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

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.

Resources Referenced

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff

thedavidwolcott.com

facebook.com/thedavidwolcott

In this episode hosts Sam and Rick share tips and lessons they have learned from their years in

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

The Prepare Marriage Inventory

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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:

Books by Nancy:

Social Media:

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

Resources Mentioned

Hosts Sam and Chris interview missionary, speaker, and trainer, Olin Giles about his ministry to Muslims; and particularly his time in Dearborn, Michigan which has became famous for being a high muslim population in the U.S. You can follow Olin’s ministry work at Radicaltruth.net.

youtube.com/@RadicalTruth

Resources mentioned in this episode:

An article series on the Trinity by Evan Minton; cerebralfaith.net/why-you-should-believe-in-the-trinity-responding-to-the-watchtower-part-1/

The Two Powers in Heaven by Rabbi Segal

Bill Westers Joins hosts Sam and Chris to discuss his podcast, and living out his faith in a

Bill's website; encounteringtruth.org

In this episode, Sam and Chris interview Elliot Rinehart, a missionary with YWAM and host of the Faith Forum podcast.  Elliot created the faith forum to learn about those who are currently in ministry, their motivations, where they are seeing results, and to make connections with other servants. Among Elliot’s takeaways are 3 general types of pastors, how we might pursue balance, and some concerning theological drifting. 

In this episode, Sam and Chris interview Elliot Rinehart, a missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and host of the Faith Forum podcast. Elliot created the faith forum to learn about those who are currently in ministry, their motivations, where they are seeing results, and to make connections with other servants. Among Elliot’s takeaways are 3 general types of pastors, how we might pursue balance, and some concerning theological drifting.

Youth With A Mission

The Faith Forum Podcast: youtube.com/@Faith-Forum/videos=

The Episode with host Sam Sears : https://youtu.be/oBEz8I0S-k0?si=aiGfdmFiVqPthG7y

rinehartmissions.com/