The Shepherd's Tent With Mark Casto
The Shepherd’s Tent with Mark Casto is a spiritual formation podcast for Kingdom leaders navigating faith, leadership, family, and calling in a culture driven by hustle and performance.
Whether you lead a church, a business, a ministry, or simply a home, the pressure to produce can slowly drain the life out of your soul.
This podcast confronts the unhealthy rhythms hiding inside modern leadership and calls listeners back to something better:
• beloved identity instead of performance
• Spirit-filled rest instead of burnout
• family-first rhythms instead of ambition-driven exhaustion
• the finished work of Christ as the foundation of life and leadership
Here we remember who we are.
Here, the vineyard within matters as much as the vineyard we lead.
This isn’t leadership strategy.
This is restoration.
New episodes weekly.
The Shepherd's Tent With Mark Casto
Latest Episodes
The Dead Garden Test
A leader can look wildly successful and still be dying inside. Tonight we start with a simple question about a “good pastor,” then uncover the hidden math many of us use to judge ourselves: public fruit versus private neglect. The story of Wes ...
Healing From Religious Fear with Cara Barone
Fear can be stubborn. You can pray hard, believe sincerely, and still feel that tight, buzzing anxiety in your chest that keeps you awake at night. Mark Casto sits down with neurostrategist Cara Barone to name what so many Christians quietly ca...
You Were Adopted Into A Family Not An Audience
You can do everything “right” at church and still feel painfully unknown. We start with the story of Daniel, a faithful believer who has spent years in the same seat, hearing hundreds of sermons, only to realize he has no one to call when his m...
Union Over Performance With The Guys From Living Beyond Sunday
The best parts of faith rarely happen under stage lights. They happen when somebody pulls up a chair, tells the truth, and stays when it gets uncomfortable. I’m joined at The Family Table by my friends from the Living Beyond Sunday podcast, and...
Family First Leadership Lessons From A 19-Year Marriage
Nineteen years of marriage will either soften you or split you, and we’ve seen both outcomes up close. As our anniversary hits, we sit down at the Family Table to talk honestly about love, faith, and what it takes to build a marriage that can c...