Michael Huerter (PhD, Baylor University), a pastor at Holmeswood Church in Kansas City, Missouri, shares on addressing the online and in-person church in a hybrid church model.

Book: The Hybrid Congregation: A Practical Theology of Worship for an Online Era

Pastor Michael Huerter’s Church

• Exploring the church's relationship with the internet
• Engaging the in-person and online communities in the worship service
• Benefitting from social platforms

Michael Huerter (PhD, Baylor University) is a pastor at Holmeswood Church in Kansas City, Missouri, where he leads worship and works to build community and connection. As a lifelong church musician and digital native, he is interested in engaging with and contributing to scholarship that bridges the gap between research and practical ministry.

• Pastor Michael Huerter’s Church
• The Hybrid Congregation: A Practical Theology of Worship for an Online Era

00:38 - Introducing Pastor Michael Huerter

02:30 - Exploring the church's relationship with the internet

06:07 - Important considerations for live-streaming

07:59 - ..the church of the future may look different than what we are accustomed to

08:16 - ...the vast majority of churches do not have the resources to create a live broadcast every week

09:50 - ...the community is made of people in-person and online

13:58 - Engaging the in-person and online communities in the worship service

15:07 - ...involving people who join online in worship leadership

17:20 - ...creating interactive moments in the worship service to invite conversation or reflection

21:10 - Benefitting from Social Platforms

21:25 - ...Focus on people, remember the hybrid nature of our world

22:16 - ...How can we best minister to the people already connected with our community?

24:18 - How can we connect with and serve our surrounding community?

25:02 - Are there people who cannot or will not engage in your church building?

26:30 - Paying Attention as a spiritual discipline

30:41 - ...finding ways to deeper attention and connection

31:30 - ...be discerning in using technology; there's good and bad

32:36 - The internet: our greatest affliction and greatest hope

34:04 - Turning affliction to hope

36:19 - Placing our cultural moment in historical context

38:38 - Book on InterVarsity Press Academic and Amazon / Email Michael Huerter: michael.huerter@holmeswood.org

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Tracie Braylock, a holistic nurse educator and wellness consultant, shares about coping with stress and her new book, Radical Relaxation: Releasing the Stress You Were Never Meant to Carry. Stress is not just a fleeting feeling; it's a silent disruptor, quietly eroding your peace, your health, and your capacity to enjoy life as you know it. Radical Relaxation is your guide to reversing this toxic cycle.

Radical Relaxation on IVPress

Tracie Braylock's Website

• What is stress and what does it do to the human body?
• Biblical Truths to understand in facing stress
• How Churches Can Help Promote Wellness and Reduce Stress

Tracie Braylock is a holistic nurse educator, wellness consultant, and the author of Radical Relaxation. As a former operating room nurse, she advocates for mind, body, spirit well-being, holistic wellness experiences, and liberating relaxation. Her work has been featured in the American Holistic Nurses Association New Beginnings magazine and Proverbs 31 Ministries.

• Radical Relaxation on IVPress
• Tracie Braylock's Website

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05:14 - What is stress and what does it do to the human body?

05:24 - ...stress is subjective

06:14 - ...stress needs to be addressed

07:11 - Common signs and symptoms of stress

07:21 - ..physical

07:38 - ...emotional

07:46 - ...spiritual

07:55 - ...behavioral

08:27 - Biblical Truths to understand in facing stress

08:55 - ...biblical instructions are designed to protect us

09:02 - ...reactions in the physical body

09:26 - ...we are not alone

09:56 - Holistic Healing: Mind, Body, Spirit

10:07 - ...understanding that we have mind, body, and spirit

10:49 - ...God care about every aspect

11:47 - Preventing burnout and maintaining work-life priorities

12:05 - ...no one is above sickness and stress

13:41 - ...do the basics

14:04 - ...be open to getting additional support

18:36 - How Churches Can Help Promote Wellness and Reduce Stress

19:04 - ...look for ways to come together outside of Sunday services

20:17 - ...remind people

21:00 - ...care for one another and ourselves

21:14 - Favorite Ways to Release Stress

23:12 - Relaxation is Like a Muscle...

24:51 - Contacting Tracie Braylock - traciebraylock.com

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Pastor Naeem Fazal shares about how fear sneaks into our lives as worry, uncertainty, or discouragement, clouding our vision for a brighter future. By following Jesus' example, Fazal paints a vivid picture of a life enriched by hope and perseverance amidst adversity.

Ex-Muslim on Amazon

Tomorrow Needs You on IVPress

Pastor Naeem's Church - Mosaic Church Website

Guest is a frequent contributor, founder, co-founder to/of blog post link

• Beauty in Healing and Transformation
• Recognizing and Navigating Fear
• The Need to Be Needed

Naeem Fazal is the founding and lead pastor of Mosaic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a Pakistani, born and raised as a Muslim in Kuwait. He came to the United States shortly after the Gulf War and had a supernatural experience with Christ that changed the course of his life. He was ordained at Seacoast Church in Charleston and is the author of Ex-Muslim and Tomorrow Needs You. Naeem and his wife, Ashley, have two children.

00:38 - Welcome Back, Pastor Naeem Fazal

02:11 - God Takes Naeem from a Fearful Past to a Beautiful Future

03:07 - ...traumatic experiences

03:59 - ..."No one needs me..."

05:07 - ...a lie from the enemy

05:48 - Beauty in Healing and Transformation

06:16 - ...connection to what we feel is beautiful

06:48 - ...the essence of beauty is love

08:07 - ...we are created with love and are beautiful

08:28 - ...religion vs perfect love

11:07 - ...put a joy before you to endure your cross

11:49 - Recognizing Fear

12:07 - ... the symptoms of fear

14:18 - ...needing to feel that you are in control

15:24 - ...high or volatile emotions

15:32 - Navigating Fear

15:44 - Choosing Beauty Over Fear

16:05 - ...put a leash on fear

19:16 - Difficulty in Cultivating Joy When Gripped by Fear

19:44 - ...kindess and gratitude

23:15 - Surrounding Ourselves with Positive Influences

23:57 - ...set good boundaries

26:14 - Reframing Failure and Rejection as Steppingstones

28:53 - The Need to Be Needed

29:24 - ..people want to be significant

31:23 - Encouraging Someone Who Feel He Has "Missed" Tomorrow

33:38 - Contacting Pastor Naeem Fazal and Finding His Books

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Pastor Naeem Fazal shares his story about how Jesus revealed Himself to a young, brash, Pakistani Muslim. But He didn’t just reveal Himself; He turned Naeem’s world upside down.

Ex-Muslim on Amazon

Tomorrow Needs You on IVPress

Pastor Naeem's Church - Mosaic Church Website

Guest is a frequent contributor, founder, co-founder to/of blog post link

• Ex-Muslim - testimony of encounter with Christ
• Three components to sharing the gospel with Muslims
• Common mistakes that Christians make in witnessing to Muslims

Naeem Fazal is the founding and lead pastor of Mosaic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a Pakistani, born and raised as a Muslim in Kuwait. He came to the United States shortly after the Gulf War and had a supernatural experience with Christ that changed the course of his life. He was ordained at Seacoast Church in Charleston and is the author of Ex-Muslim and Tomorrow Needs You. Naeem and his wife, Ashley, have two children.

• Heart for Muslims – link to specific page if mentioned in episode

00:39 - Introducing Pastor Naeem Fazal

04:24 - Book: Ex-Muslim - testimony of encounter with Christ

06:07 - ...treason

08:03 - ..."intoxicated" with peace

09:05 - ...God pursues humanity

09:33 - ...demonic presence

11:27 - ...brother tells him about spiritual warfare

12:05 - ...only Jesus has authority over demons

13:29 - ..."I am Jesus and your life is not your own"

14:47 - ...woke knowing that he was supposed to be in ministry

15:02 - ...led siblings and his father to Christ

15:41 - God has used "extraordinary means" to guide Naeem's life

16:16 - ...coming to Christ was so different from that of other Christians around him

16:46 - ...easy to walk away from a belief or faith, but harder to walk away from a person

17:54 - ...miracles in education

19:06 - ...seeing supernatural things in siblings' lives

22:06 - Specific expectations from Muslims or Christians

22:26 - ...didn't understand that he was considered a traitor by Muslims

24:25 - ...some people did not believe that he is a Christian

26:57 - Three components to sharing the gospel with Muslims

27:14 - ...knowledge

29:07 - ...emotional connection

30:51 - ...spiritual awareness

32:22 - Common mistakes that Christians make in witnessing to Muslims

32:56 - ...comparing religion to religion

36:06 - ...arguing Bible vs Koran

38:20 - ...Jesus doesn't tell us to defend Him; He said to share the gospel and live it out

39:02 - What can churches do to partner with organizations that reach out to Muslims?

41:51 - ...ask ourselves about the prejudice that we might carry

43:16 - ...find an organization or adopt a mosque

46:22 - Hope for the Effect of Book, Ex-Muslim

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Youth ministry veteran Amy Williams ministers to teens involved in gangs and those lost in the criminal justice system with a key strategy of life-on-life mentoring.

Amy Willliams' Website

Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God’s Eyes

Amy Williams on IVPress

• Seeing People “through the lens of God” in Daily Interactions and Decision-Making
• Meaningful Inclusion with At-Risk Youth
• Learning More from These Youths than Any Other Group

Youth ministry veteran Amy Williams ministers to teens involved in gangs and those lost in the criminal justice system with a key strategy of life-on-life mentoring. As a certified gang intervention specialist, she heard God's call to move into a Latino gang neighborhood in Chicago's Humboldt Park community to be a "Hope Dealer" doing street outreach and walking life with young people on her block. Amy is project coordinator at New Life Centers, bringing in restorative justice programming to youth at juvenile prisons. Amy has been a youth pastor, a reentry coordinator, and a youth mentor and advocate. She is a graduate of both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and National Louis University. She resides in Chicago and loves salsa dancing and is a true beach baby.

00:38 - Introducing Amy Williams

04:58 - Amy's inspiration to work with high-risk youth

05:58 - ...deepest pain can become greatest passion

06:41 - ...pull for the underdog

07:10 - Seeing People “through the lens of God” in Daily Interactions and Decision-Making

07:23 - ...evaluate ability to see people through the lens of God

07:58 - ...seeing the value and worth of young people

08:25 - ...God created them for a purpose

09:04 - Meaningful Inclusion with At-Risk Youth

09:29 - ...moving from being watched to being seen

10:05 - ...inviting them into a space where they should already be invited to

10:28 - Justice and Mercy

10:54 - ...the call is to serve both the harmed and the harm-doer

11:21 - ...spirit of mercy

11:48 - ...not "What's wrong with you?" but "What happened to you?"

12:19 - ...compassion for both

14:10 - ...understanding but not agreeing

14:56 - ...opportunity to change the direction of kids' lives

16:13 - ...hope that her book would inform us about the issues and help turn compassion into action

16:41 - Learning More from These Youths than Any Other Group

19:11 - The Need to Belong

20:42 - Doing Better

21:23 - ...include people who are involved in the situation

22:13 - ...create spaces for the voices

24:24 - What keeps you going after decades of such intense work?

25:28 - ...God-given work

25:53 - ...community of support

26:22 - ...lost too many young people-- someone is praying for help

27:59 - Give our young people a chance

28:37 - Getting in touch with Amy Williams: ahopedealer.org

29:05 - Book on ivpress.com

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Pastor Joshua Hayden has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.

Book: Remissioning Church

• Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore
• Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation
• Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning

Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.

Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.

• Iwa Collaborative
• First Baptist Ashland VA

01:51 - Book: Remissioning Church

02:11 - Don't export your God-given mission to others

02:48 - Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore

02:54 - ...what most churches are doing have not produced healthy disciples that produce the fruit of the Spirit

03:28 - ...churches don't look much different from any other group

04:30 - ...we have lost the missional impulse to know our neighbors

06:40 - Major sections of the book: Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation

06:59 - ...Creative Destruction

08:36 - ...connected to Jesus (Matthew 16 : 24-25 - take up our cross and foloow Jesus)

10:49 - Exegeting the Church and Neighborhood

11:55 - ...creating a plan for how to live on mission creatively with God

14:20 - Traditioned Innovation

15:18 - ...we have to translate the past into what's next

18:55 - Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning

19:04 - Free download: www.ivpress.com/Media/Default/Downloads/Excerpts-and-Samples/A1055-Graphic-Image-Download.pdf

19:14 - ...remissioning change cycle

19:34 - ...do we have a mission worth dying for?

19:48 - ...working through pain, disillusionment and being unnerved

20:40 - ...then comes a moment of repent or resist

22:24 - ...do we have a mission worth living for?

27:24 - ...take the necessary time in the wilderness

31:11 - Common Concerns in Remissioning a Church

32:04 - Leading Through Remissioning

36:21 - Favorite Tools

36:25 - ...exegeting the neighborhood

37:13 - ...the work of remembering

39:07 - Remissioning is worth it

39:54 - Getting in Touch with Pastor Joshua Hayden - iwacollaborative.com

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Josh has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.

Book: Remissioning Church

• How and why congregations might be dying
• Remissioning vs Revitalizing
• Inside-out transformation

Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.

Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.

• Iwa Collaborative
• First Baptist Ashland VA

00:39 - Introducing Pastor Josh Hayden

04:49 - How and why congregations might be dying

05:21 - ...churches in survival mode

05:38 - ...counting, not reflecting Jesus

05:59 - ...want people to lead, but rarely invite or train up leaders

06:33 - ...afraid of conflict, stuck in tradition

07:02 - How Josh's journey influenced the writing of the book

08:39 - Established Church vs Church Plant

10:10 - Exploring the book title: Remissioning Church

10:59 - ...Remissioning vs Revitalizing

14:01 - ...Remissioning was not a word that people were using regularly

15:44 - ...Is it RE-missioning or re-MISSION-ing?

18:29 - How does church leadership assess if the church should be remissioned?

18:45 - ...awareness of where the church is in the life cycle

19:02 - ...spiritual health of the church

19:10 - ...counting vs measuring

19:19 - ...honest evaluation

21:12 - How does the church leadership manage feelings in assessing a church?

23:40 - ...helping people navigate loss and change

24:52 - ...embrace conflict

26:02 - What does a healthy church look like?

26:04 - ...clear sense of how to make disciples who are good for the community

26:47 - ...common life with the community

26:53 - ...see change as God inviting us into a life-death-resurrection journey

27:20 - ...disciple people inside the church so not to export the mission of God to others

29:51 - What is the goal of remissioning a church?

32:08 - What needs to happen for inside-out tranforamtion to take place?

32:36 - ...people disclipling someone

33:35 - ...learn to live on mission with God

34:07 - ...live with more purpose and intention

34:42 - How and why is discipleship the mission of the chuch?

35:14 - ...a lot of pastors haven't been discipled

35:42 - ...not clear on what a mature disciple looks like

36:51 - ...church-hopping is the result of not having a clear discipleship process

40:02 - If your church disappeared, would the community notice?

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Dr. Octavio Esqueda, full Professor of Christian Higher Education and Director of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. Programs in Educational Studies at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, shares on how the gospel redefines masculinity.

Dr Esqueda's Website

Dr Esqueda's Website (Spanish)

Dr Esqueda's Books

Dr Esqueda on X.com

• Mother's Day vs Father's Day in Churches
• Important Messages to Highlight
• Character, not Competency

• Octavio Javier Esqueda is a full Professor of Christian Higher Education and Director of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. Programs in Educational Studies at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He was born and raised in Guadalajara, México. He graduated with honors with a Licenciatura in Latin American Literature from the University of Guadalajara and two additional diplomas, one in Religion and Society and the second in Journalism. He graduated with honors from Dallas Theological Seminary and completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of North Texas. He and his wife, Angélica, have two children, Darío and Salma. Dr. Esqueda has several publications on theological education and Christian higher education, practical theology, and literature. Teaching is his passion, and he has had the opportunity to teach in several countries on different academic levels. He is an avid soccer fan.

00:37 - Introducing Dr. Octavio Esqueda

03:19 - Differences in Mother's Day and Father's Day Observances in Churches

06:07 - How Churches Can Improve in This Area

06:42 - ...elevate Father's Day like Mother's Day

06:47 - ...two important messages that need to be highlighted

07:06 - ......the mothers' affirmation come from being - her love is unconditional

07:16 - ......when the fathers' affirmation comes from doing - it's never enough

07:49 - ......many fathers believe that their role is to provide, so they are never with their family

08:01 - ...but as Christians, our value is in who we are

08:47 - ...A key aspect of adult motivation is feeling competent

09:26 - ...but no one teaches us how to be a parent

10:00 - ...emphasizing the value of who we are gives us the desire to do without fearing failure

10:42 - Character, not Competency

11:30 - ...instead of pulling in the cultural norms, bring the gospel out

12:34 - A Common Problem in Evangelicalism

12:51 - ...we forget that the whole message is about grace

13:14 - ...God loves us unconditionally not only at salvation, but for our whole lives

14:19 - Unique Challenges Faced by Men of Color

14:48 - ...expression of love and affection are not affirmed

14:59 - ...or to imitate a model that was absent

15:07 - ...tell parents how to live a Christian life

16:43 - ...need to know how and be trained

17:10 - ..cultural expectations for men

19:48 - God's Love in the Story of the Prodigal Son

21:23 - Breaking the Cycle Starts with Us

23:19 - Contacting Dr Octavio Esqueda: amazon.com | x.com/OctavioEsqueda | LinkedIn

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