Breaking Bread Podcast

The previous episode focused on the "What is" of emotional intelligence.  In this episode Brian Sutter and Amber Miller address the "how to."  Expect practical ways to regulate your emotions.

Emotions play a huge role in governing our behaviors and subsequent wellbeing.  It is so important then, that we are able to perceive, understand and regulate them.  In this podcast Brian Sutter and Amber Miller help us do just that.

The greatest born among women, Jesus called him. Yet this man, who was set aside by God to proclaim Christ's deity, questioned it deeply. John Reinhard and Brian Sutter explain three critical lessons we learn from the way John the Baptist dealt with his doubt.

Because doubt is such an affront to faith, it can be ignored in Christian circles.  Yet John Reinhard and Brian Sutter see doubt much differently.  Doubt is not an affront to faith, it is necessary for faith.

Families are a system.  A set of dynamic moving parts that effect and influence each other.  Over time they form up our norms for family life.  In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kaleb Beyer exposes the nuances of family systems and helps us notice where adjustments can be made.

Giving and receiving a "no" is painful.  Ron Messner and Amber Miller discuss the complexities that swirl when this has happened.  While easy answers will not be given, a cradle for carrying the difficult questions will be.

Marriage decision making is under consideration in this episode of Breaking Bread.  Guests Ron Messner and Amber Miller discuss critical elements that form up "marriage by faith".

If He hasn't already, God will likely force your hand to face your fear.  At the core of fear is trust and God very much desires to shift our fears from circumstances to a reverent fear of Him.  In this episode Roger Gasser helps us make this transition.

What are you afraid of?  Often fear lurks just below the surface of our lives.  While the fear itself may be concealed, its manifestations are not.  In this episode Roger Gasser helps us understand fear - what it is, its purpose and how to deal with it.

We know life is not a sprint, but at times it sure feels like it is and we need a serious breather.  The fact is, God intends for us to have a breather, quite regularly actually.  He has created us to need rest.  His rest affords us the respite to be resilient.

In part 1, Kaleb Beyer and Ted Witzig Jr. unpacked what abuse in marriage looks like.  In this episode they walk us through the daunting and tricky task of responding to abusive marital situations.  We learn a great deal by listening to them speak to both victims and abusers.

News of abuse is all too common today.  Sorting out fact from fiction can be challenging.   In this episode, Ted Witzig Jr. and Kaleb Beyer stick to the facts as they walk us through the ins and outs of marital abuse.

As an extension of God's love, He speaks to us. As an extension of our love, we speak to our children. In this episode, Craig Stickling shares five strategies for speaking with our children: envisioning, reinforcing, reminding, redirecting, and open ended questions.

Mission work is not without its difficulties and unmet expectations.  Yet it possesses the potential for deep joys.  In this episode, Kirk Plattner and Amber Miller speak to critical aspects of preparing for mission.

Repetitive, degenerative, unmanageable, medicative and destructive – the earmarks of addiction.  In this episode, Roger Gasser continues to educate us on these characteristics while at the same time framing up the hope that can be found.

Am I addicted?  A question not a few people have asked. In this episode ACCFS clinician Roger Gasser begins to sort through the finer points of addiction.  What it is.  How it works.  What it means.

God is about setting the solitary into families.  Psalms 68:6.  It's a brilliant plan.  As sons and daughters of His we have the opportunity to embrace each member of the family as He does – without being a respecter of persons.  In this episode Arlan and Katie Miller provide welcome description on what this looks like.

God is not a respecter of persons.  Amazing.  In this episode Arlan and Katie Miller explain just how easy it is to be partial.  Even in church.  Yet the community of believers is called to reflect this attribute of God.  And it's so good that she has.

While the process for sending missionaries to the field swirls with preparatory support systems, the process for re-entry can go seemingly without even a footnote.  Kirk Plattner and Amber Miller address this vacuum for caring for our missionaries as they return home.  And as you would expect, the local church has a large role to play.

The apostle Paul required care from the church.  Specifically, he requested spiritual, relational and physical aid.  In episode 1, Kirk Plattner and Amber Miller unpacked the relational care the local church can provide a missionary on the field.  In this episode, they highlight in detail, ways the church can provide spiritual and physical care. 

Out of sight, out of mind is true in many contexts. But it is painfully true when missionaries and local churches are those that grow dim.  This episode is the first of a 3 part series on the church's responsibility and opportunity in missionary care. Guests on the show are HarvestCall's Kirk Plattner and ACCFS's Amber Miller. Wonderfully, tangible and meaningful connections can be made that will...

We want to honor our parents. After all, it is on God's top ten.  Beautifully, honor takes on different hues depending on the life stage we are in. However, some situations make honor especially challenging. In this episode, Brian Sutter and Amber Miller address some of those challenging circumstances.

Honoring your father and mother is a big deal [Ten Commandments #5].  Yet working that out in real time can be challenging.  Especially when we disagree.  Obedience has an important voice at the table of honor, but its not the only voice.

Leave and then cleave. This is the pattern for marriage set early in the Scriptures. This is also the pattern for the gospel set throughout the Scriptures. Christ calls us to leave our previous lives, cleave to Him and become a new creation. In a divine reflection of the gospel, marriage calls us to leave our previous lives, cleave to our spouses and be a new family. In this episode, Kaleb Beyer w...