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Anne Marie Panoringan is Culture OC’s well-informed food columnist. She reports industry news, current events and trends. Anne Marie also contributes regularly to Eater Los Angeles, LAist, TASTE and a host of other well-respected and noteworthy publications. Anne Marie joins us in-studio to discuss her work as Food Columnist for Culture OC, her recent overseas travels to Hong Kong, and some tasty Orange County dining tidbits.

“Better Than Grandma’s – Comfort Desserts We Grew Up Loving, is the delightful debut cookbook from baker extraordinaire (He’s 23) and social media sensation Justin Ellen (who has over 4 million followers across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube). Justin grew up with his nana teaching him that from-scratch is always better. Inspired by everything she taught him, he challenged himself to take the classic comfort desserts we all grew up loving and make them more flavorful, more reliable, and completely foolproof—with simple techniques and game-changing tips that actually make a difference. Because Justin believes that once you see how easy it is to make something from scratch, you might just be ready to drop the box mix for good.” Justin puts down his whisk and joins us.

God has not forgotten you. He is forging you.

There is a difference, and it changes everything about how you endure what you are walking through right now.

In the tenth episode of our A Life Unleashed series, Christine Caine opens 1 Peter 1:1–9, a letter written to Christians who were being persecuted, tortured, and displaced under Nero's reign, and brings a word that is as urgent and necessary today as it was then: the fire you are in is not punishment. It is purification. And the goldsmith holding you over the flame is the creator of the universe, who loves you.

In this episode, Christine Caine walks through Peter's letter to scattered, suffering believers and shows that trials serve two purposes that cannot be achieved any other way: they prove whether your faith is the real deal, and they forge you into the image of Christ. She introduces the goldsmith's process — how gold must be held over the hottest part of the fire so that the impurities invisible from the outside rise to the surface, so the refiner can skim them off until the gold is pure enough to reflect their own face — and shows that this is exactly what God is doing in every fiery trial you face. She traces the endurance of Jesus through every betrayal, misunderstanding, false accusation, and suffering He faced, not to inspire guilt but to anchor hope. He endured all of it so that the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead could live in you. The compelling takeaway is this: a faith that has not been tested is a faith that can't be trusted and the trial you are in is making your faith more precious, not less.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ Why is God allowing this trial when I am trying to follow Him faithfully?

✅ How do I keep believing God is good when everything around me feels like it's falling apart?

✅ Is it possible to have genuine hope in the middle of real suffering, not just positive thinking?

✅ How do I know if my faith is actually real, and what does it even mean for faith to be tested?

✅ Why do some seasons feel like one trial after another with no relief?

✅ How do I keep going when I am on the verge of giving up?

✅ Can God actually redeem something as painful as abuse, betrayal, or devastating loss?

…then this is your episode.

What you'll learn:

→ Why trials do not make your faith genuine but prove whether it is — and how the goldsmith metaphor from 1 Peter 1 reframes every fiery season you are in as purification rather than punishment, with a loving refiner holding you in the flame.

→ How to maintain an eternal perspective in a temporal trial — why remembering who you are, what you have, and where you are going changes your capacity to endure what you don't understand, even when God hasn't explained the why.

→ How Jesus Himself endured every form of betrayal, suffering, misunderstanding, and trial — and why the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead living inside you means you have a supernatural ability to endure that goes far beyond your own natural strength.

A LIFE UNLEASHED — new episodes every Monday.

Order Christine's new devotional Whom Shall I Fear? → ChristineCaine.com/Unafraid

Go deeper with Christine's book The Faith to Flourish → ChristineCaine.com/Flourish

Free Seasonal Reflection Guide — download it here: → ChristineCaine.com/Podcast

New here? Christine Caine is a speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and activist who has been serving the local church globally for over 30 years. She and her husband, Nick, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign, which works at the local, domestic, and international level to end modern-day slavery. They also founded Equip & Empower, a ministry that is mobilizing

Harvey Thomas was sound asleep in a hotel when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded directly under him. He was catapulted through the roof of the building and buried under ten tons of rubble.

As a follower of Jesus Christ, Harvey realized he needed to forgive the man who planted the bomb. But how would the bomber respond? 

Listen to Harvey’s riveting story of working for Margaret Thatcher, facing death, and meeting the terrorist who almost killed him on this episode of GPS: God. People. Stories.

Listen to the rest of Billy Graham’s sermon to Belfast, Ireland, at the Billy Graham Audio Archives.

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