Episodios

  • Loving Your Neighbor Who's Hurting

    Loving Your Neighbor Who's Hurting
    Jun 10 2025
    In today’s episode, we have an honest and practical conversation about how to love our neighbors who are walking through seasons of pain, suffering, or difficulty. Whether it's strained marriages, financial struggles, anxiety, grief, or even something as simple as exhaustion, we explore how God invites us to enter into the hard places with compassion and presence. Drawing from personal experiences, Scripture, and the teachings of Jesus, we talk about what to do (and what not to do), how to avoid clichés, and how to serve in ways that truly meet people where they are. We’re reminded that while we can’t fix everything, we can embody God’s love and comfort in powerful ways. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God’s Purpose and Provision in Suffering compiled by Nancy Guthrie. Not the Way it’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, by Cornelius Plantinga A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry Sittser What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts) by Nancy Guthrie Check your Local church for ministries like these: DivorceCare, GriefShare, Cancer Care, Stephen Ministry, Counseling resources, Recovery Groups, Diabetes Support, Meals ministry, Home Repairs, Lawn Care, etc. CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    32 m
  • Loving Your Elderly Neighbor

    Loving Your Elderly Neighbor
    Jun 3 2025
    In this episode, we’re joined by Wayne Rice — veteran youth pastor, author, and co-founder of Youth Specialties — as he shares wisdom on how we can love and serve the elderly neighbors around us. Wayne currently serves with the Legacy Coalition, a ministry dedicated to equipping grandparents for spiritual influence in their families, and brings decades of ministry experience to this meaningful conversation. We talk about what Scripture says about honoring the elderly, how culture often sidelines seniors, and how simple acts of kindness, listening, and intergenerational community can bring joy and connection to our older neighbors. Wayne also offers practical ways families can include children in serving and building relationships with seniors. Whether you have elderly neighbors nearby or want to think more biblically about this stage of life, Wayne’s wisdom will challenge and encourage you. Legacy Coalition: https://legacycoalition.com/
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    39 m
  • Loving Your Mormon Neighbor

    Loving Your Mormon Neighbor
    May 27 2025
    Today we’re joined by Mark and Molly Parsons from Truth in Love Ministry to talk about how we can better love and understand our Mormon neighbors. With years of experience in outreach and personal relationships in LDS communities, Mark and Molly offer insight into the beliefs and culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how Christians can engage with kindness, clarity, and the hope of the gospel. We explore what makes Mormonism unique, how to talk about Jesus and grace in ways that resonate, and why asking curious, respectful questions matters more than winning debates. Whether you have LDS neighbors or you're just looking to build bridges across worldviews, this conversation is full of wisdom and real-life stories to guide you in loving well. www.tilm.org CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    48 m
  • Loving Your Atheist Neighbor with Jon Noyes

    Loving Your Atheist Neighbor with Jon Noyes
    May 20 2025
    Today we’re joined by Jon Noyes, a former atheist turned Christian apologist with Stand to Reason, who shares his powerful story of moving from skepticism to belief. Jon reflects on what it was like to be a self-proclaimed "evangelical atheist," how Christians in his life made space for hard questions without defensiveness, and the key role that honest, consistent relationships played in his journey to faith. We explore what atheists often believe (and don’t believe), how to ask better questions instead of assuming, and how many atheists are wrestling with deeper existential questions—especially in a world marked by pain and suffering. John also discusses why understanding someone’s worldview is crucial for meaningful connection, and how the Christian story speaks uniquely to our sense of brokenness, purpose, and longing for hope. Whether you’re engaging a skeptical neighbor, or just trying to better understand those with different beliefs, this conversation is packed with wisdom, empathy, and encouragement. Website: Stand To Reason CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    53 m
  • Loving Your Immigrant, International and Refugee Neighbors with Donna Kushner

    Loving Your Immigrant, International and Refugee Neighbors with Donna Kushner
    May 13 2025
    In this episode, we dive into what it looks like to love our neighbors who are immigrants, internationals, and refugees. Donna Kushner joins us to share insights from her decades of cross-cultural ministry, including time serving overseas and her current work walking alongside refugee families in the U.S. We explore what makes the refugee experience uniquely difficult—from language and housing barriers to navigating complex systems and overcoming loneliness—and why proximity, hospitality, and reciprocity are so powerful in building relationships. We also unpack misconceptions around immigration and offer practical ways to take that first step toward connection, whether it’s offering a plate of cookies, sitting on the floor instead of the couch, or simply learning someone’s name. Donna shares stories that highlight the beauty and resilience of these neighbors and the deep joy of mutual friendship. Finding Home Again: A free small group study for refugee and immigrant families https://www.familylife.com/finding-home/ Evangelical Immigration Table: In partnership with World relief this is a go to website to learn all about how to engage with refugees and immigrants: https://evangelicalimmigrationtable.com/ Women of Welcome Facebook page: a great place to connect and learn about welcoming the stranger along with other women https://www.facebook.com/WomenofWelcome CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    39 m
  • Loving Your Little Neighbors

    Loving Your Little Neighbors
    May 6 2025
    In this episode, we dive into what it looks like to love our littlest neighbors—kids! Whether they live under your roof, next door, or pop by for snacks and sidewalk chalk, we explore how our view of children shapes the way we engage them. Kristin Jeffries, mom of four and the creative arts co-director for Crossing Kids, joins us in-studio to help us push back against some of the negative cultural narratives surrounding kids—that they’re inconvenient, messy, or burdensome—and instead adopt Jesus’ view of children as valuable, curious, and deeply worthy of love. We talk about how kids aren’t just “future adults,” but full image-bearers right now, and why it matters that we slow down to see and know them. Kristin shares stories of how kids have influenced entire families through simple faith and how neighbors (like Mr. Kevin) have become like family through everyday kindness. We also get practical: what boundaries help kids navigate the neighborhood safely? How can families engage their own kids in loving others missionally? What does it look like to live out your faith in front of the kids next door without being pushy? From praying at dinner with a neighbor friend to picking up sticks after a storm, this episode offers encouragement and tangible ways to love the little ones among us in ways that honor their personhood, reflect God’s heart, and maybe even spark deeper relationships in your neighborhood. Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children Protect Their Bodies (God Made Me) CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    47 m
  • Loving Your Neighbor With Different Parenting Styles

    Loving Your Neighbor With Different Parenting Styles
    Apr 29 2025
    In this episode of our Loving Your [Fill-in-the-Blank] Neighbor series, we’re diving into something many of us face daily but rarely talk about—how to love your neighbor with a different parenting style. From sleep training battles to snack-time politics, from screen-time boundaries to trampoline supervision, this episode is for anyone trying to raise kids in community while navigating differing values, opinions, and convictions. We reflect on our early parenting years and the pressure they felt to pick “God’s way” of parenting—only to realize that many of these decisions fall more in the realm of opinions than convictions. We'll walk through a helpful framework (convictions, persuasions, opinions) and unpack how parenting styles like authoritarian, permissive, free-range, helicopter, and gentle parenting often stir up strong feelings—but don’t need to divide us. CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    40 m
  • Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

    Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
    Apr 22 2025
    In this continuation of our Loving Your [Fill-in-the-Blank] Neighbor series, we sit down with pastor and author Caleb Campbell to talk about what it means to love our Christian nationalist neighbors. Caleb’s book, Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor, invites us to move beyond fear and frustration and instead adopt the posture rooted in empathy, curiosity, and the way of Jesus. We unpack the meaning of Christian nationalism, explore how it functions as political ideology, tribal identity, and spiritual idolatry, and reflect on the cultural forces that have fueled its rise. Caleb shares deeply personal stories from his own ministry, including the painful losses, surprising encounters, and moments of conviction that led him from combativeness to compassion. Whether you’re feeling confused, angry, or just overwhelmed by what you're seeing in churches and communities, this conversation offers clarity and hope. Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Follow this link to share your neighboring stories with us or tell us your thoughts on today's episode.
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    47 m
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