Resources

Planning Center

Planning Center

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.

How to Reach and Keep People

How to Reach and Keep People

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...

Systematic Exposition: Consecutive Preaching

Systematic Exposition: Consecutive Preaching

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.

Church Advance HQ

Church Advance HQ

Helping advance your church in the areas of preaching, outreach, leadership, and more.

Cutting It Straight Events

Cutting It Straight Events

The goal of this conference is to train, model, and promote expository preaching. There will be plenary lectures about the meaning and importance of expository preaching, practical breakout sessions on the tools and work of Bible exposition, and worship services...

Church Advance 2025

Church Advance 2025

February 6 – 7, 2025 • Join us for the 2025 Church Advance Conference with H.B. Charles, Jr., Kurt Skelly, Tyler Prater, and Bryan Samms.

Healthy Church Network

Healthy Church Network

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...

Gaining By Losing by J.D. Greear

Gaining By Losing by J.D. Greear

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...

My Most Useful Commentaries

My Most Useful Commentaries

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...

Cutting It Straight – Sermon Notes from H.B. Charles. Jr.

Cutting It Straight – Sermon Notes from H.B. Charles. Jr.

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...

Let Us Prey – A Ministry of Scandals

Let Us Prey – A Ministry of Scandals

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.

Spurgeon: A Biography

Spurgeon: A Biography

Spurgeon pastored 5,000 people at the Metropolitan Temple in London, in what now might be considered a megachurch. Instead of adopting worldly mechanisms for growth, he based his vision on a biblical and theological foundation. Here is a concise, sympathetic...

Why your pastor has that edge

Why your pastor has that edge

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...