Michael Moore

Michael Moore is bivocational pastor and Bible teacher who believes every Christian can learn to tell the difference between what a passage says and what a preacher says about it. Known online as the Honest Youth Pastor, he has spent 15 years helping everyday believers read Scripture in its original context, so they can recognize error for themselves instead of waiting for someone else to point it out.

Every week on The Honest Youth Pastor Podcast, now more than 250 episodes, Michael works through a widely shared sermon using his Sermon Review Framework. That framework became the Sermon Review Journal and Sermon Review App, which believers bring to their own churches every Sunday and have reviewed more than 150 times.

Michael is also an amateur documentary filmmaker. His video essays trace how some of America’s best-known pastors rose to their platforms, telling each story largely in the ministers’ own words. Who Is Andy Stanley? has passed 511,000 views, and his films on Steven Furtick and Mike Todd have each passed 412,000. He is currently working on a multi-part series on how 1990s evangelical youth culture produced both deconstruction and Christian nationalism.

Michael reaches more than 221,000 followers on Instagram as @honestyouthpastor and co-hosts The Babbling Pastors Podcast with his longtime friend Rob.

He is serious but never harsh. He weighs teaching carefully and charitably, and he wants people to leave more confident in their Bibles than in any personality, including his own.

Michael is available for conferences, youth events, pastor training, discipleship weekends, and guest teaching, especially on biblical discernment, sermon preparation, and how to critique faithfully.