Entrusted Podcast

EntrustedPodcast

Everyone is entrusted with something. Steward it well.

  1. 18h ago

    I Am Not My Own | Howard Porter | Episode #27

    Howard Porter has spent years building things. Real estate, businesses, partnerships. He founded one of the Southeast's premier commercial real estate firms, became the youngest MAI-designated appraiser in the country at 29, co-founded Global K9 Protection Group and grew it into the largest provider of third-party K9 cargo screening in the US. By most measures, he's the definition of a self-made man. He'd also be the first to tell you that's exactly the wrong way to look at it. This conversation covers the full arc — the early success, the hotel room floor at 40, the Walk to Emmaus, and a seven-year business slog through fraud, layoffs, a government shutdown, and COVID that somehow ended in a comeback. But underneath all of it is a man learning — slowly, over a lifetime — what it actually means to not be your own. Howard talks about entrepreneurial giving, going into business with friends, the difference between pleasing God and trusting God, and why the last five years of his relationship with the Lord have been the richest of his life. **TIMESTAMPS** 00:00:00 – Intro & meet Howard Porter 00:01:35 – First Birth to Second Birth 00:02:03 – Growing up in Birmingham & life in the church 00:05:43 – The hotel room at 40: "God, I can't do this" 00:16:22 – College, the draft lottery, and joining the Army 00:24:55 – The parachute analogy: trusting a cord, but not God 00:30:11 – The Walk to Emmaus & meeting the risen Lord 00:36:26 – "I Am Not My Own" — what stewardship really means 00:43:04 – Going into business with friends & being unequally yoked 00:46:26 – How Global K9 started (a real estate deal gone wrong) 01:02:12 – Fraud, layoffs, COVID, and the unlikely comeback 01:16:45 – Pleasing God vs. Trusting God 01:20:28 – What has God entrusted to you? The meaning of "Porter"

    1h 22m
  2. Jun 23

    Two Great Works | Trace Hamiter | Episode #26

    Trace Hamiter measures his life against two great works: his family and the ministry the Lord has entrusted to him. In this conversation he traces both, from an early animosity toward the church, to coming to faith his junior year of high school, through more than fifteen years of college ministry, and into leading The Oaks Collaborative, a nonprofit that hosts retreats helping incoming college students start rooted in Christ before they ever step onto campus. He and the guys talk about scripture memory as a way of being bound by the Word, the idol of money the Lord exposed through deep financial loss, and the grief of losing a child and what that season put to death in him. The conversation keeps landing where the show wants it to, not on accomplishment but on stewardship and obedience, and on what it means to finish the course (Acts 20:24). This one is personal for the show too. Brock's testimony runs straight through an Oaks retreat, and it was there that Brock and Ben first became friends. Their stories sit right in the middle of the episode. The Oaks Collaborative (ministry info and socials): https://www.theoakscollaborative.com/ Trace Hamiter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trace-hamiter-03748b2ba/ Scripture Memory: https://youtu.be/N-VvGc4pSqo Time Stamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:00 First Birth / Second Birth
 00:19:00 Scripture Memory
 00:29:20 Beginning Full Time Ministry 00:42:00 The Idol of Money
 00:47:38 Season of Pain leads to Killing Idols
 00:54:20 What is Good Financial Stewardship
 01:05:44 What Trace is Entrusted With
 01:15:10 7 out of 10 High School Students “lose” their faith in College
 01:18:00 Brock and Ben’s Oak’s Retreat Stories
 01:33:50 Behind the Numbers of College Faith
 01:37:20 Closing

    1h 48m
  3. Jun 9

    Living Stones | Jeff Applegate | Episode #24

    Jeff Applegate has spent a career learning the difference between controlling outcomes and trusting the One who holds them. In this episode, Jeff takes us through decades of faith and business: a corporate exit with no plan, an unemployment season that taught him to pray over firewood, 10 years stewarding a company he would never own, and finally betting everything to start Texas Injection Molding at 45. He shares the vision, mission, and core values framework that has shaped every chapter of his life, the brain tumor diagnosis that broke open what it means to love God, and what it looks like to build a business as a living stone declaring the great things God has done. If you are wrestling with obedience, ownership, or what faithful stewardship actually looks like in the middle of uncertainty, this one is for you. **Entrusted Podcast:** Instagram: @entrustedpodcast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:50 First Birth Second Birth 00:24:46 Leaving Corporate Life 00:28:37 Unemployment, Surrender, and Learning to Trust 00:33:16 The Firewood Story 00:43:08 Vision, Mission & Core Values 00:44:23 The King's Table 00:46:35 Living Stones: Joshua 4, 1 Peter 2, and a Mission That Stuck 00:49:00 Brain Tumor Diagnosis & What It Clarified About Love 01:05:04 Bet the Farm 01:06:42 Entrepreneurial vs. Entrepreneur 01:10:36 The Rock Garden — A Living Memorial to God's Faithfulness 01:21:25 Prosperity Gospel or Genuine Provision? Jeff Addresses the Tension 01:28:03 When to Leap and When to Wait 01:34:13 What He's Been Entrusted With

    1h 39m
  4. Jun 1

    Stewardship is About Bearing Fruit | Miles Fidell | Episode #23

    Miles Fidell is the founding pastor of All Christ Church in Auburn, Alabama — a church he planted at 25 years old with no denomination, no network, and no funding. In this conversation, Blayne sits down one-on-one with Miles to trace the whole arc: a Catholic father, a Pentecostal mother, a sovereign conversion at 13 with a group of friends who all became pastors, late-night Louis Giglio sermons snuck downstairs as a teenager, and a calling to preach that never wavered. They also go deep on ecclesiology — what the church is actually for, the cost of preaching five services in a day, and why Miles had to go back and repent to a satellite congregation he nearly disbanded. This one covers ground most pastor conversations don't touch. @allchristchurch  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCkPJmVDBJXAJKeObx6YSr2) Instagram:   / allchristchurch  milesfidell Website: https://www.allchrist.church/ Facebook:  / allchristchurch  00:00:00 Intro 00:01:25 First Birth/Second Birth 00:07:42 Sneaking Downstairs to Listen to Louis Giglio 00:13:00 “Reformed Baptist with a Charismatic bent”  00:22:30 Called to plant a church in Auburn 00:36:30 Acting vs. Waiting — Differentiating Your Will from God's 00:40:50 The Cost of Planting Independently — No O-Line, No Protection 00:45:35 What Preaching Five Services in a Day Actually Does to a Pastor 00:48:40 Discussing multi campus gatherings 01:03:55 What are you Entrusted with

    1h 8m
  5. May 11

    There Is One Truth | Kevin Briggins | Episode #20

    Kevin Briggins grew up in the inner city of Birmingham, Alabama. He joined the military, drifted far from the Lord in Panama City and Germany, and then felt something leave that he'd never lost before. Years later, he'd read about it in an RC Sproul book: the dark night of the soul. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Kevin takes us through his upbringing, the moment God pulled him back, how he met his wife (and shared the gospel on their second date), and what happened when the ideology of critical theory tore through his church. As the first and only black elder in a multiethnic congregation, Kevin had a front-row seat to something most people only argued about on Twitter — and he couldn't stay quiet. Kevin is a former intelligence analyst, the Managing Director of the Center for Biblical Unity, co-host of Informed Takes and Off Code podcasts, and an elder at his local church in Auburn, AL. 🔗 Center for Biblical Unity — centerforbiblicalunity.com https://substack.com/@kevinbriggins  ⁨@KevinBriggins⁩   ⁨@InformedTakes⁩   ⁨@OffCodePodcast⁩  00:00:00 Intro 00:03:27 First birth — growing up in Birmingham's inner city 00:09:30 Second birth — walking the aisle at 9 years old 00:13:12 Joining the military & drifting from the Lord 00:16:54 The dark night of the soul — feeling like God had left 00:20:01 The means of grace — why community matters 00:29:06 How Kevin met his wife & shared the gospel on date two 00:36:22 Dating advice — intentional dating, marriage, and leading 00:46:27 Ephesians marriage — leading like Christ, not like a CEO 00:52:12 Becoming an elder & the church that tore apart 00:58:29 What critical theory does to the church — a graceless Christianity 01:11:45 Providence — how a collapsed house deal brought Kevin to Auburn 01:14:34 Speaking out — from a Facebook post to a national conversation 01:18:06 Closing — what has God entrusted to Kevin Briggins?

    1h 21m

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