What happens when the things we do for God slowly become more important than God Himself?

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Nick Greenwood for an honest conversation about identity, ministry, suffering, abandonment, belonging, church hurt, friendship, and learning to trust God again.

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Nick shares how a childhood wound of abandonment shaped his leadership and desire to perform—and how years of long COVID forced him to wrestle with a deeper question:

Who am I if I can’t do anything for God?

We talk about ministry becoming an idol, finding identity outside of productivity, how God can redeem our deepest pain, learning to forgive the church, resisting isolation, and what it means to simply say, “Yes, Lord,” and trust God with the outcome.

Through it all, Nick keeps coming back to one simple truth:

Jesus is the vision.

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Keep walking.

Chandra has walked through childhood abuse, broken family relationships, serious illness, raising a daughter with cerebral palsy, miscarriage, betrayal, and the unimaginable loss of her young son.

Through it all, God remained faithful.

In this deeply honest conversation, Chandra shares how the Lord met her in grief, brought her back to Himself, and taught her what it means to live with repentance, honesty, and trust. She describes experiencing the peace of God in the hospital with her son, finding hope in the book of Job, and discovering freedom through the words of Psalm 32.

Chandra’s story is not about having all the answers or pretending the pain disappeared. It is about a faithful God who continues to redeem what is broken and use even the darkest parts of our stories for His glory.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Trusting God through suffering and loss
• Childhood trauma and broken family relationships
• Losing a child and experiencing the peace of God
• Raising a daughter with cerebral palsy
• Repentance, confession, and freedom from shame
• The book of Job and Psalm 32
• Miscarriage, foster care, and adoption
• Allowing God to be the hero of our story

Chandra is also writing a book titled Where Do I Begin?, sharing more of her journey and the faithfulness of God throughout her life.

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What happens when a Christian business owner stops asking, “How big can this become?” and starts asking, “How far can the gospel go?”

In this episode of the Live Humble Podcast, Jon sits down with Richard and Robert, owners of Daylight Window & Solar Services, to talk about what it looks like to build a business with Christ at the center.

They share how their work has become more than a way to make a living. It has become a way to serve people, pray with customers, bring the gospel into homes, involve their families in the mission, and think beyond profit toward future generations and the kingdom of God.

This conversation explores trusting God with the results, leading with integrity, viewing business as ministry, and using the opportunities already in front of us to love people well.

Learn more about Daylight Window & Solar Services:
https://itsdaylight.com/

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I almost didn’t record this episode.

For the last few weeks, God has been exposing a pattern in my life: I get overwhelmed, seek relief apart from Him, drift into temptation, feel guilt and shame, then hide instead of confessing.

In this episode, I talk honestly about that cycle, the danger of making even good gifts into idols, and the healing that begins when we humble ourselves before God and trusted people in our lives.

Your sin is not too bad.

But pride will keep you from returning to the Lord.

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There are seasons where you believe God is real…
but everything still feels dark.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Tim to talk about his experience as a pastor walking through depression, anxiety, and what it looked like to keep following Jesus when he couldn’t feel anything.

We talk about:

• what depression actually felt like
• how it impacted his faith
• where God met him in the middle of it
• and what it looks like to trust God when nothing makes sense

This is an honest conversation. No quick fixes. No pretending.

If God is real… and the Bible is His message to us… what now?

If you want to connect with Tim or support the work he’s doing:

Support his ministry: bit.ly/novotimb

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If this episode helped you, consider sharing it with someone who might need it.

Andrew shares how he went from growing up in church, to walking away, to finding his way back to God in a way he never expected.

We talk about what it looks like to drift, what brings us back, and how God often works through ordinary (and sometimes strange) moments to get our attention.

This is a real, unfiltered conversation about faith, struggle, and what it means to start walking with God again.

After a devastating accident in 2016, Ben Buckland developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), one of the most painful chronic conditions known to medicine.

What followed were years of suffering, identity struggles, and learning to trust God in the middle of pain.

In this episode, Ben shares how God has been refining him through the fire and how those trials led him to start the Tried by Fire Podcast and begin writing his upcoming book.

We talk about suffering, identity, marriage, worship, and what it means to trust God when life looks nothing like you planned.

If you’re walking through a difficult season, I hope this conversation encourages you to keep trusting God.

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Lately I’ve felt overwhelmed.

That constant mental loop where everything feels urgent and nothing feels settled.

Then God met me in a simple, unexpected moment — at a gas station — through Matthew 11:28:

“Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

In this episode, we talk about:

• why trusting God is harder than we admit

• what it means to trust Him with all your heart

• learning to surrender the results of obedience

• and the heart behind my new book, Live Humble: A Field Guide for the Wandering

If you’d like to support the book and help bring it to print, you can find the Kickstarter here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1258302213/live-humble-a-field-guide-for-the-wandering?ref=user_menu

If you’re a believer, I’d truly appreciate your prayers for this season and for this project.

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What happens when the calling youfollowed with your whole heart leaves you exhausted, hurt, and angry at God?

In this episode of The Live Humble Podcast, Jon sits down with Chad—a former youth pastor—to talkhonestly about ministry burnout, anger toward God, and the slow process offinding healing.

Chad shares what it was like tofeel called into ministry, pour himself into serving others, and eventuallystep away from church entirely for a season. He opens up about spiritualexhaustion, unmet expectations, wrestling with God, and learning how to ask forhelp.

This conversation isn’t aboutblaming the Church or walking away from faith. It’sabout humility, healing, and discovering that God is still present—even wheneverything feels broken.

If you’ve ever felt burned out,disillusioned, or unsure how to move forward in your faith, this episode is foryou.

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What does it actually mean to beloved by God?

In Episode 6 of the Live Humble Podcast, Jon Beary is joined by Gabe Kane for a deep, honestconversation about one of the most familiar—and most misunderstood—ideas in theChristian faith: God’s love.

Together, they wrestle with whyGod’s justice often feels easier to understand than His love, how our earliestexperiences shape our ability to receive love, and why “time” may be one of theclearest expressions of love we know. Gabe introduces the Hawaiian concept of aloha—presence and breath—as a way to rethink love assomething shared, received, and lived out.

This episode explores what itmeans to be sons and daughters of God, why Jesus said it was better that He leave so the Holy Spirit could dwell in us, andhow learning to receive God’s love transforms the way we relate to ourfamilies, our communities, and ourselves.

If you’ve ever believed God loves you in theory but struggled to receive that love personally, thisconversation is for you.