Halfway There
Each episode of Halfway There features an ordinary Christian sharing their story of spiritual formation on the journey of life with God. Go beyond the classic Christian testimony into the ups and downs, the joys and the difficulties of being a Christian in the 21st century. Our guests offer insights and hope from their own stories. If you ever wondered if God is active and alive, this show is for you.
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Monday Aug 21, 2017
Monday Aug 21, 2017
Today, we revisit an episode with Doug Hazen who powerfully shared his experiences with God back in episodes #26 and 27. Doug shares how God revealed his goodness to him once again, the emotional work it took to understand evil from God's perspective, and how God led him to his current position in ministry.
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Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Halfway There is on summer hiatus but not without great content!
This week is a replay of episode #34 with Quentin Banks who shared his story of serving jail time, finding and experiencing the love of Jesus in a miraculous way, a suicide attempt, and how he began to trust God even while he had more questions than answer.
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Keep the faith!
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Thursday Aug 10, 2017
Thursday Aug 10, 2017
On episode #60 of Halfway There we are trying something new: a podswap! This episode originally appeared on The Godwatch Podcast as episode #20 but the host of that show, Phil Gauthier, was gracious enough to propose a swap of interviews and the winner is you because this conversation Phil has with Jason Kane is one of the more amazing conversion stories I’ve heard. God sometimes uses the things you wouldn’t expect to get our attention but if you listen carefully, you’ll see his handiwork all over Jason’s life.
Hope you enjoy this one!
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Let him know you heard him on Halfway There!
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Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Tammy Helfrich is a coach, speaker, writer, and podcaster who shares her growing trust in God. Her podcast called Right Where You Are is an encouraging listen that should be added to your podcast rotation. Just jump over there and subscribe right now. Tammy shares stories that all seem to have one theme: trusting God with it all including her career, her family, and her current ministry.
If you enjoyed Tammy’s story, you can connect to her on Twitter or Facebook, or her website.
Stories Tammy shared:
The feeling of God’s love she had from a very young age
The disconnect she felt between her legalistic church and her understanding of God’s heart for her including the casket incident
The people who shaped her:
Group of women
How Nicole Nordeman’s music filled her with hope by showing her other people who get God the way she did
Meeting Nicole and sharing how God used her music to share Tammy and the amazing way that story reciprocated the ministry
Her baptism and the moment that God nudged Tammy to stop fighting him
The relational aspects of her surrender and the moment God told to Tammy to let him do the work in her husband
How she became a coach and why so many of us get stuck
How God led her to quit her corporate job and begin working at her church
Trusting God with the vision of reaching her community
Great quotes from Tammy:
I think that God would want me to be happy and dance.
Everybody experiences God in different ways.
I had been coaching my entire life but just never called it that.
We don’t ask ourselves, “What do I want?”
Embrace your unique story with God.
Books mentioned by Tammy:
Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
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Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Billy Hallowell is a journalist who has appeared in places like the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Fox News, and worked at TheBlaze.com for several years. Now, he is the senior editor at Faithwire.com. His most recent book Fault Line is about the cultural forces that shape our thinking and how to respond to them. Today he shares how Christians can build bridges to culture using a little kindness and some good stories.
Stories Billy shared:
What he has learned about navigating differences with people who disagree with you
His latest book Fault Line: How a Seismic Shift in Culture Is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation (affiliate links)
Why the Church needs to embrace even the unpretty stories
Choosing Christ in New York City in his senior year of college
What it’s like as a Christian conservative to work with liberal outlets
How stories help him deal with the his questions for God
Why he wrote Fault Line and how he hopes it challenges the Church to not abandon cultural engagement
Great quotes from Billy:
We talk about our faith and needing to evangelize and spread our faith, well, we are not present in any of the three areas that have the most ability to do that.
Not every story is going to be pretty…but there is a place for those stories.
What matters is faith and culture and everything else streams from that.
There’s nothing else I’ve seen change somebody instantly, like the way Jesus does. That evidence is overwhelming and we see it in people’s stories.
Books mentioned by Billy (affiliate links):
Fault Line: How a Seismic Shift in Culture Is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
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Monday Jul 17, 2017
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Today’s guest is Michael T. Cooper, president and CEO of International Needs, an organization whose vision is to “transform lives and change communities by helping Christians serve both God and neighbor within their own countries.” He shares the story of how he came to Christ at a student event, the ministry that God led him into ministry planting churches in Eastern Europe, and people who invested in him.
Stories Michael shared:
Growing up in a nominally Christian family.
Girls, Beer, and Fighting
How he came to Christ at a student venture event from Campus Crusade and going to the old hangout to share with his friends
Leading within Campus Crusade to Poland with his future wife
The guy who invested in Michael: Bud Hinkson – The Apostle Paul of the 20th Century
Why he flushed money down the toilet
The legacy of Bud
The questions he asks of God
Why haven’t we reached the world yet? 1 Corinthians 2:9
Great quotes from Michael:
Jesus is for everybody.
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Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Rebecca Lemke is a 21 year-old housewife, mom, and author about her experiences in what’s known as “Purity Culture.” We talk about how the strict legalism of some people around her almost overshadowed the grace preached at her own church, how God brought the right people into her life to give her a better understanding, and why she wrote a book about the experience.
You can get her book The Scarlet Virgins: When Sex Replaces Salvation at Amazon (affiliate link).
Stories Rebecca shared:
How Purity Culture came about
The Lutheran church she great up in and how it shaped her faith including her confirmation
How isolation and spiritual darkness almost led her to suicide
Her pastor’s surprising response to the deep questions she was asking
The first time she like a boy, a love note, and her first exposure to purity culture
Appropriate use of the Bible in forming theological opinions
How her husband shared some good exegesis that began to change her mind
The pastor who invested in her and change her worldview
Great Quotes from Rebecca:
Isolation is really intense. It’s a driving force for a lot of mental instability and spiritual pain.
If men and women are to have successful relationship, the foundation is laid in youth.
Get Rebecca’s book The Scarlet Virgins: When Sex Replaces Salvation.
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Monday Jul 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
In today’s short episode, I share my review of a book that changed how I think about engaging the culture. The book was A Free People’s Suicide by Os Guinness.
Have fun celebrating independence and freedom! And think about how you can promote each in the coming year.
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