Leading Your Church is a podcast to help pastors and ministry leaders to overcome plateau and decline in their churches. We are your guide for leadership principles and practices to help your church become healthy and bear new spiritual fruit in your church. We also help pastors and ministry leaders renew their heart for God and leading ministry.
025: Clarity Over Pressure: How to Lead Your Church into a New Year
January often brings both hope and pressure for pastors and church leaders. The start of a new year can feel like an unspoken performance review, filled with expectations around growth, attendance, giving, and vision. But pressure is not the same thing as purpose — and it’s a terrible substitute for clarity. In this episode of Leading Your Church, Rich Cochran invites pastors to enter the new year with discernment, alignment, and spiritual steadiness — not anxiety-driven urgency. Instead of r...
4 Sept 2025
024: How to Hear from God as a Leader
Title: How to Hear God’s Voice as You Lead Host: Rich Cochran Duration: ~20 Minutes In this episode of Leading Your Church, Rich Cochran explores one of the most essential practices of leadership—hearing God’s voice. Ministry leaders often feel overwhelmed by noise, pressure, and competing demands. The result? We stop listening for God’s direction and start leading reactively instead of responsively. Rich unpacks why hearing God’s voice can be so challenging, shares three powerful pathways ...
9 Jan 2025
023: The Power of One Word for the New Year
Are you tired of starting the year with endless goals only to feel overwhelmed by the end of January? As ministry leaders, juggling preaching, pastoral care, team building, and more can feel like too much. In this episode, we explore a game-changing approach: choosing One Word to guide your year. The idea taken from Jon Gordon’s book One Word, we discuss how selecting a single word or phrase can clarify your purpose, align your focus with God’s calling, and energize your leadership in 2025....
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