Expositors Collective

In this conversation from July, 2018, Mike speaks with Ted Leavenworth about the mistakes that new preachers most often make as they begin their public ministries. Whether it is cramming sermons with too much information, or ripping off the style or content of other more established preachers, Ted diagnoses both the problems and the solutions to many of these common early errors.

Every Bible teacher preaches topical sermons. Some preachers give topical messages from the pulpit every Sunday, and some only on holidays or for a special series, but all of us need to invest work into improving in this area of sermon preparation and delivery. Nick Cady answers some of Mike Neglia’s questions about best practices and techniques. Some topical preaching can be sloppy and biased, but Nick believes that focused topical sermons can prove a valuable part of our congregation's spiritual diet.

Nate Morris is the lead pastor of Mountain Life Calvary Chapel, with locations in the Vail and Roaring Fork Valleys of Colorado. Having grown up in the Colorado mountains, he has a special place in his heart for reaching and transforming mountain communities with the gospel. Nate served as a youth leader, worship leader, missions pastor & assistant pastor before stepping into God’s call on his life to preach & lead a church. Nate planted a church Lakewood Colorado, where he served for 7 years, before moving to the Vail Valley to lead Mountain Life Calvary Chapel. Pastor Nate has a fire in his bones for the dual callings of the great commission: outreach and discipleship. Nate also hosts the New Day Podcast with Pastor Nate Morris. In this episode, Nate speaks with Nick Cady about what we can learn from preachers who are excellent communicators but not necessarily good expositors. They talk about the idea of designing services around a theme, and the use of props and tangible elements to create multi-sensory experiences in church services, as well as where to draw the line between teaching tools and gimmicks. You can connect with Nate on Instagram and Facebook.

Sébastien and Mike talk about earnestness and authenticity in preaching, and the priority of the Word of God above the opinions of learned men. Recorded in April of 2019 in New York City. Born in Montreal, Sébastien Frappier became a professional actor at the age of thirteen. Despite regular appearances within Quebecois television, film and stage productions for more than ten years, Sébastien found himself increasingly disillusioned by the local industry, and left for California to pursue secular fame. As it happened, Hollywood would never know Sébastien Frappier. Within the hot desert of New Mexico, the gift of new life through Jesus Christ became real to Sébastien. Personal ambitions to rise to fame melted away as a new greater purpose for living slowly impressed itself upon his heart. After attending Calvary of Albuquerque's School of Ministry in the early 90's, Sébastien became a pastoral intern to a 15,000 member congregation under the leadership of Pastor Skip Heitzig. Sébastien then worked as a full time ordained pastor at Calvary of Albuquerque as a Bible teacher, a Church History teacher, a Biblical counsellor, and an overseer of several ministries, including 35 home fellowships. Sébastien then returned to Montreal in 2004 and founded Calvary Chapel Montreal Regeneration that same year. 16 later the church in thriving downtown Montreal, With mostly young people, from 20 countries and joyfully growing: 52 babies were born in the last couple years!!! Sébastien is married to Andréia and has two older sons Jude and Luke and a sweet little 2 year old, Clarice. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292025/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18 The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io

Dr Jason Cruise speaks with Mike about the often-neglected importance of application in sermon preparation and delivery. He suggests that preachers are hesitant to bring out points of application because they don’t want to seem shallow, don’t want to spoon-feed their congregations or sometimes it may be that they are just plain lazy! Getting into the mindset of the average hearer will help preachers to understand that what we bring to the pulpit might not be actually helpful to those who we are trying to serve. Speaking with humility, experience and candour Jason gives a gently challenge to all of us to make our Bible teachings are more applicable to the real lives of our hearers!

In this workshop from 2017 Pete, Char and Mike walk through two different interpretive methods of a well known passage of scripture highlighting the difference between a man centered and gospel centered hermeneutic. As a pastor, musician and evangelist, Pete Nelson’s worldwide travels have given him a unique perspective on the church as well as the global need for the gospel. Pete’s previous pastoral experience includes: Senior pastor at Calvary of Albuquerque, founding pastor of White Fields Community Church in Longmont, Colorado, and teaching pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Pete recently planted One Love Church in Sydney, Australia and is now currently planting One Love Church in Thousand Oaks, CA. Char is the lead pastor of Refuge Christian Fellowship, a small church in Santa Rosa, CA. Char has been in Christian ministry for 18 years and has spent the last 13 years as lead Pastor of RCF. He has been married to his wife, Grace, for 13 years and they have three lovely children, Judah, Hudson and Evelyn. Char is passionate about calling the Church to live as the people of God. Giving our allegiance to Jesus alone, following Jesus’ teaching and overall way of life as as our model for life and godliness. Char enjoys all things bible and theology, reading, music, good food and drink and adventures with his family. Mike Neglia is the lead pastor at Calvary Cork located in Cork, Ireland. After graduating Bible college in Siegen, Germany in the summer of 2002, he served at Calvary Cork as a full-time missionary youth outreach coordinator/assistant for two years before taking over as lead pastor. In 2005 Mike and his wife Rachel relaunched Calvary Cork from a small core group meeting in their living room. Since then the church has grown in health and vitality, serving as a spiritual home to many university students, families and more. Mike also channels his passion for Christ centered expository preaching by serving on the steering committee of Expositors Collective and hosting their weekly podcast. He and Rachel have three children, Eoin, Rosie and Finn. The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io

In this webinar, Ryan Huguley speaks about the importance of preaching to the head, heart and hands of our congregations. Since the Bible speaks to the intellectual, practical and emotional aspects of human life, so the preacher should do so as well. Ryan speaks about these three areas and then focuses on the heart and makes a case that the only way that a preacher can preach TO THE HEART is if they are preaching FROM THE HEART, and so he unpacks his own story, and ways that we can be analysing our own emotional health and growing in emotional intelligence. The message is followed by an interactive time of Q+A. Ryan Huguely is the pastor at Ridgeline Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, and author of “8 hours or Less: Writing Faithful Sermons Faster” https://www.amazon.com/Hours-Less-Writing-faithful-sermons/dp/0802415083/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Ryan’s previous Expositors Collective  interview can be heard here: https://www.expositorscollective.com/podcast/2020/6/30/hfq2f42dmt74hqpkzrb1urhwx0rr38 The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io

In episode 128 of the Expositors Collective podcast Jon Geraci speaks with Nick Cady about pastoral succession and what it was like to step into the lead role of an established church, as well as his journey of finding his own voice as a preacher after growing up as the son of a well-known and beloved pastor. Jon shares how his experience teaching children and leading a church plant helped him grow as a teacher. Jon Geraci is the Lead Pastor of Calvary South Denver in Littleton, Colorado, which was started by his father, Gino Geraci. He is married to Carolyn and they have three daughters. Together they planted Declaration Church in September 2012 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Geraci’s moved back to Colorado in 2016 and Jon assumed the role of Lead Pastor at Calvary South Denver in January 2020.  You can listen to Jon’s sermons here, and follow him on Instagram at @jongeraci The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io