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  • Episode 84: Barely Getting Through Doesn't Mean You're Failing

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 84: Barely Getting Through Doesn't Mean You're Failing

    Have you ever looked back on a hard season and thought, "I barely made it through"?

    Faith during hardship does not always look like confidence, energy, or a triumphant ending. If you are exhausted, still recovering, or wondering whether barely getting through means you failed, this conversation is for you. Tony and Kristy talk about finding God's sustaining grace when you have reached the end of your own strength.

    Barely making it through does not put you beyond the reach of God's mercy.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/barely-getting-through-doesnt-mean-youre-failing/

    Paul admits to pressure beyond his strength, Lamentations names the pain before speaking of hope, and Psalm 73 turns toward the God who holds us. Tony and Kristy also share how a small dinner left on a desk and a thoughtful offer of a ride became reminders of grace. You do not owe anyone a polished comeback, a public testimony, or healing on their timetable.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why Paul could acknowledge pressure beyond his ability to endure
    The difference between real encouragement and brushing past somebody's pain
    How a meal, a ride, and even 20 minutes of rest can be meaningful provision
    Why God's grace does not require productivity, explanations, or a comeback story
    What faithfulness, rest, and asking for help can look like in a hard season

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    #FaithDuringHardship #ChristianEncouragement #GodsGrace #SpiritualExhaustion #UnshakenPodcast #ChristianResilience #FaithAndFamily

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    40 min
  • Episode 83: Marriage Is Mostly Wednesdays: Finding Each Other in the Ordinary

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 83: Marriage Is Mostly Wednesdays: Finding Each Other in the Ordinary

    What if the strength of your marriage is being built on the days nobody celebrates?

    Christian marriage is shaped by more than anniversaries, date nights, and big moments. For couples juggling work, children, caregiving, or plain exhaustion, Tony and Kristy talk about finding each other in ordinary weekdays through small acts of attention, kindness, and honest conversation.

    You do not have to wait for a special day to make your spouse feel loved.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/marriage-is-mostly-wednesdays-finding-each-other-in-the-ordinary/

    Drawing from Colossians 3:12-14 and Romans 12:9-18, they explore what it looks like to honor each other when life is full: speak with tenderness, repair hurt without hollow apologies, ask for the connection you need, and protect one another even when your spouse is not in the room.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why everyday connection can matter more than grand gestures
    Small touch points that help busy couples notice each other
    What emotional safety and meaningful apologies look like
    How to care for your spouse beyond schedules and to-do lists
    The role of forgiveness, grace, and Scripture in ordinary marriage

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    #ChristianMarriage #MarriageEncouragement #MarriageConnection #FaithAndFamily #EverydayLove #MarriageCommunication #UnshakenPodcast

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    43 min
  • Episode 82: Too Tired to Pray? Come Anyway

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 82: Too Tired to Pray? Come Anyway

    Have you ever tried to pray, only to find that your mind is too tired to stay with the words?

    Spiritual exhaustion can make prayer, Scripture reading, and showing up at church feel difficult even when your love for Jesus has not changed. Tony and Kristy talk about what faithfulness can look like when caregiving, stress, illness, or ordinary exhaustion leaves you running on fumes. This is for the believer who wants to draw close to God but does not have much left to bring.

    You do not have to arrive with a full tank to be welcomed by God.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/too-tired-to-pray-come-anyway/

    After Kristy shares a scattered moment during communion, the conversation moves through Romans 8, Matthew 11, Psalm 42, Hebrews 4, and Mark 6. The Holy Spirit helps us when words fail, Jesus invites the weary to rest, and the body of Christ is meant to carry burdens together. Tony and Kristy also address a harder question: how do we recover without returning to the same pace that emptied us?

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why exhaustion and distraction are not the same as turning away from God
    How the Holy Spirit helps when we cannot find the words to pray
    Simple ways to turn toward God through one sentence, Scripture, worship, or silence
    Why receiving prayer and practical care is part of belonging to the body of Christ
    How Jesus models rest and why recovery may require rethinking our commitments

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    #UnshakenPodcast #TooTiredToPray #SpiritualExhaustion #ChristianEncouragement #Prayer #FaithAndRest #ChristianCommunity #FaithDuringHardship

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    39 min
  • Episode 81: You Are Not a Project: Disability, Discipleship, and Belonging in the Church

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 81: You Are Not a Project: Disability, Discipleship, and Belonging in the Church

    What does a church do after accessibility gets someone through the door?

    This episode is about disability ministry, church inclusion, and the difference between welcoming disabled Christians and treating them as indispensable members of the body of Christ. Tony and Kristy talk about discipleship, spiritual gifts, belonging, and why people with disabilities should be known, challenged, equipped, and invited to serve alongside the rest of the church.

    Disabled Christians are not projects for the body of Christ. They are members of the body of Christ.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/you-are-not-a-project-disability-discipleship-and-belonging-in-the-church/

    Through 1 Corinthians 12, Hebrews 10, and Ephesians 4, Tony and Kristy explore what it looks like to move from access to participation and from being served to serving with others. They also talk about presuming competence, age-appropriate discipleship, family identity, church culture, and how curiosity, humility, and relationship can help churches repair when they get it wrong.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why accessibility and welcome are starting points, not the finish line
    What "indispensable" means for disabled Christians in the body of Christ
    How discipleship includes discovering spiritual gifts and making room to use them
    Why lowering expectations can quietly limit spiritual growth
    How churches can build a culture of belonging without an unlimited budget

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    πŸ›ŽοΈ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday.

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    #DisabilityMinistry #ChurchInclusion #DisabilityAndFaith #ChristianDiscipleship #BodyOfChrist #ChurchBelonging #UnshakenPodcast

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    45 min
  • Episode 80: When Truth Feels Far Away: Remembering Our Way Home

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 80: When Truth Feels Far Away: Remembering Our Way Home

    What do you do when you still know what is true about God, but that truth somehow feels far away?

    Life can scatter our attention through stress, grief, busyness, fear, exhaustion, and ordinary responsibility. In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about spiritual growth through remembrance and the ways God uses Scripture, prayer, Communion, worship, community, and even familiar moments from everyday life to bring us back to what has always been true.

    When truth feels far away, God has not moved.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-truth-feels-far-away-remembering-our-way-home/

    From the smell of rice and beans cooking to the Lord's Prayer, the Lord's Supper, familiar hymns, and the gathered church, some things have a way of bringing us home. Tony and Kristy explore why remembrance matters when faith feels routine or life pulls us in a hundred directions. You do not have to manufacture a new spiritual experience or pretend a familiar practice suddenly feels meaningful. Sometimes faithfulness looks like returning to what God has already given you and allowing your heart time to catch up.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why knowing what is true does not always mean feeling the comfort of it
    How ordinary memories can help us understand the spiritual power of remembrance
    Why Communion, the Lord's Prayer, Scripture, worship, and Christian community can become restore points
    Why the practice itself is not the destination, but can point us back toward God
    How to return to what is true when faith feels hollow, scattered, or far away

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    #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianFaith #FaithDuringHardship #RememberingGod #ChristianEncouragement #Prayer #Scripture #UnshakenPodcast

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    37 min
  • Episode 79: When the People You Love Get What's Left of You

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 79: When the People You Love Get What's Left of You

    What happens when the people you love most get the version of you everyone else was protected from?

    This episode is about Christian marriage and the way work stress, emotional depletion, and outside pressure can spill into home. Tony and Kristy talk honestly about coming home spent, needing transition time, and learning to give your spouse and family tenderness without pretending the day was easy.

    Your safest people should not have to pay for pressure they did not create.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/when-the-people-you-love-get-whats-left-of-you/

    A hard day can explain why you are tired, short, quiet, or overloaded, but it does not have to set the emotional temperature of your home. Through Colossians 3:12-14, James 1:19-20, Philippians 2:3-4, and Ephesians 4, Tony and Kristy explore how to name stress, ask for the reset you need, repair when you get it wrong, and keep your safest relationships from becoming the dumping ground for pressure they did not create.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why the people closest to us often get the version everyone else was protected from
    How to name stress before your spouse or family starts carrying the blame for it
    Why a short, communicated transition can protect connection without becoming rejection
    How safety can quietly become entitlement, and why tenderness still matters with your safest person
    How prayer, repair, and Scripture can lower the emotional temperature and help a couple reconnect

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    #ChristianMarriage #MarriageCommunication #WorkStress #FamilyResilience #EmotionalHealth #PrayerInMarriage #MarriageSupport #UnshakenPodcast

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    35 min
  • Episode 78: When Your Family Can't Keep Saying Yes

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 78: When Your Family Can't Keep Saying Yes

    What happens when every yes is good, but together they become more than your family can carry?

    This episode is about family boundaries for Christians who are trying to serve faithfully without overloading their household. Tony and Kristy talk about ministry commitments, marriage, hidden workload, and the discernment it takes to decide what your family can faithfully carry and what you need to decline.

    Good things can still add up to more than your family can faithfully carry.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/when-your-family-cant-keep-saying-yes/

    A full calendar is not the only sign that a family is carrying too much. The real cost of a yes can include preparation, transportation, childcare, household work, physical energy, recovery time, and the load another family member quietly absorbs. Through Ephesians 5:15-17 and Galatians 5:13, Tony and Kristy explore how to protect the assignments God has genuinely entrusted to you, say no to good opportunities that are not yours to carry, and make those decisions before exhaustion becomes resentment.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why an open calendar does not always mean your family has available bandwidth
    How to recognize the hidden cost a yes may place on the rest of your household
    Why not every good opportunity or real need becomes your assignment
    How to protect the yeses you believe God has genuinely entrusted to your family
    Why saying no early, clearly, and humbly can prevent exhaustion from becoming resentment

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    #UnshakenPodcast #FaithAndFamily #ChristianMarriage #FamilyBoundaries #BiblicalDiscernment #FamilyResilience #MinistryLife #ChristianLiving

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    38 min
  • Episode 77: When Help Adds to the Burden

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 77: When Help Adds to the Burden

    What if the help we offer is making a hard season heavier?

    Tony and Kristy look at why good intentions can still add work for someone who is already overwhelmed, and how specific, consent-based, reliable support can actually lower the load without taking away dignity or agency.

    The goal is not to feel helpful. The goal is for someone else's burden to become lighter.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/when-help-adds-to-the-burden/

    From James 2:14-17 and Romans 12:10 to newborn days, disability, surgery, meal trains, prayer, and church care, this conversation asks what faithful help looks like in real life. Sometimes it means making a concrete offer. Sometimes it means becoming the steady person who follows through. And sometimes it means accepting a no without making the person in need manage our feelings too.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    Why "let me know what you need" can create one more decision for someone already carrying too much
    How specific offers and "counterbids" make help easier and safer to receive
    Why initiative still needs consent, timing, and attention to the details that actually matter
    How reliability, continuity, and a trusted point person can reduce ongoing mental load
    Why receiving help does not require surrendering dignity, agency, or your voice

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    #UnshakenPodcast #ChristianCaregiving #FaithInAction #CaregivingSupport #ChurchCare #PracticalFaith #FamilySupport #ChristianEncouragement

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    33 min
  • Episode 76: When Your Parents Start Needing You

    πŸŽ™οΈ Episode 76: When Your Parents Start Needing You

    What happens when the people who have always been your touchstone begin needing you in new ways?

    Tony and Kristy talk about the slow, sometimes surprising shift that happens as parents age and adult children begin carrying more responsibility. They explore how to offer practical help while still honoring a parent's dignity, agency, privacy, wisdom, and right to participate in decisions about their own life.

    Love does not have to erase dignity just because the roles are changing.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-your-parents-start-needing-you/

    This season can hold grief and gratitude at the same time. It can bring hard conversations, sibling tension, changing schedules, outside care, and the temptation to turn a parent into a list of problems to solve. Tony and Kristy make room for all of that while returning to a steadier posture: tell the truth with tenderness, ask before taking over, share the load when possible, receive help when you need it, and keep looking for the person beneath the needs.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    How honoring your parents can change as family roles change without ignoring reality or taking over unnecessarily
    Why help should support dignity and participation rather than make an aging parent feel smaller
    How efficiency can quietly work against love when a parent can still choose, contribute, and enjoy familiar traditions
    Why caregiver capacity, sibling responsibility, respite, and outside support are matters of stewardship, not failure
    How to protect ordinary moments, memories, and the parent-child relationship while practical needs keep increasing

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    #AgingParents #ChristianCaregiving #FamilyCaregiving #CaregiverSupport #HonorYourParents #AgingWithDignity #FaithAndFamily #AdultChildren #UnshakenPodcast #UnshakenFamily

    We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected.

    This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

    52 min
  • Unshaken Conversation: Gary Steffes: When Trying Harder Is Not the Answer

    πŸŽ™οΈ Unshaken Conversation: Gary Steffes: When Trying Harder Is Not the Answer

    What if the harder you try to live the Christian life, the more exhausted you become?

    In this Unshaken Conversation, Tony sits down with his friend Gary Steffes, who leads Pure Encouragement. Gary shares how God met him in the anxiety and performance pressure of his hockey career, transformed the way he understood confidence, and taught him that spiritual strength does not come from trying to become the power source.

    The branch was never meant to become the power source.

    πŸ”΅ For Deeper Study:
    https://unshakenpodcast.org/unshaken-conversation-gary-steffes-when-trying-harder-is-not-the-answer/

    From pre-deciding to stand firm, to "going vertical" in marriage and parenting, to building trusted brotherhood and making prayer a non-negotiable part of life, Gary keeps returning to John 15:4. This conversation is for believers who are tired of trying to muscle fruit into their lives and want to learn what it means to stay close to Jesus and let Him produce what effort alone cannot.

    πŸ”Ά What You'll Hear in This Episode:
    How Gary moved from performance-driven anxiety to finding his identity and confidence in Christ
    Why resilience often begins with a heart-level decision made before the pressure comes
    How John 15:4 shifted Gary from trying harder to abiding more deeply in Jesus
    What "go vertical" looks like in real moments of marriage, parenting, and emotional pressure
    Why trusted community and prayer matter when you want to live with spiritual strength

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About Unshaken

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A community built on faith, strengthened by family, and grounded in resilience, created for people like you.

Welcome to the Unshaken Podcast, where you do not have to…