You didn’t sign up for this version of a military marriage: the moves, the silence, the stalled dreams. But what if the chaos isn’t wrecking your life, but reshaping it? This episode gets the grind—deployments, resentment, starting over—and speaks straight to the questions you’re too tired to ask. Beth Runkle, author of Another Move, God? 30 Encouragements to Embrace Your Life as a Military Wife, offers hard-won perspective that meets you where you live.

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Rich Griffth shares the different leadership styles parents should use to disciple their kids as they grow. Hear about discipling kids with intentionality at different stages of their development, from birth until adulthood. 

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Rich Griffith encourages parents to focus on developing their kids’ character over their career ambitions.

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Christ took away your sins. He endured not just the nails of the Romans, the mockery of the crowd, and the spear of the soldier, but he endured the anger of God.

God didn’t just overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn’t punish you, lest he destroy you. Instead he found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner. Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus’ perfection.

As long as the cross is God’s gift to the world, it will touch you but it will not change you. Precious as it is to proclaim, “Christ died for the world,” even sweeter it is to whisper, “Christ died for me.” For my sins he died. He took my place on the cross. He felt my shame, he spoke my name. Thank God for the day Jesus took your place, for the day grace happened to you.

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In today's culture, it's more important than ever that the Church be the entity to teach us marriage skills.

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What if debt isn’t just a financial issue—but a discipleship one? We often view borrowing through a financial lens—rates, payments, and timelines; however, in Scripture, we are invited to see the spiritual implications, too. Debt can shape our freedom, generosity, and ability to respond when God calls. On the next Faith & Finance Live, Rob West explores a more biblical perspective on borrowing. Then, it’s your questions. That’s Faith & Finance Live—where biblical wisdom meets today’s financial decisions—weekdays at 4pm Eastern/3pm Central on Moody Radio.

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What if the thing you’ve been missing isn’t more knowledge—but a real encounter?

In this episode, Lisa pulls back the curtain on why so many believers feel stuck between what they know about God and what they actually experience. Drawing from her own journey and the pattern we see in the life of Jesus, she exposes the gap between information and transformation—and why the Holy Spirit was never meant to be understood from a distance.

This message is a direct call to move beyond managed faith and into demonstrated power.

Lisa unpacks:

• why knowledge alone cannot sustain your faith

• the biblical pattern of “word → demonstration → activation”

• the difference between the Holy Spirit in you (identity) and upon you (assignment)

• how religion often replaces encounter with control

• why the gifts of the Spirit are not for personal experience, but for transformation in others

You were never meant to live informed but unchanged.

You were never meant to manage darkness—you were meant to carry authority over it.

And you were never meant to leave encounter without activation.

For the unsatisfied—this is your reminder:

There is more.

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There have been more salvations in the last year than any other time in Odyssey history. Wyatt, Carla, Ron, Jules, Buck, and Renee all came to faith in Christ. Writers Marshal Younger, Phil Lollar, and Kathy Buchanan unpack the story behind the salvations. 

We are incarcerated by our past. Our low road choices, our high minded pride. We have been found guilty. Our executioner’s footsteps echo against stone walls. We sit on the floor of the dusty cell, awaiting our final moment. We don’t look up as he opens the door; we know what he’s going to say. “Time to pay for your sins!”

But we hear something else. “You’re free to go. They took Jesus instead of you.” The door swings open and the guard barks, “Get out!” And we find ourselves shackles gone, crimes pardoned, wondering, what just happened?

Well, grace just happened. Christ took away your sins. Romans chapter 3 explains that God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. What happened? Grace happened!

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