The Flip Side with Noah Filipiak

Ruth Haley Barton is the award winning author of 7 books and the founder of The Transforming Center.  Her book Sacred Rhythms won the Logos Book Award for Best Book Award on Spirituality and her book Invitation to Solitude and Silence won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award for Spirituality.  In this interview, Noah Filipiak interviews Ruth about how to deal with success and failure, burnout, ego, ambition, technology, pace, false self and true self, finding who we truly are in Christ versus the facade strategies we have learned to protect ourselves, and much more.  Ruth and her Transforming Community team have extensive experience helping Christians and ministry leaders find their true self in Christ and are uniquely gifted and called to this essential work in today's hectic, cluttered, performance-driven culture we live in.  If you've ever struggled with having a dry devotional time with the Lord and wondered if there was more to experience from God than you currently know, God has led you to the right person by now connecting you with Ruth Haley Barton and the Transforming Center.

Ruth Haley Barton is the award winning author of 7 books and the founder of The Transforming Center.  Her book Sacred Rhythms won the Logos Book Award for Best Book Award on Spirituality and her book Invitation to Solitude and Silence won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award for Spirituality.  In this interview, Noah Filipiak interviews Ruth about how to deal with success and failure, burnout, ego, ambition, technology, pace, false self and true self, finding who we truly are in Christ versus the facade strategies we have learned to protect ourselves, and much more.  Ruth and her Transforming Community team have extensive experience helping Christians and ministry leaders find their true self in Christ and are uniquely gifted and called to this essential work in today's hectic, cluttered, performance-driven culture we live in.  If you've ever struggled with having a dry devotional time with the Lord and wondered if there was more to experience from God than you currently know, God has led you to the right person by now connecting you with Ruth Haley Barton and the Transforming Center.

the #4 ranked Michigan State Spartans football team, redshirt junior

Josiah Price.  Price has 13 career touchdowns at Michigan State, a

record for a tight end, including 3 in the first 3 games of 2015.  He

caught the go ahead touchdown against #2 ranked Ohio State in the Big

Ten Championship game in 2013, as well as a fourth quarter touchdown in

the 2014 Cotton Bowl against #5 ranked Baylor that began a 21 point 4th

quarter comeback for Michigan State.  Michigan State was the 2013-14 Big

Ten and Rose Bowl champion, finishing 3rd overall and the 2014-15

Cotton Bowl Champion, finishing 5th overall.

players, how Josiah stays grounded, as well as the ‘superfan’ mindset of

many fans who take college football way too seriously.  Noah and Josiah

unpack death threats sent via social media to Josiah’s teammates after

bad plays, as well as how a player is worshiped and adored if they make a

good play.

In this episode, Noah Filipiak interviews the starting tight end for

the #4 ranked Michigan State Spartans football team, redshirt junior

Josiah Price.  Price has 13 career touchdowns at Michigan State, a

record for a tight end, including 3 in the first 3 games of 2015.  He

caught the go ahead touchdown against #2 ranked Ohio State in the Big

Ten Championship game in 2013, as well as a fourth quarter touchdown in

the 2014 Cotton Bowl against #5 ranked Baylor that began a 21 point 4th

quarter comeback for Michigan State.  Michigan State was the 2013-14 Big

Ten and Rose Bowl champion, finishing 3rd overall and the 2014-15

Cotton Bowl Champion, finishing 5th overall.

Noah and Josiah discuss the temptations facing college football

players, how Josiah stays grounded, as well as the ‘superfan’ mindset of

many fans who take college football way too seriously.  Noah and Josiah

unpack death threats sent via social media to Josiah’s teammates after

bad plays, as well as how a player is worshiped and adored if they make a

good play.

Riverview Church in Holt, Lansing and East Lansing, MI.  Riverview is a

church made up of around 3000 - 4000 people that has 4 venues in the

Lansing area.  Noel and Noah discuss the hardest thing about being a

pastor, including a helpful discussion about the anxiety pastors and

church planters face, how we can combat anxiety, and how churchgoers can

help their pastors feel less anxiety.  They discuss how churchgoers can

help their pastors stay healthy, avoid burnout, and stay at their

current ministry post longer.  They also discuss the dangers of church

planting and book publishing, including good reasons to do such ventures as well as sinful reasons.

Planting network and is author of a book with the working title

"Unchained" coming out in early 2017 with David C. Cook publishers.

Noah Filipiak interviews Noel Heikkinen, one of the pastors at

Riverview Church in Holt, Lansing and East Lansing, MI.  Riverview is a

church made up of around 3000 - 4000 people that has 4 venues in the

Lansing area.  Noel and Noah discuss the hardest thing about being a

pastor, including a helpful discussion about the anxiety pastors and

church planters face, how we can combat anxiety, and how churchgoers can

help their pastors feel less anxiety.  They discuss how churchgoers can

help their pastors stay healthy, avoid burnout, and stay at their

current ministry post longer.  They also discuss the dangers of church

planting and book publishing, including good reasons to do such ventures as well as sinful reasons.Noel is a director with the Acts 29 Church

Planting network and is author of a book with the working title

"Unchained" coming out in early 2017 with David C. Cook publishers.

Noah Filipiak interviews Covenant Eyes'

Luke Gilkerson on why pastors look at porn & have affairs.

Applicable to men, women, pastors and churchgoers, this is a must listen

for the Church.

Luke is the Educational Resource Manager at Covenant Eyes, he also runs the Covenant Eyes blog where he is also a frequent author.  Luke’s personal blog is www.intoxicatedonlife.com and he is the author of The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality & Coming Clean: Overcoming Lust Through Biblical Accountability.

Noah Filipiak interviews Covenant Eyes'

Luke Gilkerson on why pastors look at porn have affairs.

Applicable to men, women, pastors and churchgoers, this is a must listen

for the Church.Luke is the Educational Resource Manager at Covenant Eyes, he also runs the Covenant Eyes blog where he is also a frequent author.  Luke’s personal blog is www.intoxicatedonlife.com and he is the author of The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality Coming Clean: Overcoming Lust Through Biblical Accountability.

Noah Filipiak interviews Chris Pruett, the self-titled “Happiest Homeless Person in

Lansing.”  Chris attends Pastor Noah's church and does a great job of shedding the

light of love and humanity onto homelessness.  Learn about homelessness

from the eyes of a homeless person.  Chris is intelligent, creative and

funny.  See www.atacrossroads.net for a small sampling of the various signs (and boxes

for his head) that Chris wears around Lansing.

In this interview Noah talks with Zachary Bartels

on the balance of being both a pastor and a Christian fiction author. They  talk about the required "self-promotion" of the author world and the

safeguards that have to be put in place to make sure this doesn't become

sin.  Noah shares the insecurities he faced when he began trying to get

published, including embarrassing moments due to this insecurity.  They

talk about making money as an author and using fiction as a medium for

communicating gospel truth like a ninja.