This week, Jake and Bob welcome Dr. Sean Tobin, author and psychologist, to explore the reality of spiritual warfare and deliverance ministry. Dr. Sean reframes deliverance not as a battle to fear but as a process of centering our hearts in Christ. They discuss how fear, self-reliance, and isolation fragment the soul, why the simplicity of love and praise is more powerful than you think, and the proper balance between technique and communion. This is a hopeful conversation about spiritual battle, one rooted not in fear, but in confidence in a Father who relentlessly pursues healing, wholeness, and communion with His children.

Key Points:

• Spiritual warfare is real, but we need not be afraid.
• Deliverance is not about removing darkness but allowing the light of Christ back into our hearts.
• The enemy's main tactics are to make us feel afraid, isolated, or grasp in self-reliance.
• Feeding fear or falling into superstition can strengthen spiritual bondage instead of bringing freedom
• The simple practices of faith (prayer, trust, and praise) are more profoundly effective than you think.
• Spiritual warfare is ultimately about ministering to people, not fighting demons.
• Healing involves restoring belonging, communion, and trust in God's presence.
• Like healing, deliverance is a process, and does not usually happen in a single moment.
• God can use spiritual conflict to refine, mature, and draw us into deeper communion with Him.

Resources:

• Dr. Sean Tobin's Website
• Big GOD, Little Devil by Dr. Sean Tobin
• Big GOD, Little Devil audiobook narrated by Dr. Sean Tobin

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

03:03 Dr. Sean's Background

09:59 Learning About Spiritual Warfare Can Help Increase Our Faith

16:16 How Fear Plays into the Enemy's Hands

21:37 Isolation, Self Reliance, and Distrust are Part of Spiritual Warfare

26:38 Authority and the Power of Suggestion

31:48 The Effects of Simple Practices

41:43 Technique vs Relationship with God

49:01 Words of Encouragement as You Enter the Battle

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This week, Jake and Bob discuss the relationship between healing, deliverance, and spiritual warfare. They explore the nature of spiritual strongholds (patterns of thoughts or beliefs that oppose the reality of who God is) and why these strongholds often obstruct emotional and spiritual healing. Jake and Bob also nuance the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary experiences of grace and how the supernatural is hidden within the quiet or ordinary moments. Finally, they address the role of spiritual authority within the Church, the importance of recognizing your own authority, and why authentic healing flows from relationship with Christ rather than technique.

Key Points:

• The healing and deliverance processes are deeply connected
• Spiritual warfare is part of everyday life
• Strongholds are built from repeated thoughts, beliefs, and lies that oppose the reality of who God is
• The ordinary is often where the supernatural is most active. Extraordinary experiences are not a measure of God's presence in our lives
• Wounds can become entry points for spiritual influence if left unaddressed
• Deliverance often involves dismantling lies and beliefs (strongholds) rather than confronting extraordinary manifestations
• Prayer, the Sacraments, and virtues are our weapons in spiritual warfare
• Healing comes from relationship with Christ, not because of a specific prayer formula or technique
• There are different levels of spiritual authority within the Church

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

03:02 Engaging in a Spiritual Battle as a Catholic

12:21 How Do We Pull Down Strongholds in Our Life?

18:21 The Supernatural isn't Exclusive to Extraordinary Moments

25:11 Ordinary and Extraordinary Dynamics in Healing and Deliverance

34:56 The Difference Between Human and Angelic Intelligence

43:55 What are the Different Levels of Authority in the Church?

57:43 How Can We Exercise Our Authority?

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This week, Jake and Bob are joined by Jason Evert, a Catholic speaker, author, and expert on the Theology of the Body. Together they explore the history of gender theory, how contraception shifted culture, and why it's important to root our identity in God. They also discuss how wounds and unmet needs are often tied to the experience of gender dysphoria and how our culture avoids addressing the source of suffering.

Key Points:

• The term gender has only recently entered into our vocabulary
• Wounds, past traumas, and unmet needs for belonging, love, and safety are often the root cause for someone experiencing gender dysphoria
• Many European countries and leading medical institutions are now rethinking their gender-affirmative protocols after evidence showed these interventions often failed to resolve underlying distress and caused harm
• Rather than addressing the source of suffering, our culture has told us our bodies are the problem
• The different gender labels within society today offer an identity and community to those feeling rejected or isolated
• Our identity is as beloved children of God and shouldn't be reduced to how we feel or our social affiliations
• The truth can become a weapon if we don't first listen in love and acknowledge the experience of suffering

Resources:

• Jason's Website
• Male, Female, Other? A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender by Jason Evert
• Male, Female, Other? booklet by Jason Evert with an introduction by Chole Cole
• Theology of the Body in One Hour by Jason Evert
• Navigating Gender with Charity and Clarity Course
• Gender Resources

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:36 How Jason Discovered the Theology of the Body

05:35 The History of Gender Theory

15:45 When the Body is Made the Problem

23:54 Addressing the Experienced Suffering

29:51 Same Sex Attraction and Finding Your True Identity

38:33 How to Share the Truth without Using Truth as a Weapon

46:44 They Need to Trust You Before They Will Trust Your Ideas

54:33 Resources

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This week, Jake and Bob discuss identity: why it matters, how it is formed, and its role in the healing process. We live in a fallen world with an enemy who spreads lies that can send us down paths far from the truth of who we are. Through questions like "Who am I?", "Whose am I?", and "Do I belong?" Jake and Bob explore how to reclaim our God-given identity and rest in the freedom of living in that truth.

Key Points:

• Finding your identity in Christ and living out of that truth is part of the healing process
• We begin the search for our identity in childhood and continue to deepen it (whether in truth or lies) throughout life
• Because we live in a fallen world, our identity can easily be influenced by the lies we believe about ourselves, others, and the world around us
• Healing is more than the relief from pain. Maturing in our God-given identity is actually a form of healing
• We become what we believe we are. We come to know ourselves and learn to love ourselves as we learn who we are in God
• There is value and healing to be found in the journey of finding our identity in God

Resources:

• Jake's Identity Course (Use the code RESTORE10 at checkout for 10% your enrollment)
• The Chastity of Jesus and the "Refusal to Grasp"

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

08:05 "What Am I?" and " Who Am I?"

21:58 The Struggle Against My God-given Identity

29:34 Do I Belong?

39:57 The Path to Finding Your Identity

48:12 Maturing Within Your Identity

55:23 The Purity of Love

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This week, Jake and Bob explore how inner healing is rooted within the tradition of the Catholic Church. Drawing from the Catechism, they discuss the three expressions of prayer—vocal, meditative, and contemplative—and how each form is incorporated within the inner healing process. Far from being a psychological exercise, inner healing comes from a deeply relational encounter with Jesus and restores the whole person so we might live in deeper communion with Him.

Key Points:

• Inner healing prayer is deeply rooted in the Church's tradition
• The Catechism identifies three key expressions of prayer: vocal, meditation, and contemplative. These are all at the heart of the inner healing process
• Healing comes from an encounter with Jesus and is not a result of a mere completion of steps
• When we pray, we need to engage our hearts instead of simply repeating words
• God is always present when we pray, even when we cannot hear His voice
• Inner healing often requires us to patiently cooperate with God's timing. He knows more about the mysteries and vulnerabilities of our hearts than we do

Catechism Paragraphs Mentioned in the Episode:

• Vocal Prayer: CCC 2700
• Meditation: CCC 2705 - 2706, 2708,
• Contemplative Prayer: CCC 2709 - 2710, 2716

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

04:18 Inner Healing is Rooted in Scripture and Tradition

06:45 Vocal Prayer

13:21 Meditation

22:45 What to do When We Distrust Our Human Hearts

31:12 Contemplative Prayer

This week, Jake and Bob welcome Dr. Shane Owens to explore how desire, the heart, and theology work together for our good, through the lens of St. Augustine's Confessions. Dr. Owens breaks down St. Augustine's healing journey and how by understanding the desires motivating our actions, we are led into deeper communion with God. They also discuss how memories shape our view of reality, why we distrust a good God, and what the Scriptures teach us about our identity.

Key Points:

• Our desires ultimately point us towards God
• Sin is a result of misdirecting our desires towards something that is not God. It is an attempt to counterfeit the beautiful
• Memory is dynamic, not static, and returning to our heart to examine our memories plays an important role in forming our identity and facilitating healing.
• St. Augustine's willingness to be vulnerable in his "Confessions" is a model for vulnerability and understanding our desires.
• Scripture helps us recognize true beauty and reveals our true identity
• There will always be a tension between our desires and satisfying those desires. Healing and maturation occurs when we listen to our desires but wait for true fulfillment in God rather than settling for counterfeits.

Resources:

• Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions by Dr. Shane Owens
• Dr. Owen's Instagram
• Bible Across America
• "Vice As Counterfeit Beauty" chart from Dr. Owens' book (see our website here)
• Dr. Owens on the Abiding Together Podcast

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:56 St. Augustine's Healing Journey

13:52 Connecting Desire, the Heart, and Theology

26:02 Every Sin is Counterfeit Beauty

35:05 Why We Distrust A Good God

43:06 Allowing Desire to Guide Even When We Aren't Satisfied

48:05 Memory Shapes How We Perceive Reality

58:05 Restoring the Glory Through Childlike Trust

This week, Jake and Bob begin a two part series on desire and how it relates to sin. They discuss how sin arises from a desire for good and how our woundedness shapes these patterns of sin. Rather than suppressing our desires, Jake and Bob reflect on the goodness of desire and the importance of rightly ordering it through prayer. Through personal stories and movie references, they end by walking you through practical ways to identify the holy desires beneath your struggles.

Key Points:

• Behind every disordered desire is a holy desire, an unmet need, an unhealed wound, and a hidden pattern of sin.
• Sin arises from a desire for the good
• Every time we experiencing longing, we are experiencing a desire for God
• To stop patterns of sin, we must first recognize the underlying desire
• Self reliance is the false belief that the satisfaction of our deepest desires is completely up to us.
• Desire is an essential element of the Christian life.
• God desires our wholehearted devotion and places desire on our hearts so we seek and love Him
• Movies, music, and stories can reveal and awaken our deepest desires. They show us what moves our hearts and what we deeply long for.

Resources:

• Unwanted: How Our Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay Stringer
• One Desire by Hillsong Worship

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:23 Sin Arises from a Desire for Good

00:11:32 Self-Reliance, Deadly Wounds, and the Anatomy of a Wound

00:16:52 We Cannot Escape Our Desire for God

00:20:29 The Integration of Virtue and Desire

00:22:56 The Battle of Desire

00:32:14 Awakening or Killing Right Desire

00:36:13 Can Movies Reactivate Desire?

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This week, Jake and Bob welcome Fr. Matthew Rolling to the show to discuss healing through the lens of Thomistic philosophy. The path to healing isn't a straight path and sometimes our experiences in life cloud our perception of reality. Fr. Matthew explains why philosophy helps us find truth and how it can redirect us when we become confused within our healing journeys. They also explore how sin affects healing, the role of our passions, and the importance of grace.

Key Points:

• Philosophy helps us find the truth about reality
• Not all questions can be answered by human reason alone
• The human person is a union of body and soul
• We should not let our experiences define our reality
• Our desires have the ability to lead us towards what is inherently good
• Grace perfects nature, it does not destroy it

Resources:

• The Glorious Freedom of the Children of God by Fr. Matthew Rolling (Available soon for purchase here)
• St. Gregory the Great Seminary
• Diocese of Lincoln
• Healing Professionals Virtual Workshop

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:09 The Importance of Philosophy in Healing

00:09:08 The Error of Experiences Defining Reality

00:15:44 Understanding the Human Person as Body and Soul

00:22:13 The Relationship Between Sin and Wounds

00:25:20 Passions, Emotions, and Apparent Goods

00:34:30 Trauma and the Healing Process

00:41:57 Dealing with Desire, Fear, Joy, and Sorrow

00:47:42 How Grace and Virtue Lead to Healing

00:57:01 Discerning Truth in All Things

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This week, Jake and Bob conclude their series on athletics by welcoming Fr. Burke Masters, the baseball priest, and Trevor Williams, the Washington Nationals pitcher, to the show! Together they discuss finding your identity in Christ when your job is about performing well, evangelizing as a professional athlete, and how sports can aid you in becoming a better Christian. Fr. Burke and Trevor also share how God led them to athletics, the story of how they met, and play a fun game with Jake and Bob at the end of the episode.

Key Points:

• Even when our jobs demand we perform well, our core identity is as beloved children of God, not in what we do or achieve.
• True humility is revealed in how we respond both to success and to failure, not just in our losses.
• Integrating faith and sports means living out Christian values and witness in every context, not separating religious life from professional or competitive arenas.
• Authentic evangelization often emerges through genuine relationships, presence, and consistency of character, more than through words alone.
• Practice, discipline, and perseverance in sports mirror the virtues needed in the spiritual life.
• The tension between ambition and surrender is navigated by directing all striving and success toward God's glory rather than personal gain.
• Regular self-examination and reflection help transform both athletic and spiritual setbacks into opportunities for growth.
• Balancing vocations—such as career and family—requires intentional boundaries and prioritization of what truly matters.

Resources:

• Grand Slam for God (or on Amazon)

• Fr. Burke's Website

• Healing Professionals Virtual Workshop

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:33 Trevor's Family and Journey to Baseball

00:12:06 Fr. Burke's Baseball Story and Journey to the Priesthood

00:20:18 Finding Identity in God Not Sports

00:26:38 How Fr. Burke and Trevor Met

00:33:52 Evangelization in Professional Sports

00:39:24 Balancing Baseball and Family Life

00:41:55 How Sports Help You Become a Better Christian

00:50:39 Not Relying Solely on Your Own Effort

00:56:25 Sports Teaching Us How to Lose

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This week, Jake and Bob continue their series on athletics, and welcome Bart Schuchts, a former D1 football player, to the podcast. Bart reflects on how athletics shaped his self-identity, beliefs, and relationships from childhood through his adult life. They also discuss sports culture, fear based coaching, and the fine line between healthy competition and idolizing sports. Ultimately, when approached with balance and intention, athletics can foster deep connection, personal growth, and spiritual insight that extends far beyond the game itself, enriching every aspect of life.

Key Points:

• Athletic achievement is often tied to receiving love, affirmation, and attention in families, especially when there are older siblings who excel in sports.
• Sports can become an idol when one's entire sense of self-worth and identity is defined by performance and recognition.
• Sports teaches "conditional love," when praise and acceptance are contingent on athletic success.
• A coach's coaching style can establish either a positive, formative atmosphere or contribute to wounding dynamics.
• The question "Am I lovable?" is often unconsciously brought to sports, and how one seeks to answer that can drive them to healthy mastery of athletics or unhealthy obsession.
• Healthy participation in sports fosters union and belonging. It also highlights both the best and worst ways we seek connection, love, and purpose.

Resources:

• Church on Fire (Bart's Website)
• Interview with Bart and Bobby Bowden
• Healing Professionals Virtual Workshop

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:08:43 Sports in Bart's Life

00:10:44 Sports as an Idol

00:18:55 Finding Our Worth in Sports

00:28:38 The Good and Bad of Sports Culture

00:32:03 Dion Sanders and Work Ethic

00:33:39 Finding the Four Identities of a Human in Sports

00:34:58 Son vs Orphan

00:44:32 Brother

00:52:44 Husband

00:55:31 Father

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