Launch with Dave Harvey

Launch with Dave Harvey

Launch: The GCC Podcast, is an ongoing series of conversations designed to strengthen pastors, elders, and other church leaders and the gospel-work of planting churches and discipling believers.

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June 17, 2022 24 mins

On this episode, pastor and author Eric Schumacher joins host Marty Duren in a coversation about the challenges men have grieving miscarriages. 

Transcript

Marty Duren:

Welcome to Launch-The GCC Podcast. I'm your host, Marty Duren, director of communications for the Great Commission Collective. We're a global network of churches partnering together to plant churches and strengthen leaders. My guest today on Launch is Eric S...

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Great Commisison Collective President Dave Harvey joins co-host Marty Duren for a conversation about what distinguishes GCC as a church-planting network to help potential church planters see the upside of partnering with GCC to plant a church.  You can download a PDF of Is The GCC Right for You? here. For information about assessments and training, email: laura@gccollective.org.
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GCC's Director of Training, John, Crabtree, joins host Marty Duren to discuss how our Learning Center can benefit the pastors, elders, and leaders in Great Commission Collective Churches.

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Pastor and longtime blogger Tim Challies, author and Gospel Coalition editor-in-chief Collin Hansen, and GCC President Dave Harvey come together for a conversation about the Young, Restless, Reformed movement, its impact, its wins, and its warnings.

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Three pastors new to GCC join host Marty Duren for a conversation to help you get to know them. Meet Joe Cotroneo, Bob Lepine, and Ken Thompson.
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New to the GCC, pastors Kent Dresdow and Steve Kroeker join host Marty Duren in a get-to-know-you, roundtable style.

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September 23, 2021 20 mins

Adam Ramsey leads Liberti Church on the Gold Coast of Australia. He's the author of Truth on Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings. Adam is also the Network Director for Acts 29 Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. 

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New to the GCC, pastors Ryan Burgess, Julian Freeman, and Jorge Rodriguez join host Marty Duren in a get-to-know-you, roundtable style.

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Today's guest, Clint Clifton, founded Pillar Church in Dumfries Virginia on March 28, 2005 at Marne Corps Base Quantico. He is co-founder of the Iceland Project (2006) and the Praetorian Project (2011) and founder of New City Network with McLean Bible Church. He serves the North American Mission Board as the director of Send DC, and served for two years with Send Baltimore. He’s the author of  Church Planting Thresholds: ...

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Biblical counselor Nathan Scroggins joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about how culture affects the need for relational health in churches, as well as the steps his church is taking to ensure relational health among the staff and in the body.

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Lee Lewis from Radiant Church in Austin, TX joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about pastors and their emotional health.

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GCC's Leader Care Specialist, Dr. Garrett Higbee, returns to launch in a conversation with Marty Duren on what pastors should know in the continuing pandemic upheaval.

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In this episode of Launch, hosts Dave Harvey and Marty Duren are joined by pastor and author Dane Ortlund.  Ortlund is the pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church, and author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (2020), Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (2014), and Defiant Grace: The Surprising Message and Mission of Jesus (2011). He's married to Stacey and they have five k...

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Launch hosts Dave Harvey and Marty Duren are joined by François Turcotte in an enlightening conversation about the future of seminaries and biblical studies. 

François Turcotte is president and dean of SEMBEQ in Montreal, Canada, a ministry to serve French-speaking churches in Quebec. He is married to Nathalie and has 2 children: Andrea and Samuel.

Here's a preview of SEMBEQ from the 2021 Missions Conference held at Hope Oakvil...

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Pastor/author Alistair Begg joins Launch host Dave Harvey and guest co-host Bob Lepine in a discussion about living bravely through faith in God, based on Begg's new book, Brave by Faith: God-Sized Confidence in a Post-Christian World.

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Dave Harvey, president of Great Commission Collective, joins Marty Duren in a conversation about elder-team ministry based on Dave's new book, The Plurality Principle.

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Jerry Lingenfelter and Nate Newell of Mission Church in Lancaster, PA, join Marty Duren in a conversation about how one local church is organizing a pathway to being a church-planting church.

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Send Institute director Daniel Yang joins Dave Harvey, president of Great Commission Collective and Marty Duren, in a conversation about the changing landscape of church planting in the US and globally.

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Dave Harvey, president of Great Commission Collective, and Bob Lepine, longtime host at Family Life Radio, engage a conversation about Bob's life and ministry.

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Bill Foss pastors in Westbrook, Maine, well outside the "Bible Belt." In this conversation with host Marty Duren, Bill tells about the challenges of bi-vocational ministry, but also some of the opportunities, while explaining the culture in which he ministers.

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