serving the Lord in ministry. If you lose your family, you lose your ability to influence God's people, and you become disqualified to pastor.

Episode 38 - Rebuking An Elder

There are pastors that are still in the pulpit, even after doing things that are unscriptural or unethical, simply because the church is afraid of doing something unscriptural and unethical to address it. This episode explains the biblical aspects of how to rebuke an elder.

Episode 37 - Insane, Unbiblical Restoration

Episode 36 - Post-Election Analysis

Episode 35 - Prayer Tent Ministry

Episode 34 - Running Out of Time

Episode 33 - Set A Trotline

The secret to successful fishing is to put as many hooks in the water as possible. In this episode, Pastor Shiflett shares a story of his first time crabbing in the waters of Maryland and how they were able to catch so many crabs in just a few hours. This episode will challenge you in the area of soul winning and evangelism and encourage you to use your time wisely to reach as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time.

Episode 32 - The Eliab Effect

David, the young man that defeated Goliath had an older brother named Eliab. Eliab didn't get angry with Goliath, but his anger was kindled against David. Why? And how did David respond to it? This episode addresses the phenomenon where older and more seasoned Christians often do more to discourage younger believers from fighting sin than they do helping them and encouraging them.

Episode 31 - Pedophiles In The Pulpit

This episode addresses the early release of Jack Schaap and the hot debate on whether or not he should return to the pulpit. I deal with the mindset and culture that enables and covers for men with sexual abuse in their background to remain in ministry. This episode is filled with multiple Bible verses and passionate pleas for churches and pastors to protect their flocks from wolves.

Episode 31 - Pedophiles In The Pulpit

This episode addresses the early release of Jack Schaap and the hot debate on whether or not he should return to the pulpit. I deal with the mindset and culture that enables and covers for men with sexual abuse in their background to remain in ministry. This episode is filled with multiple Bible verses and passionate pleas for churches and pastors to protect their flocks from wolves.

Episode 30 - Preach the Word

Church members are starving to death on the pews of our churches. Preachers and pastors are taking shortcuts and failing to deliver the ministry of the Word the way God intended. This episode deals with the importance of making sure our preaching and teaching is biblical in every way.

Episode 29 - Church Clothes

In this episode, Pastor Shiflett dives headlong into the controversial waters of the "come as you are" philosophy and the pride that many times creeps in to the position on both sides of the issue concerning what people wear to church.

Episode 28 - Whited Walls

The title was take from Acts 23:3 where the Apostle Paul called out the leaders of his day for their dishonest judgment. This episode calls out the hypocrisy of many in our day that use virtue signaling while promoting harmful ideas. It also encourages the listener to make sure they are genuine and not guilty of a two-tiered justice system in their own personal life.

Episode 27 - What's It Gonna Take?

The world is in chaos. America is on fire. The Lord is coming back at any minute, and many of God's people are still asleep. What's it gonna take? This episode addresses the apathy of the church, even in a state of complete chaos.

Episode 26 - The Great Reset

The New World Order is being implemented right before our very eyes. More disturbingly is the fact that many churches and believers are seemingly exploiting this pandemic in order to usher in their own "reset." The problems with this unbiblical trend is discussed in this episode.