Andrew Arndt is the Lead Pastor of New Life East (one of seven congregations of New Life Church in Colorado Springs), where he also hosts the Essential Church podcast, a weekly conversation designed to strengthen the thinking of church and ministry leaders. Prior to joining New Life’s team, he served as Lead Pastor of Bloom Church: a neo-monastic, charismatic, liturgical, justice-driven network of house churches in Denver. He received his MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is working...
Jul 02, 2025•56 min•Season 5Ep. 208
David Zahl is the director of Mockingbird Ministries and editor-in-chief of the Mocking Bird website. Born in New York City and brought up elsewhere, David graduated from Georgetown University in 2001, and then worked for several years as a youth minister in New England. In 2007 he founded Mockingbird in NYC. We talk about his latest book The Big Relief:the urgency of grace for a worn-out world. Today David and his wife Cate reside in Charlottesville, VA with their three boys, where David also s...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 207Ep. 5
Chris Morris is a passionate mental health advocate dedicated to promoting understanding of mental health issues within the church. Because of a lifelong struggle with depression and suicidality, Chris became committed to breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health and encouraging others to seek after holistic health. We talk about his book Resilient and Redeemed: Lessons about Suicidality and Depression from the Psych Ward As a writer and speaker, Chris has shared his personal story and ...
Jun 17, 2025•54 min•Season 5Ep. 206
David Tensen is passionate about helping individuals, families and organisations thrive. His latest book is Decenter Everything: The Unconventional Approach to Eldering in an Age of Immaturity. He brings together a unique fusion of experience across business, leadership, creativity, emotional health and spiritual development. David and wife Natalie have three children and live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. David is a PhD Candidate, exploring small business education and has ove...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 205
Dr. Charles C. Daniels, Jr. is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with years of leadership experience. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fathers’ UpLift Inc., the nation’s first mental health and substance abuse treatment facility for fathers and families, helping fathers become and remain emotionally stable for their children. He is also a Visiting Research Scientist at Yale University. Dr. Daniels has spent the last decade providing therapy to Black men, helpi...
Jun 03, 2025•55 min•Season 5Ep. 204
Will Anderson is a senior editor at Waterbrook Multnomah . He’s also a pastor who currently serves at Southlands Church Santa Ana . He grew up in Phoenix, AZ, where he cultivated a love for writing—thanks to the sweltering summers which kept him inside, as well as his parents’ refusal to buy him a video game console for the duration of his adolescence. He earned his B.A. in journalism at Biola University , and his M.A. in New Testament from Talbot School of Theology . Will has also taught theolo...
May 27, 2025•55 min•Season 5Ep. 203
Britney Higgs along with her husband Sammy Higgs founded the Her Campaign providing safe spaces for human trafficking survivors as well as emergency stabilization programs—which provide a vital bridge between rescue and lasting freedom—offering safe housing and holistic care survivors need to reclaim their independence. When survivors have a safe place to heal, they not only step into the future they deserve but also contribute to the healing and strengthening of their communities. Because when ...
May 20, 2025•1 hr
Sarah Boyd is a writer, child and adolescent development expert, and founder of educational company 'Resilient Little Hearts'. We discuss her new book is Turn Down the Noise: A practical guide to building an emotionally healthy family in a chronically overstimulated world. Sarah holds a Masters degree in Educational Psychology and a Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership. A native Australian, who lived in California with her husband and two children has moved back to Austraila.As she says now...
May 13, 2025•53 min•Season 5Ep. 201
Lael Paul Johnson is a Professional Salmon & Steelhead Guide who brings anglers on several of world class rivers such as, The Hoh, Humtpulips, Clearwater, Satsop, Wynoochee, Skagit & Skykomish River. These rivers feature beautiful mountain views, lush rain forests, emerald green waters and the peace and serenity that you can only find on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. He has the passion and experience to take you places some can only dream of and make them accessible to you while fishin...
Apr 20, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 200
What if the apostles were alive today? What if they had social media, podcasts, and a front-row seat to the chaos of modern Christianity? What would they say? Buckle up. Gospel Zero: Reclaiming the Radical Message of Grace is here to shake the religious world like an over-caffeinated prophet. Bestselling author Andrew Farley and renowned storyteller John Lynch echo the voices of God’s messengers in the twenty-first century—delivering fiery, blistering, and hilarious letters to the modern church....
Apr 01, 2025•53 min•Season 5Ep. 199
Relationships can feel like a constant struggle. How can we recognize and overcome behaviors that leave us wounded, broken, and exhausted? One Choice Away from Change helps us identify dysfunctional life patterns that cause us to repeat the same mistakes in relationships, fall into the same bad habits at work, or argue about the same things with those we love. Drawing on their own story of healing, Justin and Trisha Davis offer practical encouragement for: Understanding the choices we make that ...
Mar 26, 2025•55 min•Season 5Ep. 198
David Zahl was born in New York City and brought up on the East Coast and in Europe, David graduated with honors from Georgetown University in 2001. He then served for five years as a para-church youth minister in New England before starting Mockingbird Ministries in 2007, an organization devoted to connecting the Christian faith with the realities of everyday life in fresh and down-to-earth ways. He remains its executive director today. David is also a licensed lay preacher in the Diocese of Vi...
Feb 14, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 197
Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author, speaker, trained psychotherapist, songwriter, and Episcopal priest, but he may be best known for popularizing the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a personality typing system identifying nine types of people and how they relate to one another and the world. His popular Enneagram primer, The Road Back to You gave fresh language and interest in this uncannily accurate tool. His latest book, The Story of You, helps readers go a step further, using Enneagram wisdo...
Jan 28, 2025•53 min•Season 5Ep. 196
Rev. Chris Lee is a young vicar who has taken the internet by storm. With an ever growing online presence, Chris has over 170k followers on Instagram. He helps and inspires them every day with his 60-second sermons, full of bite-sized wisdom for busy people. Chris has over 350 million views on the videos he appears in on YouTube. Chris’s new book, Know You Are Beloved: Press Pause, Breathe Deeply, and Be Known by God, seeks to refocus you on simple yet profound truths of the Christian faith. Eac...
Oct 06, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 195
Hannah Brencher is a writer, TED Talk speaker, mental health advocate and author of three books: Fighting Forward, Come Matter Here and If You Find This Letter. Hannah and her work have been featured in publications such as The Guardian, Oprah.com, Glamour, Cosmo and more. She is also the founder of The World Needs More Love Letters, a global organization using the power of social media to write and mail letters to strangers in need worldwide. Find out more at: www.hannahbrenchercreative.com
Sep 18, 2024•59 min•Season 4Ep. 194
Bryan Crum spent a decade as a hospice chaplain. His time at the bedside of dying people gave him a front-row view into how God designed us. He discovered that most people felt they never reached their full potential. Their longings and regrets led to incredible insights about what’s most often missed—the power of love. Filled with memorable stories and timeless takeaways, Neighbor, Love Yourself reveals how understanding our inner value changes the way we live on the outside. Before we can trul...
Jul 26, 2024•48 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Kimberly is a professional helper and artist completing her doctorate in community care and counseling. She is a professor, writer, editor, and counselor. During her critical illness in 2021-2022, she began dreaming about The Way Back to Ourselves and founded it in August of 2022. She is an award-winning poet, and her writing has been published in Ekstasis, Fathom, Truly Co, Radix, Calla Press, Humana Obscura, The Dewdrop, and many others. Her debut poetry collection, Of Wings & Dirt , which...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 192
Ashlee Eiland is a thought leader, writer, and Bible teacher who exists to join in God's redemptive work here on Earth. Her work has one purpose: to help humanity build bridges back to the truth of who God is and between one another in whole and healing relationships. Ashlee formerly served as Co-Lead Pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in West Michigan. She and her husband live in Grand Rapids with their three kids. Say Good is a timely, thought-provoking book that contains practical insights, emp...
Jul 04, 2024•53 min•Season 4Ep. 191
There's no escaping it: everyone experiences seasons of pain and despair. In 2019, when Amber Haines resigned from her position as church curate and walked out the church doors for the last time, she entered her own season of pain and despair. That season taught her--and her husband, Seth Haines--that the journey toward hope starts with recognizing "the deep down things." In The Deep Down Things, Amber and Seth point to a simple truth: even in the darkest times, there are tangible signs of hope ...
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 190
Sergeant Mark Tappan and his K9 companion, Mattis, have a highly engaged and devoted fan base of over five million social media followers. This down-to-earth duo never anticipated winning A&E’s Top Dog , fulfilling countless on-going media requests, and interacting with an ever-increasing social media fan base. Although, it’s Mark and Mattis’ special bond and likeability as a team that has their audience clamoring for more. K9 Mattis is one of the most decorated police K9s of all time with o...
Jun 01, 2024•50 min•Season 4Ep. 189
Justin is an author, speaker, and pastor and has dedicated his life to helping people experience life change through the power of authenticity. He co-founded RefineUs Ministries, where he shares his personal story with honesty and transparency, inspiring others to find the courage to do the same. Justin is the co-author of the bestselling book, Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough, which he wrote alongside his wife, Trisha. He is a sought-after speaker for numerous confer...
Mar 05, 2024•57 min•Season 4Ep. 188
Greg Atkinson is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, international keynote speaker, leadership and life coach, and business consultant. Greg Atkinson is the Founder and CEO of Greg Atkinson Consulting, LLC , The Kindness Group , Worship Impressions, the First Impressions Conference, and EntreChurch – The Entrepreneurial Church Conference, as well as the Co-Founder of the Social Media Church Conference. Greg is the Founder of EntreDreams and hosts masterminds and retreats. Greg is the Charlotte ...
Feb 14, 2024•50 min•Season 4Ep. 187
Brian Heasley is the International Prayer Director for 24-7 Prayer, and he also works at at Lambeth Palace as International Ecumenical Lead for Thy Kingdom Come. Before this, Brian and his wife Tracy pioneered the work of 24-7 Prayer in Ibiza, Spain, where they developed rhythms of prayer and mission. Brian’s book, Gatecrashing, tells the story of 24-7 Prayer in Ibiza. Brian is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and now lives in England. Brian and Tracy have two adult sons....
Feb 08, 2024•46 min•Season 4Ep. 186
Farrell is a mother of six, a spiritual blogger and an author of two works of fiction: Alma Gloria and the Olive Tree and The Angel and the Raven and a recent collection of prayers entitled, The Pocket Cathedral . Her latest book is Soulfull: A Weekly Devotional to Nourish the Mind, Body, and Spirit. Farrell holds a Masters of Art Business from Sotheby’s, London and is currently completing her Masters of Divinity at Vanderbilt University. She is a part-time minister of pastoral care at Woodmont ...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 185
Scott and Troy pick there books of the year for 2023. It's our 3 favorites for six in total
Jan 25, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 184
Austin Carty joined Boulevard Baptist Church from First Baptist Church of Corbin, KY in 2019. Austin holds an undergraduate degree in literature from High Point University (B.A.), a Master of Divinity (M.Div) from Wake Forest University, and a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) from Emory University. He is the author of The Pastor's Bookshelf: Why Reading Matters for Ministry, which received the 2023 Christianity Today Award of Merit and was named the Book of the Year by Preaching magazine. Austin is m...
Jan 11, 2024•53 min•Season 4Ep. 183
Steve Veasey: Artist, Writer, and Mental Health Advocate as he writes on his website ... is an excellent illustrator and author. did we mention he wrote a book?- you should read it. He grew up in British Columbia and lives there still. he enjoys long walks on the mountainside, staring out at lakes and drinking lots of Starbucks (typical BC things). and just in case you missed it-He also likes to draw. The people who live with him think he's pretty great. so do the people he works with. maybe you...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 182
What are the most important stories we tell? The ones we tell ourselves.
Dec 26, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 181
Tommy Brown is a pastor with a B.A. in Pastoral Ministry and Masters degrees in Divinity and Management. As a contemplative teacher, he seeks to connect the dots between Scripture, God’s deep work in the human soul, and the patterns of our ordinary lives. He is the author of The Seven Money Types (Zondervan, '17) and The Ache for Meaning (NavPress, September '23).
Dec 20, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 180
Rich, a native of San Jose, California, studied music at The Phil Mattson School, and earned his bachelor’s and master’s from Jessup University. Over the years, he has worked as a church musician and ministry leader. He writes, consults, and speaks about the intersection of creativity, faith and leadership. His new book, MI NDBLOWN: Unlock Your Creative Genius by Bridging Science and Magic (2022) , deconstructs creativity and the creative process. His first book, The Six Hats of the Worship Lead...
Dec 12, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 179
