FRAMING THE SEASON 1. What are you doing, Jesus, in me in this season? 2. What’s the theme of this season? 3. What do I nee...
January 7, 2020
Dreams (and we mean aspirations) are difficult. They are, on the one hand, a way God tells you about your future. They are, o...
January 21, 2020
An elegant tool, from a more civilized time. Wait, that's not right. A simple tool, for a cluttered time? Better. Pursuing j...
January 28, 2020
What do we do when, not if, we face criticism? Often the critique has truth in it, but the internal messages that go along wi...
February 4, 2020
144 | Everyone Else Has it Easier, Right? by And Sons
February 11, 2020
It is, unfortunately, a common experience: you enter a room, and everyone else seems to belong there. But not you - you're th...
February 18, 2020
Where to start? Brad Beck has flown T-38s, worked at NASA, traveled the world, been an ER doc, and that’s only half the story...
February 25, 2020
How do you avoid losing hope? For better or worse, it's an everyday question. Answer? It may mean doing the hard thing, which...
March 3, 2020
What did God mean when he meant Sabbath? Most of us have no clue. Culture and tradition have made it boring and burdensome. S...
March 10, 2020
When hard times hit the fan, how shaky is your foundation? The pull is often to gain control...or at least more information. ...
March 17, 2020
We live in unprecedented times where scarcity and fear strike in the middle of the day and the dead of night. Yet God promise...
March 24, 2020
How does the trained professional survive hard times? By simplifying. It is the dominant strategy of the mature through the a...
March 31, 2020
The celebration of key events happens regularly in childhood. But then we get older and they stop. We hit a milestone dead zo...
April 7, 2020
We're good at doing, but we tend to question the value of pausing. This intentionally brief podcast is about a shift - from s...
April 14, 2020
These strange times provide countless opportunities to talk with others about the Kingdom, but religious language gets in the...
April 21, 2020
Our experience with alcohol varies wildly from person to person. For some, it's an occasional beer or celebratory toast. For ...
April 28, 2020
Our words hold immense power. We understand that on a relational level. But spiritually, far more is at play. Throughout scri...
May 5, 2020
Why is the decision to see a therapist the last resort for most of us? Sam and Blaine demystify the process by interviewing t...
May 12, 2020
The immaterial practices that fill our days (like those endless Zoom meetings) may be productive but they don't anchor us. Nu...
May 19, 2020
We often settle for a simple physical explanation when we're feeling down or off. So when a throbbing headache keeps you from...
May 26, 2020
A few reminders. The gospel transcends every human identity and tells you a few important things about the world. Like, the ...
June 2, 2020
161 I Dan Allender: Forgiveness is Freeing Dan Allender believes forgiveness must be at the forefront of our actions - espe...
June 9, 2020
We live in a polarizing time of stark opposites. The result is growing tension fueled by an odd swirling of opposition, offen...
June 16, 2020
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas is an actor, activist, pastor, producer, social entrepreneur, fifth generation “preacher’s kid”, and...
June 23, 2020
Being the dad of a girl is a radically different experience than fathering a boy. Yes, every child has their own personality....
June 30, 2020
Why can't most days be easier? We expect the occasional big storms that come. But it's the slow grind of the daily hard that ...
July 7, 2020
Many of today's emerging social, political, and spiritual movements aren't actually new. Earlier iterations can be found thro...
July 14, 2020
Welcome to the AndSons Summer Series. To mix things up (and to give them some vacation time), Sam and Blaine invited six of t...
July 21, 2020
It's summer...and that means outdoor adventure, lots of ice cream, and the And Sons Summer Series. This week, Stacey Burton f...
July 28, 2020
The focus turns to dating in this third installment of the And Sons Summer Series. Michelle Patterson from the Wild at Heart ...
August 4, 2020
How would you feel if your high-tech smartphone was suddenly just a...phone? No apps. No Siri. No touch screen anything. Just...
August 11, 2020
In this fifth installment of the AndSons Summer Series, Bart Hansen serves up his favorite past episode - #86 with Wookie Jon...
August 18, 2020
In this final serving of our Summer Series, Wild at Heart staffer Jamie Goudie throws you back to Episode 44. This one featur...
August 25, 2020
We rarely give ourselves permission to go any speed but fast. It feels impossible to downshift to a slower rhythm. Not now. N...
September 1, 2020
Your soul takes plenty of hits each day—and it doesn't just get better on its own. Time alone never heals those kind of wound...
September 8, 2020
We live at a time where everyone strives to be seen, celebrated, and productive. Yet what if being hidden in a world where ev...
September 15, 2020
How well do you know yourself? Odds are...not very well if you don't regularly tend to the inner needs of your heart and soul...
September 22, 2020
We wrap our Soul Care series with a look at what we usually try to hide—the state of our soul. Trying to figure out how our s...
September 29, 2020
We all love a good story. But rarely do we see our lives as a story. In this episode from 2017, Sam and Blaine discuss the DN...
October 6, 2020
This week, we head to Hollywood. It's where a lot of stories are brought to life. And where actor, director, and author Natha...
October 13, 2020
Whether written, visual, oral, or music, stories serve as mini periscopes that reveal the world around us—and within us. The ...
October 17, 2020
In the past year, our world has been shaken in almost every conceivable manner. We have been shaken as well—with chaos coming...
October 27, 2020
We live in a culture that demands we react to every issue right now. Answer fast. Beat the buzzer. Get the social media "like...
November 3, 2020
Life can turn upside down in the blink of an eye. You receive a "mayday" phone call or need to offer help to someone experien...
November 10, 2020
The question isn't whether we have pain. We have plenty. It's where are we taking it and how are we medicating it? But runnin...
November 17, 2020
How does adversity impact our bodies and sense of worth? Luke Eldredge joins Blaine in the studio to share his story of long-...
November 24, 2020
Some storms are beyond our control. But the ones that hit hardest are often relational storms of our own making. Sam and Blai...
December 1, 2020
It's Advent season. A time of hopeful anticipation. And yet it's hard to even say the word "hope" without simultaneously feel...
December 8, 2020
Picking up where last week's podcast left off, Sam and Blaine talk about Advent promises fulfilled—and those yet to come. The...
December 15, 2020
Most of us are coming into this Christmas having experienced some mix of loss and disappointment from the strange year known ...
December 22, 2020
2020 is pretty much a wrap. For most, that couldn't happen soon enough. But the changing of years never automatically changes...
December 29, 2020
