Everyday Faith Podcast

What if the reason you keep returning to the same sin cycles isn’t a willpower problem — but a belief problem?

Today we sit down with Savannah Carlson — speaker, content creator, and freedom coach from Minnesota — for a conversation that is honest, refreshing, and full of the kind of insight that makes you want to open your Bible and look at familiar verses with completely new eyes.

Savannah grew up in a ministry household, gave her life to the Lord at seven, and spent years quietly living a double life — youth group leadership on Sundays, patterns she couldn’t seem to break on the weekends. In part one, she shares what changed at 19 when two words in Hebrews 9 stopped her cold: dead works. And how understanding what righteousness actually means in the original Greek dismantled a belief system she’d been carrying for years without knowing it. 

We talk about the two camps most Christians find themselves in — self-righteousness and guilt — and why both are really just different expressions of the same root problem: thinking your performance has something to do with your standing before God. Savannah also unpacks the difference between effort and earning, why behavior change without belief change is just a Band-Aid, and what repentance actually means in the original language.

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Spiritual warfare is real. But it probably doesn’t look the way you think it does.

That line lands hard in part two of our conversation with Mark Halstensgard, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. Mark serves in prayer and deliverance ministry at his church, and in this episode he brings both spiritual depth and practical clarity to topics that a lot of Christians avoid – spiritual warfare, open doors, and what it actually means to close them.  

We open with a definition of spiritual warfare that might surprise you — because according to Mark and the apostle Paul, Satan’s primary strategy isn’t the dramatic stuff. It’s a single road into your mind, and it runs directly through what you believe about God and what you believe about yourself. Mark walks through the key passages, explains what the Greek actually says, and makes a compelling case that taking thoughts captive isn’t just a nice idea — it’s the front line.

We also get into Halloween — its origins, what scripture says about participating in the things connected to darkness, and what it looks like to be bold and unafraid without compromising. Mark is characteristically direct, and the conversation is worth hearing whether you already have strong convictions on this or you’ve never given it much thought.

And it closes with something genuinely freeing — no matter what agreements have been made, no matter how long the lineage, Jesus is the preeminent one. And there’s always power to break it off. 

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What if the prayers you've been praying have been asking God to do something He already did — and something He already asked you to do?

Today we’re sitting down with Mark Halstensgard — a finance professional, husband, dad, and someone who carries some of the most remarkable testimonies we've heard on this podcast. Mark grew up in a faith-filled home, but it wasn't until his senior year of high school — when an injury everything changed.

In part one of this conversation, Mark shares what it was like to lie in a hospital bed and take honest stock of his life. And what he promised God if he made it out. He also shares what happened next — a miraculous healing that left doctors with no explanation — and the journey that followed, including a moment on the side of a road at 3am that is one of the most extraordinary stories of answered prayer we've heard. 

We also get into prayer itself — what it means to pray from a place of belief rather than unbelief, why knowing the Word matters more than finding the right formula, and what changes when you understand the authority you've actually been given as a follower of Jesus. 

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What if living out the Beatitudes isn't about becoming a better person — but about letting Jesus overflow out of you into the people right in front of you?

That's the thread running through part two of this conversation with Andrew Steier — and it ties the whole two-part series together beautifully. Andrew is a pastor, author, and founder of Always Going, and in this episode he and Jess and Abby finish their walk through the Beatitudes with honesty, depth, and more than a few moments worth pausing over.

We talk about what real hunger for righteousness feels like versus just going through the right motions. We get into mercy — specifically the moment when you hold the power and have to decide what to do with it. And Andrew draws one of the most clarifying distinctions in this whole conversation between peacekeeping and peacemaking, and why followers of Jesus are uniquely positioned to do the harder and more meaningful of the two.

Andrew also closes with something that is simple and quietly profound — a reframe of evangelism that strips away the pressure and replaces it with something that sounds a lot more like joy.

Resources, curriculum, and the free five-day crash course are all at alwaysgoing.org and overflowevangelism.com.

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What if the Beatitudes aren't just inspirational words on a plaque — but the clearest picture Jesus ever gave us of what it actually looks like to live from overflow?

Andrew Steier is back, and this conversation is one we've been looking forward to. Andrew is a pastor, author, and founder of Always Going — a ministry dedicated to helping believers live on mission and share the gospel in everyday life. In part one of our conversation, Andrew brings his signature warmth and depth to a topic that is both deeply familiar and surprisingly unexplored: the Beatitudes. 

Andrew makes a case that these kingdom qualities — the ones we've seen on plaques and heard in sermons — are actually God's clearest picture of what His people are meant to look like on earth as it is in heaven. Not a checklist to power through. Not a standard to feel condemned by. But a lifelong progression to be pursued, prayed through, and slowly chiseled into us by a God who is for us. 

We talk about what it means to be poor in spirit, why mourning is actually a mark of a heart being formed into the image of Christ, and what meekness looks like in a culture that rewards the loudest voice in the room. Andrew also shares what it's looked like for him personally — as a dad, a husband, and a leader — to chase these qualities in the small, everyday, unheroic moments of life. 

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Website - AlwaysGoing.org 

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It's never too late to start using your words to build the people around you up. Not with your kids. Not with your team. Not with yourself.

Jody Hill is back for part two, and this conversation is just as rich as the first. Jody is the author of The Parent's Secret Superpower, and today she brings the science, the scripture, and the stories that make everything she teaches click into place.

We open with a water experiment that will genuinely stop you in your tracks — and connect what the Bible has been saying about the power of our words for centuries to what science is only now catching up to. From there, we get into what it looks like to stand against the villainous beliefs we hold about our kids, why Jody doesn't believe in the terrible twos, and how the difference between praising effort and praising results shapes the kind of person your child becomes.

We also talk about fear — how to raise kids who can do hard things, why identity is always at the root of courage, and how the small moments of everyday life are actually the most powerful classrooms we have.

And Jody closes with something for the parent who feels like they've missed their window. You haven't. It is never too late. And this episode will show you exactly where to start.

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Jody's Free Superpower Strategy & Top Confidence Boosters & Busters: https://mysecretsuperpower.com 

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What if the most powerful thing you can do for the people around you is already inside you — and you just don't know how to use it yet? 

Jody Hill never set out to write a book. She was a communications major turned photographer turned accidental author — and the message she stumbled into came directly out of one of the hardest seasons of her life. In part one of our conversation, Jody shares how walking through divorce as a mom of four sent her on a mission to discover what was actually in her power to shape her children's confidence, identity, and sense of worth. 

The answer was her words. And once she saw it, she couldn't unsee it — which is how The Parent's Secret Superpower was born.

We talk about what it looks like to call people up to greatness instead of labeling their behavior, why being a champion is very different from being a savior, and what the science and scripture behind the power of words actually reveal about the influence we carry every single day — often without realizing it.

Whether you're a parent, a leader, a spouse, or just someone who interacts with other humans on a daily basis — this one is for you.

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Jody's Free Superpower Strategy & Top Confidence Boosters & Busters: https://mysecretsuperpower.com 

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The dream isn't just the picture you see at the end. The dream is walking out the process that gets you there.

That's one of the most honest things Scott Ingegneri says in part two of this conversation — and by the time he says it, you've already heard enough of his story to know he means every word. Scott is a pastor, CEO of ACT International, and a man who has been saying "Good morning, Holy Spirit, take control" every single morning since second grade. 

In this episode, Scott shares the stories behind the stories — his son who picked up a passion for lighting design as a little boy and is now a renowned production designer in country music. His wife who felt the Lord prompt her to turn into a property that wasn't even on the market yet. The midnight ceiling-painting sessions. The moment he said yes to leading a 50-year-old missions organization and had to grieve stepping away from the ministry with his wife that had defined everything they'd built together. 

We also talk about what it means to encourage the dreamers in your home, what it looks like when your kids actually take you up on it, and what Scott would say to anyone who is in the middle of the hard, slow, unglamorous part of their calling and wondering if it's worth it. 

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He's been saying "Good morning, Holy Spirit" every single day since second grade. And the way he sees people because of it will make you want to do the same. 

Scott Ingegneri is a pastor, author, songwriter, dad of four, and CEO of ACT International — a missions organization that supports over 500 creative and innovative ministries around the world. But the story that sets the tone for everything he does goes all the way back to a soccer field, a kid named Eddie, and a question his parents asked that changed his relationship with the Holy Spirit forever. 

In part one of this conversation, Scott talks about what it means to stay curious about people instead of writing them off, why asking the Holy Spirit for perspective before you react might be the most practical spiritual discipline there is, and what it looks like to do that not just with strangers but with the people closest to you — your kids, your spouse, the relationships where you think you already know the whole story. 

We also get into what Scott calls releasing the dreamers — the conviction that God placed something creative and purposeful inside every person, and that fear is the primary thing keeping most people from ever finding out what it is. If you've been afraid to dream, or if you've quietly stopped, this conversation is going to stir something back up.

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She couldn't pray for the outcome. She couldn't see what was coming. All she could do was take the next right step — and trust that the years of faithfulness in the secret place would hold. 

Part two with Ashlee Assadi is one of those conversations that stays with you. Ashlee opens with what the Lord has been placing on her heart — the conviction that He will use everything developed in the secret place. The quiet mornings. The prayers over sleeping children. The worship music playing in the background when nobody is watching.

She then shares one of the most honest and vulnerable parts of her story — walking through her husband Armin's mental health crisis while postpartum, not knowing what the days ahead would hold, and learning in the most personal way possible what it means to fight for someone in prayer when that's the only weapon you have. We also hear a glimpse of Armin's remarkable journey from Iran, and the mission that story has led them to now. 

When everything feels uncertain, the next right step is enough. This episode is a beautiful reminder of that. 

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