Digital Side Hug

Otter Creek Church

A podcast designed to bless youth ministers, youth pastors or anyone who help teens grow into the men and women God created them to be. David Rubio sits down with various special guests to talk about issues relating to congregational youth work and teen/youth spiritual development.

  • 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes (30 Things Parents Need to Hear You Say) (Audio)
    The 30 Ideas guys - with 75 years of combined youth ministry experience - grab lunch at the Slick Pig in Murfreesboro, TN & then brainstorm 30 Ideas for things that parents who have students in your youth ministry need to hear come out of your mouth!
    4 December 2016, 1:30 pm
  • LIVE from NCYM - 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes (Take Care of Yourself) (Audio)
    Recorded live from the National Conference on Youth Ministries in Colorado Springs. Loyd is absent because he's on his way to run a marathon to raise money for Best Buddies…but Dknox, Skid & Rubio invite the AUDIENCE to help them share ideas...
    16 October 2016, 2:15 pm
  • The Digital Side-Hug: LIVE from NCYM - The Professors (Audio)
    Recorded live from the National Conference on Youth Ministries in Colorado Springs, Rubio sits down with four professors of youth ministry to talk shop. Hear Dudley Chancey, Robert Oglesby, Walter Surdacki & David Fraze answer questions like...
    7 February 2016, 4:00 am
  • The Digital Side-Hug: 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes (Movie Ideas) (Audio)
    Just in time for the holidays (AND just in time for the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens!) this podcast is the DSH's gift to youth ministers everywhere! Longer than the normal 30 Ideas podcasts due to a discussion of the hype surrounding...
    13 December 2015, 1:39 pm
  • The Digital Side-Hug: NCYM 2016 Preview w/Nicole Hendley & Josh Jones (Audio)
    With Early Bird Registration still open (through December 1st), there’s no better time to hear two members of the NCYM Board talk about the amazing blessings that await us all in Colorado Springs in January! After sharing a little about the history...
    8 November 2015, 4:34 am
  • The Digital Side-Hug: 50th Podcast w/Buster Clemens (Advice for Youth Ministers) (Audio)
    The 50th Podcast turns into HERO DAY at the Rubio House! Rubio’s youth ministry hero, Buster Clemens and his wife Kim drop by for a celebration for the ages. Becky makes cookies...Charity presents Buster with a special award & the Rubio brood...
    1 November 2015, 4:56 am
  • The Digital Side-Hug: NBA Season Preview 2015-16 (Audio)
    Recorded mere hours before the tip-off of the new season, infuriating San Antonio Spurs fan & veteran contributor to the Digital Side-Hug NBA Podcasts, Eric Livingston and newbie, Cameron Hendley - husband to Otter Creek’s High School Youth...
    25 October 2015, 1:38 am
  • The Digital Side-Hug: Catalyst 2015 Debrief Podcast (Audio)
    Holy CRAPOLA there was a lot of awesome stuff at this year’s Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA (#AwakenTheWonder). In this podcast (recorded in two segments), Rubio sits down with some former (Eric Petty & Matt Atnip) and current (David...
    11 October 2015, 2:02 am
  • The Digital Side-Hug: Bethany Haley Williams (The Color of Grace, The Power of Shame & the Mission of Exile International) (Audio)
    After revealing her ignorance of the world of Harry Potter, Bethany Haley Williams - founder of Exile International and author of the new book The Color of Grace - talks about the impact of shame in her own life and how her path to healing led her to...
    27 September 2015, 8:21 pm
  • The Digital Side-Hug: 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes (Retreat Ideas) (Audio)
    Live from David Skidmore’s office in Murfreesboro, Skid, David Knox & Todd Loyd (on the phone) join Rubio for another installment of 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes. The topic of this podcast is Retreat Ideas. From ways to prep your group beforehand…to...
    20 September 2015, 8:21 pm
  • The Digital Side-Hug: Scot McKnight (A Fellowship of Differents & The Definition of “Love”) (Audio)
    Scot McKnight is an author, speaker, preacher & professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in the suburbs of Chicago. After recommending “The Big Night” by Stanley Tucci, putting the kibosh on Morris Gregwire’s latest question and telling...
    13 September 2015, 8:21 pm
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