The Seacoast Podcast: Things You Won't Hear On Sunday

After losing her husband in May 2020 to the ruthlessness of mental illness, Amie Patrick has journeyed through challenging circumstances and navigated through pain to arrive at growth and excitement for the future. On this episode, she shares personal areas in which she's stretched herself and how the struggle of "worry" looks different having gone through a tragedy. Amie also shares wisdom on the importance of "embodied faith," the unhealthy allure of social media, and some deeper spiritual insight that has given her peace and paved the way for future growth.

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Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram

Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
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Over 15 years ago, Josh and Katie Walters arrived to Seacoast Church desperate for healing in their marriage after an extramarital affair pushed them to a breaking point. Navigating the pain together, they began experiencing the redemptive story that the Great Shepherd was already writing. Now, leaders at Seacoast Church, they have established a healthy marriage, and recently released their memoir, New Marriage, Same Couple: Don't Let Your Worst Days Be Your Last Days.  In the book, Josh and Katie lay out the principles they learned in that difficult season, and in this episode, they share a snapshot of their story.

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Josh Walters / Instagram
Katie Walters / Instagram
Mac Lake / Instagram
Cindy Lake / Instagram 
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram

Scripture Readers:  Abbie Love, Adam Erickson, Charlotte Cox, Brianna McLeod, Luke Gaikwad, Josh Surratt, Ciarrah Lindsay

Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Seacoast staff member, Ann Meyer, never knew her biological parents. However, after submitting her DNA to trace her ancestry, she discovered family members in an unexpected way. Ann shares about her life growing up in a loving home with her adoptive parents, and the moment she realized that her lifelong questions about her family of origin would be answered. You will be moved and encouraged by this adoption reunion story of love, gratitude, and sacrifice.

At the top of the episode, Amy Worley, Lynne Stroy and Joey Svendsen talk about the evolution of pants, radical forgiveness, and people who take delight in the thought of hell for others to pay for their misdeeds.  

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Ann Meyer / Instagram 
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Amy Worley, host / Instagram

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music
Other Music: Natasha Gray

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Statistics show that half of all marriages end in divorce, including couples inside and outside the church. God hates divorce, but loves mankind; and makes us new creations.  The Bible also says where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. Although theological implications of divorce are touched on a bit, the episode as a whole shares the heart of three people. All are a part of Seacoast Church who love the Lord, want to please their maker, have walked through the pain of divorces, have been restored by God, and have some important insight for the Church.

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Scott Blue / Facebook
Noelle Molnar / Instagram 
Kelly Spilbor / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram

Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Shea Michael Houdmann is the founder and CEO of Got Questions Ministries. For more than two decades he and his team have been reading, reviewing, and/or answering hundreds of thousands of questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. He has several degrees in the areas of biblical studies and theology and is currently pursuing a doctorate of ministry at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Gotquestions.org, where most of their work is carried out, is visited by 18 million visitors per month, meaning: a lot of people have questions. After 22 years of fielding questions about topics ranging from salvation, heaven, hell, Jesus and scripture, to suffering, sexuality, and race, Shea decided to compile these questions into a book, The 100 Most Asked Questions about God and the Bible  (releasing in April).

Joey Svendsen and Jack Hoey Jr. find out a bit more about the organization, it's beginnings and how the team at "Got Questions" approach this serious undertaking of answering questions, many in which finite man simply cannot know for sure. The three talk belief, doubt, and discuss a few of these top 100 questions.

At the top of the episode, the host team continues some reflection on The Billy Graham Rule and talk the complexities of Jesus. 

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Shea Michael Houdmann / Got Questions Website / Book
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Jack Hoey Jr. / Linkedin
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Roy Jacques, host / Facebook

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music
Other Music: Derek Minor

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

In many evangelical circles, the practice of avoiding "alone time" with a member of the opposite sex can be common. The idea is to avoid the temptation to connect emotionally, or physically with another person outside of one’s own marriage. Evangelist, Billy Graham and his team lived by a set of rules to uphold integrity, and this one, nicknamed, “The Billy Graham Rule” is the topic of our discussion. 

One of our guests, Pastor Chip Judd, has counseled countless married couples through affairs and divorces. He believes that the intimacy (not necessarily physical) found in one-on-one encounters opens the door to trouble and is not worth the risk.

But, Bea Wray and Charlotte Cox, both part of the Seacoast family, claim to be negatively impacted by this “rule." They argue that it puts males and females on unequal professional ground, with a disparity in males having more opportunities, especially in church ministry, where most pastors are men. They also believe that this rule doesn't get to the root of the issue and could even exasperate the problem it's setting out to solve.

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Bea Wray / Instagram / Book / Website
Chip Judd / Instagram / Website
Charlotte Cox / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram

Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

Seacoast Podcast is now on Instagram

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We have a YouTube Channel for videos of all episodes since Jan. 2024. 

We'd love to hear from you.  E-mail Joey HERE. 

Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Comedian, Shama Mrema  ("shama4realz") loves the church and enjoys making "church folks" laugh. His Instagram features comedy sketches about evangelical culture, and the comments show that many Christians share the same humor. But, is there a line one can cross, when making light of Christian culture? Can one take it too far? In this week’s episode, you’ll get to know a little about Shama's background, including his origins in Tanzania East Africa, his current dwelling in Greenville, South Carolina, and how he stumbled upon comedy. Joey and Shama discuss the Christian faith, comedy in general, and the various facets of how Shama brings the two together.

At the top of the episode, Roy, Lynne, and Tomelex have a conversation on the same topic of comedy, and also reflect on Roy and Lynne's trips to Africa, including Lynne's awareness of being perceived not by her common color with many Africans, but rather her status as an American.

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Shama4realz / Instagram 
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Roy Jacques, host / Facebook
Tomelex Copeland, host / Facebook

Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music
Music also by: Derek Minor

Seacoast Podcast is now on Instagram

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We have a YouTube Channel for videos of all episodes since Jan. 2024. 

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Change often brings about reasons to celebrate.  Other times, it brings grief. One can be sure that change will happen and often times, it will take courage to confront.  Today Andi Andrew takes listeners through her journey of immense change, grief and deep soul searching, these life transitions resulting in some deep, soul growth.   She captures these pivotal moments and all the life-changing lessons that followed in her newest book, "Braving Change: Release the Past, Welcome Growth, and Trust Where God Is Leading You."  

At top of episode, the host crew dissect a recent social media exchange involving a famous christian author.  It seems as if Joey is the most gullible of the group.

Andi Andrew / Instagram / Website / Book / Podcast
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Jack Hoey III, host / Instagram
Tomelex Copeland, host / Facebook

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Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

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Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Pastor Ike Miller unpacks his upbringing that included hurt sustained from the abuse of an alcoholic father.  In his new book, "Good Baggage: How Your Difficult Childhood Prepared You for Healthy Relationships," he outlines how his childhood baggage was used to the betterment of his current relationships with others, now as an adult. 

With the guidance of his heavenly Father, the support from loving community, a heavy dose of brokenness and a determination to learn healthier ways of thinking and living, Pastor Ike can now share to us his real-life story of Romans 8:28.   His book "Good Baggage" reads like a handbook that can be applied and implemented by all readers, but especially those with similar childhood baggage. 

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Ike Miller / Instagram / Book / Church
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram
Jack Hoey III, host / Instagram
Amy Worley, host / Instagram

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Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

Seacoast Podcast is now on Instagram

Be a Patron of the podcast 

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We'd love to hear from you.  E-mail Joey HERE. 

Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver

Two regulars to the podcast join the show together for the first time as a "father and son duo."  Both part of the Seacoast family for over 20 years,  Jack Hoey Jr. (the father) and Jack Hoey III (the son) talk to Joey and Lynne about the future of America, whether Artificial Intelligence holds the capacity to create art or of being a threat to humanity; today's staggeringly low birthrates, The Waffle House, and other subjects they've written about on their new Substack account, Matter at Hand. 

On this episode
Jack Hoey Jr. / Linkedin
Jack Hoey III / Instagram
Lynne Stroy, host / Instagram
Joey Svendsen, host / Instagram

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Executive Producer: Josh Surratt
Producer/Editor: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: JT Price
Sound Engineer: Katelyn Vandiver

Music, including theme song: Joel T. Hamilton Music

Seacoast Podcast is now on Instagram

Be a Patron of the podcast 

We have a YouTube Channel for videos of all episodes since Jan. 2024. 

We'd love to hear from you.  E-mail Joey HERE. 

Producer/Editor/host: Joey Svendsen
Sound Engineer/Editor: Katelyn Vandiver