Halfway to Sunday

You can now watch FULL episodes on YouTube!  ✝️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE In Episode 103 of Halfway to Sunday , Jill sits down with Dr. Oluwole Babatunde, psychiatrist, faith leader, and author of Adapt and Advance: A Faith-Based Step-by-Step Guide to Turning Trials into Triumphs. Oluwole shares his story of growing up in Nigeria, losing both parents at a young age, and experiencing seasons so dark they...

In Episode 102 of Halfway to Sunday , Jill sits down with Aneta Kuzma, author of Lanterns of Light, to talk about trusting God through fear, uncertainty, and big life transitions. Aneta shares how leaving the “false sense of security” of corporate life to step into entrepreneurship became a defining moment, when her faith became greater than her fear. She opens up about the practices that helped h...

In Episode 101 of Halfway to Sunday , Jill sits down with author Kristen LaValley to talk about church hurt, spiritual perfectionism, and what it looks like to rebuild faith when it’s been tangled up with trauma. Kristen shares about her book Growing Up Saved and the “I am bad” mindset so many Christians carry, believing they must perform and become “better” to be loved by God. Together they explo...

If you’re overwhelmed and running on empty, this episode is for you. In our 100th episode, Jill and Cassian Bellino share biblical boundaries and practical ways to create margin so you can protect your peace and keep saying yes to God without burning out.  ➡️ Watch next: Halfway to Sunday (Full Episodes) 🎧Listen on Apple Spotify 🙏 Join the community + bonus content (Patreon) 💌 Questions/Guest R...

In Episode 99 of Halfway to Sunday, Jill sits down with Chaz Becker, founder of Storied, to explore why many believers know God loves them but still struggle to feel it. They talk about the gap between head knowledge and heart knowledge, and how spiritual formation can engage the emotional “right brain,” not just information and theology. Chaz shares how attachment patterns and nervous system resp...

In Episode 98 of Halfway to Sunday, Jill sits down with Kathleen Johnson, author and founder of Scripture Girl, to talk about breaking free from fear and learning to live from God-reliance instead of self-reliance. Kathleen shares how painful seasons pushed her into deeper Scripture memory, meditation, and intimacy with God and how moving truth from “head knowledge” to something that actually tran...

Bible teacher and prison-ministry leader James Early joins Jill to unpack a shame-free path back to Jesus. James shares how the cross and resurrection secure real freedom, why your identity as God’s child matters more than your worst mistakes, and how total surrender becomes a daily mindset. He tells a powerful prison-ministry story of a woman who finally got to ask hard questions and how she foun...

In this episode Jill welcomes two friends and scholars who unite theology and psychology to help us actually love our neighbors. From Seattle Pacific University to a new season at Baylor, Katherine and Brittany unpack how situational obstacles (hurry, overload), emotions (avoidance, fear), and cognition (scarcity, labels) quietly distract us from empathy. Brittany and Katie offer shame-free, pract...

Deacon and mental-health counselor Constance Hastings joins Jill to talk candidly about doubt, grief, and learning to trust Jesus when life is not neat. Constance shares why she wrote The Trouble with Jesus: Considerations Before You Walk Away, naming tensions like Jesus choosing “losers,” elevating women, talking often about money, and refusing to be our instant “divine fixer.” Together they expl...

Author–artist Sharon Collins shares how God led her from a Santa Fe spark to art classes, a website, and published devotional books, each painting paired with Scripture. Along the way she learned that the Christian life isn’t radical independence but living in-dependence on Jesus, cultivating silence, and letting Him author the ideas. Sharon unpacks practical rhythms: pool-side quiet with God, tex...

Learning to Let God Love Me (Jill’s Story) In this Christmas-Eve special, Jill shares a vulnerable chapter: a teenage pregnancy, losing her faith community, and decades of running from a God she assumed could never love her. Through her daughters’ invitation, and a deep dive into Mary’s story, Jill began to see the first Christmas differently…and to see her own story through Jesus’ love. She reali...

Video producer Craig Dehut shares how Appian Media set out to solve a problem: the world needed well-made, bias-free, biblically accurate Bible films shot in the lands of the Bible and offered free. Craig walks us through Gethsemane (why Jesus likely watched the arresting party approach across the valley), the Sea of Galilee (a large lake you can see across), and Bethlehem (why a cave manger fits...

At the height of a dream legal career, Lara Silverman collapsed into a rare neurological condition that left her largely bedridden. In the confusion, she began keeping “evidence” of God’s presence - moments of Scripture and comfort He sent right when anger and despair peaked. Then came an unexpected love story with Matt, a Christ-like friend facing terminal cancer; they married, ministered with “j...

Episode 90: Not Hearing God? Deconstruction, Discernment & Surrender (with Cathy Garland) Raised at the intersection of scholarship and revival, Cathy Garland hit deconstruction at thirteen—and her pastor-dad walked with her through honest questions until the Bible’s God became personal again. Cathy explains “learn to discern” - filtering media messages at the assumption level - then takes us into...

Engineer and author Nicole Gibson shares how a tragic accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, memory loss, and years of emotional fallout. In the dark, she questioned God and later discovered He’d been present all along. Nicole traces the slow rebuild: vulnerable prayer in her room, steady friends who wouldn’t let go, Scripture, church, and a return to self-worth that changed her choices....

When Jennifer’s daughter Chloe spiraled from anxiety and depression into a life-threatening incident, Jennifer discovered a new kind of fight: surrender to Jesus while advocating with courage. She shares the ER night that changed everything, the moment God whispered “I love her more,” and how surrender meant releasing control, not abandoning care. Jennifer walks us through advocating with psychiat...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...

This podcast isn’t just something we make each week, it’s a ministry. Every story we share is meant to remind you that you are deeply loved by God, and that He’s still moving - right here, right now - through the lives of real people.  And this month is our Halfway to Sunday Pledge Drive: a time where we’re inviting you to come alongside us and help this ministry keep growing. If you’ve been encou...