Resources

Try Planning Center for church management tasks such as tracking new visitors, assimilation steps, connection cards, child check-ins, giving, registration for events, connection group management, and ministry teams.

Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider.

How to Prepare and Deliver Expository Sermons. Recommended in a recent episode of Church Advance.

Recommended in a recent episode of Church Advance. An essential guide in the art and instruction of issuing Christ's invitation to the lost.

Bryan explores the powerful outreach potential of hospitality, Bible-based preaching, and more. 1. The Power of the Holy Spirit and the Word Reaching unsaved and de-churched individuals requires emphasizing the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. It is...

Show notes from episodes of the Whetstone. Expository preaching is a non-negotiable, not just a preferred form of preaching. Systematic Exposition of Scripture: A Case for Consecutive Preaching.

A session from Church Advance 2024. Connect with Nate Skelly at https://NateSkelly.com

Please pray and consider supporting Aaron Chan as he leads the revitalization project of the Hope Church campus of Mayport. See the featured episode where Aaron shares what God is doing in Mayport here.

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This book by Zack Eswine was recommended in the episode here. Desire burns within you. You’ve trained and dreamt of doing large things in famous ways as fast as you can for God's glory. But pastoral work keeps requiring your surrender to small, mostly overlooked...

Get connected with Chris Anderson and the Healthy Church Network, a co-op of autonomous churches collaborating to plant doctrinally and philosophically aligned churches across the United States and Canada. Their mission is to identify, equip, deploy, and support...

When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church...

Check out my top 10 commentaries I use for study and preparing sermons as featured in the episode here. MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series Warren Wiersbe Bible Exposition Series Preaching the Word Commentaries (edited by Kent Hughes) Holman New Testament...

H.B. Charles, Jr. preached a powerful message from Acts 2 at this year's Church Advance conference. Get the sermon file for that message as he described in his teaching sessions at the conference here. If you want to learn more about preaching from H.B., be sure to...

The full conversation featuring Bryan's reactions to the recent "Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals" docuseries and its exposure of predatory behavior within the IFB movement.

A list of Bryan’s favorite books he read this year.

by Dave Malinak • Dave is an independent Baptist pastor serving at the Berean Baptist Church in Ogden, Utah.

PastorRyanHayden.com • When I was a younger man I remember getting around middle aged pastors and thinking “what is wrong with these people?” Many of them seemed to have a chip on their shoulder. The ones I was around seemed a bit edgy. As a group, middle aged pastors...