The Mission Guys

Episode 10: What a waste of time?!

When we are busy, overworked, and running from moment to moment, we often find ourselves treating each other as mere transactions. In this episode, Nick and Rick share from their recent experience how easy it is to become functional in relationships at home, work, and in mission. Creating margin in our daily lives is one practical remedy that can help us all be more present to what the Holy Spirit is doing in our relationships.
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Episode 9: Every Team Needs a Purpose

Leaders in ministry often find that the groups, teams, and committees in their care struggle to find clarity on what they are supposed to do and how they are supposed to do it. This lack of clarity and understanding causes frustration, stress, and adds to the tendency for good people to experience burnout. Nick and Rick discuss simple and effective ways to solve this common and simple (but challenging!) problem.
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Episode 8: Overwhelmed

Many of us have a sense of when we feel overwhelmed in life, but few of us take the time to do anything about it. Slowing down to think, pray, and evaluate our lives and choices can bring clarity and relief to the busyness of our lives. In this episode, we discuss a practical process we recently went through that is providing abundant fruit in our own lives and can in yours as well.

Episode 7: Praying as a Team

It is often the case that leaders in ministry pray for their work. However, the concept and practice of praying in order to know what to do is much less common in leaders of ministry. In this episode, Rick and Nick discuss the different ways a team can pray together and testify to the powerful fruit that can be born from doing so.
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Episode 6: The Importance of Leadership Teams

None of us were made to lead alone and this is especially true in the Church! In this episode Nick and Rick discuss the importance of, and challenges to, building leadership teams. Taking wisdom from the way Moses and Jesus led in their time, we too can employ biblical principles of leadership to our organizations.

Episode 5: Three Essential Principles Miniseries (3 of 3): God has the Plan

This is the third of a three-part mini-series of a leadership deep dive into the 3 Essential Principles for Transformation in the Church. In this episode, Nick and Rick help leaders to not rely on their own understanding, intelligence, or skills to develop their own plans, but instead to rely fundamentally on praying, individually and together as a missional family, in order to know and to follow God’s plan.

Episode 4: Three Essential Principles Miniseries (2 of 3): It’s Not Enough to be a Staff

This is the 2nd of a 3 part mini-series of a leadership deep dive into the 3 Essential Principles for Transformation in the Church. In this episode, Nick and Rick share practical, immediate, and impactful application of the second principle, It's Not Enough to be a Staff, for you as a leader and for your leadership teams.

Episode 3: Three Essential Principles Miniseries (1 of 3): Reacquire a Biblical Worldview

This is the first of a 3 part mini-series of a leadership deep dive into the 3 Essential Principles for Transformation in the Church. In this episode, Nick and Rick share practical, immediate, and impactful application of the first principle, Reacquiring a Biblical Worldview, for you as a leader and for your leadership teams.

Episode 2: Is It Even Possible?

In this episode, Nick and Rick share a recent conversation with a leader who was questioning if transformation of his team and culture were even possible given all the challenges they faced.

1: Why the Mission Guys?

There are millions of podcasts, so why listen to this one? Nick and Rick explain the reason they are starting this podcast, some of their story, and offer a biblical mission challenge to listeners.