The Flip Side with Noah Filipiak
Connecting the reality of the gospel to the grit of life. Hosted by pastor and author Noah Filipiak.
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
The State of Utah recently declared pornography to be a public health crisis via a resolution drafted by 23rd district Senator Todd Weiler. Noah Filipiak interviews Senator Weiler about the perils of pornography, the flak Senator Weiler has received (including from Seth Myers and Whoopi Goldberg), what can be done to find freedom from pornography on a personal level, and what we can all do about it on a legislative level.
Read Utah’s SCR9 resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis.
Connect with Senator Weiler on Twitter and Facebook.
Visit the “Find My Legislator” website
to contact your state representatives about adopting Utah’s SCR9,
declaring pornography a public health crisis in your state as well.
Get Covenant Eyes filter and/or accountability software on all of your online and mobile devices to protect yourself and your family from pornography.
Covenant Eyes’ blog for women whose husbands look at porn.
Related:
Terry Crews Speaks Out Against Pornography
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Noah Filipiak interviews 18-year-old Dennis Hammond on being raised in
inner city Lansing, how he found Christ, his June 19-26th trip to
Honduras and how the odds are stacked against inner city black youth.
The catalyst of this interview came from Noah helping Dennis fund-raise
for his $1600 missions trip and realizing how different it is for an
inner city black teen to try paying for a missions trip in comparison to
a white suburban teen. The unfolding conversation between Noah and
Dennis highlights fatherlessness, crime and gang activity that riddles
inner city youth and the need for the Church to redistribute its
network, mentoring and resources to help these teens chart a new path.
Dennis shares about how God saved him from a life of drugs, gangs, crime
and despair to a new life as a young leader in his church and an
evangelist for God's Kingdom wherever he goes. If you can give money to
help Dennis go to Honduras this June, please visit Dennis's GoFundMe
account: https://www.gofundme.com/75v7g5v8
Thursday Mar 31, 2016
Thursday Mar 31, 2016
In Episode 19, the one-year anniversary episode for Behind the Curtain, Noah Filipiak interviews 11-time author Sarah Arthur. Sarah's book Walking with Frodo was the #1 bestselling youth resource in Christian publishing for the holiday season 2003, and #13 in all categories and Walking with Bilbo won the Logos Book Award at the Christian Booksellers Convention for Best Youth Book 2005. Her most recent books include a 3-part devotional series that follow the Church liturgical calendar: Between Midnight & Dawn, Light Upon Light & At the Still Point. Noah and Sarah discuss the roller-coaster ride of succeeding and failing in the publishing world and how to discover spiritually healthy ways of measuring success in anything we do in life. In a fast-forward world where everything is pressing and urgent, this interview examines how to rest in our identity as God's kids and not let other voices determine our ultimate value.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Shawn Lovejoy is the author of The Measure of Our Success: An Impassioned Plea to Pastors and Be Mean About the Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters. He is a church planting veteran, having planted Mountain Lake Church in Cumming, GA, which he recently stepped away from after 16 years to focus on coaching leaders and pastoring pastors at www.CourageToLead.com.
Noah Filipiak interviews Shawn about his transition away from his
church plant, about the epidemic of church planters with non-Christlike
goals, the denominations that push these goals, and the walls pastors
hit when their disillusionment catches up with them. Noah and Shawn
both share their own struggles in these areas, with Shawn giving great
wisdom from the hundreds of church planters and pastors he has coached
over the years in these areas.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Noah Filipiak interviews Pastor Tyler St. Clair about his upcoming
church plant on the NW side of Detroit, the neighborhood Tyler and his
wife both grew up in. Tyler's target location is one of the "bad parts"
of Detroit, with all of the symptoms of urban poverty ever-present.
After being guided to plant in other more financially viable areas,
Tyler discusses why he is staying committed to this needy area. Noah
and Tyler discuss white privilege and the challenge of ministry
fundraising as a black man. They also discuss the lost emphasis
Scripture puts on loving and ministering to the poor and the need for
the Church to be the body and not hoard all of the resources in suburban
areas. They also discuss how a lot of church planting movements want
to make it look like they are ministering in the poor parts of Detroit,
when they really aren't. Tyler also shares about a season of his life
where he rejected black preaching and theologians, and how God brought
him back to his roots and ethnic identity by introducing him to many
spiritual giants of the Christian faith who come from the
African-American Church.
Wednesday Dec 30, 2015
Wednesday Dec 30, 2015
Andrew Maxwell compiled an impressive career as Michigan State University's quarterback, his biggest season coming as the starter in 2012. Maxwell finished his MSU career with 3014 passing yards, 14 touchdowns, and a 105.5 quarterback rating in 26 total games played. After going undrafted, he had tryouts with the San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots in 2014. In this interview, Andrew and Noah Filipiak discuss what it was like emotionally for Andrew to be benched in Michigan State's bowl game in favor of Connor Cook, what that off-season was like, and what it was like to be benched again his senior season. Noah and Andrew discuss all the ways we find our identity in things other than who we are in Christ, football a primary culprit of this in Andrew's life, the hard lessons God has taught him about trusting God, as well as why fans say such awful things toward players.
Thursday Dec 10, 2015
Thursday Dec 10, 2015
The church Jeremy Dowsett started 10 years ago closed its doors in
2015. In this interview with Noah Filipiak, Jeremy takes us behind the
curtain of how he's handled this emotionally and spiritually. Every
church planter who has gone through this experience is going to be
unique and Jeremy is no exception. The interview walks through the
flaws in Evangelical Protestantism that Jeremy experienced and how that
eventually led him to convert to Catholicism. We also discuss the
emotional weight of pastoring a church plant and what it's been like to
be away from that weight, as well as if it's possible for a church
planter to truly experience the freedom of the gospel of grace while in
the midst of shouldering the load of church planting, or if the two are
mutually exclusive. Jeremy also wrote a blog post in 2014 that got so many hits it broke the Internet, making Noah jealous, which we also discuss.Visit www.atacrossroads.net/podcast for more links and commentary about this interview.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2015
Wednesday Nov 18, 2015
Authors, veteran church planters, retreat leaders, and marriage and ministry leadership coaches Tom and Sandi Blaylock (Pawleys Island, SC) share with honesty, grace and transparency the many struggles they've endured as a married couple in ministry. These experiences have given Tom and Sandi a wealth of wisdom on how married couples can heal their marriages. This interview truly goes "behind the curtain" of the Blaylock's lives as ministry as host Noah Filipiak walks with Tom and Sandi through topics of working long hours, insecurity, woundedness, using ministry as a mistress, and what to do when a minister's spouse is not interested in doing ministry. Many people assume ministry leaders shouldn't have marital problems when in fact the position of ministry leadership innately brings with it unique marital opposition. Find Tom and Sandi at LifeWorthImitating.Blogspot.com and get a free copy of Chapter 1 of their book Marriage on Mission at MarriageOnMission.com
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015
Susie Finkbeiner has written three novels, with her recent A Cup of Dust
being released today, October 27th, with Kregel Publishers. In this
episode, Noah Filipiak interviews Susie about exhaustion, how to handle
exhaustion, the superficiality of "puppy hug and rainbow kiss"
Christianity (and Christian fiction), politics and how to stay grounded.
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
Ruth Haley Barton is the award winning author of 7 books and the founder of The Transforming Center. Her book Sacred Rhythms won the Logos Book Award for Best Book Award on Spirituality and her book Invitation to Solitude and Silence won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award for Spirituality. In this interview, Noah Filipiak interviews Ruth about how to deal with success and failure, burnout, ego, ambition, technology, pace, false self and true self, finding who we truly are in Christ versus the facade strategies we have learned to protect ourselves, and much more. Ruth and her Transforming Community team have extensive experience helping Christians and ministry leaders find their true self in Christ and are uniquely gifted and called to this essential work in today's hectic, cluttered, performance-driven culture we live in. If you've ever struggled with having a dry devotional time with the Lord and wondered if there was more to experience from God than you currently know, God has led you to the right person by now connecting you with Ruth Haley Barton and the Transforming Center.
Thursday Sep 17, 2015
Thursday Sep 17, 2015
In this episode, Noah Filipiak interviews the starting tight end for
the #4 ranked Michigan State Spartans football team, redshirt junior
Josiah Price. Price has 13 career touchdowns at Michigan State, a
record for a tight end, including 3 in the first 3 games of 2015. He
caught the go ahead touchdown against #2 ranked Ohio State in the Big
Ten Championship game in 2013, as well as a fourth quarter touchdown in
the 2014 Cotton Bowl against #5 ranked Baylor that began a 21 point 4th
quarter comeback for Michigan State. Michigan State was the 2013-14 Big
Ten and Rose Bowl champion, finishing 3rd overall and the 2014-15
Cotton Bowl Champion, finishing 5th overall.
Noah and Josiah discuss the temptations facing college football
players, how Josiah stays grounded, as well as the ‘superfan’ mindset of
many fans who take college football way too seriously. Noah and Josiah
unpack death threats sent via social media to Josiah’s teammates after
bad plays, as well as how a player is worshiped and adored if they make a
good play.
Friday Sep 04, 2015
Friday Sep 04, 2015
Noah Filipiak interviews Noel Heikkinen, one of the pastors at
Riverview Church in Holt, Lansing and East Lansing, MI. Riverview is a
church made up of around 3000 - 4000 people that has 4 venues in the
Lansing area. Noel and Noah discuss the hardest thing about being a
pastor, including a helpful discussion about the anxiety pastors and
church planters face, how we can combat anxiety, and how churchgoers can
help their pastors feel less anxiety. They discuss how churchgoers can
help their pastors stay healthy, avoid burnout, and stay at their
current ministry post longer. They also discuss the dangers of church
planting and book publishing, including good reasons to do such ventures as well as sinful reasons.Noel is a director with the Acts 29 Church
Planting network and is author of a book with the working title
"Unchained" coming out in early 2017 with David C. Cook publishers.
Saturday Aug 15, 2015
Saturday Aug 15, 2015
Noah Filipiak interviews Covenant Eyes'
Luke Gilkerson on why pastors look at porn & have affairs.
Applicable to men, women, pastors and churchgoers, this is a must listen
for the Church.Luke is the Educational Resource Manager at Covenant Eyes, he also runs the Covenant Eyes blog where he is also a frequent author. Luke’s personal blog is www.intoxicatedonlife.com and he is the author of The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality & Coming Clean: Overcoming Lust Through Biblical Accountability.
Monday Aug 10, 2015
Monday Aug 10, 2015
Noah Filipiak interviews Chris Pruett, the self-titled “Happiest Homeless Person in
Lansing.” Chris attends Pastor Noah's church and does a great job of shedding the
light of love and humanity onto homelessness. Learn about homelessness
from the eyes of a homeless person. Chris is intelligent, creative and
funny. See www.atacrossroads.net for a small sampling of the various signs (and boxes
for his head) that Chris wears around Lansing.
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Friday Jul 03, 2015
In this interview Noah talks with Zachary Bartels
on the balance of being both a pastor and a Christian fiction author. They talk about the required "self-promotion" of the author world and the
safeguards that have to be put in place to make sure this doesn't become
sin. Noah shares the insecurities he faced when he began trying to get
published, including embarrassing moments due to this insecurity. They
talk about making money as an author and using fiction as a medium for
communicating gospel truth like a ninja.
Thursday Jun 04, 2015
Thursday Jun 04, 2015
Recording artist Jessa Anderson and Noah talk about the tension in the
Christian music industry between making good music with good theology,
how all of life’s struggles can’t be fixed in a 3 and half minute song
with a pretty bow at the end of it, and the lure of writing in a way
that will get you on the radio. They talk about the depression and
anxiety ministry leaders face and how our churches and Christian music
need to give more exposure to these darker sides of our faith walk. If
you are a music fan of any kind, are a ministry leader, or want to know
how to better support your ministry leaders, this is a great episode for
you.
Wednesday May 20, 2015
Wednesday May 20, 2015
Youth pastor David Singleton and I talk about the different narratives of the white and black cultures and how this relates to the Church. We discuss the Baltimore riots, racial segregation in churches, the differences between suburban and urban youth ministry, and steps we can take to be the Church Jesus intended. David has been the youth pastor at Crossroads Church in Lansing, MI for the past year and prior to this did urban youth ministry in Philadelphia, PA / Camden, NJ as well as Watts and Compton (Los Angeles), California. David is also a spoken word artist and performs his poem "Dad Was Locked Up."
Tuesday May 05, 2015
Tuesday May 05, 2015
In this episode, I interview Pastor Chris Lockemy from Epic Church in
Baltimore, MD. Chris planted his church in 2005 and gives an on the
ground "Behind the Curtain" look at the Baltimore riots from the
perspective of a white church planting pastor who has a heart for the
city. We talk transparently about the challenges we face in the church
to be a part of God's work of racial reconciliation, but now essential
it is we get off the sidelines and be a part of that work.
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
The band Churchill's hit single "Change" was #17 on the 2012 Billboard Alternative Songs chart and the Change EP reached #9 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Churchill has toured with Pink, The Fray, and many more. Band co-found Mike Morter and I discuss fame, being a celebrity, being around celebrities,
touring, pressure, always being asked "What's next?," how Jesus and our
identity in Christ can get muddled in all that, and the insecurities
that go with the ups and downs of the industry.
Friday Mar 20, 2015
Friday Mar 20, 2015
Ted Kluck is the author of 15 books, including Why We're
Not Emergent and Why We Love the Church with Kevin DeYoung,
autobiographies of Robert Griffin III, Jeremy Lin and Jim Kelly, and most
recently The Dropbox and Household Gods. We discuss
infertility, the underbelly of Christian publishing, Christian celebrityism and the tension between gossip (especially online) and following the biblical mandate to correct false teachers.
Tuesday Mar 03, 2015
Tuesday Mar 03, 2015
In the inaugural AtACrossroads.net Behind the Curtain Ministry Podcast, we interview Ken Wytsma about spiritual fatigue, social justice fatigue, self-glory in pastors and authors, as well as how churchgoers can best care for their pastors. Ken is the founding pastor in Bend, OR, the author of Pursuing Justice and The Grand Paradox and is the founder of The Justice Conference.