Engage and Equip

After a year on staff, Sawyer Henderson made a list of things about High Point that genuinely surprised him—not the basics he'd vetted before taking the job, but what he only discovered from the inside. Nic and Sawyer work through that list together, touching on unlikely partnerships between churches, the quiet math behind who opens their home to a stranger, and a pregnancy number that stopped them both in their tracks. The conversation turns into something bigger than a highlight reel, covering what actually produces revival, why comfort might be the most dangerous thing you can hand your kids, and what it looks like when a church decides not to wait for permission to do the right thing.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast

This is Part III in the Intoxicating Substances Follow-Up series, where our panelists sit down to answer the questions people are asking about weight-loss drugs, psychedelics, and more. This episode goes from the ethics of Ozempic to why mushrooms might counterfeit real spiritual experience, from the surprising science linking alcohol and dementia to one host's own confession about an eating disorder. It's a conversation that speaks honestly about genetics, agency, addiction, and what the Bible actually says about wine.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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What if the way a director frames a shot could teach you something about how to read Scripture—or how to parent, or how to trust God in a hard moment? In part two of their conversation on Wake Up Dead Man, the guys go deep on cinematography: how light, movement, and camera angles aren't just aesthetic choices but a filmmaker's way of telling you what to believe about a character — and what that has to do with the way God communicates with us. It's a conversation that starts with film theory and ends somewhere you probably didn't expect.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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Speaking in tongues, prophetic words, unexplained healings—High Point Church sees questions about all of it. In this episode, Taylor Koenig sits down with Pastor Paxton to tackle the ones that came pouring in after his sermon on spiritual gifts. Taylor and Paxton don't shy away from the messy, sometimes uncomfortable territory, including a story about a backyard healing that didn't hold up and what that taught them about honesty in ministry. If you've ever felt confused, skeptical, or even a little embarrassed by the supernatural side of faith, this conversation might change how you think about it.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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What happens when a nearly-dead church with fifteen faithful seniors, aging heating ducts, and nine and a half acres gets a second chance? Pastor Nic sits down with John Sekutowski and Mike Beresford, two former High Point staff who left the comfort of an 800-person church to gamble everything on a congregation that had already given up. They talk candidly about the moment an interim pastor told them not to bother, the awkward middle years of building trust with people afraid of losing their identity, and the strange, almost embarrassing ways new people actually started showing up (hint: it involves a full parking lot and zero invitations). Along the way they get into what changes theologically and relationally when you go from renting your role in a big machine to owning every square foot of a small one, why breakthroughs are never as spontaneous as they look, and what it actually costs to disciple people your own preaching created.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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Nic Gibson and Jill Reasa discuss some of the toughest questions to come out of their Romans series—the kind people usually only ask in private. Along the way, Nic gets unusually personal about addiction, temptation, and the moment he realized a besetting sin's power over him was mostly an illusion. It's a wide-ranging, occasionally uncomfortable conversation that treats hard questions like they deserve real answers.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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Pastor Paxton and Pastor Adam sit down for a rapid-fire AMA built entirely from congregation questions after Adam's sermon on Romans 12—and the questions get personal fast. What do you do when you don't feel essential to the church? What if you're too depleted to give anything? What if you're genuinely bad with kids? Paxton and Adam don't dodge any of it, working through membership, burnout, jealousy over other people's gifts, and the ever-present tension between Martha's busyness and Mary's stillness — all while trying (and failing) to keep it under 50 minutes.

Here's the list of questions that Paxton and Adam discuss in this episode:

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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What does it actually mean to show up to church? Pastor Paxton sits down for a wide-ranging AMA following his sermon from Romans 12, and the conversation gets uncomfortable fast—probing the gap between what we say we want from church and what God actually asks of us. From the cynic who knows the price of everything to the sentimentalist who values all the wrong things, Paxton draws on Oscar Wilde to diagnose something most churchgoers would rather not admit about themselves. Plus: when is it actually okay to leave a church, how do you give generously to people who treat you as disposable, and where have all the good men (and women) gone?

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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What does it look like when God builds a church from almost nothing — no building, no budget, no guarantee it would work? Pastor Sam Twum has lived that story in real time, and the way it's unfolded over the last decade in Madison, Wisconsin is hard to explain without just calling it what it is. From a handful of people in a community center to a congregation representing 17 nations, this is a conversation about faith, risk, and what it actually means to build something that lasts.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast

You might think kids ministry is just babysitting with a Bible story—but there's a lot more happening in that gym on Sunday mornings than you realize. Whether you've been dropping your child off for years without a second thought or you've been quietly wondering if volunteering is something you could actually do, this conversation will change how you see children's ministry—and maybe even how you see your own role in it.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast