Nick hosts past and present deacons to discuss the role, qualifications, and what their experience has been like as a deacon.

Recommended Resources:

• Paul’s Vision for the Deacons: Assisting Elders with the Care of God’s Church - Alexander Strauch

• Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church - Matt Smethurst

Nick has a conversation with Pastor Chris about the work God has been doing in his life to grow him into a courageous evangelist. Join us for a discussion about the pillar of Courageous Evangelism and the desire to reach our community for Christ.

Resources:

• A Gospel Primer - Milton Vincent

• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism - Mark Dever

• Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus - Mack Stiles

Nick and Jack discuss the use of language that is overly subjective and borderline manipulative, even if well-intended.

Resource List

• Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
• “How do I know God’s calling for my life?” by John Piper
• Ask Pastor John by Tony Reinke
• “How can I know God’s will for my life?” from GotQuestions.org

Nick hosts a few of Harvest's pastors to discuss the role, qualifications, and their personal experience of pastoring.

Nick and Jack discuss the call to purposeful discipleship by looking at Matthew 4:19 and Matthew 28:18-20. They discuss the goal of being a disciple-making church and issue the challenge to meet with another Christian to mature in the faith. "Who's your 1?"

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Overview:

Genesis 1 tells us that we are made in the image of our Creator God. Being his image bearers means we are to reflect his image by our own creativity. Join us as we discuss what this practically looks like and if there is such a thing as a "creative" and "non-creative" distinction. In all of this, hear more about how creativity can play out in the local church to the glory of God!

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Jack shares his testimony and major shaping moments + resources for his life/ministry. Check out the recommended resources below:

Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

27 Servants of Sovereign Joy by John Piper

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Little Pilgrim’s Big Journey by Tyler Van Halteren

Family Worship by Donald Whitney

Praying the Bible by Donald Whitney

The Call by Os Guinness

Spiritual Growth Series by J Oswald Sanders

Dangerous Calling by Paul David Tripp

Lead by Paul David Tripp

Dynamic Heart in Daily Life by Jeremy Pierre

Nick, Jordan, and a special guest discuss the topic of Christian hospitality. The origin for the idea for this episode stems from Rosaria Butterfield’s book “The Gospel Comes with a House Key” which was published back in 2018. Each of us has read her book and found it intensely practical and challenging.

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Building off our previous two episodes, Jack and Nick discuss some key questions about how individual Christians faithfully represent Christ and his kingdom amongst the kingdoms of the earth. They discuss how the Bible calls for Christians to live as ambassadors for Christ.

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In this episode, we want to think theologically about the church. Specifically, we want to discuss the idea of the church as an embassy of heaven on earth.

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