Engage and Equip

#444 A Practical Guide to Home Discipleship // Summer Serve Part II

Discipling your kids at home can feel like one more thing you're not doing well enough—but what if the bar is lower, and the support is closer, than you think? Bethany sits down with her longtime friend Lauren, a homeschooling mom of four, to talk honestly about what spiritual discipleship actually looks like in a full, messy, real household. From songs at bedtime to five-minute morning routines to the moment a scripture your kid learned at church shows up exactly when you needed it—this conversation will leave you less overwhelmed and more equipped than when you started.   Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Music: HOME—We're Finally Landing, Nosebleed, If I'm Wrong (https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night [https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night])

#443 Come serve in KidsMin! // Summer Serve Part I

Kids ministry might be the most underestimated place in the church to serve—and this episode makes the case for why. Our Early Childhood Coordinator and a pastor/parent of High Point pull back the curtain on what actually happens in our Kids Ministry on a Sunday morning: the process, the people, the purpose behind it all. What emerges is a picture of a ministry that's a lot more intentional, a lot more fun, and a lot more significant than most people realize. Whether you've been on the fence about serving or you're a parent who's never thought twice about where your kid goes on Sunday, this one might change how you see the whole thing.   Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Music: HOME—We're Finally Landing, Nosebleed, If I'm Wrong (https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night [https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night])

#442 The Controversy of Zion // With guest Joel Richardson

This episode features a conversation with Joel Richardson—New York Times bestselling author, itinerant speaker, and longtime missions worker in the Muslim world—covering biblical prophecy, Israel's place in salvation history, and what Christians should make of the current moment in the Middle East. Joel brings decades of frontline experience, hard-won pastoral honesty, and a willingness to say what many won't. If you've felt the ground shifting under the church's relationship with Israel, eschatology, and cultural engagement, this conversation is worth your full attention.   Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Music: HOME—We're Finally Landing, Nosebleed, If I'm Wrong (https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night [https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night])

#441 Restorative Prayer: Hearing from God // Part II

Does God actually speak to us — and if so, how? In this follow-up conversation on restorative prayer, Pastor Nic and Christina Sekutowski take on one of the questions that quietly unravels a lot of people's faith: why God so often feels absent, even when we're actively seeking him. Pastor Nic draws from High Point's Advent series on the elusiveness of God to reframe the whole question — arguing that God's hiddenness isn't a flaw in the system, it's a feature designed to draw us deeper. The conversation untangles the confusion between dramatic charismatic experiences and the quieter but equally real ways the Holy Spirit works through illumination, conviction, and insight — the very things that happen in a restorative prayer session. If you've ever walked away from a time of prayer wondering whether anything actually happened, or whether you're just talking to yourself, this episode offers a theologically grounded and surprisingly freeing answer.   Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Music: HOME—We're Finally Landing, Nosebleed, If I'm Wrong (https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night [https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night])

#440 Restorative Prayer: What It Is and Why It Works // Part I

What actually happens in a restorative prayer session — and should you be skeptical of it? In this episode, Pastor Nic sits down with Christina Sekutowski, High Point's point person for restorative prayer, to pull back the curtain on one of the lesser-known but most impactful parts of the church's healing ministry. They tackle the real concerns head-on: Is this just charismatic excess? Can revisiting painful memories do more harm than good? Where does psychology end and the Holy Spirit begin? What emerges is a frank, theologically grounded conversation about why emotional healing isn't a detour from discipleship — it's essential to it. From the neuroscience of memory to the biblical case for renunciation prayer, this episode makes the case that the heart God wants to fill has to be opened first, and that restorative prayer is one of the most intentional tools the church has for doing exactly that.   Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church. Find more episodes at highpointchurch.org/podcast [http://highpointchurch.org/podcast] Music: HOME—We're Finally Landing, Nosebleed, If I'm Wrong (https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night [https://midwestcollective.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-night])