Andy Peck talks to Speak Life founder, Glen Scrivener about his book, The Air We Breathe’ which suggests that many of the values that western civilisation holds dear are founded upon Christianity. They talk about the impact this has on a Christian leader's outlook and communication
Andy Peck chats to Hope Virgo the author a new book, ‘You are Free (even if you don’t feel like it)’: mental health, faith and finding your way. Hope battled an eating disorder through her teens and now campaigns for better understanding of and support for eating disorders and mental health. She discusses how Christians in leadership can support those affected.
Lane is a co-author of a book, with Andy Stanley that unpacks a radical approach to preaching. It’s called Communicating for a Change and includes principles and approaches that will improve any leader’s communication. The conversation outlines the approach and links it with leadership principles.
Andy Peck chats to Texas based pastor Andrew Farley about his book, ‘The Grace Message: Is the Gospel really this good?’ Andrew had discovered that his zeal for doing the right things as a Christian, was exhausting. God showed him that he really hadn’t understood grace. The show unpacks the practical implications of this for your walk with God.
Andy Peck talks to Rev. Peter Baker, senior pastor of Lansdowne Church, Bournemouth about a building project with significant challenges. Plans to transform a Victorian Baptist Church into a 21st century auditorium went seriously awry and the plan was mothballed for 18 months - Covid-19 was both a challenge and a help. Andy finds out what Peter learned as a leader from the experience?
Andy Peck talks to Glenn Packiam, the lead pastor of New Life Downtown Colorado Springs to talk about his new book, The Resilient Pastor: Leading your Church in a Rapidly Changing World. The book reflects on research by the Barna Group and gives insight into the leadership mood among pastors as they navigate life in challenging days.
Andy Peck talks with Jen Baker who moved from Michigan in the USA to the UK in an Abraham style call where she knew very little of God’s intentions. She and now helps Christians live without fear, through a writing and teaching ministry that takes her all over the world. They talk about her latest book Unwavering: The Power of Choice and find out what holds people back from making progress in what God has called them to do.
Andy Peck talks with Pete Greig, The founder of 24/7 Prayer movement. Pete has written a book entitled ‘How to hear God: a simple guide for normal people' where he explores the many ways the Bible says we might hear from God. Pete explains his own journey into hearing God and how specifically each of us can learn to listen according to how God has made us.
Andy Peck talks to John Truscott, church consultant and trainer about the stewardship of finances. With many churches taking a financial hit post-pandemic, and many having abandoned the offering plate, how can we encourage people to give to God’s work and is tithing our income the answer?
Andy Peck chats with Kelleigh Wooderson-Hudson about her journey to founding Life Essence Housing and Support which provides a haven for those who have survived trauma and their children. How has God turned around bad times in her own past to be a blessing to others?
Uniting the C of E Andy Peck talks with Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin about her book, ‘The Room Where It Happens’, which is based on themes from the stage show, Hamilton. They also talk about how it feels to be the first black woman bishop in the Church of England, what encourages her in her work as Bishop of Dover, and why she believes the Church can stay ‘united’.
Andy Peck talks with Gareth Russell managing director of Jersey Road PR about what to do when a crisis hits your church or charity. With negative press on the increase, he has created a course, ‘Calm before the Storm’ which aims to get you ready for what may come your way.
Andy Peck chats with Wayne Dixon, the Christian Connections in Schools (CCiS) Worker in Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead, and Associate of Scripture Union, with whom he has also worked, in a career spanning some 25 years. They talk about his course, Exam Attack which has become highly popular in the schools where he works and how to lead in the home so that your children both survive and thrive in their education years.
Andy Peck talks to Alan Cutting, author of 'Raising Families: Envisioning the Church to empower its neighbourhood' on what he learned from his work with 3,000 churches in Central Asia and Africa about how to care without making their problems worse.
Andy Peck chats with Ali Campbell, a youth and children’s work consultant about the crisis in youth and children’s work, what to do about it and the new ministry, Paraclesis, which he is launching that hopes to help turn things around.
Andy Peck talks with Katharine Hill, UK director of Care for the Family and author of ‘Left to their own devices?’ about how to help parents navigate the challenges of the Internet era, when the good the bad and the ugly are all available via a smart phone
Andy Peck talks to Sam Reiner, a Florida based pastor and founder of Church Answers about his book ‘The Church Revitalisation Checklist’, and how leaders can address the issues that have caused decline and create a compelling vision for the next stage in their church life.
Andy Peck chats with Becky Willard Heatley, daughter of Dallas Willard, the celebrated writer and thinker, about the re-publishing of The Renovation of the Heart, 20 years after it was written and eight years after her father’s death. What was the heart of the book which has helped so many Christian leaders get a handle on change in their own lives and those they seek to serve?
Andy Peck chats with Trevor Waldock, the author of a new book, Becoming Mandela, where he uses the former South Africa President as a metaphor for change: in Mandela’s case from an angry freedom fighter, to a reconciling statesman. How can we become the kind of ‘elders’ who have the right character to influence our present and the next generation?
Andy Peck talks with Christie Spurling MBE, who grew up as an adopted child, was excluded from school at 14 and went on to be the founder of N-Gage, a charity based in Manchester, which works with young people at risk of exclusion from school. He tells Andy Peck about his background that led him to found this kind of ministry, and what he does for young people just like he was.
Andy Peck talks to Katherine Brown a small group leadership trainer with the Fusion Student Movement, about that all important business of leading a small group: what’s important? What’s not? And how do you build community?
Have you realised that the Nativity plays in many local churches actually have little to do with the birth of Jesus as depicted in the Gospels? David Instone-Brewer Research Fellow at Tyndale House, Cambridge, tackles some of the mythical elements surrounding the incarnation and suggests a new way and better way of understanding what was really going on.
Andy Peck chats with Tim Alford, the National Director of LIMITLESS, the youth and children's movement of the Elim Pentecostal Churches in the UK and Ireland about how things are in the youthwork scene and how local churches might start groups designed to reach and disciple young people.
Andy Peck talks with Steph Cox, Head of Children’s work at Eastgate Church, Gravesend, who believes God is looking to empower children as He enables her, including in supernatural ways. She shares what this meant in terms of her vision for the children in her group
What kind of leadership should Christians utilise in the public sphere, where most are lukewarm or hostile to Christianity? Joanna Williamson tells Andy Peck about an MA in Public Leadership which helps Christians tease out the main issues, and understand what public leadership and public theology is and learn to lead with integrity and grace, wherever God places them.
Marg grew up in a Dutch Reformed Church in Australia where only men were allowed to lead. But she discovered that there was a better way to read the scriptures that seem to deny women from leading and preaching in mixed congregations. She outlines to Andy Peck an interpretation that gives full weight to the Bible’s authority while freeing women everywhere to serve in the ways God intends, which for some, will include leading in church.
God led Andrew to lay down his music career for a season. He shares how he was led to renovate properties, but God had a renovation of the heart and a restoration of a stately home as part of his agenda. A remarkable story of God’s faithfulness leading to a new song for the post-covid era
How do you decide whether differences with another Christian, church or charity are so great that you can’t work together? How do we manage if we diasagree about creation, or the role of women or same sex marriage? Jonathan Lamb believes we can engage in what is known as ‘theological triage’ outlined in his new book entitled Essentially One: Striving for the Unity God Loves and unpacked on the show.
Can two charities merge without one swallowing up the other. ‘All We Can’ now work closely with ‘Y-Care International’ in a novel merger that could be a template for others. Steve Adams, director of Public Engagement for the two charities explains how they came together and what leaders can learn from the enterprise.
Dave Burke’s church was overrun with people in various forms of emotional distress, so as senior pastor, he got some training and now equips people online and in person with Mental Health First Aid Training. He explains how we can equip others ourselves
