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Living IN Jesus is a podcast designed to explore the depths of what it means to live a grace-filled life with Jesus as the focus. Be encouraged by listening to Spirit-filled conversations with a rotating panel of counselors and teachers from the counseling and training ministry of Christian Families Today.
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Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Knowing God
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
The pursuit of knowing God is an incredible, inspirational, and at times, daunting journey. What will we discover? How will it reshape our current understanding? Is God characterized by anger, boundless love, or some combination of the two? No matter what our current thoughts about God we may hold, the reality is that God is way bigger and better than we could ever imagine. He is more loving, caring, and perfect than our minds can grasp. Ultimately, He is inherently good. This truth forms the cornerstone for embarking on a deeper, more personal journey of knowing God.
In today’s episode, Ross O’Hair and Ben Brezina begin a mini-series on knowing God. In their discussion, they delve into the significance of deepening our understanding of God and offer insights into how we can achieve it. Their answers to the 'why' and 'how' emphasize that truth can indeed set us free and help us grow in our knowledge of God and love for him.
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Thursday Aug 31, 2023
How God Uses Disabilities
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Having a disability often involves facing challenges and obstacles that individuals without disabilities might not encounter in their daily lives. These limitations can affect people physically, socially, and emotionally in a profound way. On top of the struggle, Satan sometimes uses these limitations to feed us lies about God, ourselves, and others. Many who struggle with disabilities struggle with believing that God has a plan for them. In this episode, Ross O’Hair talks with Sabrina Frazier about her hearing disability and her journey from believing lies about herself and God to embracing God in the middle of her struggle and glorifying God in and through her hearing impairment.
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Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Confident Parenting
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Parenting can be very challenging. Taking care of another human being's physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being comes with significant responsibility. Each child has unique needs, and every stage of life presents fresh challenges and a multitude of decisions to make. Amid the complexities of our world, our own personal struggles, and the difficulties we encounter with our children, we can be easily overwhelmed. Maintaining a sense of confidence in our parenting abilities might appear unattainable. Instead of being confident, we can find ourselves doubting our competence and wondering whether we possess the necessary qualities to effectively parent our children.
However, God has some encouraging news for uncertain parents. God has not left us to navigate the parenting challenges alone. As Christians, we have what it takes because Jesus lives in us! In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Connie Brezina share how to parent confidently by depending on God’s indwelling, empowering, and guiding presence. By choosing to rely on Him in our roles as parents, we discover the secret to Godly, confident parenting.
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Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Living IN Jesus
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
The New Testament frequently mentions the concept of Jesus residing within us. However, we also encounter the idea that we live in Jesus. This apparent paradox can prove challenging to grasp and even harder to observe in our daily lives. Nevertheless, Jesus assures us of our unity with Him. So, how can we tangibly experience this connection, comprehend it, and embrace its validity? What difference will this understanding make in our daily lives? In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Ben Brezina delve into what it means to live IN Jesus, shedding light on the profound transformation this understanding brings to our lives and the encouragement it provides in the midst of life’s difficulties and trials.
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Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Help for the Struggles of Life
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
We all encounter hardship and struggle in our lives. It is a fact of life. When we encounter life's pains, heartaches, and doubts, many of us instinctively seek to escape the struggle by any means possible. However, it is precisely these struggles and difficulties that often provide the most valuable and growth-inducing experiences. In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Tom Price talk about how God works in and through our hardships and struggles. As we turn to Him with our struggles, God’s Spirit acts as our unwavering anchor within us, providing strength, guidance, solace, and comfort so that we will endure and overcome.
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Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Deepening Relationships by Asking Questions
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
God designed us to thrive in meaningful relationships with others, but nurturing and strengthening these connections requires a genuine understanding of one another. Many may wonder, how can we truly get to know someone else and deepen our bonds with those God brings into our lives? The answer lies in the power of asking questions.
In this enlightening episode, Ross O’Hair and Mark Fields explore how the simple act of asking thoughtful questions can unlock doors to deeper, more meaningful relationships. As we depend on God to lead us in asking good questions, others will experience the love of God, and our relationships will flourish and grow.
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Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Giving Our Burdens to God
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
We all care about our lives and cherish the moments of pleasure. However, life is often filled with challenges and complexities, characterized by both highs and lows, burdens, and tribulations. So how do we navigate through life’s difficulties and persevere? The answer lies in relying on God. It may sound simple, but in reality, the God of the universe cares deeply about you and your life, more than you could ever comprehend. Even more remarkable is His loving desire to be with us and support us through every single moment. Embracing this truth empowers us to cast our burdens and worries upon Him, trusting in His unfailing love and abundant provision. In today’s episode, Ross O’Hair and Ben Brezina talk about how to give our cares and burdens to God, emphasizing the importance of trust and intimacy in this process.
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Thursday Jul 20, 2023
The Greatest Commandment
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
In Mark 12, Jesus reveals God’s greatest commandment given to humanity – to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Because this is what God most desires from people, this command should permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet it is all too easy to just get busy doing loving things for God and our neighbor without first understanding the how and the why.
In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Connie Brezina discuss how the greatest commandment is rooted both in God’s nature and the necessity for us to have a deep and meaningful relationship with our Creator. When we fully understand God’s loving nature and how we are connected to God in Christ, we are set free…Free to love God and others the way God intended.
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Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Fear and Anxiety
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Living with fear and anxiety can be incredibly challenging and debilitating. Our fears and chronic anxious thoughts can cast a dark shadow over every aspect of life, constantly weighing us down and restricting our ability to experience joy and fulfillment. Living with chronic anxiety not only erodes our mental well-being but also takes a toll on our physical and relational health.
While many of us struggle with fear and anxiety today, these struggles are not new to our time. Since the fall of mankind, fear and anxiety have plagued us all. But should we just resign ourselves to having to live with them forever? The answer is no!
In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Beau Brezina define fear and anxiety, share their personal experiences with anxious thoughts, and talk about how God empowers us to experience freedom by depending on Him and his truth.
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Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Seeing Ourselves the Way God Sees Us
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
How does God see you? Does he like what he sees when he looks at you or is he always upset and frustrated with you?
These are good questions, and understanding the correct answers to these questions is crucial for comprehending both ourselves and also the status of our relationship with God. Knowing God's real perspective of us in Christ and embracing it as our own self-perception will significantly impact our thoughts, choices, and behaviors. In other words, we often think and behave out of how we perceive ourselves.
In this episode, Ross O’Hair and Tom Price discuss the transformative work of God in our lives through Christ, how God presently views us based on his work in Christ, and how we can begin to see ourselves the way God sees us.
Have a question or comment about this podcast? We want to hear from you. Email us at podcast@cftministry.org
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In need of individual counseling? Visit our website to schedule an online or in-person appointment.