Watermark's Church Leadership Podcast

Join us for the Church Leaders Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 26–27, 2027 or Wednesday and Thursday, April 28–29, 2027. Both conferences offer the same mainstage teachings, breakout sessions, and activities. Choose the dates that work best for your schedule! Come on your own or bring your team, and leave with practical tools and ideas you can take back to your church. Our lowest pricing ends November 6, so now is a great time to register. Learn more at CLC2027.comIn this episode of Church Leadership Podcast, John McGee is joined by Scott Kedersha to discuss how people-pleasing affects church leaders. Scott shares how his desire for approval led him to overwork and compromise his convictions, while John reflects on his struggle with criticism of his work. They discuss how to recognize what drives the need for approval, have difficult conversations, and find rest in what Jesus has already done.

Join us for the Church Leaders Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 26–27, 2027 or Wednesday and Thursday, April 28–29, 2027. Both conferences offer the same mainstage teachings, breakout sessions, and activities. Choose the dates that work best for your schedule! Come on your own or bring your team, and leave with practical tools and ideas you can take back to your church. Our lowest pricing ends November 6, so now is a great time to register. Learn more at CLC2027.comMost leaders know they need to give good feedback. But are you intentionally asking for it? In this episode of Church Leadership Podcast, John McGee shares why healthy leaders seek feedback before a problem or blind spot forces the conversation. He also shares a simple exercise he uses with his leadership team to invite candid feedback, uncover blind spots, and grow in humility. If you want to keep growing as a leader, don’t wait for feedback to find you.

Join us for the Church Leaders Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 26–27, 2027 or Wednesday and Thursday, April 28–29, 2027. Both conferences offer the same mainstage teachings, breakout sessions, and activities. Choose the dates that work best for your schedule! Come on your own or bring your team, and leave with practical tools and ideas you can take back to your church. Our lowest pricing ends November 6, so now is a great time to register. Learn more at CLC2027.comLeadership is stewardship. In this episode of Church Leadership Podcast, John McGee shares a simple exercise he recently used with his team to evaluate what God has entrusted to them. It comes down to three questions:What could be excellent?What should be expanded?What needs to end?John shares why leaders can't settle for simply keeping things running, how listening to the people closest to the work can bring clarity, and why good stewardship requires leaders to turn ideas into action.

Join us for the Church Leaders Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 26–27, 2027 or Wednesday and Thursday, April 28–29, 2027. Both conferences offer the same mainstage teachings, breakout sessions, and activities. Choose the dates that work best for your schedule! Come on your own or bring your team, and leave with practical tools and ideas you can take back to your church. Our lowest pricing ends November 6, so now is a great time to register. Learn more at CLC2027.comPete Hughes, pastor of Kings Cross Church in London, joins the Church Leadership Podcast to talk about what he calls “the shaking of secularism and the search for a savior.” Pete shares how he's seeing a growing of spiritual openness among younger generations, and how church leaders can respond. Tune in to be encouraged at how God is at work in the UK, and how Pete is learning to relinquish control so that the Lord can work in his church and city.Watch the full film on YouTube.

Join us for the Church Leaders Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 26–27, 2027 or Wednesday and Thursday, April 28–29, 2027. Both conferences offer the same mainstage teachings, breakout sessions, and activities. Choose the dates that work best for your schedule! Come on your own or bring your team, and leave with practical tools and ideas you can take back to your church. Our lowest pricing ends November 6, so now is a great time to register. Learn more at CLC2027.comWhat if the next generation is more open to Jesus than we think?In this episode of the Church Leadership Podcast, John McGee shares an extended interview with Stephen Foster, leader of of St. Aldates Church in Oxford, England. Stephen talks about the shift he’s seeing in the UK, why churches should intentionally invest in younger leaders, how an invitational culture can change a church, and what it looks like to trust the Holy Spirit as people explore Christianity.Watch the full film on YouTube.