God tells many spiritual truths in the Bible using pictures from the natural world. Steve and Tim look at what we can learn from how things grow.

Then: Your Pro Wrestler name is the last food you ate plus your highschool mascot.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Too soon to taste pumpkin spice? Too soon to spy Halloween decorations? Seasonal enjoyments aside, Steve and Tim talk about a different issue: rushing to tomorrow when God has us in today. 

Then: Steve educates the younger generation about The Beatles. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim get honest about the World Cup having left our shores...and a good chat about what we value ensues. 

Then: "You are here." But, where is that?

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Teaching the Bible to kids has enormous impact...it just may take a bit before you see the seeds start to grow. Sow them anyways!

Then: who doesn't love a good pandiculation?

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim freely share their own ignorance...with minimal embarassment. What if we were less ashamed to admit what we don't know?

Then: It's a beautiful weekend for grilling some charred chard. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

"Freedom" gets top billing this time of year in America. Christians get to celebrate that reality, whichever earthly country they find themselves in.

Then: Don't lead with "Dear That..."

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve heard a thought-provoking phrase from a counselor recently. He and Tim dig into: "Feel it to heal it."

Then: Steve "heard" a perplexing sound from an antelope...and wants to share it with you.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Maybe you'd call your experience "eclectic" - Steve and Tim think God works through scattered-feeling resumes and life's winding paths!

Then: "No, you first"—it's like not knowing who should go first at the red light, but with conversation...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Not everyone will be a dad thesmelves, and not everyone had a good example of a father. But God still wants us to approach Him and know Him as our faithful Heavenly Father.

Then: otters inspire Steve's parenting.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Showing hospitality is thoroughly Biblical. And there's nothing wrong with "entertaining guests" - but is that always the same thing as Biblical hospitality?

Then: Steve remains humble about his physical strength. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.