Church Leaders

Trailer – An Introduction to the Hope Renewed Podcast

This 3-minute trailer describes what the Hope Renewed Podcast is all about and who our target audience. 

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Practical Shepherding – Brian Croft

Summary Let’s face it…ministry is hard. And at times it’s hard in ways we never thought it would be, and for which we were never really prepared. So many of the day-in and day-out realities – the practical nuts-and-bolts of ministry – can leave us tired, frustrated or wondering if we’re even fulfilling God’s call….

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Being Champions for Your Pastor – Robin and Larry Schmidt

Summary Having relationships that are safe, open and encouraging are helpful – in fact needful – for everyone. But finding these relationships as a pastor can be especially difficult. That’s why it’s important for those who surround pastors to be those kinds of people and create the times and spaces that help pastors be healthy….

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52 – Being Champions for Your Pastor – Robin and Larry Schmidt

Having relationships that are safe, open and encouraging are helpful – in fact needful – for everyone. But finding these relationships as a pastor can be especially difficult. That’s why it’s important for those who surround pastors to be those kinds of people and create the times and spaces that help pastors be healthy. Join…

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A Life of Burning Hope – Winn Collier

Summary Tom and Sean sit down with Winn Collier, the director of The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. Winn is the author of Burning in My Bones, a new biography on Eugene Peterson. In this conversation he talks about his friendship with Eugene and what led him to write this…

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43 – Caring for Your Soul – Kaylene and Jimm Derksen

The Soul Care Institute (https://www.soulcareinstitute.com/) is a six-retreat journey spread over two years where participants learn to care for their own souls. Sean interviewed the Soul Care Institute president Kaylene Derksen and her husband Jimm (who serves a s Vice President of the Institute). The talked about how pastors are often so busy caring for…

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42 – Allowing God to Shape You – Shalini Bennett

As leaders there is always the subtle temptation to allow our identity to be found in our own accomplishments. Our degrees, successes, networks, and personalities become what form and inform our perspectives for ministry. But what if God is choosing a different way to shape us for His call? Desert experiences. Painful self-awareness. Suffering. What…

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39 – Finding Hope in Alignment – John Opalewski

When a car’s wheels are out of alignment, it can create a domino effect of issues which could ultimately result in a crash. So it is in life, and perhaps more so in ministry. Inattention to our soul’s alignment can be the fundamental issue that expresses itself in ever increasing difficulties. We sit down with…

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38 – Unhurried: Life at the Pace of Jesus – Alan Fadling

Many leaders are hurried, and hurry is costing them more than they realize. What if we were to rediscover the genius of Jesus’ unhurried way of life and leadership? Great leadership grows in the soil of good rest. This is the conviction Alan Fadling has found in his quest to live and minister from the fullness…

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37 – Strengthening the Church and Her Leaders – Bryan Moak

Good health in any aspect of our lives requires Attention and Intention. It just doesn’t happen, it must be pursued and practiced. This is especially true in ministry because there is an enemy – of our souls and of our ministry – who would have us weak, ineffective and irrelevant. How we cultivate our ministry…

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