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It's the end of an era. We're closing up shop for a little bit, and we wanted to go out with a bang. We share some of the big lessons we've learned from doing the podcast and what you can expect from us in the future.  If you've hung with us for any stretch of this journey, we're so thankful for you and your support. We'll let you know when something new happens!

We wrap up our lay interviews by hearing from our own Bethany McFarland! She gives us a 30,000 foot view of her life so far and the lessons the Lord has taught her along the way. This is rich stuff that you won't want to miss. RECOMMENDATION STATION Guy: The Great Omission and Hearing God by Dallas Willard David: Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson Bethany: "Do It Again" by Elevation Worship

Emotional health isn't often given the attention it deserves in the church. In this episode, we interview Bethany Allen, one of the pastors at Bridgetown Church in Portland, OR, about the ways she and that church have made emotional health one of the priorities of their church and how it's benefited them. This was a really fun episode to record, and we hope you're able to get a lot from it. RECOMMENDATION STATION In no particular order: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Emotionally Healthy Leader, Emotionally Healthy Church, Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast This Cultural Moment podcast Fully Alive by Larry Crabb Leading with a Limp by Dan Allender Healing for Damaged Emotions by David Seamands Connecting by Larry Crabb Bridgetown Church's Emotionally Healthy Church Series Waffle House

Lots of people struggle with perfectionism. In this episode, Guy talks us through some of the ways he's dealt with it and how he's found healing from it. RECOMMENDATION STATION David: Inmate 56857 by Eddie Charles Spencer & Forget Self-Help by Thomas Fellows Guy: Atlas:Three by Sleeping At Last

We've been featuring a lot of people telling their stories in the past few weeks, and we wanted to talk to someone who could help us figure out how to become better storytellers. Robert Carnes wrote an excellent book called The Original Storyteller and we wanted to sit down and talk with him about the book and his passion for storytelling.  RECOMMENDATION STATION Created for More Building a Story Brand All Marketers are Liars originalstoryteller.com Love Does God Outwitted Me

Ashleigh Patterson was born with cystic fibrosis. Back in 2013, she went on the transplant list for a double lung transplant. Later that year, she got a call that a donor had been found. That's not something that happens every day, and Ashleigh shares about how God took care of her during some of those times and what she learned from them. ORGAN DONATION RESOURCES gatransplant.org cff.org donatelife.org FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening! Read more at http://theother99.libsyn.com/#qQEh0R1gqQpHO64L.99 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening! Read more at http://theother99.libsyn.com/#qQEh0R1gqQpHO64L.99 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening! Read more at http://theother99.libsyn.com/#qQEh0R1gqQpHO64L.99

Over the next few months, we'll be interspersing some of our own stories among the lay interviews we've been doing. In this episode, David shares his story with us. We discuss his "mask-wearing" days in high school, some struggles with his calling, and what he's been learning recently in his discipleship.  RECOMMENDATION STATION Bethany: Experiencing God  David: Daily Lectionary Devotional

Lots of people talk about being called to the ministry. Mark Swayze (@markswayze) felt called to ministry at a young age, but his calling has looked very different than most. Initially he thought he needed to go to seminary and get a Masters of Divinity. Now he knows that what he needs, and what we all need if we're going to serve the Lord, is to be mastered by divinity. This was a great conversation, and Mark's story has a lot to teach us about what it means to be called. RECOMMENDATION STATION Bethany: The Enneagram Guy: Workbook of Living Prayer by Maxie Dunnam Mark: Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin David: Form a triad (2-3 people in small group study and accountability with one another) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening! Read more at http://theother99.libsyn.com/#OH0DC6818zOevQKS.99  

David goes on location to speak with Ann McCullen, head honcho at Edwards Street Fellowship in Hattiesburg, MS. Edwards Street started back in 1979 as a child care center and have grown to include a medical clinic, food pantry, eye clinic, and so much more based on needs they see in their community. Ann embodies what it means to be "the other 99." Give this a listen, and start thinking about what an Edwards Street Fellowship would look like in your community. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, we sit down with Bethany's dad, Scott Barber, to discuss how we as church members can take better care of our pastors and their families. Often, we expect our pastors to do way more than any one person is capable of doing. Scott has sat both with the 1% and the 99%, and he brings a unique perspective to the table on how churches can take better care of pastors and their families.  

Trying something new this December! We bring our spouses on to create a more reflective episode for you. We celebrate Christmas by reading from the Christmas stories in Scripture together, along with quotes from some of the church's earliest fathers and theologians. We hope you enjoy!

We're rounding out our three-part series on work! Here we focus on what it looks like to be a Christian in our workplace, focusing heavily on our relationships with our coworkers. We hope it's helpful to you wherever you're at! RECOMMENDATION STATION David: Productive Pastor #85 --- Crashing ain't resting  Bethany: About my Father's business Guy: Enjoy Thanksgiving

We continue our series on work to talk about what it means to do our job in a way that is Christian. Here we talk about: Doing work that is excellent; Excellent work looks different on different people; Work ethics 101 but it's FUN; Keeping away from workaholism; Some examples of riding the tension between busy seasons in work and workaholism; RECOMMENDATION STATION Bethany: The Original Storyteller by Robert Carnes David: Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson; Guy: All Things Work Together by Lecrae;    

How does our faith affect our Monday through Friday? With this episode, we're starting a three part series on how our faith impacts our job. The focus of this episode is to lead off our conversation by tearing down the wall that exists between our "secular" and "sacred" lives, our faith and our work. We talk about: The divide between sacred and secular; Determining your spiritual gifts can help you understand how to live out your faith at work; Spiritual gifts aren't just for church work; Faithfulness in the little things; King David's example of what faithfulness in the little things looks like; RECOMMENDATION STATION David: Fixed hour prayer ; Guy: Seedbed's Field Guide to Daily Prayer ; Bethany: Lifeway's spiritual gifts test ; FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!

The podcast is a year old today!!! We're celebrating by taking a look back at some of our favorite moments from the podcast so far. We discuss: Most likely to succeed; Most likely to change the world; Most improved; Most profound; Most podcast spirit; Best podcast voice; Class clown; Most friendly; Most entertaining To figure out what all that means, you'll just have to listen to the episode!! FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!

How can normal church folk do ministry in their community? That's our topic in this episode. After a long period apart, David, Bethany, and Guy come back together this week to record an episode they've been excited about for a while. After catching up on our recent big life changes, we talk about: Guy and Becca's reaction to our adoption episode (#021); We can't lean on our pastors to do all our work for us; Best way for non-pastors to get involved in ministry is to follow the example we see in Acts 6; Laypeople bringing the needs they see to the leadership, then being empowered by the leadership to meet those needs; Some examples we've seen of how this can work; Some first steps we can take towards making this happen in our churches; RECOMMENDATION STATION Guy: Unlikely by Kevin Palau; David: Exploring My Strange Bible podcast Bethany:  

It's often hard to make a connection between what we do on Sunday and what we do from 9 to 5 the rest of the week. In this episode, Guy sits down with his new cousin-in-law Jay Windham to talk about how to stay connected to your faith at work. We talk about: breaking down the divide between sacred and secular in our lives; Jesus, who lived an extraordinary life, did very ordinary things; Everything Jesus did, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, he did as an act of worship; How we view our work plays a big role on how connected we are to our faith while at work; We often see our work either as unimportant or as our everything; Living out your faith at work means doing your work well; RECOMMENDATION STATION Bethany: God at work by Gene Veith; Guy: Redeeming the Routines by Robert Banks; FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, Guy sits down with his wife to talk about some of her experiences in ministry overseas talking with other people about Jesus. Rebecca had some big a-ha moments about evangelism that she wanted to share with us. Evangelism and sharing your faith with others is one of our more highly requested topics for the podcast, so this is the first of many episodes coming down the pipe about evangelism. Here's what we talk about: David's having a baby! ICEBREAKER: Guilty pleasure songs; Becca's experiences in Asia; Becca's aha moment about evangelism; Being genuine rather than putting on a front; Thinking of evangelism as being about bringing someone closer to Christ rather than bringing them to Christ; Be genuine; Be simple; It's not all on you; Practice makes perfect; RECOMMENDATION STATION Guy: Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen Bethany: She Reads Truth app FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening! Read more at http://theother99.libsyn.com/#Ch5orRPrcrJRKyEB.99

Have you ever had doubts about your faith? 9 times out of 10 the answer is probably yes. In this episode, we sit down with Jason McAnally, pastor at Home Church in Nashville, to talk about doubt. Like the rest of us, Jason has wrestled with his own doubts and leads a church that provides a safe place for those wrestle with doubt. Is it good? Is it bad? What do we do about it? How can we help others wrestle with it? FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!

Have you ever had doubts about your faith? 9 times out of 10 the answer is probably yes. In this episode, we sit down with Jason McAnally, pastor at Home Church in Nashville, to talk about doubt. Like the rest of us, Jason has wrestled with his own doubts and leads a church that provides a safe place for those wrestle with doubt. Is it good? Is it bad? What do we do about it? How can we help others wrestle with it?  I (Guy) am getting married tomorrow and I've got a lot on my plate so there won't be detailed notes for what we talk through in the episodes for the next 3 or 4 episodes. You'll just have to listen to the episode to figure out what we're talking about!! NO RECOMMENDATION STATION THIS WEEK FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Facebook -- The Other 99  Twitter -- @theother99pod  Instagram -- @theother99pod  Email us at theother99podcast@gmail.com with any questions, feedback, pushback, or ideas for future episodes. Thanks for listening!