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The Gavin Adams Leadership Podcast — 184 episodes
When Your Budget Starts Making Leadership Decisions
Why Accountability Feels Like Betrayal
What Should You Do When A Culture Complaint Lands On Your Desk?
The Five Questions Your Programming Meeting Keeps Skipping
The Audit Every Church Front Door Needs Before Next Sunday
Why Your Email List Needs Three Different Emails This Week
Why Your Best Volunteers Fade Without a Fight
The Six Words Every Church Leader Needs to Retire
Stop Preaching to the Room. Start Preaching to the Person.
Do You Know Who Is Sitting In Your Church Every Sunday?
The Real Reason Your Current Vision Doesn't Survive Long Term
Did You Build Your Church Model, Or Did You Inherit It?
Encouraged but Unchanged: Define The Best Use For Your Sunday Service
What Story Do I Want to Tell?
What Would a Great Leader Do?
What Would Your Replacement Do?
What To Do If You're Stuck On A Leadership Decision?
Why Success Is Much More Than a Result
You Can't Connect to the Crowd While You're Connected to Your Content
Is Your Largest Giver Quietly Stalling Generosity in Your Church?
The Church Metrics That Predict Growth Before It Shows Up
What Keeping the Wrong Person Is Actually Costing Your Church
You Can't Fix in December What You Ignore in July
The Ten-Minute Fix for Sermon Writing Block
Who Actually Owns Your Sunday Service?
How to Hire for the Church You're Becoming
Your Team Has Learned Which Words Move You
Your Church Is Growing. But Are Your People?
When Funding the Mission Becomes the Mission
The Second Half of the Year Isn't a Continuation. It's a Decision.
Why Your Non-Givers Aren't Giving (And What to Do About It This Month)
The Difference Between a Generosity Moment and a Generosity Movement
Halfway Through 2026: What You Haven't Named Is Already Deciding for You
The Trust Tax: What Every Direction Change Is Really Costing You
What Your Mid-Year Giving Numbers Are Actually Telling You
You Lost Their Trust Before Sunday Morning Even Started
One Question That Fixes The Awkward Giving Conversation In Your Church
What If Your Culture Isn't What Your Team Tells You It Is
A Straightforward Way To Break Through Church Growth Barriers
Why Familiarity Is a Real Threat to Your Church's Growth
Why Your Guest Gift Is Working Against You
Your Vision Moment Doesn't Have a Production Problem
Your Church Already Has a Strategy. The Question Is Whether You Chose It.
Your Church Will Never Be More Intentional Than You Are
You Can Be Liked or You Can Lead. Too Many Pastors Want Both.
Correctness Isn't Influence: How Leaders Mistake Accuracy for Effectiveness
Your Church Is Full of Stories That Never Reach Sunday
Feedback Is Data. You're the One Who Has to Decide What It Means.
Loyalty-Based Giving Is Fading. Here's What Comes Next.
The AI Question More Churches Should Begin Asking
The Hidden Cost of a Hurried Pastor
You Don't Have a Volunteer Shortage. You Have a Movement Problem.
Empathy Isn't Softness. It's the Reason Your Message Gets Heard.
They Are Not Fighting Your Vision. But They Are Grieving the Transition.
Why Your Volunteers Keep Disappearing (And Why Thanking Them Won't Fix It)
Why Your Volunteer Appeals Keep Failing
Why Pastors Delay What They Already Know Needs to Change
Your Sunday Service Order Might Be Killing Your Sermon
Why Talking About Generosity More Is Not Moving People
What Do You Say When There Aren’t Many Life-Change Stories to Tell?
Why So Many Lead Pastors Feel Stuck Doing Work Someone Else Should Own
What To Do If Your Church "Feels" Great But People Aren’t Growing
No Church Leader Sets Out to Build an Unintentional Church
The Death of Expert Culture and the New Rules of Church Leadership
Why Church Activity Makes Us Believe Discipleship Is Happening (Even When It’s Not)
When Your Team Can’t Handle Feedback: How to Build Resilience Without Lowering the Bar
Trust Is Now Harder To Earn Than Ever — And That Should Change How You Lead
Why Stagnant People Create Stuck Churches
Clarity Over Coverage: The Messaging Shift Your Church Needs
The Right Way: You Don’t Have a People Problem. You Have a Pathway Problem.
How to Build a Culture of Participation in Your Church
How to Involve "How" Implementors During "Wow" Visionary Meetings
The Transformation Economy: Why Great Church Experiences Aren’t Producing Real Change
People Don’t Leave Churches. They Leave Leaders They No Longer Trust
Why Your Church Can’t Out Content the Internet and What To Do Instead
Why Great Church Services Are No Longer Driving Church Growth
You Can Grow a Church and Still Stall Discipleship
The Right Message isn't "Right" for Everyone
Faithful, Busy, and Stuck: Why Your Shapers and Stewards Stop Growing
Meet the New Believer in Your Church: Hungry, Overwhelmed, and Unsure What to Do Next
Meet the Seeker In Your Seats: They Are Asking One Question
You’re Not Discipling Everyone. You’re Discipling Four People.
When Engagement Becomes the Goal
Why Full Calendars Rarely Produce Growing Disciples
You May Not Have a Discipleship Problem—It Could Be a Design Problem
The Story You’re Telling Yourself About Your Church Might Be Holding It Back
When Trust Breaks Down, Giving Slows Down: The New Generosity Challenge for Churches
Why Sunday Afternoons Discourage Faithful Pastors More Than They Expect
Stop Creating the Anxiety You’re Complaining About
Giving Isn’t a Financial Issue—It’s a Spiritual Problem
The Power of a Goal: Why Churches Need Something Clear to Aim At
"Building the Plane While Flying It" Only Works When the Destination Is Clear
The New Giving Reality: 5 Shifts Every Growth-Minded Pastor Must Understand
Start With Who: The Missing Step in Sermon Planning That Shapes Disciples
Why Kids Ministry Gets Results and Adult Ministry Gets Stuck
How One Church Turned Its Budget Into a Vision Tool and Raised $115,000 Without a Capital Campaign
Why Your 2026 Church Calendar Is Full but Your Mission Feels Stuck
2026 Won’t Change Itself: How Intentional Pastors Design the Year They Actually Want
Why Repeating Last Year’s Calendar Is Costing You Momentum
How Intentional Leaders Make Hard Decisions That Move the Church Forward
Stop Hoping People Engage: 5 Intentional Ways to Increase Attendance, Groups, Serving, Giving, and Inviting
Breaking the Cycle: How Christmas Ends the Pressure to Prove Yourself
The Year of Intentionality: 50 Ways to Stop Leading Reactively and Build a Church That Grows
The Ministry Model Makeover: How Intentional Leaders Design What Their Church Actually Needs
Accidental Leadership Is Costing You Growth. Intentional Leadership Can Change Everything.
Add Some "Stick-to-itiveness" To Your New Ministry Strategy
Who’s Really in Charge? The Hidden Pressure Behind Every Unclear Ministry Role
When Gratitude Gets Hard: Finding God in the Grind
Are We Settling for a Selfish Revival? The Real Change God Wants to Bring
Pastor From Your Gift: How Every Pastor Can Build a Thriving Church
How Smart Churches Turn Year-End Giving into Mission Momentum
Preaching Under Pressure: How to Prepare Without Performing
The Leadership Factory Every Church Needs
7 Lessons from Non-Profits That Could Transform Your Church’s Generosity
How to Lead When Sunday Goes Sideways
Stop Thanking People for What Already Happened to Drive More Giving in Your Church
Why Mission Drift Happens (and How Great Leaders Stop It)
When What’s Written on the Wall Isn’t Happening Down the Hall
6 Leadership Actions Every Pastor Needs to Move from Stuck to Strategic
When Ministry Hurts Home: How to Stop Leading the Church at the Expense of Your Family
When You Wonder If It Was Worth It (and Why It Still Is)
How to Create Financial Margin Without Losing Your Mission
The Offering Pressure: Why Pastors Feel It and How to Finally Relieve It
Caring Without Crumbling: 3 Rhythms to Keep Pastoring from the Heart
How to Turn Your Church’s Vision Into Reality (in 3 Practical Leadership Steps)
When Should You Speak Into Cultural Moments? A Pastor’s Framework for Hard Sundays
Can One Question Really Change the Direction of Your Church?
Stop Treating Leadership Like It’s Less Spiritual
Why Timid Men Are Just as Toxic as Controlling Ones (and What the Church Must Do About It)
Why Your Health Becomes Your Church’s Ceiling
Preaching Fills the Seats—Leadership Builds the Church
Why Leadership (Not Money, Buildings, or Programs) Is Your Real Growth Barrier
Stop Trying to Outdo Last Sunday: Why Faithfulness Beats Flashiness
Stop Pressuring and Start Them (Increase Discipleship Participation With This Shift)
One Size Fits… Almost Nobody: Why Your Discipleship Pathway Needs More Variety
When Worship Turns Too Personal: How “Me” Songs Are Quietly Weakening the Church
4 Warning Signs Your Discipleship Pathway Isn’t Working (and How to Fix It)
Excellence Without the Show: How to Keep Worship From Becoming Performance
Just Because You’re Preaching Doesn’t Mean Anyone Is Changing
You Can’t Force Growth: How to Create Conditions for Discipleship That Flourish
Less of Me, More of Jesus: Escaping the Pressure of the Spiritual Spotlight
Stop Wasting The OTHER 6 Days: How to Turn One Sermon into a Week of Discipleship
Content but Not Satisfied: The Better Way to Measure Your Ministry
From Cheesecake Menu to Clear Map: Why Your Church Needs Fewer Programs and a Stronger Pathway
The 5 Rights of Discipleship: Align Your Pathway, Accelerate Spiritual Growth
The Volunteer Schedule Hack Your Church Hasn’t Tried Yet
Stop Counting Attendance: 5 Church Metrics That Actually Measure Spiritual Growth
Stop Avoiding Structure: The Backbone Every Thriving Church Needs
Stop Praying for Revival If You’re Not Preparing for It
Why Your Sermons Don’t Stick
What Is Your Purpose When Preaching?
8 Bold Church Values That Actually Drive Growth
How to Preach the Truth When No One Wants to Hear It
Good Preaching Nerves vs. Bad Ones: How to Know the Difference
Lead Like You Expect God to Show Up: The Power of Sunday Expectancy
Tired of the Weekly Scramble? Build a Sermon System That Actually Works
The Gospel Is Offensive. You Don’t Have to Be.
Why Your Church Feels Busy But Stuck
Why Most Pastors Preach From Behind—And How to Get Ahead
The Fine Line Between Pastoring and Pleasing
5 Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Working
How to Engage the Biblically Illiterate Without Watering Down Truth
Discipleship Is a Journey: Does Your Church Offer a Map or a Menu?
The Critical Connection Between Leadership and Church Health
Sunday Pressure Release: When the Church You’re Leading Doesn’t Match the Vision You’re Carrying
Outdated and Unaware: Why Yesterday’s Ministry Model Won’t Reach Today’s Mission Field
Is Passion Enough? Why Your Church Needs a System (Not Just a Mission)
Sunday Pressure Release: God Presses Where Pride Puffs
Why Saying “Yes” Is Costing You More Than You Think
The Management Mistake That’s Quietly Costing Your Church
5 Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Working
Sunday Pressure Release: Pressed But Not Crushed
Feeling Stretched Thin? Use Scarcity to Sharpen Your Strategy
Stop Resisting the Organizational Side of Church
Most Pastors Are Tracking the Wrong Numbers
The 4 Relational Circles Every Pastor Needs to Stay Healthy, Connected, and Confident
The Church Gets Your Weekends — Does Your Family Get Your Heart?
Feeling Numb, Tired, or Checked Out? You Might Be Facing Leadership Fatigue
The Kingdom Isn’t Red or Blue: How to Shepherd Faithfully in a Politically Divided Culture
When the Pastor Can’t Pray: The Spiritual Pressure We Never Talk About
You Went to Seminary, Not Business School. Now What?
Sunday Is Not Your Super Bowl: Escaping the Pressure of Performance-Based Ministry
The Dangerous Difference Between Empathy and People-Pleasing
The 7 Deadly Pressures Crushing Pastors