🎙️ Episode 37: The Good You Bring: Remembering Who God Says You Are

Why is it so easy to name what we don’t like about ourselves, yet so hard to see the good God placed in us?

Sometimes the hardest battle is believing what God already says is true.

In this episode, Tony and Kristy sit down for a quiet and honest conversation about identity, purpose, and the way God sees His children. We talk about why our minds run so quickly toward flaws, why old wounds still shape how we feel about ourselves, and how easy it is to forget that we were made in the image of a loving God. This isn’t a self-esteem pep talk. It’s a return to Scripture, community, and the steady truth that God made you intentionally and beautifully.

As the conversation unfolds, Tony shares how God transformed the way he sees his cerebral palsy. Kristy opens up about the hidden strengths we often overlook in ourselves but easily spot in the people we love. Together, they offer a gentle reminder that humility isn’t self-rejection. God calls us to walk in truth, and part of that truth is recognizing the good He has already placed in us.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Why our default setting is to notice what’s wrong instead of what’s right
• How old wounds and hurtful moments shape the way we see ourselves
• What Scripture actually says about being made in God’s image
• Why humility is not the same as tearing yourself down
• How community helps us remember who we really are
• Tony’s story of learning to see his cerebral palsy as a gift
• A prayer to help you walk in the truth of who God made you to be

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🎙️ Episode 36: You Were Never Accidental: God’s Hand in Every Chapter

What if your story has never once been out of God’s sight?

God has been intentional with you from the beginning and he is still intentional today.

This week Tony and Kristy step into the honest places where life feels unclear, heavy, or confusing. They open the door on their own beginnings, their own hard chapters, and the moments God used to steady them. It is a Thanksgiving episode, but it reaches far beyond the holiday. This is about the God who writes with purpose, even when the pages feel messy.

They also speak to anyone who feels lost right now. If your steps have been shaky or your story feels like it has gone off track, this episode reminds you that God never waits on the other side for you to figure it out. He walks with you right where you are. Every chapter carries his hand. Every turn has his presence. And your life has never been accidental.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The story behind Tony’s NICU beginnings and why Thanksgiving carries so much meaning
• How God holds the chapters that feel unclear or heavy
• The moments that revealed God’s intentionality in their marriage
• Why obedience can feel costly but still lead to life
• A gentle invitation for anyone who wants to come home to God

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🎙️ Episode 35: Traveling With Disabilities: Stress-Saving Hacks for the Holidays

Holiday travel can feel overwhelming for any family, but when disability is part of the story the pressure can hit a little harder. This week Tony and Kristy sit down to share the travel rhythms that have helped their family stay steady, even on the busiest days of the season.

You are not behind and you are not failing. There are simple ways to bring peace back into the journey.

In this conversation, they open up about the small adjustments that make a big difference, from packing strategies to TSA navigation to helping kids settle when the unexpected happens. More than anything, they remind you that God cares about every mile and every moment as you travel toward the people you love.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Practical ways to prepare for travel day without adding stress
• How to pack meds, sensory supports, and essentials so nothing gets missed
• Why building in extra time can protect the whole family’s peace
• Tips for smoother airport experiences with mobility or sensory needs
• How to stay flexible and grounded when the day doesn’t go as planned

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🎙️ Episode 34: Grace at the Table: Loving Family Through Hard Conversations

When love meets misunderstanding, how do you keep peace without losing your voice?

There are moments when family gatherings carry more tension than joy, when you’re trying to honor everyone and still protect the ones God has placed in your care. In this episode, Tony and Kristy open up about the grace it takes to have hard but healing conversations with extended family, especially when disability or difference is part of your story.

Peace isn’t the absence of conflict; it’s the presence of Christ in the middle of it.

Together they share how prayer shapes tone, how boundaries honor God, and how forgiveness keeps relationships from fracturing under the weight of expectations. This isn’t about confrontation, it’s about cultivating peace, truth, and love at the same table.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The difference between avoiding conflict and pursuing peace

• How to prepare your heart, and your tone, before a hard talk

• Practical ways to set loving boundaries during the holidays

• Why grace and clarity can coexist in family dynamics

• A closing prayer for discernment, forgiveness, and peace

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🎙️ Episode 33: Doing Life with God: Finding Faithfulness in the Everyday 

How do you build a daily rhythm with God when your mind doesn’t run on schedules?

For Tony and Kristy, faith has never been about perfect streaks or structured routines, it’s about presence. This conversation opens with honesty about dry seasons, neurodiversity, and the guilt that creeps in when devotion feels inconsistent. Together, they remind us that God doesn’t need performance. He just wants presence.

He’s not keeping score, He just misses you.

From seminary burnout to sticky notes of Scripture on the mirror, this episode moves through the real ways we stay connected with God in the middle of everyday life. You’ll hear how love turns “have to” into “get to,” how faith can grow in the car or at the kitchen sink, and why grace matters more than routine.

If you’ve ever felt ashamed for not being more consistent, this one will breathe peace into your soul. It’s for anyone who wants to love God in the middle of real life, and find that He’s already right there.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Why “study isn’t devotion” and how to tell the difference
• What “remaining in God” looks like when your brain doesn’t do structure
• Small, practical ways to invite God into your day, no guilt attached
• The power of grace when routines break down
• How faith grows stronger through presence, not perfection

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🎙️ Episode 32: Gratitude: The Quiet Way We Fight Back

Some days everything hits at once—the spilled drink, the hard call, the flat tire, the ache of transition. Gratitude feels impossible, almost tone-deaf to how heavy life really is. But what if gratitude isn’t pretending everything’s fine? What if it’s standing in quiet defiance against the things trying to steal your joy?

Gratitude isn’t denial. It’s resistance.

In this episode, Tony and Kristy open up about one of those days when nothing seemed to go right—and how a simple moment of thankfulness at a Starbucks table shifted everything. From there, the conversation unfolds into something deeper: how gratitude reorients your heart, steadies your mind, and reminds you who’s really in control.

If you’ve been running on empty, wrestling discouragement, or trying to hold it together for everyone else, this one’s for you. It’s about learning to breathe again—not because life got easier, but because grace met you right where you are.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Why gratitude doesn’t mean denying hardship
• The difference between saying thank you for everything and thank you in everything
• How small, intentional thankfulness shifts the whole day
• The spiritual connection between gratitude and resistance
• Practical ways to keep your heart grounded when life feels heavy

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🎙️ Episode 31: Every Burden Isn’t Yours: Putting Down What God Didn’t Give You

Have you ever reached a point where you’re doing everything for everyone and still feeling like you’re failing anyway?

Sometimes faithfulness isn’t saying yes to more, it’s finally putting something down.

In this solo episode, Kristy opens up about a season where life was packed too tight—work, school, moving, parenting transitions, emotional pressure, and silent expectations that felt holy but were quietly crushing her. She walks through the difference between what God gives us to carry and what we pick up out of guilt, obligation, or fear of letting people down.

Through Scripture, raw honesty, and a backpack metaphor you won’t forget, she gently leads us into the kind of surrender that feels more like freedom than failure. If you’ve ever felt exhausted, resentful, or guilty for needing rest, this conversation is an invitation to breathe again—to stop carrying loads God never asked of you, and trust Him to hold what is too heavy.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The moment when carrying too much stopped feeling holy and started feeling harmful
• How emotional false ownership exhausts the soul
• Why saying “no” can be sacred
• A backpack story that reveals what happens when we carry more than we’re built for
• A prayerful path to laying burdens down with God instead of pushing through alone

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🎙️ Episode 30: Fly Loose: Finding Peace in Letting Go

What if the peace you’ve been fighting for isn’t found in holding tighter, but in loosening your grip?

Peace begins where control ends.

In this funny, tender, and deeply honest episode, Tony and Kristy talk about the illusion of control and how clinging to it often costs us the calm we crave. From a McDonald’s Happy Meal flying out the window to the everyday pressures of parenting, ministry, and disability, they share real stories of learning to release what was never theirs to manage.

Through laughter and conviction, they explore what it means to truly say, “I trust You”—to a spouse, a child, and most importantly, to God. This episode is a gentle invitation to trade anxiety for surrender and discover the kind of peace that only comes when we finally let go.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The surprising way control steals peace instead of protecting it
• Why most control isn’t rebellion—it’s fear
• The power of saying “I trust you” out loud
• How surrender strengthens marriages and deepens faith
• A closing prayer to help you release what’s been too heavy to carry

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🎙️ Episode 29: Created in God’s Image: How the Bible Sees Disability

What does it really mean to be fearfully and wonderfully made?

Your value was established in creation, it’s not up for negotiation.

In this powerful conversation, Tony and Kristy open the first part of their How the Bible Speaks to Disability series by returning to the very beginning—Genesis 1. Together they explore what it means that every person bears God’s image, that disability never diminishes divine design, and that worth isn’t measured by ability but by belonging.

Through Scripture, personal reflection, and classroom stories, they remind us that the image of God is visible in every body, every mind, and every life. This episode is a call to see others—and ourselves—with the same dignity God declared from the start.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• How Genesis 1 and Psalm 139 reveal the foundation of human dignity
• Why “fearfully and wonderfully made” speaks to awe, not ability
• Tony’s reflection on living as an image-bearer with cerebral palsy
• Kristy’s classroom story that redefined how she sees her students
• The truth that every person is essential to the Body of Christ

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🎙️ Episode 28: Your Story Matters: Ordinary, Messy, and Still Unfinished

Have you ever wondered if your story is too ordinary—or maybe too messy, to matter?

God doesn’t waste chapters, He redeems them.

In this heartfelt conversation, Tony and Kristy open up about why every story carries weight, even when it feels small, broken, or unfinished. From classroom moments and invisible friendships to their own “dark ages” of dating, they share how God uses ordinary lives to build extraordinary connection and hope.

This isn’t about polished testimonies or picture-perfect outcomes. It’s about vulnerability, grace, and the kind of honesty that helps others feel safe to do the same. Whether you’re proud of your story or still healing from it, this episode reminds you: your story still matters because your Author isn’t finished yet.

🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Why your story matters, even when it feels ordinary or incomplete
• How vulnerability creates safety and opens hearts
• Stories from the classroom, parenting, and marriage that show God’s faithfulness
• The lies we believe about our stories—and how to replace them with truth
• An invitation to see your story as ministry, not just memory

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