Guests: Brad Eisenmann, Lynn Fiechter, Nick Gutwein, Wayne Hartzler, Ben Wiegand Show Notes: Benefits of revision and categorization. Goal and benefit of identifying practices. Some of our practices are not clearly spelled out in the word. Need to teach principles behind our practices. Acknowledge concerns around Statement of Faith revision. Man-made document will never be perfect. Likely will need future revisions based on the word. Examples of distinctive practices/understanding. Hope for how ...
Feb 10, 2023•20 min•Season 5Ep. 96
Guests: Brad Eisenmann, Lynn Fiechter, Nick Gutwein, Wayne Hartzler, Ben Wiegand Show notes: Historical account of existing Statement of Faith. Acknowledged concerns around revising Statement of Faith. Must understand what we believe to preserve sound doctrine (pillar). Make understandable to those outside of our church. Carefulness expressed. Involved many in the church, outside of elder body, into revision process. Focused on process, not on getting it done quickly. Process involves spending c...
Jan 28, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 95
Guests: Randy Beer Matt Kaufmann Mark Streitmatter Show notes: Red flags in seeking a mate: Looking to marriage to fix me? Resistance to transparency & counsel. Spending time and talking intimately with opposite sex. Feelings win against reason; be thoughtful; don't lead with emotions. Good recommendations when seeking a mate: be involved in church activities; build relationships and friendships; build relationship with God; learn how to battle with Satan and overcome; learn healthy interact...
Jan 13, 2023•23 min•Season 5Ep. 94
Guests: Randy Beer Matt Kaufmann Mark Streitmatter Show notes: Connection of marriage to the bride of Christ. Our adversary would like to disrupt godly marriages. Value of lifelong commitment with sacrificial love. Love thrives in an atmosphere of commitment. What are pitfalls of marriage by faith? Unrealistic expectations. (Explored more in Part 2) Singleness is a time to get to know God; searching him out; preparing ourselves to be married and be parents. Marriage problems have roots before ma...
Jan 03, 2023•28 min•Season 5Ep. 93
Guests: Nick Gutwein Greg Lehman
Dec 17, 2022•17 min•Season 4Ep. 92
Guests: Lynn Fiechter Steve Ringger
Dec 03, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 91
Guests: Tim Funk Herbie Knochel
Dec 02, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 90
Guests: Marvin Dotterer Dan Leman Mark Leuthold Fred Witzig Show notes: • Vulnerability shared • Impact on wife and family • Honest questions from kids shared • Good examples how the congregation can help with young kids • Challenges shared regarding time commitments • Helpful to wife that congregation didn't view them differently • Blessings shared: faith building & growing in the word, God revealing himself in personal ways • Personal/vulnerable challenges shared • Course for new ministers...
Nov 04, 2022•30 min•Season 4Ep. 89
Guests: Frank Sauder Ted Witzig, Jr. Show notes: Importance of communication to church once people became aware of the tragedy. How the church came together during the crisis. Family needs privacy. How we deal with loss is personal and unique to the individual. Loss affects us over time. Some people recover from the loss quicker than others. The church body has an important function to help the hurting individual(s); the elder can't do it all. Support from the national church body was tremendous...
Oct 21, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 88
Guests: Karen Martin, Anne Heinold, Ron Messner Show notes: • What is palliative care? • How is hospice and palliative care initiated? • What is the difference between hospice and palliative care? • Palliative care availability is more concentrated in larger urban areas. • What is hospice care? • How and where is hospice care administered? • Most insurances cover both palliative and hospice care. • Spiritual services provided with hospice care. • Use of volunteers in hospice care. • What hospice...
Oct 07, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 87
Guests: Karen Martin, Anne Heinold, Ron Messner Show notes: • Importance of advanced directives. • Importance of planning your death. • Recommended documents. • Importance of involving your physician in end of life planning. • Importance of having ready access to completed end of life forms. • Have all necessary passwords for accessing online accounts. • How to spare the surviving spouse from making difficult end of life decisions for a dying spouse. • Importance of hope when faced with end of l...
Sep 24, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 86
Guests: Karen Martin, Anne Heinold, Ron Messner
Sep 10, 2022•30 min•Season 4Ep. 85
Guests: Ron Messner, Jeff Streitmatter III, Tom Waldbeser
Aug 26, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 84
Guests: Ron Messner, Jeff Streitmatter III, Tom Waldbeser
Aug 15, 2022•31 min•Season 4Ep. 83
Guests: Curt Frank, Greg Lehman, Ken Wuethrich
Jul 29, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 82
Guests: Herbie Knochel, Matt Manz Notes • What music do we listen to outside of church? • Music can be very personal; personal tastes are diverse. • Careful not to judge someone else's musical tastes. • Consider what is God-honoring. • Songs must set God apart. • God sees into the heart; is pleased by our music when our heart is right. • Secular songs can also be calming and used by God for good as long as they do not contradict God and his word. • God is worthy of praise. • Opportunity to consi...
Jul 15, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 81
Guests: Herbie Knochel, Matt Manz Notes: • Lots of scriptural examples mentioning music, both Old and New. • Music can involve instruments and/or voice. • How music is used in scripture. • Scriptural instructions to sing as worship. • Singing is intended to be unifying. • Singing is intended to be mentally uplifting and emotionally stirring. • Music reminds us of days gone by. • The Holy Spirit fills us through music. • Singing inspires, calms and prepares the heart for hearing the word preached...
Jul 01, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 80
Guests: Nick Gutwein, Frank Sauder, John Wiegand Notes: • “Baptism is entrance into the Christian community”. • “It’s that working together that gives God glory. That collective working together with Christ as head, that gives all honor and glory to Christ”. • John 13:34-35 loving one another requires us living in community with one another. • Connection between the “practical” body and the “broader” body. • The “body” cannot be just the broader body of believers through all ages; the bride of C...
Jun 20, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 79
Guests: Nick Gutwein, Frank Sauder, John Wiegand Part 1 Notes Questions/comments posed: There are too many strings attached to being a member. Why can’t I just be a follower of Jesus? In the Bible, baptism was typically done by local church, not an individual or parachurch organization. Exception explained: Phillip and Ethiopian eunuch. We tend to view membership in worldly terms (i.e., member of a club or association). Correct view of member is defined biblically – I Cor. 12 “They (Corinthians)...
Jun 03, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 78
Guests: Dave Graf, Ken Manz, Joel Putt, John Wiegand Show notes: A group that recently visited Romania and Ukraine addressed the concerns that are on all of our hearts at this time: are the Ukrainian brethren in harm's way? Are their basic needs being met? Is their faith strong? Are the Ukrainian brothers at risk of being drafted into the military? What is the relationship like between the Ukrainian Nazarene brethren and our Apostolic Christian Church? Any additional ways we can help them?...
May 20, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 77
Guests: MaryBeth Lehman, Kathy Sauder, Lyn Wuethrich Show notes: • Anchored in scripture and flowed well with scriptural principles for building up the Body. • Practical suggestions for getting to know your gifts and discussing gifts with others. • Everyday ways to use gifts to make others lives better. • Not limiting ourselves to gifts we know and like, but willing to step out in faith when we see a need. • Lots of examples of sisters using their gifts to build up the Body. • Pitfalls to be awa...
May 06, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 76
Guests: Rod Bajema, Brad Eisenmann, Tony Manz
Apr 22, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 75
Guests: Lucas Frank, Dan Kilgus
Apr 08, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 74
Guests: Bruce Endress, Nick Gutwein, John Wiegand
Mar 25, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 73
Guests: Ted Steffen, Ken Wuethrich
Mar 11, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 72
Guests: Lucas Frank, Tom Klotzle
Feb 25, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 71
Guests: Gerry Hertzel, Scott Schafer, Fred Witzig
Feb 11, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 70
Guests: Frank Sauder, Lynn Stieglitz
Jan 28, 2022•16 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Guests: James Fehr, Mike Leman
Jan 14, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 68
Guests: Bruce Endress, James Fehr, Steve Ringger, Mark Streitmatter
Dec 31, 2021•22 min•Season 3Ep. 67
