Next Sunday

Next Sunday is more than just a podcast — this is your community of forward-thinking church leaders looking to make a meaningful impact not only today but for years to come. Our conversations create every church leader’s field guide for bridging generations, cultivating generosity, and inspiring change in the church. Every other week, you can expect candid discussions, insightful interviews with special guests and practical tips you can apply to your congregation to start shaping your church of tomorrow, today . We embrace challenges, celebrate victories, and aren’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers along the way, because what happens next Sunday could change everything.

Next Sunday is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 59 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  The Hidden Work Behind a Major Generosity Initiative

  Sep 22, 202622 min

  Sunday comes every seven days, even when a church is preparing for a major generosity initiative. So how much additional work should pastors, staff members, and lay leaders expect? In this episode of Next Sunday, Jim Sheppard and Frank Bealer explain why the answer depends on more than a standard workload estimate. They explore senior-pastor involvement, leadership structure, staff experience, hidden responsibilities, open positions, and the importance of choosing a point person with genuine capacity. They also address a commonly overlooked reality: the work does not end after the public phase. Continued communication and encouragement help people follow through and give new members of the church an opportunity to participate. Listen for a practical, honest conversation about preparing your team to carry an important initiative well.

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  Why Staff Giving is NOT Optional

  Aug 25, 202624 min

  Churches often focus their generosity efforts on the congregation. But what happens when the staff members responsible for leading those efforts are not personally participating? In this episode of the Next Sunday Podcast, Jim Sheppard and Frank Bealer explore why staff giving is more than an internal policy or financial matter. It affects leadership credibility, staff advocacy, and the broader culture surrounding generosity. The conversation also moves beyond expectations to pastoral care. Jim and Frank discuss reluctance, marital concerns, financial pressure, compensation, onboarding, and why staff giving should never be reduced to forced compliance. Listen for a candid and constructive conversation about helping the people closest to the mission understand, practice, and lead generosity with integrity.

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  [Summer Session Ep.5] What "Ready" Actually Means

  Jun 26, 202612 min

  This is episode 5 of 5 of the Next Sunday Podcast Summer Session: five focused conversations to help pastors and church leaders arrive at fall with a congregation of ready hearts. Download Beyond The Generosity Gap Workbook , a free guide designed to help you put these conversations into action before the season arrives. For God loves a cheerful giver. It is one of the most quoted lines in conversations about generosity, and one of the most misunderstood. In this final episode of the Next Sunday Summer Session, Jim Sheppard unpacks the Greek word behind "cheerful", hilaros, and reveals that it carries two co-equal meanings: joyful and ready. Paul uses the word ready five or six times in the verses immediately before that famous line. The point was never just happiness. It was preparation. Jim and Frank close the series with a direct challenge to pastors: stop apologizing for the offering moment. Stop managing reluctance. The goal is not to protect people from their wallets; they know how to do that better than you do. The goal is to form people into ready, eager, willing givers. And that formation work does not happen in September. It happens now.

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  [Summer Session Ep.4] The Generation Nobody's Discipling Into Generosity

  Jun 26, 202612 min

  This is episode 4 of 5 of the Next Sunday Podcast Summer Session: five focused conversations to help pastors and church leaders arrive at fall with a congregation of ready hearts. Download Beyond The Generosity Gap Workbook , a free guide designed to help you put these conversations into action before the season arrives. The data is encouraging. Gen Z's propensity to give is at or above that of Boomers. Their faith is growing. So why isn't their generosity keeping pace in most churches? In this episode, Jim Sheppard and Frank Bealer name the gap honestly and place the responsibility squarely where it belongs. Frank introduces the idea of "checkmatic giving," the way automated digital giving, while convenient, has quietly removed generosity from everyday family life and eliminated the natural discipleship moments that used to happen around the kitchen table. Jim traces the larger pattern: Boomers didn't disciple Gen X well in this area. Gen X didn't disciple Millennials. And now the gap has compounded into Gen Z. The good news is that their willingness is there. The question is whether the church will disciple that willingness before the window closes, and whether it will start building the formation pipeline for Gen Alpha before it is too late.

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  [Summer Session Ep.3] Starting Strong

  Jun 26, 202617 min

  This is episode 3 of 5 of the Next Sunday Podcast Summer Session: five focused conversations to help pastors and church leaders arrive at fall with a congregation of ready hearts. Download Beyond The Generosity Gap Workbook , a free guide designed to help you put these conversations into action before the season arrives. Most churches treat their fall giving campaign, year-end giving, and new year launch as three separate events. In doing so, they exhaust their congregation, miss their best opportunities, and arrive at January wondering what happened. In this episode, Jim Sheppard and Frank Bealer make the case that September through February is one continuous discipleship rhythm, not three disconnected seasons. They unpack the theological difference between Cain's question and Abel's question as the frame for what truly transformational giving looks like, and show what it means to build a second-half narrative that carries people through each moment rather than resetting with every new push. They also land on what may be the most overlooked communication opportunity of the entire church year, the annual giving statement. Everybody opens it. Almost nobody uses it well. This episode shows what it looks like when you do.

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