78:4

Season 01 Episode 04 Can God work through you?

We've all heard the calls to give God your best, but what if you don't have a best? What if the best you have to give to God is your brokenness? Is there still a place for me in His kingdom? In today's episode, we'll hear from three people who found out that God delights in working through us no matter what condition we're in.

Josh McDowell "Can God Really Use Me?" 1:45 – 6:35

Jane Cook "Redeeming what was Lost" 8:15 – 12:31

Roger Randall "But I'm Just a Kid" 13:59 – 20:14

Resources to help you grow

Tiffany Found Pure Joy

"I am not perfect. I never will be, and that's okay because God IS."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/communities/campus/tiffany-found-pure-joy.html

Jesus Gives Power For Living

"Therefore, it is no longer what we do through our own self-effort, but what He does supernaturally, because He is the one who provides the power, and we are merely the instruments through which He releases that power."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/how-to-know-god/jesus-and-the-intellectual.6.html

Be A Mirror

"And as we are transformed, we will light up the world around us."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/discohttps://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/devotionals/todays-promise/07/11.html

Josh's Bio

https://www.josh.org/about-us/joshs-bio/

Ways to Serve

Cru

Loads of mission trips, internships, and career opportunities

https://www.cru.org/us/en/opportunities.html

Season 01 Episode 03 The God Who Cares

Does God care? He has an entire universe to take care of, wars and famines to deal with; does He even have time to care that you have a flat tire and are going to be late for a job interview? Or that you don't know what to do about a big decision and you need advice? Or that someone you love has cancer? The world laughs at you for thinking He does care, but God has something else to say about that. Today, we'll hear from three people who have experienced God's love and care on deeply personal levels.

Josh McDowell "Father, Is My Mom In Heaven?" 1:46 – 5:12

Leonard Mahoe "Dora's Disney Prayer" 7:10 – 10:14

Roxanne Hershey "Does God Even Care?" 13:08 – 17:09

Resources to help you grow

When God Seems Silent

"As Christians, we are not always going to hear God's voice, but from Job we can learn a few practical things to do when God seems silent."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/prayer/learn-from-gods-silence.html

Does God Care Who Wins?

"But God most certainly does care who wins—just not at all in the same way we do and certainly not in the way implied by most post-game interviews."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/communities/athletes/does-god-care-who-wins.html

Gay, Lesbian, God's Love

"But God is able to love you perfectly. He loves us because it is his nature to love, and it never changes, never stops."

https://www.everyperson.com/wires/gay-lesbian.html

If you'd like more information about Josh McDowell

https://www.josh.org/

Season 01 Episode 02 The God Who Fixes Broken People

Merriam-Webster lists 17 definitions for the word "broken"; among them are "shattered," "not working properly," and "violated by transgression." A piece of pottery broken beyond repair is thrown away. But what about people? What happens when we're broken beyond repair? Does God throw us away when we're broken, or can He fix us? In today's episode, we'll hear from three deeply broken people who were not only repaired but transformed.

Darryl Smith "Against All Hope". 2:12 – 8:36

Elizabeth Schenkel "Addicted: The God Drug". 9:59 – 15:50

Dr. Harvey Elder. 17:18 – 25:00

Resources to help you grow

But Christians Aren't Supposed To Be Broken

"Accepting my brokenness turned myself and my sin into a gloriously tiny trickle, and it turned His cross and His grace into the magnificent ocean in which I was now near-drowning with grateful glee."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/life-and-relationships/hardships/but-christians-arent-supposed-to-be-broken.html

4 Things To Remember When You're Discouraged

"We will always be flawed as human beings, but it's when we begin to think we can handle things on our own that we start to fail."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/life-and-relationships/hardships/4-things-to-remember-when-youre-discouraged.html

The Forgiveness God Offers

"Do you sometimes find it difficult to believe that you have total forgiveness of your sins in Jesus Christ?"

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/transferable-concepts/experience-gods-love-and-forgiveness.html

Bonus

Kintsugi – The Art Of Broken Pieces

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/kintsugi-the-art-of-broken-pieces/

Season 01 Episode 01 Are you really free?

To many, freedom means being able to do whatever you want. To others, it means not having to bow down to some external oppression or slavery. But true freedom goes much deeper than that. That's why some prisoners are free even though they're behind bars, while many people who are technically free are walking about in prisons of their own making. As Thoreau said, they're leading "lives of quiet desperation." In today's episode, we'll talk to three people who have unique takes on what it means to be truly and completely free.

Ward Coleman and Butyrka Prison 3:16 – 5:46

Tyrone Thompkins "Will we ever be slaves again?" 6:39 – 9:47

Kathleen Dooley "The little train that couldn't". 10:34 – 13:52

Resources to help you grow

What It Means to Live Free

"To experience the freedom that is in front of me, I need a reminder."

https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/spiritual-growth/devotionals-quiet-times/what-it-means-to-live-free.html

Ninth-Story Blues

"God freed me from my guilt."

https://www.everyperson.com/features/blues.html

The Source of a Changed Life

"I wanted to be one of the freest people in the whole world."

https://www.everyperson.com/features/source.html

Are you satisfied with your life? Or is something missing? 78:4 is a podcast where we listen and learn from ordinary, everyday people who are living vibrant lives with Jesus and asks, "If God can do that in this person's life, what can He do in mine?"