Tasted + Seen

Abigail and Domingo have been following the Lord's calling in their lives, even when they were completely unsure why, where, and how things would work out. They get real about the difficulites of running into the unknown, moving to a new state, and the reality that the Lord was their shelter and their hope through it all. The Lord performed surgery on their hearts, tested their faith, an fulfilled...

Jack Branum loves baseball. He grew up living and breathing baseball, and yet that isn't the most important thing in his life. The Holy Spirit has been at work in Jack's life; changing his priorities, turning his eyes towards heavenly things, and stirring his spirit. Jack shares about the role that his family and his church body played in preparing and encouraging him for the new thing tha...

How beautiful it is to be apart of God's church! At a young age, Dr. Best remembers his church body intentionally helping him discover his spiritual gifts, and then creating opportunities for him to put those gifts into practice. Because of the encouragement of the church and their intentional discipleship, Dr. Best always knew that he would be a preacher and teacher of the gospel. Dr. Best is...

Ben Sander wasn't sure he was going to leave the hospital alive. Death was knocking on his door, and it was in this dark moment, where Ben realized that there was more that he could have been doing in the Kingdom of God. King Jesus, the Great Healer, saved Ben's life and is using Him to further the Kingdom in the Black Hills. Jesus Christ has a Kingdom purpose for you to live out too!

For most of Katie Charest's life, Katie has experienced unresolved medical issues. A runner at heart, physical pain prevented Katie from doing what she loved, at the level of excellence that she knew she was capable of achieving. After multiple years of no answers, increasing discomfort, and no signs of hope, Katie was faced with a choice. She could serve King Jesus in her pain, or she could s...

Nothing says that many emotions can be held at the same time than a podcast episode titled, "Celebration" where we talk about grief. Hannah Crooks, a student at Ozark Christian College, is passionate about celebrating the beauty of life, and shares about how celebration has looked different for her as life experiences brings fun and hard changes. Her heart for the Lord, really does bust...

While the world tells us to go after what we want, Mackenzie's story inspires us to take the Lord's path for our life instead. Faced with the difficult decision of where to go to college, hit with disappointment of what she thought she wanted, and then invited into a completely different, but incredibly beautiful, job opportunity Mackenzie, learned that the Lord had specific, and good, pla...

We all know and love Zane Hamilton! If you know Zane, you know he brings the energy wherever he goes, and he definitely brought it to this podcast episode! We had such a blast hearing Zane's story and the really intentional details that God weaved together every step of the way. God weaved together his passions for ministry and athletics and opened up incredible opportunities to share the good new...

in 2 Corinthians 5:17 it says "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" This verse perfectly sums up this weeks episode. Halle Kirsch opens up against her past struggle with alcohol and how the grace and forgiveness of Jesus completely changed her life. Listen to Halle's episode to hear the details about how God del...

Navigating new seasons of life brings a lot of challenges. As Amber Potter started a new chapter in her life at Black Hills State University, she quickly learned that she was going to need the Lord and the Lord's people to navigate all of the hard things that come with college. Amber has noticed the Lord, in all. of His goodness, helping her throughout her ongoing semesters her in South Dakota...

The Lord doesn't intend for us to walk through life alone. He intentionally puts people into our lives to walk through the ups and downs alongside of us. Our Good Shepherd is always watching out for us. Grace Smith, joined the crew at Summit Christian College on a spring break trip, and shares about how vulnerability connected their group in a deeper way, changing the way they served those aro...

This episode is such a fun way to start off Season 4! We got the incredible opportunity to hear from Ashley Macha in Tanzania, Africa. It is evident that the Lord is at work in the Neema Village, where Ashley and her team are able to share the love of Jesus with moms and babies who are facing intense hardship. In the midst of poverty and life-threatening health challenges, Ashley has seen the hope...

The devil works really hard to tempt us to believe that we are alone. We know that God is with us, yet often times we don’t sit with Him and allow His presence to be our comfort in the times we feel alone. Nicc Quinones opens up about how God redeemed his season of loneliness and turned it into a season of spiritual growth and transformation. We are praising God for another testimony of God’s kind...

A couple months ago, the Pritchard family received news that would rock their world, as well as forever change their prayer lives. When their middle child was diagnosed with cancer, Chris and Kelsey Pritchard, continually took it all to the LORD in prayer, knowing that He is much bigger than cancer. In the months that followed, they witnessed miracle after miracle, leaving them with a testimony th...

Scott Stuart, a worship leader here at North Point Christian Church, has always loved music. His rock and roll life style of the past was sinful and unfulfilling. Scott shares about the spiral that led to him hitting his rock bottom, and about the people that God placed into his life that would speak truth and love over him, ultimately leading to a life that is forever changed. Not only does Scott...

At some point or another, the devil comes to attack our identity. Each and every one of us will come to a point in our lives where we question who we are and why we were place on this earth. Our cousin, Thaddeus Coop, has recently embarked on his own journey of discovering his identity in King Jesus. We are so thankful that God is redeeming his story, and that this episode is just the beginning of...

Reagan spent her whole summer serving on camp teams for York University. She soaked up so much wisdom and encouragement from multiple leaders at various church camps, leaving her on spiritual mountaintop. In our next episode, Reagan shares how her christian counselor helped adjust back to everyday life. We know that there is a stigma that comes with Christians going to counseling, so we dove right...

There are so many times that, in the midst of darkness, we feel as though hope is lost. This darkness makes it really easy to fall into a rapid spiral of unhealthy habits and negative thinking patterns. Becca Lillie opens up and shares her struggles in her darkest moments. Our faithful God used different people, and different messages, at different times, to begin a beautiful work in Becca, She is...

This episode is like a breath of fresh air. Becca, a senior studying Biblical communications at Ozark Christian College, has an incredible attitude towards God and the things He asks her to do. God keeps putting Becca in uncomfortable situations, and rather than focusing on the unknown, Becca walks in confidence because she knows that Jesus is her constant companion. She has experienced the joy of...

Living your life for Jesus is the most influential thing you can do. Influence can be multigenerational. Adam Wehrman, a middle school math teacher, desires to be the godly influence that public school students are looking for. The most important legacy we can leave is the legacy of the love and truth found in King Jesus. We were greatly encouraged to hear how God is providing opportunities for Ad...

Morgan Smith gets vulnerable about what God has taught her about servanthood. When she was convicted about her motive for serving others, she wanted to change. Seeing Jesus as the ultimate example of servanthood, transformed her heart and motives. Serving people out of love for them and for the Lord, leads to beautiful opportunities to be the hands and feet of Jesus in a broken world.

Jared Stark, The Interim President of York University, comes on the podcast and shares about the blessings that he has experienced since deciding to go all in with Jesus. Jared has such a heart for ministry. He also has such a special opportunity to pour into college students during the weekdays, and to preach the word of God to his church family on Sunday mornings. Tune in to hear Jared share abo...

Caleb Hebbert's life is a testimony to the Lord's faithfulness. Caleb and his wife, Emily, weathered storms very early on in their marriage and in the beginning of their children's lives that would forever change the way they viewed the church body. In this episode, we talk about the beauty of friendship the real part of grief, and how joy is found in the midst of hard things.

We have a little bit of a different take on this episode. Ryan Charest, a church planter in Sheridan, Wyoming, encourages us to ask the Lord to give us eyes that see opportunities to participate in God's work in the little moments, as well as in the big moments. God moves mightily in the schedule of our everyday lives! With eyes to see and ears to hear, we can walk through the doors He is open...

What's up, Tasted + Seen Podcast listeners! We made it to season THREE!! Praise Jesus!! Anxiety and depression are emotions that many of us struggle with at some point in our lives. In this episode, we talk about some practical things we can do to go to battle against anxiety. It was not long after Staci got married, that she went through something that would change the way that she approached...