The DHF Podcast

Episode 50: Why Plant Churches?

In this episode Hosts Sam Sears, and Rick Grace (The DHF church liaison) interview Phil Claycomb, founder of Nexus church planting. They discuss questions like, “Why plant new churches?” and talk about the general mission of the church. They also discuss the partnership between DHF and Nexus, in planting The Stone Christian Church.
You can learn more about Nexus at nexus.usYou can learn more about The Stone at thestone.cc
Nexus has offered a matching grant to any DHF Church that wants to support the Stone. You can give via DHF by visiting discipleheritage.org/give. Select "Other" and add “The Stone Church Plant” in the memo line.
You can also give directly to The Stone by going to “Next Steps” at thestone.cc or directly here.

Episode 49: God Will Make a Way (For Adoption)

Hosts Sam Sears and Scott McNay interview Pastor Steven Stern. He felt led to adopt a child, and his church supported him and his wife in that adoption. Eventually this led to him founding a new ministry to help connect adoptive parents, and local churches to assist in adoption costs and support.
You can find out more about God Will Make a Way Ministries at gwmaw.org/

Episode 48: Evangelism & Apologetics

In this episode hosts Sam Sears introduced new co-host Brandon Chappell from First Christian Church in Blue Mound, Illinois, and together they interviewed Andrew Covert and David Johansen from the Tent Making Christianity Podcast.
Andrew introduces a problem he encountered with a youth pastor. A youth said that he was always told to share his faith, but no one told him how to do it. Together the 4 men on this episode discuss a bit of that “how” and how that includes Apologetics.
Tent Making Christianity on Spotify
tentmakingchristianity.com
Facebookfacebook.com/tentmakingchristianity
Facebook Groupsfacebook.com/groups/261828104499003
ResourcesTactics By Greg Koukl

Episode 47: Youth Groups & Apologetics

In this episode hosts Sam Sears introduces new co-host Brandon Chappell from First Christian Church in Blue Mound, Illinois. Together they interview Andrew Covert and David Johansen from the Tent Making Christianity Podcast.
After sharing their testimonies, Brandon gets the ball rolling asking about the role of apologetics in youth groups.
Tent Making Christianity on Spotify
tentmakingchristianity.com
Tent Making Christianity on Facebook
Tent Making Christianity Facebook Group
 
Episodes with Sam Sears
Church Plantinghttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4HSsOXAAFIQP6TugrPTtAP?si=oyV9QSWpTBejo8fDg7G4_wChristian Horrorhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4FIYxLDzTOutaVDaPGTuUf?si=uJCI3x6BTQmyoTTwnTNBmA
 
Resourced Mentioned
Tactics By Greg Koukl 
Cold Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace
The Discipleship Gospel Workbook by Ben Sobels and Bill Hull

Episode 46: Additions to the Bible?

Sam interviews returning guest, David Wolcott, who is now researching a claim that since the world Homosexual was “added” to the bible in 1946, the Bible didn’t actually condemn homosexual acts. We talk about how relatively new the English word is, and takes us to the Greek, defending a conservative biblical sexual ethic.
 
Resources Referenced
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff
thedavidwolcott.com
facebook.com/thedavidwolcott

Episode 45: Tips for Funerals

In this episode hosts Sam and Rick share tips and lessons they have learned from their years inministry. These include some embarrassing mistakes, and rather than repeat them, you can learn from them.

Episode 44: Tips for Weddings

Hosts Sam Sears and Rick Grace reflect on lessons learned from performing weddings and provide tips for pastors, officiants, and churches on how to perform a wedding and what policies to have in place to protect a church.
Resources Mentioned
For Rick’s Marriage Policy templates, you can email him at rgrace@discipleshipheritage.org
Pacific Justice Institute’s Marriage Policy Templatepacificjustice.org/resources/for-churches/language-for-bylaws-and-model-marriage-policy
The Prepare Marriage Inventoryprepare-enrich.com
Saving Your Marriage Before It Startssymbis.com/
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Episode 43: A Touch of God's Grace

Hosts Sam and Heather Sears interview Nancy Kay Grace who shares about being a pastor’s wife, as well as her own journey of faith as she trusts in God during multiple occurrences of cancer. Nancy Kay Grace is the wife of DHF Church Liaison Rick Grace. And in addition to serving in ministry with Rick, Nancy is a speaker, writing coach, and award-winning author of The Grace Impact.
Sign-Up for the GraceNotes newsletter at nancykaygrace.com
Websites Mentioned:alongsideministrywives.com
Books by Nancy:The Grace Impact: https://a.co/d/cvkjIEv12 Words for Christmas: https://a.co/d/cvkjIEv
Social Media:FacebookInstagramYouTube

Episode 42: Decision Point & The 5 Gospel Challenges

Ariel Triebull joins pastors Sam and Chris, to share about training students to reach other students via her ministry at Decisionpoint.org. Ariel educates students on their rights and equips them to effectively disciple others. The ministry has seen 280,000 students hear the gospel, and 10,000 commitments to follow Christ in it’s 20 year existence. She encourages students, and our listeners, to take seriously the 5 Gospel Challenges, she explains in this episode.
decisionpoint.org
decisionpoint.org/longterm-staff-detail-page/ariel-triebull

Episode 41: Singleness & Suffering

Olivia Davis is a musician and blogger. In this episode she joins hosts Sam andRick and shares about a life changing moment that caused great pain, but caused her to leanon a greater God. After meeting a man at church, she changed her mind about not wanting toget married, and have kids. She saw the beauty of the love of Christ for the Church in marriage,and she fell deeply in love. Then, after being engaged, she discovered who she fell in love withwasn't who the gentleman really was, and he canceled their engagement. Heartbroken, singleand suffering, she brought her pain before God, and came out on the either end, more in awe ofHis love. She said that “we serve a God who has scars” and that made her aware she wasnever alone in her suffering. She recently had blog posts about her process go viral, and hasused lessons she has learned, her story and journey, to comfort others.
Helping the Persecutedhtp.orglookingupward.orglookingupward.org/2022/11/27/my-broken-engagement/
Resources MentionedThe Wound Healer by Henry Nouwen