Bumper Sticker Wisdom

Sometimes we don't know what God is doing. We don't know why a door opened—or why it didn't. We don't know why we're walking through a difficult season or what God is doing behind the scenes. In this episode, John and Terri talk about the Holy Spirit, trusting God when we can't see the whole picture, and what happens when other people's opinions cause us to question a decision we once had peace ab...

What happens when God's plan doesn't look anything like the plan we had for ourselves? In this episode of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, John and Terri have an honest conversation about trusting God when we don't understand what He's doing. They talk about saying yes to God, recognizing opportunities to be His hands and feet, and remembering that we don't have to be perfect to be used by Him. The conversa...

In Episode 141 of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, John and Terri talk about growth, forgiveness, and learning to see ourselves through the eyes of Christ. They discuss how far God has brought us, the changes Christ continues to make in our lives, and the importance of learning to forgive ourselves. The conversation also explores what we allow into our minds each day, why we should not let others discourage...

In Episode 140 of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, John and Terri explore what it means to recognize that the enemy is not people. Beginning with Ephesians 6, the conversation looks at spiritual warfare, the battles we cannot always see, and the importance of directing our focus toward the real enemy rather than lashing out at the people around us. They also talk about grace, the price Christ paid for us, a...

How do you see yourself? When we look at ourselves, we often focus on our failures, mistakes, flaws, and all the places where we feel like we haven't measured up. We can recognize how far we've come and still focus on how far we have left to go. But what if we're looking at ourselves through the wrong eyes? In this episode of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, we talk about grace, salvation, God's love, the B...

What happens when we ask God for something—and His answer doesn't look anything like what we expected? In Episode 138, John and Terri talk about the reality that following Jesus doesn't mean life will be easy. Sometimes God answers our prayers differently than we imagined. Sometimes the storms remain, and we're given the strength to stand in them instead. The conversation explores the importance o...

What does surrender actually look like? In this episode, John and Terry have an honest conversation about learning to let go without giving up. They talk about the pressure of feeling responsible for everyone around you, the desire to make yourself valuable and needed, and how difficult it can be to surrender control when you've spent years learning to depend on yourself. They also explore how our...

Life has a way of wearing us down. Sometimes this world will truly grind you into dust, and there are moments when you simply don't have the strength to keep your arms up. So who holds them up? In this episode of the Bumper Sticker Wisdom Podcast, we talk about the importance of community, friendship, church, and having people in our lives who are willing to stand beside us when we're struggling....

"To know that even on life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." -Lao Tzu

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in the depths it has its pearls." - Vincent VanGough

"Reality is nwvwe frustrating, reality is always fulfilling. Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality." - Osho

"Whoever shows you your faults, keep him close, for he is a true friend!" - Ali Iba Abi Talib

"Let them be wrong about you. There's nothing to prove." - Unknown

"Everything is beautiful depending on the situation. A school bell sounds irritating at 9am, but the same bell sounds melodious at 4pm." - Unknown

"And God said love your enemy. I obeyed him and loved myself." - Kahlil Gibson

"To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and thememory of a bad past." - Seneca

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe adn sane future." - John F. Kennedy

"The true weight of a man is the gap between who he is and who he knows he should be." - Marcus Arelius

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you, if you allow it." - Leon Brown

"What is poison? Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be your, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever." - unknown

"3Courage is being scared and saddling up and doing it any way." John Wayne

How stubborn are we that we must continue to repat the same old things so we can say, "I did it on my own." How stuck in our ways must we be that we continue to know that we can't do it on our own but never turn to the who will never leave us? - Bumper Sticker Wisdom

"Life's tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin