Strength for Today's Pastor

Strength for Today's Pastor

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 current senior/lead pastors of churches. 

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176- Wisdom from Proverbs- Our Phones- with Nate Holdridge
Strength for Today's PastorJune 23, 2025x
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176- Wisdom from Proverbs- 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 C...

175- How Vision Affects Our Ministry- with Cory Kilgus
Strength for Today's PastorJune 10, 2025x
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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 simpl...

174- Correcting Our Thinking on Forgiveness- with Dr. Bruce Hebel
Strength for Today's PastorMay 20, 2025x
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00:54:43

174- Correcting Our Thinking on Forgiveness- with Dr. Bruce Hebel

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 w...

173- The Journey Alternative to Church Membership- with John Offutt
Strength for Today's PastorApril 22, 2025x
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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 thin...

Discipling Men: The Barnabas Method
Strength for Today's PastorApril 16, 202500:53:04

Discipling Men: The Barnabas Method

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! For Poimen Ministries, its staff, ministries, and focus, go to poimenministries.com. To contact Poimen Ministries, email us at strongerpastors@gmail.com. May the Lord revive His work in the midst of these years!

172- The What, Why and How of Barnabas- with Dale Lewis
Strength for Today's PastorMarch 31, 2025x
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172- The What, Why and How of Barnabas- with Dale Lewis

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! The Barnabas Method has silently transformed over 500 men's lives across decades, and now this powerful discipleship process is available to every church leader seeking authentic spiritual formation for the men they shepherd. What's the d...

171- Sabbatical Toolkit (Why When and How)- with Karl Vaters and Sean Nemecek
Strength for Today's PastorMarch 15, 2025x
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00:48:30

171- Sabbatical Toolkit (Why When and How)- with Karl Vaters and Sean Nemecek

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! This is a podcast done by Karl Vaters (author, Small Church Essentials) and Sean Nemecek, a pastor who ministers to pastors to help keep them vitalized and fruitful. The name of the podcast is The Church Lobby, Conversations on Faith and ...

170- Retirement from Ministry- Really?
Strength for Today's PastorFebruary 19, 2025x
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170- Retirement from Ministry- Really?

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Pastor Brian Heminger has been in pastoral ministry for a lot of years, most recently as the founding and longtime pastor of Calvary Chapel Half Moon Bay. As such, Brian was bi-vocational. His work life outside of the church was as a full...

169 Pastoring in Sin City (Las Vegas)
Strength for Today's PastorJanuary 28, 2025x
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169 Pastoring in Sin City (Las Vegas)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Episode 169 of SFTP tells the story of what it's like to minister in Las Vegas, Nevada, aka "sin city". It CAN be done! Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. We all know that, but it's for real in the Las Vegas valley. Hear from Pas...

168- Dale Lewis: A Pastor You Need to Know
Strength for Today's PastorJanuary 07, 2025x
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168- Dale Lewis: A Pastor You Need to Know

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! 168- Dale Lewis: A Pastor You Need to Know In the latest episode of our podcast, we had the privilege of speaking with Pastor Dale Lewis, a man whose life and ministry have been profoundly shaped by his unique journey of faith. Pastor Dal...

167- Testimony: Powerful Renewal in the Holy Spirit- with John Knapp
Strength for Today's PastorDecember 09, 2024x
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00:46:33

167- Testimony: Powerful Renewal in the Holy Spirit- with John Knapp

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! 167- Testimony: Powerful Renewal in the Holy Spirit- with John Knapp In the bustling community of Henderson, Nevada, a spiritual renewal is taking place at Calvary Chapel Green Valley under the leadership of Pastor John Knapp. For over 26...

166- The Power of the Gospel in Forgiveness - Matthew 18.21-35 (with Bill Holdridge)
Strength for Today's PastorNovember 18, 2024x
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166- The Power of the Gospel in Forgiveness - Matthew 18.21-35 (with Bill Holdridge)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Comments? Questions? Send us a message! In this heartfelt episode, Bill Holdridge shares a powerful message delivered at Regeneration Church in Scotts Valley, California. This episode is a departure from our usual format, as Bill recounts...

165- My Grandfather, Warren W. Wiersbe (with Pastor Dan Jacobsen)
Strength for Today's PastorOctober 30, 2024x
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165- My Grandfather, Warren W. Wiersbe (with Pastor Dan Jacobsen)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! This is podcast 164 of Strength for Today’s Pastor. In this interview, I'm speaking with Pastor Dan Jacobsen, a lead/teaching pastor at Heartland Community Church in Olathe, Kansas. In addition to his role as a pastor-teacher, Dan has the...

164- From Senior Pastor to Poimen Team Member (with Shaun and Sheila Sells)
Strength for Today's PastorOctober 24, 2024x
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164- From Senior Pastor to Poimen Team Member (with Shaun and Sheila Sells)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Shaun and Sheila Sells have served faithfully as a senior/lead pastor and wife team with Calvary Chapel Cheyenne, Wyoming. Then, after 20 years in that role, Shaun handed the church leadership reins over to his admin pastor, with a vision...

163- Life Stages of the Christian Leader (with Dr. Richard Clinton)
Strength for Today's PastorSeptember 24, 2024x
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163- Life Stages of the Christian Leader (with Dr. Richard Clinton)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Dr. Richard Clinton is an expert on Christian leadership. He and his father Dr. J. Robert Clinton have spent more than 40 years researching, analyzing, and instructing on the subject. They've looked at Biblical leaders, at leaders in the ...

162- Help for Leaders- Finish Well! (with Dr. Richard Clinton)
Strength for Today's PastorAugust 28, 2024x
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162- Help for Leaders- Finish Well! (with Dr. Richard Clinton)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Richard Clinton is passionate with regard to helping Christian leaders—particularly pastors—finish well. Richard pastored 5 churches during the course of his 40-year pastoral ministry, and also served with his father, Dr. J. Robert Clinto...

161- Here's a Well Rested, Visionary Pastor (with Rich Lammay of High Sierra Fellowship)
Strength for Today's PastorAugust 13, 2024x
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161- Here's a Well Rested, Visionary Pastor (with Rich Lammay of High Sierra Fellowship)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Podcast Episode 161 Introduction We love to hear pastors tell their own stories, and provide wisdom to others that they've gleaned and that has grown in them over their years of service. Today we have with us pastor Rich Lammay, who has b...

160- Lessons from a Reporter Turned Pastor (with Joey Crandall)
Strength for Today's PastorJuly 16, 2024x
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160- Lessons from a Reporter Turned Pastor (with Joey Crandall)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Welcome to Strength for Today’s Pastor, episode 160. Our hope and goal is to provide encouragement, sometimes instruction, and sometimes ministry tools to current pastors and leaders, that the churches they serve might also be encouraged,...

159- What is Spiritual Health?
Strength for Today's PastorJune 12, 2024x
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159- What is Spiritual Health?

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! If we pastors don't know what we're aiming at, we'll never hit the target. It's essential to have the right target, and there's no question that the Biblical target is to equip saints unto spiritual maturity and spiritual fruitfulness. Jo...

159- What Is Spiritual Health? (with Pastor Matt Valencia)
Strength for Today's PastorMarch 06, 2024x
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159- What Is Spiritual Health? (with Pastor Matt Valencia)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Matt Valencia pastors The Regeneration Church in Scotts Valley, CA. He's a father of five, a church planter, a former school teacher, a former assisting pastor, and the current pastor of ReGen Church. He also heads up a team of leaders ac...

158- The Story of a Stage 4 Cancer Survivor (with Pastor Steve Marquez)
Strength for Today's PastorFebruary 13, 2024x
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158- The Story of a Stage 4 Cancer Survivor (with Pastor Steve Marquez)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! It's nothing short of a miracle that Steve Marquez is still with us, here on planet earth. Listen to the story of his healing, and even more importantly, of the ministry to which God has called himPastors and leaders, this episode will pr...

157- A Pastor On the Move (Transition- with Don Rypstra)
Strength for Today's PastorJanuary 17, 2024x
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157- A Pastor On the Move (Transition- with Don Rypstra)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Pastor Don Rypstra is in his last days of a long pastorate in Rochester, Minnesota. His and his wife's move to northern Idaho means that a new normal is waiting for them, but also that someone will be called into an exciting opportunity t...

156- A Way to Vitalize (and Utilize) Our Youth- with Gary Malkus Jr.
Strength for Today's PastorJanuary 02, 2024x
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156- A Way to Vitalize (and Utilize) Our Youth- with Gary Malkus Jr.

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! It's a huge problem. And because of it, we're losing many of our best youth to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Too often, the young people in our churches run off to college or university and subsequently abandon the faith. Also, in ...

155- From Meth to Ministry (with Pastor Gary Malkus Jr.)
Strength for Today's PastorDecember 12, 2023x
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155- From Meth to Ministry (with Pastor Gary Malkus Jr.)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Every pastor has a testimony, but very few have one like Gary Malkus Jr. Inspiring and directional, Gary's testimony touches a lot of lives, from those in the worst kind bondage to those who need to remember where they came from as they d...

154- Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should (Sandy Adams)
Strength for Today's PastorNovember 30, 2023x
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154- Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should (Sandy Adams)

Comments? Questions? Send us a message! Sandy Adams is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Stone Mountain, Georgia. He is known as a tremendous communicator and teacher of God's Word. At the recent International Pastor's Conference in Southern California, Sandy delivered a message ent...