The Austin Stone Podcast

“Life really is about learning to trust God when it’s the hardest.”

Married in their mid-thirties, Val and Rex quickly began trying to get pregnant. But month after month, the pregnancy tests were negative. Through a journey of grieving, rejoicing, and trusting God, Val and Rex continued trying for biological children—and found their true hope in Christ.

“Their bodies were experiencing certain things—their emotions, their hormones—and I knew that something was wrong with my body.”

When teenage Anna noticed that her body wasn’t developing like those of her peers, she began to seek answers from doctors. After getting married in her twenties, Anna and her husband began trying to build their family, only to realize the process of having biological children would not be an easy one.

What do we do when the unexpected happens—the things we didn’t anticipate? The unexpected in this life will come, and when it does, we can expect our God to be faithful, loving, and merciful beyond measure.

“Expectant,” a new podcast season from The Austin Stone Story Team, brings you eight stories from families in our church who have experienced loss, grief, hope, and God’s love in the midst of the things they didn’t expect while building their family.

Ross Lester continues our series in the Gospel of Matthew by teaching on anxiety from Matthew 6:25-34.

Matt Carter concludes are series in The Lord's Prayer by teaching on praying not to be led into temptation from Matthew 6:13.