When God Calls You and You Already Have a Job | Gerald Cook

When God Calls You and You Already Have a Job | Gerald Cook

Many believers assume God's calling begins when they leave their career behind. Gerald Cook's story suggests the opposite. Mike Glenn sits down with Gerald, a bi-vocational pastor, global sales training manager, and nationally recognized dog trainer, to explore how God used decades in business, discipleship, and everyday life to prepare him for pastoral ministry. Together they discuss why calling is often discovered through ordinary faithfulness, how the workplace can become a training ground for ministry, and why the future of the church depends on ordinary believers recognizing that God has already been preparing them for His purposes.

Pastoring People, Not Just Preaching | Matt Pearson

Most pastors don't burn out because they work hard. They burn out because they believe the ministry depends on them. Mike Glenn sits down with Matt Pearson, Senior Pastor of ClearView Baptist Church, to explore how learning to truly know his people transformed the way he leads, preaches, and develops leaders. Together they discuss why the pastor's primary role isn't to do all the ministry, but to equip others for it, why shepherding always comes before strategy, and how healthy churches are built by releasing people into their God-given calling rather than asking pastors to carry everything alone.

Raising Leaders, Not Just Volunteers | Sam Landrith

Most pastoral transitions fail because the outgoing leader never truly let go and the incoming leader never truly prepared. Sam Landrith spent more than a year working alongside his predecessor before stepping into the lead role at Thompson Station Church -- and the church barely felt the change. Mike Glenn talks with Sam about what it actually takes to raise up leaders instead of volunteers, why a church of 2,800 people is choosing depth over expansion, and what younger generations need from the church that most congregations aren't offering yet.

Shared Leadership, Multiplied Ministry | Greg & Susan Jones

What happens when both people in a marriage are called to lead? Greg and Susan Jones have spent decades building something most ministry couples never figure out: a genuine partnership where complementary gifts multiply the work instead of dividing it. Mike Glenn sits down with the President and First Lady of Belmont University to talk about shared leadership, what the next generation is actually hungry for, and why the church that learns to call out gifts in others -- instead of doing everything itself -- is the one that will flourish in the years ahead.

Where Excellence Meets Calling | David Hamilton

Excellence in ministry and excellence in craft don't have to compete. Composer and conductor David Hamilton has spent three decades serving his local church while writing for Disney, Broadway, and Dolly Parton's touring show. Mike Glenn talks with him about what it looks like to bring your full gifting into both the professional world and the local body -- and why the church is better when it does.