How to Regain Momentum in Your Preaching with Sermon Calendars Read More Do you feel like you’re stuck?  Are you in survival mode?  If you’re ready to stop feeling like you can’t make forward progress with your preaching and discipleship at your church, this episode is for you! If you feel like 2020 has lasted…

How to Increase Generosity at Your Church Read More A lot of times, when we think about generosity, we’re thinking about how we can get more people to give to our church.  Let’s think bigger than that: how do you get your people to become more generous, in general?   The best time to start developing…

All About the Lectionary Calendar In today’s episode, we’re going to be discussing one of our brand-new types of sermon calendars, the Lectionary Calendar!  Namely, we’ll be answering the questions:  What is the Lectionary Calendar? We’ve just released our first-ever Lectionary Calendar on MinistryPass.  This is a new style of sermon calendar for us, but…

Building Trust with Your Congregation Read More Welcome to the 30th episode of the Hello Church Podcast!  Today, we’re going to be discussing a big question:  How do you get first-time guests to show up, stay engaged, and keep showing up? The quick answer?  It all boils down to one thing- building trust. Building trust…

9 Ways to Create a Bad Preaching Calendar (What Not to Do) Read More We know, we know- the last thing you really want to learn is how to create a bad preaching calendar.  But there’s a method to our madness.  Our hope is that, by telling you how to create a bad preaching calendar,…

7 Greatest Preaching Mistakes to Watch Out For Read More Have you ever preached a sermon, walked away and thought, “That was NOT good?”  Yep, us too.  So in this episode of the “Hello Church!” podcast, we’re going to tackle the seven worst preaching mistakes and how you can avoid them.    If you find…

Why a Preaching Team Makes You Better (And How to Build One) Read More All across the world we’re finding more and more pastors creating preaching teams and the more we talk to them, the more they love them. As pastors we feel so much pressure each week preparing and delivering sermons, counseling, leading our…

Imagine you had the opportunity to sit down for lunch with seven great preachers from today and from history. Can you imagine what that might be like? What would they tell you about their preaching habits? How could it inform your ministry? You will never have an opportunity to invite the seven men featured below…

For the sixth year in a row, October is when we release our brand-new yearly sermon calendars. For the last ten months, our team has been thinking, dreaming, praying, writing, and designing. Now, after nearly a year, we’re ready to unveil our work to the world. Our calendars are the most requested item we have…

We all know that ministry is a full time job. Churches spend hours of their day planning for the week. A lot of the time children’s church gets put on the bottom of the planning schedule. Ministry Pass loves providing resources kid’s pastors and busy churches. We want to highlight 5 of the most use…