We work with Jesus for the revitalization and health of His church. Therefore, we provide practical encouragement and help for senior or lead Pastors. By strengthening pastors, the church will also be strengthened. Interviews with seasoned and tried pastoral leaders re: subjects that will edify and provide tools to current senior/lead pastors of churches. Support this podcast: https://give.cornerstone.cc/poimenministries 1. Select the amount you'd like to donate. 2. Select how often you'd like…
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182: Leaders: How We Can Raise Them Ourselves
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Many churches are experiencing a leadership deficit. There are too few biblical elders, too few deacons, and not as many people who know which spiritual gifts they’ve been given by the Spirit, what they are called to do, or what ministries the Lord has opened up for them. Many leadership teams are not in alignment with their pastor in doctrine and practice,…
181- Armor Bearers: How to Serve and Support the Senior Pastor
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Welcome to Strength for Today’s Pastor. Our podcast title indicates our passion—which is to strengthen pastors and church leaders, that their churches might be stronger and healthy. Today we have pastor James Chapman. James is an assistant/associate pastor, serving under and with senior pastor Sandy Adams of Calvary Chapel Stone Mountain in Lilburn, Georgia.…
180- Solace: Great Tools for Cancer Patients and Caregivers (with Steve and Monica Marquez)
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Steve Marquez is husband to Monica, and father of Cody, Jared, and Andrew. Steve is a pastor, a teacher, a former church planter, a musician, a former journalist, photographer, and founder of a non-profit ministry called Stage 4 Ministries . Monica, Steve's wife, is her husband's co-laborer in life and also in ministry, She is a super effective and fruitful…
179- Pastors: Create a Culture of Joyful Generosity
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Joyful generosity. It's a biblical concept. 2 Corinthians 9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. Is it possible to outgive God? Is it possible for a congregation to be led in such a way that the body of believers will love, love, love giving to God, giving to others, and investing…
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! This is the second of a three part series on pastors and leaders discipling the saints in the areas of giving and stewardship Not always an easy topic to address, but important. Jesus taught His disciples on the subjects of giving and stewardship. Jesus commanded us to go and make disciples, teaching people to observe all things He has commanded us.…
177 -Discipling Our Fellowships in Biblical Giving and Stewardship
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! This is the first in a three part series which can be helpful to senior pastors and church leadership teams re: how to practically deal with giving and stewardship in their churches. First, we'll look at where teaching and leading on giving and stewardship fit within the overall concept of equipping the saints for ministry ... which we pastors are called by…
176- How Then Shall We Deal with Our Phones? (with Nate Holdridge)
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Our devices. Our phones. Our laptops. Our tablets. Our iPads. Whatever. They can be a huge blessing. They can be an enormous distraction. Listen in to this carefully and thoughtfully developed episode, taught by Pastor Nate Holdridge at Calvary Monterey in May 2025. Speaking personally, it blessed and encouraged me, big-time. I'm working smarter now, even on…
175- How Vision Affects Our Ministry- with Cory Kilgus
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Cory Kilgus is a man with a vision. His vision drives his efforts. The key to all of this is explained in this podcast. Get the right vision (the Biblical vision), and then follow the Lord and trust the Holy Spirit to get it done. A simple recipe for God-produced success. A pattern for pastors and church planters and disciplers everywhere. For Poimen…
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Welcome to Podcast 174. Today I’m with Dr. Bruce Hebel, author of the incredible, life altering book Forgiving Forward: Experience the Freedom of the Gospel through the Power of Forgiveness. All close followers of Jesus Christ know that we should forgive others, but there are things about forgiveness that are about as clear as mud to us. In this episode of…
173- The Journey: Alternative to Church Membership- with John Offutt
Comments? Questions? Send us a message! At 72 years of age, Pastor John Offutt of LifeSource Community Church in Lindale, Texas, is hardly a young man. He started LifeSource when he was in his 60s, hardly an age thought to be fitting for a new church plant. One of the main things he had in his favor was that he'd been around the block before, several times in fact. He had experience and was (and…