Nic and Jill answer your questions about the Sustaining Renewal sermon series. E&E #259 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw ) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 257
How should Christians think about issues of government control? What are the experiences of those who have directly faced the problems caused by soft or hard totalitarianism? This is part one of Nic's interview with Hannah and Sanghyeon to talk more about these questions. Mentioned in this episode or in part two: Live Not By Lies by Rod Dreer Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime by Janet and Geoff Benge God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew Tortured For His Faith by Dr. Haralan Popov Tortured ...
Apr 01, 2021•52 min•Ep. 256
On March 16, 2021, a series of mass shootings occurred at three spas or massage parlors in the metropolitan area of Atlanta , Georgia. How should Christians respond when we're struck with this kind of tragedy? Nic and Jill discuss. E&E #257 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw ) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Mar 30, 2021•53 min•Ep. 255
What is critical race theory? How should Christians interact with it? What can we learn from the impulses driving the conversation around CRT? And what happened in the Southern Baptist Convention? Nic and Joel B, a PhD candidate in philosophy, discuss these things in today's episode. E&E #255 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw ) Remixed by ...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 254
What is critical race theory? How should Christians interact with it? What can we learn from the impulses driving the conversation around CRT? And what happened in the Southern Baptist Convention? Nic and Joel B, a PhD candidate in philosophy, discuss these things in today's episode. This episode is part one of a two-part episode. E&E #255 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—I...
Mar 18, 2021•41 min•Ep. 253
The Cutting Room Floor is a mini-series focused on exploring topics from Sunday sermons more in depth. This is the stuff that's on the cutting room floor—things that needed to be removed from the sermon due to time. This week, we're talking about leadership integrity. Find the full sermon here . E&E #254 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw )...
Mar 11, 2021•48 min•Ep. 252
Nic and Niccole talk with Kadi Cole, author of Developing Female Leaders, about women's leadership in the church. E&E #253 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw ) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Mar 04, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 251
We've found ourselves in a cultural moment of increased virtual connection to global issues. We have unlimited access not only to information, but also to the voices and opinions of anyone we choose to follow—often who are people we've never met. In addition, increased relational separation from others has turned our personal hot takes into grenades to launch at each other from across the internet. The complexities of issues are lost in favor of Tweetable statements meant to evoke a reaction or ...
Feb 25, 2021•2 min•Ep. 250
This episode was recorded on February 18, 2020. Before COVID hit, we were planning as High Point Church to do another conference on sexuality as a follow-up to our 2019 sexuality everywhere conference. Part of that conference was a teenager track, and in order to gather information about what was actually helpful for teenagers to learn about, we met up a with a group of college students to ask them questions about the things they did and didn't know about sex, and what they would have loved to h...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 249
You spend most of your waking time in the workweek at, well, work. How can that time be used for ministry? Pastor Nic Gibson and businessman Dave Gerry discuss that in today's episode. E&E #250 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong ( youtu.be/HBynMB054zw ) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 248
Nic and Niccole answer remaining questions from the Ask Me Anything time on 1/17/21. E&E #249 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 247
Nic Gibson and Niccole Khail cover the remaining content from Nic's sermon this past Sunday, January 10, on Vices of Division. E&E #248 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Jan 14, 2021•55 min•Ep. 246
Nic and Niccole answer additional Ask Me Anything questions from Januay 10, 2021. E&E #247 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Jan 12, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 245
Nic and Niccole answer all of the Ask Me Anything questions from this past Sunday, December 13. E&E #246 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Dec 17, 2020•49 min•Ep. 244
Nic and Niccole talk through the rest of the questions from Sunday's Ask Me Anything. E&E #245 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 243
We're taking a short break for Advent, but will be back with a new series in January 2021. In the meantime, Jill and Ashlyn cover the basics of the Advent devotional we released to accompany our series, The Wait and The Hope. Find it at highpointchurch.org/devotional. E&E #244 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Dec 03, 2020•5 min•Ep. 242
Advent has begun! Nic and Niccole answer the rest of the questions from our Ask Me Anything on Sunday, November 29. E&E #243 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Dec 01, 2020•32 min•Ep. 241
In the final episode of It's Not "Just Politics", Nic interviews Dr. Arnold Kling, an economist, scholar, and author of The Three Languages of Politics . E&E #242 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Nov 26, 2020•55 min•Ep. 240
Nic and Niccole answer the remaining questions from the Ask Me Anything this past Sunday. E&E #241 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 239
Pastor Nic interviews Cheri Farha and Benjamin Heath on their experiences working in government as Christians. E&E #240 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Nov 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 238
Nic and Jill talk about why human institutions, communities, and societies do well. E&E #239 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 237
Manohar James and Chris Helding answer the remaining AMA questions from this past Sunday. E&E #238 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Nov 10, 2020•36 min•Ep. 236
Pastor Nic Gibson reads his pastoral letter on public and private fears in a polarized state. Read the print version of this letter on the Engage and Equip blog at hpcmadison.com . E&E #237 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Nov 05, 2020•17 min•Ep. 235
Nic and Ashlyn cover the remaining questions from this past Sunday's Ask Me Anything. E&E #236 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Nov 03, 2020•46 min•Ep. 234
Nic and Jill answer the rest of the questions from this past Sunday's Ask Me Anything, including several questions about baptism. E&E #235 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 233
Jill Reasa introduces our new series, It's Not "Just Politics", where we're going to focus on how to think through the political issues of our day with prudence. E&E #234 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Oct 22, 2020•2 min•Ep. 232
Nic and Ashlyn answer the remaining questions from the Ask Me Anything on October 18, 2020. E&E #233 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski
Oct 20, 2020•57 min•Ep. 231
Nic interview Sue Gruen, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and therapist at Samaritan Counseling Center, to talk about the place of clinical counseling in the pathway to healing spiritually and emotionally. E&E #232 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 230
Nic and Jill answer questions from the Ask Me Anything on October 11, when Nic preached on healing. Show Notes: Sermon from July 5, 2020: It Is God's Will For You To Be Sanctified Unwanted by Jay Stringer Journey Well by Laurie Kreig Mending the Soul workbook by Celestia G. Tracy (you don't need to read the book to go through the workbook) E&E #231 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Musi...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 229
Nic interviews Father Gregory Jensen, pastor of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about his reflections and observations from the past six months. E&E #230 Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast Music: HOME—If I’m Wrong (youtu.be/HBynMB054zw) Remixed by John Sekutowski...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 228