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The Better Sundays Podcast — 222 episodes
Easter! Bring them in and bring the back!
Becoming the Ultimate Supportive Pastor to Sunday School Teachers- 4 words to becoming their hero!
4 Words to Say to Your Sunday School Teachers in January
4 Meetings You Must Have in January- Here is how to love meetings again!
Pastor-- Mottos are Better than Themes!- 4 Mottos that Motivate for the Upcoming Year.
4 Categories for Next Year's Sermon Series- Ideas to get the new year's preaching off to a good start
Why 2026 Begins in November This Year
The Best Practices-Specific Tactics for Reaching, Young Moms and Dads- Zoom Call with Senior Pastors
This Sunday Can Be Better Than Last Sunday, Here's how! -- 3 Words to Better Sunday Mornings.
Why some pastors attract new, young families....and why some don't! Reach New Families NOW!
This Single Addition Will Change the Responses to Your Worship Service.
3 Things I Did With My iPhone to Reach New, Young Families-
3 Things I Bought at Walmart that Help Reach, Young Families.
Contentment with a Small Church...Right? or Wrong? What Kind of Growth is the Right Growth?
You Can Reach Them NOW! Here is How! See New, Young Families in Your Church this Sunday!
How to Reach Them Now! Where is the Hustle Missing? New Young Families are ripe for the picking!
How Can I Reach New, Young Families Now? How Pastors are Using EVENTS to Reach New, Young Families Right Away!
How Can I Reach New, Young Families Right Away? Every Church Can Use Some New, Young Families.
Security and Safety-Preventing Problems is Best- 7 of 10 An Once of Prevention Applies in the Church
Medical Emergencies and Congregational Emergencies- 6 of 10
Security and Safety Awareness-Why and How to Make the Church Aware of Your Security Items- 5 of 10
Church Safety and Security-Background Checks and Procedures for Your Local Church -Overview 4 of 10
Church Safety and Security- Check-In and Check-Out Procedures for Sunday School-Overview 3 of 10
Church Safety and Security- Facility Service Time Security-A Church Protection Plan-Overview 2 of 10
Church Safety and Security- A Pastors Checklist- Topical Training Overview 1 of 10
How One Church Almost Died Because the Pastor Did Everything. --Why Ministry Teams Are So Important
19 Ways I Failed To Be Ready For Folks to Attend Church- Failing to Build a Preparation Environment
Why People Will Vote or Will Not Vote for Your Church- It is the Economy Stupid!
Vibrant or Non Vibrant? Four Things to Do IN YOUR SERMON to Create Engagement and Participation
Dying Churches- A Missing Ingredient to Keep the Grim Reaper at Bay- Sermon Prep vs. Sunday Prep
Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How Sunday Prep Differs from Sermon Prep- Eric Ross Interview
How Pastors Can Excel at Building One-on-One Relationships-Create Strong and Healthy Spiritual Bonds
How to be Relationally Savvy - People Smart vs Theologically Smart - 4 Tips for Church Leaders
4 Ways Pastors Should Be Connecting in Their Community Every Single Week.-- Church Outreach Hacks --
The Single Common Denominator for Spiritual Success-Daily Devotions Made Easy- #1 Bible Study Method
How is the Local Church to Handle the Illegal Immigration Crisis? - The Border the Bible and Biden -
Sunday School Teacher Training- How to Conduct a 3-Hour, Children's Worker Training Event- Template
How to Do Church in the Park- Break the Ritual! Do Sunday Morning Church in your City Park!
Easter Sermons, Series and Strategies- 22 Fresh Sermon Ideas and Series Designs for Busy Pastors
Easter Prep Workshop Number 5- Follow-up- How to Get Guests to Return the Week After Easter.
Easter Prep Workshop Number 4- Three Things You Should Not Neglect to Print for Easter Outreach
Easter Prep Workshop Number 3- Effective Use of Social Media and Smartphones for Special Events
Easter Prep Workshop Number 2- Church Greeter Training- How to Multiply Yourself-Three Training Tips
Easter Prep 1- A "How-to" list for sharing your vision
Stop Youth Activities until... Four Things Found in Every Successful Family-Oriented Church
7 Ideas That Changed The World--The Local Church is the Most Powerful Entity that has Ever Existed.
Pastor's Secret Weapon- Three Sentences You Need to Say Word-for-Word to Reach Young Moms and Dads
3 Mind Blowing Stats about Smartphones and YOUR Church Members- Are We Using Smartphones Properly?
Two Spices for Church Leaders to Add to their Calendar to Reach New, Young Families
Two Things Hungry Church Planters Have that Established Churches Have Lost
A Pastors Greatest Fear- Becoming a Stagnant and Motionless Church
How to Become the Optimal You- I Am Here for You- Back to Church Crash Course Introduction
How to Lower the Average Age of Your Church- Simple Tips for Adding Young Families on Sunday Morning
A Sermon Long Remembered is Better than a Sermon Soon Forgotten- Helping Them Remember What You Said
Is It a Sin for Church to Be Boring? Whose to Blame? Yikes!
Zoom Training: Beat the Routine: Three keys making the holiday season magnificent. Christmas Success
How pastors can get folks to come and listen to the next several sermons. Sermon promotion made easy
Why Your Sunday Morning Church Service SHOULD Be Like a Funeral! -- Agree or Disagree?
4 Things Pastors Need to be Seeing on Sunday Mornings- Once you see them it is hard to "unsee" them!
• Part 4 of 4 • How to Get Normal People to Come to Church-
• Part 3 of 4 • How to Get Normal People to Come to Church-
• Part 2 of 4 • How to Get Normal People to Come to Church-
• Part 1 of 4 • How to Get Normal People to Come to Church-
This Church Needs Fixing!- Assessment and analysis of a Rocky Mnt. area Independent Baptist church.
CLUTTER- A problem pastors can easily fix, but it is not something that they can easily prevent.
Why Older Pastors Often Struggle to Attract and Retain Younger Families in Their Local Church
What Parent's are Looking for in a Church Nursery. Session 3-Church Nursery Worker Training Day
Defining the "Win" in Your Nursery. Session 2- Church Nursery Training Day- Why are we here?
The Six Essentials for Every Nursery Worker- Session 1- Church Nursery Training Day
A disaster in your local church is coming unless you handle this one topic well. How to fix it now.
Every pastor should do this to build powerful voices in their local church.
If you talk for living, listening becomes even more important! 3 ways pastors get quality feedback.
Five ideas on how to better pray for your congregation.
Should a Sermon Have an Invitation? Part 9 of 9- The Fundamentals of Effective Pastoral Preaching
3 Ways to Implement a Sermon or Sermon Series- Fundamentals of Effective Preaching- 8 of 9
Giving Sermon Illustrations that are Effective, Memorable and Hit Home! Pastoral Preaching- 7 of 9
What is the Makeup of a Nutritious Sermon? Explain it. Relate it. Apply it. Pastoral Preaching
Serving up Sermons with Interest- 5 Ways to Deliver- 5 of 9 Fundamental of Pastoral Preaching
How to Develop Anticipation for a Sermon- Number 4 of 9 Fundamentals of Effective Pastoral Preaching
The Pastor as a Developer- Creating a game plan with your sermons. 3 of 9 Fundamentals Developer
The Best Sermon Introduction is Your Outward Character- Is the Container Clean? 2 of 9 Fundamentals
Your First Sermon Should be Your Loudest! - Pastor Among the People-The Overlap-1 of 9 Fundamentals
The Pastor and His Preaching- The 9 Fundamentals of Pastoral Preaching Overview
Sermon Series Webinar- 3 Steps to Create Excellence
How to Make Your Sermon Series Memorable- The Flourishing Factor- PART FIVE of FIVE
How to Effectively Promote Your Next Sermon Series- PART FOUR of FIVE
Building an Effective Sermon Series with Unifying Graphics and Music- PART THREE of FIVE
How to Create a Sermon Series- Themes, Titles and Subtitles PART TWO of FIVE
Why Pastors Should Create and Use Sermon Series- The Preacher, the Pastor and the Pulpit- PART ONE of FIVE
How to Create Excellent Sermon Engagement
How to Create Fill-in-the-Blank Notes for Your Congregation. Seven Samples- Be an Effective Pastor
Why Pastors Should Use Fill-in-the-Blank Sermon Notes- How to Have Effective Sermons-
The Pastor vs. The Preacher- Which is Preferable? Series: The Preacher, The Pastor and Pulpit
What is the Difference Between a Pastor and a Preacher?
Part Two- Creating an Annual Preaching Plan
Getting Started with Your Annual Preaching Plan- Part One: A Yearly Calendar for a Pastors Sermons
Why the Pulpit is for More Than Just Preaching!
Christmas Sermon Ideas- 5 Applications, Illustrations and Meanings. Making Your Message Meaningful!
Sermon Ideas- 19 Christmas Sermons Ideas- Test and True Messages- Holiday Bible Preaching Topics
Two Things Not to Forget in Your Christmas Eve Candlelight Service-
A Great Kids Program for Christmas
How a Small Church Can Have a Great Christmas Outreach
Why Small Churches Struggle with First Time Visitors- Analysis and Solutions for Pastors
Church Greeter: Training Day- Train your outside greeters, inside greeters and hosts.
Church Greeters: Getting Started From Scratch- How We Laid Out A Greeting System When We Got Started
Church Greeters: How a Small Church can get Started with a Greeter Ministry
The Single Best Technique Pastors Can Use to Engage Their Sunday Morning Crowd.
Five Ways to Make Connection Cards that Dance! Do you know these finer points of effectiveness?
Three Connection Card Mistakes by Beginners- 3 Common Newbie Mistakes
Is Church Just for Believers?
How to Make a Better First Impression to First Time Visitors
Part Two-How to Fill Your Church w/People w/o Compromise or Feeling Slimy! Getting Folks in the Door
Ten Ways to Fill Your Church with People w/o Compromise or Feeling Slimy! Getting People in the Door
Learn What's Better Than the Trial and Error Method of Church Management- Doing "Right" Things Now!
What I with I knew better about the pastoral feeding/leading balance. Why leading the flock is hard.
Getting unstuck from ministry problems- Jeep in a Lake Story and a solution for stuckness!
Solution-Flavored Sundays- Why being a solution-based, local church matters!
Why Church Environments Matter- How to create amazing Sundays with the ReachKeep Academy.
Good Church for Great Church? Does your church have the right mix of these three elements?
How to Do Long Term Thinking in a Short Term World-Why Pastors Should Plant Trees-
How Pastors Can Kill Weeds
A Simple Tip for Recruiting Church Volunteers- Helping Church Leadership Create a Volunteer Culture
How to Be a Better Father Than You Are a Pastor
How to Take Bible Verses WAY Out of Context- 3 Tips to Becoming a Heretic and Messing Up a Sermon
How to Help Your Church Volunteers to Be More Committed- How to Fix Unfaithful Volunteers
A Sitdown with Mike Holmes on Outreach Daycamps
How VBS Can Reach Young Moms and Dads
Verifying Your Church Data on Your Google Search Results
Pastors as Coaches? - Three Tips to Make it Happen- How Pastors Can be Better Coaches
What Church Leaders Often Miss Concerning Their Continuing Education
Special Announcements
S5E16- A Busy Pastor's Guide to Effective Meetings
S5E15-How to do an After Event Evaluation Meeting
S5E14- Death by Deacon Meeting- How to Conduct Governance Meetings in a Local Church
S5E13- Three Worksheets to Help You Avoid Death by Meeting
S5E12- How to Commit Local Church Suicide
S5E11- How to Start a Small Group from Scratch
S5E10- Getting Started with Building Ministry Teams- How to Make Local Church Teamwork a Reality
S5E9- 3 Management Failures Nearly Every Pastor Makes- Managing the People, Discussions and the Teams.
S5E8- What Pastors Miss by Not Being a People Person
S5E7- Effective Communication for Local Church Leaders
S5E6- How to Build Your Church in 2022- Leadership Series
S5E5- Using Technology to Share Your Ministry Vision
S5E4- How to Make Your Vision Last Longer- Sticky Vision!
S5E3- How to Implement Vision in a Local Church Setting
S5E2- Three Categories of Vision for Church Leaders
S5E1- What does the Bible say about VISION?
S4E20- What is in top of the 2021 pile? The Best Ideas of 2021 for Reaching Young Families
S4E19- Let Me Tell You About My Greatest Listener
S4E18- Simple Tips to Fire up Your Candlelight Service
S4E17- How You Can Reach New Moms and Dads on Christmas Sunday
S4E16- Do You Make These Christmas Outreach Mistakes?
S4E15- Solving Christmas Burnout for Christian Workers.
S4E14- A Bare Minimum Checklist for Church Attender Engagement
S4E13 Are Your Sunday Mornings Missing These Precise Engagement Moments?
S4E12- Five Ways to Get Better Engagement in Your Sunday Sermons
S4E11- Do You Know Why Engaging Sunday Services are So Effective?
S4E10- Why People Don't Come to Your Church- Ask Mike: What percentage of people come to your church for something or someone?
S4E9- Feedback and Listening Skills- 3 Proven Techniques to Help Pastors
S4E8- Personal Ambition vs. Being Your Best. Ask Mike: What to do when kids ask difficult questions in Sunday school.
S4E7- Does the Church Have Customers? Yes or No?- Ask Mike: How to create discussion in your Bible study.
S4E6- Details Matter at Church- Ask Mike: Why Don't Parents Send Their Kids to the Children's Program
S4E5- How to Have an Excellent Digital Presence- Ask Mike- Help with Middle Schoolers
S4E4- Excellence in Marketing Outreach- Ask Mike: Does a Pastor Even Need a Personality?
S4E3- Excellence in the Church Facility - Ask Mike: What do you do when the people of your church hate children?
S4E2- Excellence in the Church Office - Ask Mike: What do you do when first timers don't come back a second time?
S4E1- Is The Local Church a Business?
S3E15- How Pastors Can Juggle Better
S3E14- Craving for Resources- Annual Resource Review
S3E13- New Ideas for Fixing this Complaint...Church is Too Long, Too Late, and Too Busy
S3E12- How to Repel Young Families from Your Church in Three Easy Steps
S3E11- Three Ways We Do Video Testimonies in Church
S3E10- Using Texting to Reach Young Families
S3E9- Are Screens Right or Wrong for Churches?
S3E8- Five Smart Ways Smart Pastors are Using Smart Phones in Their Sunday Morning Service
S3E7- Stuff to Buy on Amazon That Will Help You Reach Young Families
S3E6- How to Make Your Church SMELL Like Young Families! - Bulletins, Announcements and Connection Cards
S3E5 Getting Kids Involved in Adult Services- Every Single Sunday!
S3E4- Three Summer Ministry Ideas for Reaching Young Families
S3E3- Ideas for Family Friendly Church Activities
S3E2- Family Friendly Church? Yes or No
S3E1- "Young Family Things" - Introduction to the Concept
S2E15- Strategy Applied- Landlocked, Yet Flourishing- Live Church Evaluation
S2E14- Strategy- An Amazing Local Church Experience
S2E13 Strategy- Leaders are Solvers Not Complainers
S2E12- A Strategy for Effective Sunday Morning Greeters
S2E11 Strategy- Should Church Be Comfortable?
S2E10- Strategy- Live Review of XYZ Baptist Church Strategy
S2E9-A Strategy for Your Three Church Services
S2E8- Strategy- Move with the Movers
S2E7- Strategy- A Solutions-Oriented Local Church
S2E6 Strategy- Momentum with Your Volunteers
S2E5-Strategy- How to Freshen Up Your Outreach Methods
S2E4- Strategy- Building Up Your Team
S2E3- Strategy Statement to Create a Servant's Heart
S2E2- Strategy- A Key to Delegation
S2E1- Strategy- Every Sunday Expect a Guest!
S1E25- Relationships (High Touch)- How to Calendar Relationship Events
S1E24- Relationships (High Touch)- Designing Each Church Event to Help Build Relationships
S1E23- Relationships- Tips for Using “After Church” Time to Develop Relationships
S1E22- Building Relationships by Using Connection Cards
S1E21- Relationships- How To Have A Better Sunday Morning Handshaking Time
S1E20- Relationships- How to Improve Relationship Building on Sunday Mornings
S1E19- High Touch- The Value of Relational Glue in Your Church
S1E18- Family Solutions- Why Character-based Curriculum for Sunday School?
S1E17- Family Solutions- What does our Sunday morning kids program look like?
S1E16- Family Solutions- Church Security-Peace of Mind for Moms and Dads
S1E15- Family Solutions- Book Review- For Instruction in Righteousness
S1E14- Family Solutions- Growing Kids and Parents with Hands-on Projects
S1E13- Family Solutions- Tools for Moms and Dads with Disobedient Kids
S1E12- Family Solutions- How to Get Parents More Involved in the Children's Ministry
S1E11- Family Solutions- Two ways your church can help parents "parent".
S1E10- Atmosphere- Sunday Morning Refreshments, Yes or No?
S1E9- Atmosphere- How to Do Greeters and Hosts
S1E8- How Music Creates Atmosphere
S1E7- Atmosphere- Fixing Your Church's Aroma
S1E6- Atmosphere- Creating a Culture of Early and Ready
S1E5- Atmosphere- Excited for Guests
S1E4- Atmosphere-How to Have Amazing Sundays
S1E3- How to Have BETTER SUNDAYS
S1E2- What is a BETTER SUNDAY?
S1E1- Why do we need BETTER SUNDAYS?