When someone we love is grieving, our instinct is often to find the right words, offer solutions, or try to make the pain go away. But what if one of the most powerful ways we can love others is simply by being present? In this episode, Mary and Tiffany Stein discuss practical ways to walk with the grieving, avoid common mistakes, and faithfully reflect the comfort and compassion of Christ. Together they explore what it means to weep with those who weep and offer others the same comfort we ourselves have received from Christ.

Mourning God: Grieving Loss, Wrestling with God, and Finding your way back to Life by Tiffany Stein

Walking with the Grieving

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Many of us know what it feels like to wait on God. But what happens when the waiting stretches on, suffering deepens, and God's presence seems hidden? In this episode, Mary sits down with Tiffany Stein to discuss the Wall, the Dark Night of the Soul, and the painful reality of walking through seasons of grief, disappointment, and uncertainty. Drawing from Scripture and personal experience, they explore how hope, community, and God's faithfulness sustain us while we wait.

Listener Note: This episode includes conversations about grief, death, cancer, and infant loss. Some parts may feel especially heavy, so please listen with care.

Mourning God: Grieving Loss, Wrestling with God, and Finding your way back to Life by Tiffany Stein

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We’ve been taught that freedom means having no limits, but what if limitlessness is actually crushing us? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore why Scripture presents limits not as punishment, but as part of God’s good design for human flourishing. What if the boundaries we resist most are actually the places where God forms trust, dependence, rest, and joy?

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We live in the most informed culture in human history, and yet many of us still feel anxious, overwhelmed, and spiritually shallow. Podcasts, reels, articles, sermons, AI: we are constantly consuming information, but does knowing more actually help us live well? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom, and how Scripture reframes what it means to become truly formed.

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What are your desires really after? What’s underneath the things you keep chasing? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore four root idols, control, power, approval, and comfort, and how they shape our desires, decisions, and discipleship. What if the issue isn’t the thing itself, but what we’re asking it to give us?

Root Idols PDF

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If something feels hard, does that mean something is wrong? We live in a world that avoids discomfort at all costs, but what if that instinct is forming us in the wrong ways? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore the difference between comfort and formation, and how Scripture reframes suffering, endurance, and obedience.

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What really happened the night Jesus was born, and how did we end up with donkeys, drummers, and a jolly man in red? In this episode, Tory and Mary look at the historical and biblical truth behind Christmas traditions. From St. Nicholas to the Nativity, they explore what’s real, what’s legend, and how recovering the truth deepens our worship of Christ.

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Eschatology isn’t just about how the world ends, it’s about how we live now. In this episode, Tory and Mary explore what Scripture teaches about Christ’s return, the new creation, and the final judgment. Together they discuss how a right view of the end deepens our discipleship, strengthens endurance in suffering, and restores hope in what’s to come.

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Biblical theology traces God’s story; systematic theology gathers God’s truths. But what happens when we separate them, give one too much weight, or get them in the wrong order? In this episode, Tory and Mary unpack how these should shape our holistic theology, our discipleship, and our worship, and why ordering them rightly matters.

If you’d like a written companion to this episode, check out our article, “Understanding the Bible: A Simple Guide to Biblical & Systematic Theology.”

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Why is forgiveness so hard, and does it really matter? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore what it means to forgive as people who have been forgiven, how withholding forgiveness distorts God’s image in us, and why extending grace, like we’ve received in Christ, leads to true freedom, healing, and restored relationship with God and others.

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