Writer and speaker Lisa Harper’s story is a testament to the unexpected twists and divine surprises that shape our lives. From the heart-wrenching experience of her father’s abandonment to the miraculous adoption of her daughter, Lisa shares about God’s limitless love and reveals how she discovered strength through Scripture. 

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“Our God is so good. He's so kind. I love that verb at the end of Psalm 23—it's translated in our English Bibles that mercy and goodness will follow us. Then in Hebrew, it actually means God will pursue us. He'll chase us with goodness and mercy. He didn't just send Jesus to deliver me from my sins. He sent His son because He delights in me when He sees me.” - Lisa Harper

“I want to help people believe bigger in the unconditional love of God.” - Lisa Harper

“No matter how huge the mistakes are in our back story, they don't put a lid on our future, because God is a redeemer.” - Lisa Harper

“If you really take the time to look at the context of this love story we call the Bible, you see that from beginning to end, our God is consistently in the process of restoring us to an intimate, loving relationship with Him. He's always in the process of mitigating evil. He's always in the process of scooting us toward the true north of Jesus. He is a good God who's for us.” - Lisa Harper 

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In this beautiful world where we’re all made so differently, with unique gifts and strengths, we have a remarkable opportunity to appreciate one another’s creativity in whatever form it may take. David Chang unexpectedly found the art form of calligraphy, and after spending time in a church attic studying, developing, and perfecting his craft, realized that he could use his art as a form of spiritual expression and witness. 

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“I got connected to this men's prayer group. And it was there that I learned the beauty of prayer and also the beauty of an intentional space of inviting the spirit in and having just a real authentic session, just crying out to God or just praising Him.” - David Chang

“I had never experienced prayer in that type of manner before. Something in my heart awoke and I remember there was a hunger.” - David Chang

“Things in my spiritual life began to come alive. It's almost like beginning to see things in color.” - David Chang

“There was this change happening in my heart and also my mind, and I started to have these encounters where I could just start to feel God.” - David Chang

“Calligraphy was just the beginning. It began more as a professional pursuit, and I became more technically proficient with calligraphy, and soon I was able to use it more as a spiritual expression to bless other people.” - David Chang

Guest’s Links David Chang’s studio website

David Chang’s Instagram

David Chang’s calligraphy

David Chang’s Facebook

Resources Mentioned in This Episode Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Center for Faith and Work

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Peter Harris is a dedicated advocate for conservation, and shares his journey of working with A Rocha, a Christian conservation organization he co-founded over four decades ago. Peter shares how his faith-driven approach has helped him develop practical responses, and fostered connections between love for God, care for creation, and environmental stewardship.

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“It's quite clear that we are facing a climate crisis. In the lifetime of A Rocha—which is just 40 years—we have lost half of life on Earth, so you could call it the thinning of life, the disappearance of species and the collapse of populations.” - Peter Harris

“For a Christian organization that really believes that our life on Earth is intended to be a response to a loving creator, it is who we are in that relationship of worship and obedience that is going to be the wellspring for our actions.” - Peter Harris

“I think that many of our human rhythms and surroundings are artifacts of a commercial effort. We're surrounded by all we have done and what we have made. And it's often noisy and incoherent. Whereas Creation speaks of its Creator, as Scripture envisages creation as a kind of choir.” - Peter Harris

“We care for God's creation because it's God's creation. He loves it far more than we do. And because it is the fundamental thing about being human that we first learn in Genesis that we are in the garden to care for it. The two big Bible words are to care for and to serve the creation. That's what it is to be human. That's why we do it. We don't do it because we have hopes of some campaign of saving the earth. The world has a Savior, and it's not us.” - Peter Harris 

Guest’s Links

A Rocha International 

A Rocha Facebook

A Rocha Twitter

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Resources Mentioned in This Episode A Rocha International

Kingfisher’s Fire: A Story of Hope for God’s Earth by Peter Harris

Under the Bright Wings by Peter Harris

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Ministry partners Brittany Maher and Cassandra Speer went through the tough process of untangling the self-image they had of themselves after leaving the beauty and fitness industries, and realized for how long they’d felt not good enough. By creating Her True Worth, an online ministry, they’re helping people connect and have open, honest conversations about how they feel about themselves and how to find value from the one true source, Jesus. 

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“I remember it became a daunting thing for me every morning to have to put on so much makeup and feel like I almost drowned in it, like I was masking myself. And I became keenly aware of the own imperfections of my face, like I wasn't enough to show up as my natural self; it just kind of kept perpetuating in my life.” – Brittany Maher

“I set out not only to discover my true worth through the power of using God's Word, but also through a healing journey of dismantling lies I had been believing about myself. I needed to be reminded of my worth every day through Scripture, through prayer, through seeking the Lord, I just felt like it was my mission to show up and help women do the same.” – Brittany Maher

“Our best is not enough. And that's actually good news. That's the best news, that the pressure is off and that we don't have to be enough. We don't have to earn our worth. We don't have to find our identity. There's a lot of messages about our worth and our value in this world. But the least common of those messages is that you don't have to earn it. It's irrevocable. It was purchased on the cross. God's goodness is not reliant upon our ineptness.” – Cassandra Speer

“It’s good to remember the simplicity of the gospel. It's really helpful for us to be able to see God's sovereignty woven throughout every word and every page of the Bible and looking at the whole story from an aerial view.” – Cassandra Speer

Guest’s Links

Cassandra Speer’s Instagram

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Brittany Maher’s Instagram

Brittany Maher’s Facebook

Resources Mentioned in This Episode Her True Worth Instagram

There’s Beauty in Your Brokenness book

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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*

When news anchor Linsey Davis learned about the Human Genome Project and started digging, she discovered an astonishing fact: humans are only 0.1% different from one another. 99.9% of our DNA is alike—and by appreciating both the commonalities and the things that set us apart, we can learn to appreciate exactly who God created us to be, and we can realize that we need no one’s approval but God’s.

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“We have so much in common. And I just think that is a messaging especially in our day to day world and our political parties and the divisiveness that's out there—it often gets lost how much we really have in common. And I think that’s something that kids more readily embrace.” - Linsey Davis

“You know, when we look at our height or our skin color or our hair or our features, our size, everything physically makes us different and sets us apart from each other. But I think that we're more similar in our desire to be loved or to love, our feelings of sadness or joy.” - Linsey Davis

“Often the desires of our life and our lifestyle tend to be pretty much in line and in tune with each other when it comes to those bare bone emotions of the human condition. And I think that we often overlook that.” - Linsey Davis

“I started thinking about just all the places that I see God, and that might be in the sunrise or sunsets. And biblically, you know, it talks about His eye on the sparrow, how God takes care of even the smallest among us, right? How they don't have to worry about what they'll wear or the food that they'll eat, that God is going to provide. I need to really be reminded of that and not get so stuck in the worldly thoughts and concerns and all the little pesky things that might invade our mind.” - Linsey Davis

Guest’s Links

Linsey Davis Website

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Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Las Noticias

The Human Genome Project

The Smallest Spot of a Dot Book

Quote from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

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In celebration of the Savior’s birth, author Sally Lloyd-Jones is reading four special Christmas stories from Song of the Stars and The Jesus Storybook Bible, perfect to listen to with your little ones during the excitement of the season. Merry Christmas! 

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“Advent means arrival or coming. I'm going to read you stories that are all about the One who is coming and what we're waiting for.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

“All through the long centuries they'd been waiting for this rescuer. Isn't it odd that when at last the promised rescue that everyone's waiting for—when He does at last come into the world, when Jesus is born in that stable, almost everyone is looking the other way. They're looking the wrong way. Almost everyone missed it.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

“What about the animals that God made and the birds and the stars that He put in place? Did they sense it? Did they rejoice in the coming of Christ that very first time? This sense of longing in creation became my Christmas story, and it's called Song of the Stars.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

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When striving for true, deep, everlasting change in your life, the road can be a rocky one—and it can often be filled with turmoil and pain. Growing up, therapist Jason VanRuler struggled to find stability in his life, leading him to bad habits that he desperately wanted to break. Jason opens up about how something as simple as asking for help from God and from mentors made the difference in turning his life around.  

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“I think God puts the truth in all of our hearts and we know it. And sometimes we distract ourselves from it or we pretend we don't know it, or we do something else or even try to squash it. But looking in the mirror, I knew the truth.” – Jason VanRuler 

“Our emotions are really important, because if we don't acknowledge them or deal with them, they just come out in another place. They don't actually go away. If we're not dealing with them directly, we're going to deal with them indirectly. And so if we actually want to change our life or we want to become different, we have to address the things that are driving us and those are our emotions.” – Jason VanRuler

“Our relationship with God is really going to frame out all those other relationships. And I think that is something you can start on today.”   – Jason VanRuler

“I think in my own story and in working with many other people’s stories, what we need most is a change of heart. I think the challenge is we can change our head pretty easily—we often know the problem. We can even identify potential solutions. But if we really want to be different, we need a new heart.” – Jason VanRuler

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Jason VanRuler’s YouTube Channel

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Kelly Minter had big dreams for her life—everything from basketball to a professional career in music. But fame, money, and fans became her idols, and when things didn’t go according to plan, Kelly felt lost and heartbroken. It was a chance encounter that led her to a purpose and a calling she never expected as a Bible study author and teacher, which helped her understand that when we lay down our dreams, we find what truly matters to the heart of God and how to help people around the world. 

Quotes

“There are truths that I carry with me to this day about who God is—His presence with me, His protection over me, His character, His nature, how He made me. All of that has been so healing for me when it comes to my mind and my peace and sense of well-being.” - Kelly Minter

“When I see in God's Word that it is all people of all ages and races that matter to Him, then all of a sudden, certain things become so important and so exciting. That's just one small way that connecting with God's Word just helps me every day, because it gives His perspective on what life should look like and what matters.” - Kelly Minter

“There is no greater joy than following the Lord and being part of what He's doing in His kingdom. It is such a joy and it’s worth it. There's a lot that I've had to lay down, and at the same time, I wouldn't trade any of it because that's when we get to know the Lord more deeply, that we get to share in the abundance of His treasure.” - Kelly Minter 

Guest’s Links Kelly’s Instagram

Kelly’s Website

Kelly’s Facebook

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Milan, Italy

Amazon Rainforest

The Cultivate Podcast

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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*

The weeks leading up to Christmas are known as the season of Advent, of joyful expectation and waiting for our Savior to come. Author Sally Lloyd-Jones shares a couple stories from the Jesus Storybook Bible that prepare our hearts for the brave hero to rescue us. 

Quotes

“My hope is that as your family follows the readings and games and adds ornaments to the tree, you'll be able to trace God's hand through all the stories of the Bible and to tell together the one big story of God's great rescue plan.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

“You see, no matter what, in spite of everything, God would love His children with a never stopping, never giving up, unbreaking always and forever love.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

“Let’s prepare our hearts for that most magnificent arrival on Christmas Day of the promised rescue, of the young Prince, the brave hero, God's own son, Emmanuel, God with us.” - Sally Lloyd-Jones

Resources Mentioned in This Episode Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book

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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*

Australian singer/songwriter Nathan Tasker shares how his family practices gratitude throughout the year, especially at Thanksgiving, how he’s been touched by profound friendships in his life, and what he’s learned about honesty in the way we present ourselves to God.

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“I realized that I'd been given this platform for whatever reason, and I had this urge and sense of responsibility to use it, to encourage others to think beyond just this life and this moment.” - Nathan Tasker

“Questions [about heaven] don't just come out of the ether. They come because something else is happening in [children’s] hearts, in their minds. They've been stirred up by the Spirit, and by these things that they're reading and hearing as a family. And I think part of it is through The Jesus Storybook Bible. We read that to our kids. They've experienced that for their whole growing up. My oldest is only ten years old, but it really does continue to speak to God's desire to love us, not just as we walk through this world, but in the life to come.” - Nathan Tasker 

“This idea of Thanksgiving, thankfulness, is really interesting to me. And within our own little family, every night around the dinner table, we really make a concerted effort to eat meals together as a family every night. And one of the things we do is go around and ask our kids and we share as well, about what we're grateful for on that day. And it is interesting to work hard to think about, What are the things that you're most grateful for? Not just what happened or what made you feel good, but what are you actually grateful for? And to be able to direct that gratitude to God is pretty special within my own life.” - Nathan Tasker

“I think about that gentleness and this beauty, this tenderness that seems to be very consistent with what Jesus says about how He knows His sheep. He knows them by name and He calls them, and He tenderly cares for us just like that. That seems to resonate so deeply.” - Nathan Tasker

Guest’s Links Nathan Tasker’s Website

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Nathan Tasker’s Music

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Rich Mullins

Steve Green

Keith Green

Larry Norman

Crema Coffee in Nashville, TNAdelaide, Australia

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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*