Restore Podcast

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 22. My name is Javier and I'm your host. I hope that wherever and whatever you may be doing as you listen that this podcast will help you in your journey to help Restore the vision, Restore the mission, Restore the church.With the release of this month's episode, we celebrate our two-year anniversary of the Restore Podcast! It's hard to believe how quickly time flies. For those who may be wondering why we are on episode 22 instead of 24, we take off a couple of months in the summer to regroup and assess the podcast. Just as we will do this summer.With that said, I again thank all of you who listen, share, and have let me know how you've been blessed by the podcast and have encouraged me to continue. Thank you so much!Since it is our two-year anniversary, I thought it would be good to interview one of the two guests who was on the very first episode. That first episode's topic was essentially what the podcast would be about.This month, I interview Mike Cauley, Florida Conference president, and we get to hear and dig a little deeper into his personal story and journey in ministry.

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 21. My name is Javier and I'm your host.Our desire is that this podcast can be a tool for you to be inspired, challenged, and informed in ways to help Restore the vision, Restore the mission, Restore the church.By the time this episode is released, the first month of 2018 will almost be in the rearview mirror of history. I hope and pray that you are off to a good start, especially when it comes to moving forward with the mission that God has given His church.Last month, we released my conversation with Pastor David Asscherick, and I want to thank you all of you for the great responses from that interview and the many lessons and thoughts that came from it. Of course I again thank David for his time and openness. If you haven't had the chance to listen to it I highly advise that you do.I'm very excited to bring to you my interview with Matt Stockdale. Last month in early December, I had the opportunity to speak at the Triad Adventist Fellowship, the church Matt Stockdale leads in the Triad area of North Carolina. For those who may not be acquainted with the Triad area, it consists of the region surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. Matt is not a pastor, per se. He's actually a District Attorney in North Carolina, yet also leads the church. In this conversation, I cover his journey that lead him to not only continue to practice law, but also lead this new church that was launched in 2014.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesTriad Adventist Fellowship web site: triadadventistfellowship.comTriad Adventist Fellowship on Facebook: Triad Adventist FellowshipTriad Adventist Fellowship on Twitter: @TriadAdventistMatt Stockdale on Facebook: Matt Stockdale

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 20. My name is Javier and I'm your host.It’s hard to believe 2017 is almost over! I want to thank you all for listening throughout the year. I hope and pray the stories and themes we have shared have been a catalyst and an inspiration that will help you Restore the vision, Restore the mission, Restore the church. Please continue to share and subscribe if you haven’t already, and if you have a moment please leave a comment.This episode is an interview with Pastor David Assherick. He is currently pastor of Kingscliff Church in Australia.For some time, David has been one of the most well-known names within the Seventh-day Adventist community of faith. In this interview, we cover how he got started, his time as a public evangelist, his first pastoral stint, and then how things are going for him at his current church.I want to thank David for his time and transparency throughout this interview. Though it is a long interview, I encourage you listen ALL the way through! I know you will be blessed and challenged by what you will hear.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesContactFacebook: David AsscherickTwitter: @dasscherick

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 19. My name is Javier and I'm your host.Friends, I hope you’re all doing well and ready to finish of the year strong. As we recorded this episode, Thanksgiving was upon us. Like you, I have so much for which to be thankful. First and foremost, I’m so thankful for God’s mercy, grace, and love toward me and you. Truly, the more I think upon it, the more I have to say, "Thank you, Jesus!"I’m also thankful for all of you that take the time to listen to the Restore podcast and share it with others. Thank you, again, and please keep it going. Subscribe, leave a comment, and let others know. Our goal is to tell stories and cover topics that will help Restore the vision, Restore the mission, Restore the church to what God intended it to be.My guest today is Pastor Shawn Brace. He pastors two churches in the great state of Maine. We had a wonderful conversation as we reminisced a bit and laughed together, but more importantly spoke on mission, discipleship, and what that looks like in a state known for being one of the least religious in the country and more.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesStudyPew Research Center: How Religious is Your State?Books by Jeff VandersteltSaturate: Being Disciples of Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life—AmazonGospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life—AmazonContactFacebook: Shawn BraceTwitter: @shawnbrace

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 18. My name is Javier and I'm your host. Wherever and whatever you are doing as you are listening, our hope is that this podcast will help you in your quest to restore the vision, restore the mission, restore the church, because we who call ourselves followers of Jesus are the church.As always, I thank you for taking the time to listen and share this podcast. Please feel free to let me know what you think. If you have any ideas, topics, or stories you feel we should have on the podcast, let me know. You can contact me via Twitter, @javid21, or via e-mail: javier.diaz@floridaconference.com.In this episode, my guest is Pastor Bernie Anderson, and we are talking about overcoming pornography. This is a topic as relevant as ever, and perhaps you know someone, or you are someone struggling with pornography. I truly encourage you to listen to this conversation as we touch on some really deep and personal points. Please do share this episode with anyone you think would benefit, whether they are struggling with pornography or any other addiction.Be sure to listen until the end (hopefully without fast forwarding!) as Bernie makes a very important announcement about the next step in his life!Show Notes/Links/ResourcesArticlesThe Gospel Coalition: Porn Is Not Harmless. It's Cruel.Barna: The Porn PhenomenonWeb Resourcesbernieanderson.orgxxxchurch.comx3pure.comx3groups.comx3watch.comsmallgroupsonline.comBooksBreaking The Silence—Amazon / Adventist Book CenterGood Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids—AmazonContactFacebook: Bernie AndersonTwitter: @pastorb33

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 17. My name is Javier and I'm your host. I want to thank everyone once again for listening and sharing this podcast. Our desire remains the same, to share stories and speak on relevant topics that will help restore the mission, restore the vision, restore the church.In this episode episode, I am truly excited for you to listen to my conversation with Mike Tucker. Mike is Speaker/Director for Faith For Today. It is the oldest religious television broadcast in the world.In our conversation, Mike speaks a bit about his journey in ministry leading to joining Faith For Today. Yet, we spend a good amount of time talking about grief, as Mike's wife, Gayle, passed away last year in April. This is something we all at some point have or will experience. I really appreciate his willingness to be open and transparent in how he dealt with losing his long-time companion Gayle, and where he's at now. We end by touching a bit on the current climate of the church.The topic of grief is perhaps something that we don’t talk about much. I hope you will share this episode with someone, anyone, you think would be helpful for them.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesFaith For Today Television: faithfortoday.tvFacebook: facebook.com/faithfortoday and facebook.com/FFTMikeTuckerTwitter: @faithfortoday and @FFTMike

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Welcome to Restore Podcast episode 16. My name is Javier Diaz, and I am your host. We are glad to be back after short break during the summer. I appreciate that, during our time away, the podcast has continued to grow. Thank you for listening and sharing the episodes.In this episode, we speak with Pastor Kymone Hinds from Journey Fellowship Church. He is a church planter, has just written a book titled This Is chURch: Where You Fit In, and also hosts his own podcast. I’ve been wanting to him on the Restore Podcast for some time, and I was glad that he agreed to participate.I think you will find this conversation helpful and useful to your ministry. I so appreciate his openness, willingness along with his transparency.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesKymone Hinds' web site: kymonehinds.comFacebook: facebook.com/pastorhindsTwitter: @kymonehindsPodcast: Ideas to LifeBook: This Is chURch: Where You Fit InRemember, the first person to e-mail Javier asking about the book will receive a free copy.

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Hi everyone, and welcome to Restore Podcast episode 15. I am your host, Javier Diaz, and I'm delighted that you've decided to listen as we endeavor to help restore the vision, restore the mission, restore the church.I'm amazed how this little podcast has been steadily growing and, of course, I thank you for that. Our sole purpose is to create a resource that can help in some way restore the mission and vision of the local church.I want to give a special shout out to all our listeners outside of the US. Specifically, I want to say hello to those listening in Japan. Yes Japan! So…Konnichiwa! Which, of course, is Hello in Japanese. And Arigatou gozaimashita! Which is Thank You! Hopefully soon we can perhaps interview someone from Japan on our podcast!For this episode, I believe you will be highly blessed with my conversation with Pastor Randy Roberts. He is the Senor Pastor of Loma Linda University Church in California. It is one of the largest Adventist churches in North America. We talk about how he came to Loma Linda, some of the joys and challenges, and perhaps most importantly the church's current transition and refocus on growing disciples.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesLoma Linda University Church web site: LLUC.orgThe Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship by Dallas WillardRandy Roberts' Four Points on Growing Disciples:WorshipStudy/prayEngage in communityServe-need base/word base

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Hello everyone and welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 14. I am your host, Javier Diaz, and I am so thankful that you've chosen to listen.The Restore podcast exists to help restore the vision, restore the mission, restore the church. We do this through telling stories of different churches and how they are on the journey of transformation, and also by having conversations about different relevant topics facing the church today.The Restore podcast slowly but surely continues to grow. We thank you for listening and hope that you will share it with others. Please do subscribe to the podcast so you won't miss when we release our monthly episodes.On this episode, our guest is Pastor Jose St. Phard from Bolingbrook Seventh-day Adventist Church in Illinois, less than two hours from Chicago. We invited him to our Restore Conference in January, but in this episode we dive a bit deeper into the transformational journey of Bolingbrook Church.You will want to listen all the way through as it is an amazing story of a church that began with only 40 or so in attendance and a person telling Pastor Jose that their church was the "frozen chosen." But today, Bolingbrook is a church of approximately 400 members with a mission that is the first thing you read on their web site: "Creating spaces for the people God misses the most."Show Notes/Links/ResourcesBolingbrook Church Web Site: bolingbrook.churchJose St. Phard E-mail: info@bolingbrook.churchJose St. Phard Twitter: @jphard

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response.Hello everyone and welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 13. I am your host, Javier Diaz, and I hope this podcast helps to restore the vision, restore the mission, restore the church.I want to thank you for taking time and listening to the Restore podcast, and I pray that whatever you might be doing—driving, running, cooking, whatever it might be—that perhaps you will be challenged, encouraged, and blessed by today's topic.As I was preparing for this episode which I've titled, Is Public Evangelism Dead?, I came across an article in Ministry Magazine—an international journal for pastors published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which many of you know about. The article was entitled, Is Public Evangelism Obsolete? I found it incredible interesting that I would find such a headline published more than 30 years ago when some are asking the same question today.In this episode, I speak to Roger Hernandez, ministerial and evangelism director for Southern Union Conference, and Richie Halversen, senior pastor of College Drive Church and church planting director for Gulf States Conference. Both are very passionate and actively engaged in public evangelism. At the time I recorded the interview, they were both about to begin meetings. We had a great conversation about what public evangelism is, whether it still a viable means of reaching people, money, and more. I believe you will find the conversation very intriguing.Show Notes/Links/ResourcesIs Public Evangelism Obsolete? | Ministry MagazineAlphaUSA | ministry web site mentioned by RichieRichie Halversen: blog | Twitter | e-mailRoger Hernandez: blog | Twitter | e-mail