D6 Podcast

Dan Lovaglia shares some outstanding tips to encourage leaders on how to take their small groups from mundane to meaningful. Chad Overton gives insight into how cultivating leaders greatly impacts the families of your ministry.

Todd Meadows provides guidance to help parents feel confident and equipped to be who God created them to be - the primary spiritual leader in their child's life. Tim Kimmel expounds upon the idea of grace-based parenting as opposed to parenting based on fear or performance.

Kurt Johnston joins us to give helpful tips on how to build momentum, how to recruit, and how to enlist volunteers in order to make an astounding volunteer team.  Gene Wilkes defines leadership as modeled by Jesus Christ and gives four elements of servant leadership.

Carol Barnier sits down to share her personal testimony and provide hope and encouragement to families walking through a difficult time with a prodigal child. Ron Hunter continues this conversation with ideas from the parent's angle, including a letter that promotes reconnection with the prodigal child.

Matt Guevara gives practical tips on how to help parents as they guide their children through the digital age.  Dr. John Trent talks with us about how people develop a public self and a private self that can be very different from each other.

Alvin Sanders spreads his wisdom in the area of serving cross-culturally by emphasizing the importance of not allowing ourselves to be colorblind and matching our church to the demographics of our community. Chap Clark describes how to have an "Adoptive Youth Ministry" that expounds upon the concept of being adopted into God's household as His sons and daughters.

Johnny Rogers tells us how to use our God-given creativity, after immersing ourselves in Scripture, to keep kids engaged and applying what they've been taught. Larry Ashlock gives astounding wisdom and depth to the meaning of servant leadership.

Linda Ranson Jacobs is here to give us practical advice on how to minister to divorcing families so that they stay connected to the body of Christ. Scott Kedersha sits down with us to discuss premarital ministry and helping couples have a "good offense" to prevent divorce.

Edward Moody joins us to discuss practical ways for families to pursue health by being emotionally intelligent and attacking emotional hurts.  Matt Guevara also sits down with us to share ways to integrate scripture into every day life in order to help kids stay engaged and learn to love God's Word.

Tom Shefchunas discusses what is necessary to effectively set up small groups within your ministry. Jason Byerly gives us pointers on communicating with volunteers and fostering community among them.

Leneita Fix joins us today to share her expertise in ministering to families when tragedy and crisis strikes.  Timothy Paul Jones answers the question of how to effectively do family ministry to those families where the parents do not attend church with their child.

Shaunti Feldhahn dives into the wonderment of a child's mind, expounding upon the influence of freedom and how a parent's understanding of this impacts the dynamic of the parent/child relationship.  Dr. Edward Moody also sits down with us to give pointers on equipping our children to survive well in "modern day Babylon."

Phil Vischer is with us today to talk about how vulnerability in failures allows us to connect and relate to others on a deeper level.

John Trent joins us today to coach us on how to use the God-given "super power" of blessing our children and what essential elements go into a blessing.  We also have Josh Straub with us to share a personal testimony of how he is using his Bible to pass down a blessing to his own children.

Marie Kuck joins us to share her heart and expertise in ministering to families of children with special needs.  Carey Gregory reveals more about what happens after Operation Christmas Child boxes are delivered to their recipients.

Scott Rubin talks with us on topics of puberty, communication, friendship drama and so much more to help guide us through parenting during the middle school years.  Mike Williams joins us to discuss why reading history is important for ministry leaders.

Timothy Paul Jones coaches us on how to encourage our parents to engage their children in the home, specifically in the discipleship process, through the use of apologetics.  Joel Teague teaches how he has learned to rationally approach a society that is distrusting of God based on his experiences as a missionary in France.

Michael Bayne joins us to discuss how to adequately minister to the modern day family and have a healthy church in the midst of that. Marie Kuck gives us practical steps to implement and succeed at ministering to the special needs population within your church.

Our guest, Frank Bealer, gives practical and helpful insight into effectively running ministries across multi-campus churches, and he gives great wisdom into "volunteer care." Brian Siewert walks us through Deuteronomy 6, as seen in the New Testament.

Rob Rienow sits down to unpack some great encouragement on addressing spiritual apathy in children of all ages.  Brian Housman gets to the heart of what a parent's "end game" should be.