In this episode Hosts Sam Sears, and Rick Grace (The DHF church liaison) interview Phil Claycomb, founder of Nexus church planting. They discuss questions like, “Why plant new churches?” and talk about the general mission of the church. They also discuss the partnership between DHF and Nexus, in planting The Stone Christian Church. You can learn more about Nexus at nexus.us You can learn more about The Stone at thestone.cc Nexus has offered a matching grant to any DHF Church that wants to support the Stone. You can give via DHF by visiting discipleheritage.org/give. Select ”Other” and add “The Stone Church Plant” in the memo line. You can also give directly to The Stone by going to “Next Steps” at thestone.cc or directly here.

Hosts Sam Sears and Scott McNay interview Pastor Steven Stern. He felt led to adopt a child, and his church supported him and his wife in that adoption. Eventually this led to him founding a new ministry to help connect adoptive parents, and local churches to assist in adoption costs and support. You can find out more about God Will Make a Way Ministries at gwmaw.org/

In this episode hosts Sam Sears introduced new co-host Brandon Chappell from First Christian Church in Blue Mound, Illinois, and together they interviewed Andrew Covert and David Johansen from the Tent Making Christianity Podcast. Andrew introduces a problem he encountered with a youth pastor. A youth said that he was always told to share his faith, but no one told him how to do it. Together the 4 men on this episode discuss a bit of that “how” and how that includes Apologetics. Tent Making Christianity on Spotify tentmakingchristianity.com Facebook facebook.com/tentmakingchristianity Facebook Groups facebook.com/groups/261828104499003 Resources Tactics By Greg Koukl

In this episode hosts Sam Sears introduces new co-host Brandon Chappell from First Christian Church in Blue Mound, Illinois. Together they interview Andrew Covert and David Johansen from the Tent Making Christianity Podcast. After sharing their Testimonies, Brandon gets the ball rolling asking about the role of Apologetics in youth groups. Tent Making Christianity on Spotify tentmakingchristianity.com Tent Making Christianity on Facebook Tent Making Christianity Facebook Group Episodes with Sam Sears Church Planting https://open.spotify.com/episode/4HSsOXAAFIQP6TugrPTtAP?si=oyV9QSWpTBejo8fDg7G4_w Christian Horror https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FIYxLDzTOutaVDaPGTuUf?si=uJCI3x6BTQmyoTTwnTNBmA Resourced Mentioned Tactics By Greg Koukl  Cold Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace The Discipleship Gospel Workbook by Ben Sobels and Bill Hull

Sam interviews returning guest, David Wolcott, who is now researching a claim that since the world Homosexual was “added” to the bible in 1946, the Bible didn’t actually condemn homosexual acts. We talk about how relatively new the English word is, and takes us to the Greek, defending a conservative biblical sexual ethic.

In this episode hosts Sam and Rick share tips and lessons they have learned from their years in ministry. These include some embarrassing mistakes, and rather than repeat them, you can learn from them.

Hosts Sam Sears and Rick Grace reflect on lessons learned from performing weddings and provide tips for pastors, officiants, and churches on how to perform a wedding and what policies to have in place to protect a church. Resources Mentioned For Rick’s Marriage Policy templates, you can email him at [email protected] Pacific Justice Institute’s Marriage Policy Template pacificjustice.org/resources/for-churches/language-for-bylaws-and-model-marriage-policy The Prepare Marriage Inventory prepare-enrich.com Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts symbis.com/ The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Hosts Sam and Heather Sears interview Nancy Kay Grace who shares about being a pastor’s wife, as well as her own journey of faith as she trusts in God during multiple occurrences of cancer. Nancy Kay Grace is the wife of DHF Church Liaison Rick Grace. And in addition to serving in ministry with Rick, Nancy is a speaker, writing coach, and award-winning author of The Grace Impact. Sign-Up for the GraceNotes newsletter at nancykaygrace.com Websites Mentioned: alongsideministrywives.com Books by Nancy: The Grace Impact: https://a.co/d/cvkjIEv 12 Words for Christmas: https://a.co/d/cvkjIEv Social Media: Facebook Instagram YouTube

Ariel Triebull joins pastors Sam and Chris, to share about training students to reach other students via her ministry at Decisionpoint.org. Ariel educates students on their rights and equips them to effectively disciple others. The ministry has seen 280,000 students hear the gospel, and 10,000 commitments to follow Christ in it’s 20 year existence. She encourages students, and our listeners, to take seriously the 5 Gospel Challenges, she explains in this episode. decisionpoint.org decisionpoint.org/longterm-staff-detail-page/ariel-triebull

Olivia Davis is a musician and blogger. In this episode she joins hosts Sam and Rick and shares about a life changing moment that caused great pain, but caused her to lean on a greater God. After meeting a man at church, she changed her mind about not wanting to get married, and have kids. She saw the beauty of the love of Christ for the Church in marriage, and she fell deeply in love. Then, after being engaged, she discovered who she fell in love with wasn’t who the gentleman really was, and he canceled their engagement. Heartbroken, single and suffering, she brought her pain before God, and came out on the either end, more in awe of His love. She said that “we serve a God who has scars” and that made her aware she was never alone in her suffering. She recently had blog posts about her process go viral, and has used lessons she has learned, her story and journey, to comfort others. Helping the Persecuted htp.org lookingupward.org lookingupward.org/2022/11/27/my-broken-engagement/ Resources Mentioned The Wound Healer by Henry Nouwen