Recommended books from the Church Advance Podcast. Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger The Benefit of Doubt by Craig Groeschel Is Easter Believable? by Rebecca McGluffin The Case for Easter by Lee Strobel The Final Days of Jesus by Andreas Kostenberger and...
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Tour the Holy Land with Me and H.B. Charles
Are you ready for an unforgettable journey that will deepen your understanding of Scripture and strengthen your faith? Join Pastor HB Charles, Jr. and me on a transformative trip to the Holy Land, where you’ll walk in the footsteps of Jesus and experience the rich...
Recommended Spring Reading
From the episode 5-Star Reads + Books to Avoid
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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.
Sticky Church by Larry Osborne
Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider.
Power in the Pulpit by Jerry Vines
How to Prepare and Deliver Expository Sermons. Recommended in a recent episode of Church Advance.
The Gospel Invitation: Why Publicly Inviting People to Receive Christ Still Matters
Recommended in a recent episode of Church Advance. An essential guide in the art and instruction of issuing Christ's invitation to the lost.
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
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.
Poverty Theology with Nate Skelly
A session from Church Advance 2024. Connect with Nate Skelly at https://NateSkelly.com
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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...
Connect with Pastor Aaron Chan and Hope Church Mayport
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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The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
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...
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
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
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.
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
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.
Best Books of 2023
A list of Bryan’s favorite books he read this year.
What I Wish Would Change Among Independent Baptists
by Dave Malinak • Dave is an independent Baptist pastor serving at the Berean Baptist Church in Ogden, Utah.