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Good Ideas For Churches

Dec 9, 2022

How can churches better support their missionaries?

What would your missionary want to say to you if they felt they could?

How can we support kids who have grown up in a missions context, and now feel displaced back ‘home?’

In this episode I talk with Alan Steier. He and his wife Judy work fulltime with Barnabas...


Nov 22, 2022

Not all of us will be church planters, but we all need to shift our mindset to thinking like church planters. In the post-Christian west, fewer and fewer people have a context for Christian terms and meaning. My guest, Nathan Dean planted and served a church in downtown Atlanta for 12 years. He and his wife were very...


Nov 1, 2022

How can we help someone who is deconstructing their faith? That is a critical question for any church leader today, and the topic of this episode.

My guest is Ian Harber, who was gracious enough to share his own story of deconstructing and rebuilding his faith in Jesus. Ian is part of the Truth Over Tribe team, and...


Oct 29, 2022

Special Episode for Pastor Appreciation Month!

I'd love to pray for you and your minstry by name. Reach out and let me know what I can pray for.

Here's Matt's original video.

Good Ideas for Churches is a joint project between Matt Whitman's The Ten Minute Bible Hour and Eyes Up. Have a good idea? Something that's helped...


Oct 14, 2022

In this episode I talk with Dr. Joshua Chatraw about his book, Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age. We all have underlying stories that we use to make sense of our lives, and the gospel story is the only one that really meets all our longings.

Dr. Chatraw is executive director of the Center...