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Latest · Ministry & Study
Arma Courses: Grounding Your People in What They Believe
Plenty of people in your church love Jesus and could not explain what they believe or why.
October 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Ministry & Study
Sermonary: Cut Your Sermon Prep Time Roughly in Half
Most pastors write sermons in a blank word processor with no structure, then rebuild the same formatting every week and print notes that are hard to preach from.
October 19, 2026 · 3 min
Ministry & Study
Logos Bible Software: The Deepest Study Library You Can Own
Sermon prep suffers when your library is scattered across a shelf, three PDFs, and whatever a search engine surfaces.
October 12, 2026 · 3 min
Marketing & SEO
Crazy Egg: Watch Real People Get Stuck on Your Church Website
You think your website works because you know where everything is.
October 5, 2026 · 3 min
Marketing & SEO
VidIQ: Growing a Church YouTube Channel That Reaches Your City
Churches upload sermons to YouTube titled 'Sunday Service 10.
September 28, 2026 · 3 min
Marketing & SEO
Rank Math: The SEO Layer Every WordPress Church Site Needs
A WordPress church site with no SEO plugin is publishing pages with no titles, no descriptions, no schema, and no sitemap.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min
Marketing & SEO
On Page SEO: A One-Minute Audit of Any Church Web Page
Most church websites have basic SEO problems — missing titles, duplicate descriptions, no headings structure — and nobody knows because nobody has the tooling to see it.
September 14, 2026 · 3 min
Marketing & SEO
Semrush: Find Out What Your City Is Actually Searching For
Churches write website copy based on internal language — 'Sunday Experience,' 'Grow Track,' 'The Gathering' — while people in their city search 'churches near me,' 'family church with kids ministry,' and 'church that helps with grief.
September 7, 2026 · 3 min
Recommendations
The People and Organizations I Recommend to Church Leaders
When a leader brings me a problem outside my lane, these are the names I give out — and the specific situation each one is right for.
September 1, 2026 · 7 min
Church Consulting
Andrus Advisory: The Consultant I Send Churches With Structure Problems To
Sheldon Andrus and Andrus Advisory help churches get clear on structure, systems, staffing, and finances — including fractional leadership support.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Pastoral Health
The 10Ten Project: Care for Ministry Leaders Before the Crash
Josh Turner's 10Ten Project offers ministry leaders a year-long process of connection, coaching, and care aimed at preventing burnout rather than treating it.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Leadership Coaching
Sidecar Leader: Coaching for the Executive Leader Everyone Leans On
Jason Laird's Sidecar Leader coaches executive church leaders across people, culture, systems, and strategy through a Discover, Design, Drive process.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Pastoral Health
Selah Leaders: Making Rest Affordable for the Pastors Who Need It Most
Nick Newman founded Selah Leaders, a nonprofit offering rest getaways, coaching, community, and resources so ministry leaders can last for the long haul.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Church Growth
Church Growth Coach: Mike Santiago and the 200 Barrier
Mike Santiago's Church Growth Coach helps pastors break growth barriers through the Break200 system, coaching, bootcamps, and a membership community.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Leadership Development
Healthy Leadership Solutions: Leadership Development Behind the Growth
Mike Santiago's Healthy Leadership Solutions focuses on leadership development, speaking, coaching, and Break200 resources and conference content for pastors.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Leadership Coaching
SWEBB: Stephen Webb Coaches Thinking, Not Templates
Stephen 'Swebb' Webb has coached leaders across five continents for more than two decades, training leaders to think better rather than copy models.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Church Consulting
Churchelp: Straight Advice on Accountability, Multiplication, and Transitions
Brett Esslinger's Churchelp gives church leaders direct advice on leadership accountability, church multiplication, and ministry transitions.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Pastoral Health
The Refuge: Keeping Leaders in the Game for the Whole Game
The Refuge hosts guided rest experiences for leaders, with Refuge WILD serving women toward rest, relationship, and recovery — supported by the Refuge Foundation.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
Ministry Partners
God Behind Bars: The Prison Ministry I Point Churches Toward
God Behind Bars introduces incarcerated people to Jesus and connects them to local churches through satellite prison campuses and the Pando tablet app.
September 1, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
Snack Prompt: Better AI Prompts, Better Church Content
Most people get mediocre results from AI and conclude AI is mediocre.
August 31, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
Canva: How Volunteers Produce Church Graphics That Look Professional
Design becomes a bottleneck the moment it depends on one person with Adobe skills.
August 24, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
Video To Blog: Turn Sermons Into SEO Content That Ranks
People in your city are searching questions your pastor answered from the stage six weeks ago — and your church is nowhere in those results.
August 17, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
Pulpit AI: One Sermon Into a Week of Content
Your pastor spends 15 hours preparing a message that gets used once.
August 10, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
ChurchCopy.ai: Ministry-Minded AI Writing for Your Church
Writing eats communications staff alive.
August 3, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
THE LIVESTREAM STACK FOR A SMALL CHURCHES & TEAMS
Nobody leaves your online service because the camera was not cinematic. They leave because they could not hear.
July 27, 2026 · 6 min
AI & Content
Church Social: AI Social Media Planning Without a Full-Time Coordinator
Social media for a church is usually whatever someone remembers to post Saturday night.
July 27, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Innovation
AI Tools That Give Pastors Their Week Back
AI will not write your sermon and it should not. But it can absolutely handle the eleven other things stealing your Tuesday.
July 20, 2026 · 8 min
Communication
Mailchimp: Reliable Email for Church Newsletters and Campaigns
Churches send mass email out of a personal inbox, land in spam, and have no idea who read it.
July 20, 2026 · 3 min
Church Growth
Your Website Is Your Front Door
Most churches obsess over Sunday and neglect the two moments that decide whether a guest ever shows up — the website visit and the week after.
July 13, 2026 · 7 min
Communication
ManyChat: Turn Instagram Comments Into Real Church Visits
Your church posts a clip, twelve people comment, and the conversation ends there.
July 13, 2026 · 3 min
Tool Stack
The Software I Recommend to Church Leaders
Every week pastors ask me the same question: what should we actually be using? This is the running list — the tools I recommend, why they matter, and where to start.
July 6, 2026 · 9 min
Communication
Text In Church: The Simplest Way to Make Guests Feel Known
Email gets ignored.
July 6, 2026 · 3 min
Websites & Guest Follow-Up
Church Funnels: An All-In-One Marketing Engine for Your Church
Churches end up with a website here, an email tool there, a texting tool somewhere else, and no single place where a guest's journey is visible.
June 29, 2026 · 3 min
Websites & Guest Follow-Up
FrontDoor: Automated Visitor Follow-Up That Doubles First-Time Guests
Most churches capture a guest's information and then do nothing meaningful with it for two weeks.
June 22, 2026 · 3 min
Websites & Guest Follow-Up
Church.co: The Best Church Website Platform I've Found
A church website is usually built once by a volunteer who then leaves, and it slowly rots.
June 15, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
Capture Collab: Get Sunday's Photos Off Eight Different Phones
Your church takes hundreds of photos every Sunday and almost none of them make it anywhere useful.
June 8, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
Riverside: Studio-Quality Recording for Church Podcasts and Interviews
Remote interviews recorded over Zoom sound like remote interviews recorded over Zoom.
June 1, 2026 · 3 min
AI & Content
Opus Clip: Turn Every Sermon Into a Week of Short-Form Video
Your pastor preaches 40 minutes of excellent content every week, and almost all of it disappears after Sunday.
May 25, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
CapCut: The Video Editor Your Church Volunteers Already Know
Sermon clips die in the edit queue.
May 18, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
Switcher Studio: Multi-Camera Church Livestream Using iPhones
Most churches believe good livestream requires a $40,000 camera package and a production crew.
May 11, 2026 · 3 min
Media & Production
Audiolink: Professional Church Audio Without Hiring a Sound Engineer
Audio is the single most common reason people stop watching a church online and the fastest way to make a great service feel amateur in the room.
May 4, 2026 · 4 min
Publishing Schedule
What’s Coming Next
A new post goes live every Monday. Here is what is on the calendar.
- Planning Center: The Operating System Healthy Churches Run OnNovember 2, 2026
- Notion: Where My Teams Plan, Document, and Keep Everything FindableNovember 9, 2026
- Airtable: For When a Spreadsheet Stops Being EnoughNovember 16, 2026
- Zapier: Remove the Copy-Paste Work Nobody EnjoysNovember 23, 2026
- Grammarly: Cheap Insurance on Everything Your Church PublishesNovember 30, 2026
- Skool: Build Community and Courses in One PlaceDecember 7, 2026
The Full List
34+ Tools I Recommend
Every tool covered across these posts, in one place.
- The Church Marketing Class
- Online Church Analytics
- Opus Clip
- Audiolink
- Switcher Studio
- Church Social
- Church.co Websites
- ChurchCopy.ai
- Church Funnels (GoHighLevel)
- On Page SEO
- Capture Collab
- Text In Church
- Sermonary
- Video To Blog
- CapCut
- Arma Theology Courses
- Logos Bible Software
- VidIQ
- FrontDoor
- Semrush
- Rank Math
- Riverside
- Notion
- ManyChat
- Zapier
- Mailchimp
- Grammarly
- Canva
- Skool
- Snack Prompt
- Planning Center
- Pulpit AI
- Crazy Egg
- Airtable
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