The Living Grounded Podcast

What comes to your mind when you think about God—and how is that shaping the way you live?

Building on A. W. Tozer’s famous observation that our thoughts about God are the most important thing about us, Ron Moore sits down with Brian Baker to explore what today’s young adults believe about God and what they most need to understand about him.

Together, they consider the difference between knowing facts about God and genuinely knowing him, trusting him, and experiencing his presence in everyday life.

Whether facing anxiety about the future, struggling with identity, or navigating disappointment and suffering, young adults need more than answers about themselves—they need a deeper understanding of who God is.

In this deeply personal conversation, David and Natalie Colonna share their family’s journey through their daughter Sydney’s significant surgery and how that frightening season shaped their understanding of God. They reflect on God’s sovereignty, goodness, and presence, sharing how the truths they knew from Scripture became deeply personal in the midst of uncertainty. Together, we explore what it means to move beyond knowing the attributes of God to finding refuge in who he is. If you are facing a season of fear, pain, or unanswered questions, this conversation will encourage you to discover that the character of God is more than something to believe—it is a place to rest.

What comes to your mind when you think about God? A.W. Tozer famously wrote that this is the most important thing about us—but what if the God we imagine isn't the God revealed in Scripture?

In this episode of Living Grounded, Jill Kowolski, Tom Rojahn, and Ron explore six distorted views of God, including the belief that he is distant, disappointed in us, demanding our performance, indifferent to our suffering, or unwilling to forgive us. Through Scripture, they challenge these misconceptions and reveal how our upbringing, painful experiences, religious background, and personal failures can shape the way we see God.

Join us to discover why our experiences don't always tell us the truth about God's character—and why knowing the God of the Bible changes everything.

What comes to your mind when you think about God may be the most important thing about you. A.W. Tozer famously wrote, “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us,” but our culture offers countless different pictures of who God is. In this episode, we go back to Genesis 1–3 to discover a biblical picture of God as Elohim—the eternal, all-powerful Creator; Yahweh—the personal, covenant-keeping God; and Jesus—the Savior who delivers us from sin. When life falls apart, these aren't merely attributes to memorize—they become the truth we run to for comfort, confidence, and hope. 

Why can a song reach places in our hearts that ordinary conversation sometimes can't?

In this episode of the Living Grounded Podcast, Ron sits down with Grammy-recognized, Dove Award-winning artist and songwriter Laura Story to explore why music speaks so powerfully to the human soul—and why even a culture that wants little to do with God continues to sing about love, hope, belonging, suffering, and something beyond ourselves.

Laura pulls back the curtain on songwriting, worship, inspiration, and the responsibility of creating music that points people beyond emotion to the truth of God.

She also shares how her husband's health struggles reshaped her understanding of faith, surrender, worship, and God's presence, and how she has learned to navigate recognition and success without allowing them to define her identity.

From “Blessings” and “Indescribable” to “Faithful God” and “Grace,” this conversation explores how God can use music to awaken our deepest longings and ultimately draw us toward Him.

Wicked asks us to reconsider a story we thought we knew—and to question who really deserves to be called “good” or “wicked.” In a culture that is constantly labeling people as heroes, villains, dangerous, or righteous, who gets to define good and evil?

Ron, Tom, and Jill explore what Wicked reveals about moral truth, cultural power, judgment, personal responsibility, transformation, and redemption. While society’s labels can be wrong, Scripture gives us a standard that is bigger than public opinion, political allegiance, or personal preference.

Ultimately, the conversation brings us back to the gospel: our hope is not in earning the right label, but in being forgiven, transformed, and grounded in who we are in Christ.

Why does a culture that increasingly says it doesn't need God keep telling stories about

What happens when a culture that says it doesn't need God can't stop singing about longing, emptiness, morality, identity, sacrifice, and the search for something more?

In this episode of Living Grounded, Ron Moore, Jill Kowalski, and Tom Rojahn explore what secular music may reveal about the spiritual hunger that exists beneath the surface of our culture. From Taylor Swift and Noah Kahan, they listen for the deeper questions hiding inside songs that were never necessarily written as Christian statements.

Could our culture's persistent searching actually point to something—or Someone—it cannot find on its own? Maybe the songs we sing reveal that, beneath all our searching, we were made for God and are still looking for our way home.

Our culture may be increasingly secular, but it keeps talking about God—in our music,

What shapes the things we love most? In this thoughtful episode of the Living Grounded Podcast, Ann Marie Pirnat reflects on the enduring gift of Christian friendship, the wisdom of Augustine's ordo amoris—the right ordering of our loves—and the transforming power of Scripture. Together, we explore how God's Word reshapes our hearts so that we learn to love Him above all else and love others through His love. Ann Marie also shares her passion for welcoming seekers and new believers into the Bible, offering practical encouragement for anyone who longs to help others grow in faith. If you've ever wondered how to cultivate a life centered on Christ in a world full of competing priorities, this conversation will inspire you to live with your heart grounded in God's truth.