On Formation, Leadership & the Interior Life
Preacher. Pastor. Practitioner.
Ben speaks on the slow work of formation and the interior life of a leader.
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What Ben Speaks On
Four Areas of Focus
Available for Sunday services, staff training days, and leadership retreats.
The Slow Work of Formation
We live in a culture addicted to output and anesthetized to silence. The result is leaders who are capable but not whole. Ben makes the case for being present to who you're becoming before you build anything, and what it looks like when leaders actually get this order right.
Staff Retreats · Elder Board Retreats · Church Planting Cohorts
The Interior Life of a Leader
The decisions aren't going to get easier. Mostly because the person making them hasn't slowed down long enough to look inside. Ben preaches and teaches about the person inside the person: what it costs to lead from an honest place, and what it takes to stop performing and start loving and living like Jesus.
Sunday Services · Leadership Retreats
Naming What's Broken
Most organizational problems are misdiagnosed. Then the well-meaning opinions pile on and make it worse. Ben names what's actually broken in teams, governance, and leadership culture. He gives teams language for what everyone has been sensing but didn't know how to say.
Elder Boards · Staff Training Days · Pastoral Cohorts
Do The Next Right Thing
This is for church planters, pastors in transition, or anyone disoriented by where they are. You don't have to settle, compromise, or become someone you aren't. God designed you to be you, and His invitation is to discover what you're built for, what season you're actually in, and what a real next chapter looks like. Then take the next right step.
Pastoral Retreats · Church Planting Cohorts · Transition Seasons
Grief, Loss & Liminal Space
Most seasons don't shift quickly, and the worst thing anyone can do is pretend they're okay when they aren't. Ben speaks candidly about grief, loss, and the place where what was is gone and what's next hasn't arrived. That place isn't a problem to manage. It's a threshold. The only way through is surrender.
Sunday Services · Pastoral Retreats · Leadership Retreats
Something Real to Say
Most sermons inform. Few transform. Ben works with preachers on the craft and conviction beneath the sermon: how to write for formation, not just comprehension; how to stay in the text long enough for it to expose you before you preach it; and what it means to stand in front of people with something real to say.
Pastoral Cohorts · Preaching Workshops · Church Planting Networks
Recent Talks
Now This I Know
Psalm 20 · Wake Church, 2026
Intergenerational Flourishing
WoodsEdge, 2025
When Even The Darkness Speaks
Wake Church, 2025
The Syrophoenician Woman
Collective Church, 2026