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Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley

Writer

Oct 2, 2025

About

“Life is complicated. You want to get it right. I want to help.”

Best-selling author and communicator Andy Stanley brings clarity to complex cultural issues using a communication style built on helping people live life with fewer regrets through practical applications.

As the host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which premiered on NBC in 2012 and on CBS in 2017, Andy’s culturally relevant insights on life, faith, success, and relationships are broadcasted to a nationwide audience and available globally online. More than 10.5 million of his messages are consumed monthly through television, YouTube, podcasts, and other digital mediums, underscoring his impact not only as a communicator but also as an influencer of culture.

He is a best-selling author of over 20 books, including: Parenting: Getting It Right; Not In It to Win It; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; Irresistible; The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating; How to Be Rich; When Work and Family Collide; and Visioneering.

Andy has a deep passion for teaching and engaging with live audiences, which he has pursued for over three decades at leadership events around the world. As a sought-after communicator, he speaks at various annual events before audiences of both church and organizational leaders.

“I cannot fill their cups,” he often says of the opportunity to impact leaders, “but I have a responsibility to empty mine.”

Husband to Sandra and father of three grown children, Andy founded North Point Ministries (NPM) in Atlanta in 1995. NPM has since grown to eight church campuses in metro Atlanta and a network of nearly 180 churches around the globe, serving hundreds of thousands of people. An Outreach Magazine survey of U.S. pastors identified him as one of the 10 most influential pastors in America.

Andy earned a journalism degree from Georgia State University and a graduate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.

Posts (26)

Aug 5, 2024 ∙ 28 min

Monitor Your Heart

Andy Stanley discusses how our behavior will eventually reflect the condition of our hearts. Hey, growing up in our home, and I bet your home was similar, there were certain words that were off limits in our home. And again, I grew up in a different generation than some of you, but here was one of the big ones. In fact, I, it’s hard for me to even say this out loud in church, okay? Darn. I was like, you know, this was like, not being able to say this word was a fence rule. A fence rule is a...

Jul 9, 2024 ∙ 22 min

Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets

Sometimes an option we’re considering creates tension inside of us. When that happens, it can be tempting to ignore the discomfort or brush by it. But instead of doing that, we need to pay close attention to it. Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, So, let’s begin with a question that I’m sure you have pondered probably most of your adult life. Why are people who’ve had too much to drink inclined to make such bad decisions? Do you ever wonder about this? Why are people who’ve had too much to...

Apr 18, 2024 ∙ 28 min

Watch Your Heart!

Hey, growing up in our home, and I bet your home was similar, there were certain words that were off limits in our home. And again, I grew up in a different generation than some of you, but here was one of the big ones. In fact, I, it’s hard for me to even say this out loud in church, okay? Darn. I was like, you know, this was like, not being able to say this word was a fence rule. A fence rule is a rule that keeps you from breaking a worse rule. And so in our home, we didn’t wanna say the...

Aug 13, 2022 ∙ 26 min

Repairing Your Relationships

So as we've said throughout this series that repairing a broken or disrupted or awkward or damaged relationship, it's not easy. And oftentimes, not all the time, but oftentimes we actually want to. I mean, if we just push a button and the relationship was fixed or the relationship was better, we would. And even if we don't really want to oftentimes we know we ought to, want to. You ever ought to, want to. It's like, you know, if you ever pray and say, "God, I know what I should ask you for...

May 18, 2022 ∙ 1 min

How to Share Christ in a Post-Christian World

Carey Nieuhof interviews Andy Stanley in this episode from www.careynieuwhof.com. Andy Stanley outlines the argument he makes in his new book, Irresistible, and coaches leaders on how to have conversations with Christians who have walked away from their faith as well as atheists who have never believed. Andy also talks about how he had to overcome judgementalism in his own faith journey, and talks openly and honestly about the impact his critics have had on him and how to respond when you get...

Apr 2, 2022 ∙ 13 min

Why Easter is Still Relevant

You know if you think about it, the message of Easter has never been more relevant for the modern world than it is right now. And the interesting thing is that everybody is sitting up straight and paying attention. I mean the events of Easter are relevant because well they address our deepest and our greatest fears and all of our fears are pretty much front and center right now. Is everything gonna be all right? Is my family gonna be all right? Does God know about this? Does God care about...

Mar 14, 2022 ∙ 17 min

Why Should We Have Hope? Peter's Escape

Why Should We Have Hope: Peter’s Prison Rescue Andy Stanley One of the objectionable, irrational, easy to criticize things about our faith as Christians is this, you've experienced this. We actually turn to God when bad things happen, believing he could have kept them from happening in the first place, isn't this true? Don't we all do this in fact, we encourage other people to do this. We actually turned to God when something bad happens and we turn to God with this crazy confidence that well...

Sep 18, 2021 ∙ 21 min

Mean People-And What to Do About Them

Mean People and What to Do about Them Andy Stanley Now as some of you know, today we are in part two of a series entitled "Mean People", and specifically "what to do about them". Mean people and what to do about them. And just so you know, I realize that you have been mean, perhaps somebody is gonna hear or watch this message, I hope not and you'll come to mind. I hope that's not the case. We've all had seasons in our lives when we've been the mean people. And mostly when we get together and...

Sep 8, 2020 ∙ 16 min

Leading Through Uncertainty with Empathy

Today we're wrapping up our four part series entitled Leading Through, and the subtitle is Three Essentials, Three Essentials for Navigating Uncertainty. As you are painfully aware, and actually don't need to be reminded of, this season has been challenging for all of us. It's been brutal for some of us financially, socially, relationally to consequently we're all picking up the pieces and we're moving forward the best we can. But, many of us are actually not simply navigating ourselves...

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