Words for the Journey
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
By offering practical thoughts based on biblical truth, “Words for the Journey” is helping listeners find their way out of dark places, so they can begin to live in the light of Christ.
Location:
United States
Description:
By offering practical thoughts based on biblical truth, “Words for the Journey” is helping listeners find their way out of dark places, so they can begin to live in the light of Christ.
Language:
English
Episodes
Keeping an Eye on Eternity: Encouragement for the Journey
4/30/2024
This life is a hard journey. There’s a reason why this world doesn’t feel like a good fit, one Scripture addresses. But if we’ll remind ourselves of the promises of heaven, it will help us maintain today. Cyndy has 3 tips and 3 promises to encourage us while we’re still here.
Duration:00:16:24
Basics First: 4 Priorities for Every Christian
4/23/2024
When we have pain and problems, we tend to gravitate toward anything but God. God asks us to keep him first. If we’ll pay attention to the basics (seek God, fellowship with Christians, pray, and read Scripture), he will richly provide for our needs, guiding us with love and power.
Duration:00:18:26
Help! My Mind is Driving Me Crazy! Taking control of our thought life.
4/16/2024
It’s no fun when our mind continually replays tormenting thoughts. However, we can take control. In this podcast we will discover how to get the bad stuff out of our head and replace it with healthy thinking. With God’s weapons, we can fight and win these mental battles.
Duration:00:16:29
How Do I Survive my Grief? Grieving Basics
4/9/2024
Grieving is one of the most important parts of the healing process, but also the part most often misunderstood and skipped. Grief is sneaky, sometimes showing up in unusual ways. Learn how to recognize and value your grief, what to avoid, and what to do when it shows up.
Duration:00:19:33
But I Don’t Want to Forgive: Forgiveness is Good for the Soul
4/2/2024
While it goes against our human grain to forgive, there are many compelling reasons to do so. Forgiveness brings good health, freedom, and closeness with God. We will dispel common misconceptions about what forgiveness means and dig into many of the benefits of complying with this fundamental directive.
Duration:00:17:56
Being Congruent: Beliefs, Actions, Thoughts, Words, and Feelings that Match
3/27/2024
The purpose of our life is to serve God and glorify him in everything we say, do, and think. Getting these areas to line up is hard work and requires true beliefs and healing for our wounds. The effort is worth it because it leads to the best life possible.
Duration:00:17:29
4 Steps to Get Through Anything: Trust, Commit, Rest, Wait
3/19/2024
After we begin to heal and realize we don’t want to be a victim anymore, we need to learn new ways of doing things. How can we live healthy and successful lives? God gives us four helpful steps to do this in Psalm 37: Trust, commit, rest, and wait.
Duration:00:18:04
Where is Justice: Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
3/12/2024
After we begin shedding the victim identity, we need something to put in its place. Micah 6:8 provides a great starting place, three standards that will guide us in any situation. Justice, mercy, and humility are not hard to understand, but very challenging to follow.
Duration:00:17:56
Life After Healing: Living in the Promise Land
3/5/2024
Receiving God’s healing in our life is wonderful, but it isn’t the end goal. Healing is just a means toward a greater end which is to finally live the life we were created for, as the person God made us to be. He has great plans for us, but we need restoration before we are ready.
Duration:00:17:34
Confession is for You: Healing Our Relationship with God
2/27/2024
It’s every person’s tendency to justify their sin and shy away from confession, but we’re really hurting ourselves in a tremendous way when we do this. God’s plan and intention is never to shame us, it is to relieve us of guilt, setting our mind and heart free. It’s for us—not for him!
Duration:00:16:38
Don’t be Satan’s Victim: Defeating the Enemy
2/20/2024
No one wants to contend with Satan, but we don’t get a choice about that. We only get a choice about standing up to his lies, living in the truth, using our God-given weapons, and get healing for our wounds. Find out how you can gain victory in your life.
Duration:00:18:24
Joy In The Wilderness: Finding good in the midst of the hard.
2/13/2024
While it is true our season of healing in the wilderness is challenging, that’s not the whole story. This season also includes many blessings, including growing intimacy with the Lord. Find out where joy can be found, as well as things you can do to make your life brighter.
Duration:00:17:22
Being in the Middle of Healing: Understanding the wilderness season.
2/6/2024
In order to pass from our old life of bondage and enter into our new life in the Promised Land, it is necessary we travel through the wilderness. We will learn how to avoid some of the mistakes the Israelites made, mistakes that made this season harder and longer.
Duration:00:16:55
Leaving Egypt: Why is it Hard to Leave Our Bondage?
1/30/2024
Are you stuck? So many settle for an unsatisfying life because it’s familiar and they are afraid to trust God to take them to something better. In Isaiah 43, God reveals his deep love for us and his plan to take care of us all the way to the Promised Land. His love will keep us moving forward.
Duration:00:16:34
Victim Identity Part 3: Self-Acceptance
1/23/2024
The road to self-acceptance requires some effort, as well as an understanding of the truth, but it is worth it. Self-acceptance makes it possible to live in peace with ourselves and experience the best life possible, the life we were created to live.
Duration:00:16:19
Victim Identity Part 2: The Lifestyle
1/16/2024
There are two types of members in the “Victim Club,” the passive victim and the aggressive victim. Find out which type you are, and how you can resign from the club by examining your false beliefs about yourself and about God. This is one club you don’t want to belong to.
Duration:00:18:10
Victim Identity Part 1: We are good stuff.
1/9/2024
Too often we have allowed our self-worth to be defined by the bad things that have happened to us, along with the poor choices we've made. And as such, have come up lacking value. Find out how you can shed the lies and begin enjoying the person God made you to be.
Duration:00:17:54
The Desert, Sea, Prison: 3 Victim Destinations
1/2/2024
Our needs are God-given, but if we try to meet them in our own prideful way, we will suffer for sure. Psalm 107 gives us three powerful metaphors illustrating victim lifestyles on Pride Pathway, metaphors that will help us identify victim choices that hurt our life.
Duration:00:17:25
To Rage or not to Rage, that is the question. Anger.
12/26/2023
Anger can interfere in our life, causing problems to others and ourselves. However, if we aren’t aware of the wound underneath our anger, we probably won’t be able to resolve it, only manage it. Find out how you can get rid of your anger every time it shows up.
Duration:00:17:52
Hagar’s Story: Meeting the God Who Sees Me
12/19/2023
Changing a false identity or victim behavior begins by seeing God for who he truly is and seeing the inestimable value of ourselves. God gives us a real-life example of this miracle in the story a Hagar. No one valued her until the day she met God while running away from her life.
Duration:00:17:04