Engage and Equip

Listen as Pastor Adam Darbonne and Pastor Nic Gibson take another look at the sermon and the remaining AMA questions from February 18, 2024, the last sermon from the Technopoly series.

6:10 - Please elaborate on what you mean when you say things like “the technopoly is trying to control you”? 
14:18 - What is your foundation for, and purpose in, directing our awareness to some cabal of elites being in control of this? At what point can we talk about demonization? 
27:41 - What do you think is the difference between a Donald Trump evangelical and a Joe Biden catholic? 
41:06 - Do you think creating Christian content online does more good or bad? 
44:49 - What advice would you give to small business owners who want to use things like Amazon or Facebook ads to support their business? 
46:58 - How do we practically act out the practice described in 1 Corinthians 9:19-27 while staying truthful? 
52:47 - If you “train to win”, does that mean setting higher expectations for yourself? And how do I pursue Godly asceticism without feeding my tendency toward self-hatred? 
1:01:40 - If praying for increase of faith is wrong, what about praying for unbelief? Is there a difference between faith and unbelief

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This episode is a recording of the Monona Oaks Town Hall Meeting from February 4, 2024. If you’d like any more information on this topic, or see any of the documents referenced during this meeting, go to highpointchurch.org/mononaoaks.

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Monona Oaks Community Church has voted to give their building to High Point Church, and in this episode of E&E, Nic and Mike answer some of the FAQs about the situation as we prepare for the upcoming congregational vote as to whether or not receive the building.

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This episode is a combination between Cutting Room Floor and an Ask Me Anything. Listen as Adam and Nic dive deeper into the content and cover some of the questions from last Sunday, January 28, from the sermon: Technopoly, Faith, and the Way of Jesus.

The AMA portion begins at the 23 minute mark.

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Listen or re-listen to the main session talk from the Engage and Equip Live main session from Nic and Adam on Outreach. This Engage and Equip Live was on January 29, 2024. Reference the episode notes for Adam's slides and handout. 

Adam's Slides: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/2/0e17040312_1706636234_240129-engage-and-equip-live.pdf

Handout on Spiritual Conversation Starters: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/2/0e17040351_1706636691_240129spiritualconversationstarters.pdf

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This is the sixth episode of our series we are calling “All About Anxiety”, talking about how anxiety affects us as people, but more importantly: how it affects us as Christians. This episode is a recording of a training that Nic did with the staff of High Point Church on chronic anxiety within organizations.

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This is the fifth episode of our series we are calling “All About Anxiety”, talking about how anxiety affects us as people, but more importantly: how it affects us as Christians. In this episode, Jill and Becca talk about anxiety as an opportunity to grow in maturity, and how maturity works to counteract and heal anxiety and its roots.

Here is the packet from the retreat: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/l/0e16995885_1705509722_leaders-retreat-practices-packet-anxiety-as-an-opportunity.pdf

Here are Jill's presentation slides from the retreat: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/l/0e16995888_1705509769_lr2023-anxiety-as-an-opportunity.pdf

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This is the fourth episode of our series we are calling “All About Anxiety”, talking about how anxiety affects us as people, but more importantly: how it affects us as Christians. Join Becca Cooks and Pastor Mike Beresford as they talk about how the peace of Jesus frees us from our anxiety.

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This is the third episode of our series we are calling “All About Anxiety”. This episode is a recording from a training that pastor Nic Gibson gave to the staff team of High Point Church, where he talks about the way anxiety affects relationships between people, and how to interact with those who are anxious.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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This is the second episode of our series we are calling “All About Anxiety”, talking about how anxiety affects us as people, but more importantly: how it affects us as Christians. This episode, Nic Gibson and Becca Cooks talk about the difference between the psychological definition of anxiety and biblical fear and worry, which we would define as anxiety, and how to deal with it as Christians.

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Join us for this Cutting Room Floor episode to hear more from Nic about his sermon on Sunday: How to Save the Holy Day from the Holiday. The theme of this sermon was that it’s more blessed to give than to receive. We will review the first two points and cover the third, and spend some time highlighting eight different ways to give offerings at a local church.

You can view the slides from Nic’s sermon here: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/2/0e16879779_1702220943_231210-sermon-slides.pdf

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This is the first episode of our new series we are calling “All About Anxiety”, talking about how Anxiety affects us as people, but more importantly: how it affects us as Christians.
This episode is a repost of a sermon that Pastor Nic Gibson gave on October 29th, 2023 about how to have Peace of God and Peace with God and how that relates to Anxiety and Fears in our lives.
If you would like to access Nic’s slides, click here: https://account-media.s3.amazonaws.com/21096/uploaded/2/0e16727424_1698586772_231029-sermon-slides.pdf

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Welcome to our new podcast series all about anxiety. At High Point, we believe that part of the role of our pastors and leaders is to equip saints for the work of ministry. What that means is that we believe YOU are called to do the work of ministry, be it volunteering as a small group leader, mentoring, leading teens in youth group, serving at our reception desk, hosting, etc. We believe that the people of High Point Church make up doing the ministry of High Point Church.

Our hope of this new series is to help you think about anxiety spiritually, know how to translate back and forth between the spiritual language of anxiety and the psychological language of anxiety, and to equip you to interact productively and compassionately with those who are wrestling with anxiety. We look forward to joining you on this journey in learning all about anxiety.

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Pastor Nic and Erin explore the biblical narrative of anxiety, the solutions there are to managing it well, and the results that can come from doing so.

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Pastor Nic defines anxiety from a variety of perspectives and fleshes out the numerous problems that it can cause on both an individual and corporate level.

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Take a look at the Oaks Summer event from August 4 at High Point Church. The talk in this episode is from our senior pastor, Nic Gibson, and the director of Oaks Ministry Collaborative, Jill Reasa, on processing our emotions with God and others. If you would like to listen to Dani Ebben’s talk from this event all about Identifying Our Emotions, click the link below:
https://oaks-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/bonus-identifying-our-emotions-with-dani-ebben
You can learn more about Oaks at highpointchurch.org/oaks, or go to oakscollaborative.com.

For this parent training, Nic Gibson explored how God uses gender to reveal His glory as well as how the Christian can engage with culture on this topic alongside teenagers.

Take a look at the slides Nic references during the podcast: https://s3.amazonaws.com/account-media/21096/uploaded/2/0e16308460_1692295466_230802parent-training-sexuality-and-gender-identity.pdf

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In this podcast, Nic talks about how modern gender ideology conflicts with the Biblical vision for gender and encourages parents and shepherds of teens to engage more deeply with this important topic. This podcast features Pastor Nic being interviewed by Curtis Diller, a parent of teens and elder of the Church, along with Paxton Bauer, the Student Ministries Director.

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Our aim with this training was to understand what the Bible says about biblical manhood and womanhood. Young adults are constantly bombarded with gender ideology counter to the Biblical narrative, so their guardians must be equipped to counsel them in light of that worldly pressure.

While the Bible teaches that male and female are core pieces of the human identity, our culture today is challenging that such categories are helpful or even real. This podcast explores how God uses gender to reveal His glory as well as how the Christian can engage with culture on this topic alongside teenagers.

Engage & Equip is a resource designed to help form substantive disciples for the local church.

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