Embrace Podcast

So much of our anxiety stems not from outside circumstances, but from the pressures and pitfalls within our own heads. God promises to bring us through our anxieties, but sometimes that healing process begins with admitting that we are in the dark. In order to experience the peace that God offers, we must first admit where we are in our anxiety and then be vulnerable with someone else. God desires...

Listen in as Adam and Holly share more practical ways to attack back on anxiety, expanding on the 4 points Holly talked about from stage Sunday. You'll hear more of Holly and Adam's personal stories of fighting anxiety, plus gain a few more tools to use when anxiety does attack.

Anxiety is not something we have to simply endure, instead we have the ability to combat and attack it, not allowing anxiety to rule our lives anymore. Four ways to attack back on anxiety include: getting professional help, finding a friend, marinating in worship, and fighting back with Scripture. With these tools in mind you can be better equipped to attack, and we pray ultimately overcome, your...

Ever felt anxious? Afraid? Worried? We've probably all been there at one time or another. But there are tools we can use to fight these battles against fear, worry, and anxiety: naming our fears and destroying the lie that we're alone in our anxiety. Once we realize those two truths we can be assured that God was handling our anxieties, long before we were worried about them. 

Get ready for the best Super Bowl party of your weekend! Players from both the Rams and Patriots, as well as other NFL stars, share about their relationship with Jesus on and off the field leading up to the big game. Get a behind the scenes look at Super Bowl LIII, and be inspired to live out your own faith in a whole new way.

2019 may be your year, but news flash: it's not about you! When we're the star of our own stories failure is inevitable, and when we do fail it's all on us. But when God is the center of our world, even the worst failures can be turned into victory through Him. This year let's make our lives not about us by serving those who can't give us anything in return and by rejoicin...

Sometimes we become overwhelmed by what we think are the countless bad things in our lives, but Jesus tells us to count the good all around us instead of focusing on the bad. The reality is, there are more good things in our lives than bad, and even in the bad God is at work. Instead of looking for the false, wrong, and ugly things this year, let's celebrate the true, right, and lovely of 201...

We all need people in our lives, but there's two specific types of people that we need more than any others: champions and challengers. Champions are encouragers, pushing your further in your walk with Jesus. But we need challengers too, people who aren't afraid to ask the hard questions and challenge us when we need it. Together, we truly are better. This is YOUR year, but an important...

New Year's resolutions are hard! And though there can be a lot of good to setting goals for the new year, there's also a lot of guilt that comes along with those goals when we don't accomplish them how we imagined. To really make 2019 our best year yet we have to give ourselves some grace, trusting in God's plan even when we fail, and not quitting when things don't work ou...

Welcome to Christmas Eve at Embrace! We all have things in life that are threatening to extinguish our light: the chaos of the season, hurtful people, bad choices, just to name a few. But while the light in our hearts can so easily be put out, Jesus' light never will! His light came to Earth as a baby 2,000 years ago. This Christmas let's celebrate and embrace the light of the world!

What do you adore in life? Is it money, status, relationships, getting ahead? The song "Oh Come all Ye Faithful" calls us to come let us adore HIM ... Jesus! But what if we don't feel like we adore Jesus? How can we make him a bigger part of our lives and as a result, love him more? We must dwell in Jesus' house, see his beauty, and seek him with expectation. When we do those t...

Like the classic song says, God calls us to bring our finest gifts to Him. Are you bringing the best of your time, talent, and treasure to God? But God also wants our worst—the messy, imperfect, far from polished parts of our lives. We're asked to bring our worst and our best, because God's best gift, Jesus, came to redeem the worst of us.

We're all weary in some way. We're tired. The world can be a sad place, even at Christmastime. But there is still hope—a hope not found in circumstances or other people, but an unending hope found in Jesus. What are you placing your hope in this Christmas?

"Let every heart prepare Him room" is one of the most famous lines from Joy to the World, but what does it actually mean to prepare room for Jesus in our hearts and lives this Christmas? There's a lot of practical things we can do to make more room in our lives, but why should we do that in the first place? Because more room leads to more Jesus and more Jesus leads to more joy! Coul...

Fear will keep us from a lot of things in life, but most importantly it will keep us from fostering and growing our relationships with others, and with God. We deal with fear in many ways: through courage, logic, faith, forgetting, and addictions, but the only solution to fear is love. True love centered on Jesus will conquer fear, completing our relationships instead of killing them.

We've all been given a race to run in life, but what will kill that race and our relationships faster than anything? Comparison. Looking around at what other people have been blessed with will kill anything special in our lives. So how do we kill comparison? Simply stop looking around! Run your race, and cheer others on in their races. Let's celebrate, rather than compare. 

How do you find your calling, and once you find it, how do you live it out? Author and speaker Ken Costa of the Alpha organization talks purpose and passion no matter what season of life you're in. 

We all like to be right, don't we? But when liking to be right becomes a need to be right all the time we begin to hurt our relationships with others and God. How can we fix that? Stop defending ourselves. Realize that it's okay to be wrong. And learn God's rightness. When we put these three things into practice, though easier said than done, we'll begin to crave God's rig...

Why does holding grudges kill our relationships? Because we're refusing to forgive like Jesus first forgave us. Some grudges are petty—the driver cutting us off in traffic, the offhand comment made by a friend—those we simply need to get over and move on from in kindness. Other grudges are not so easy to get past. It's in those moments that we need Jesus' example of forgiveness more...

What's one thing that kills our relationships? Magnifying faults. All too often we use a magnifying glass to see what the people in our lives are doing wrong, when really we should be using a magnifying mirror to examine ourselves first. How do we bring these relationships back to life? Simply switch the order: first looking at ourselves, then to Jesus, and then to helping our neighbors.

We've all been thirsty before, but have you ever felt a thirst that only Jesus can fill? Jesus is the living water, quenching our thirst in a way nothing else in life can. But Jesus doesn't just fill us so we can be satisfied, he fills us up so we can overflow and bring his life-giving water to everyone around us.

Ever feel like God has left you without a trace? You're stuck and don't know where to turn next? Sometimes our lives can feel like the movie, Ghost—the one who was always supposed to be there has left and we feel directionless, alone. But get this, God's presence isn't dependent on our ability to see it; God's presence is dependent on His ability to keep His promises. And...

Have you heard about the gremlins? They may look cute and cuddly at first, but they can be deadly. Kind of like us and sin. It sounds nice to follow our hearts, but in the end our desires, apart from God, can lead to death. The only way to kill a gremlin is to bring it into the light, the same goes for us. When our sin is brought into the light of God's truth we're able to get rid of it—...

What do we have in common with a little alien from another planet? We both don't belong on Earth. All E.T. wanted was to go home—as Christians, our home also isn't here, it's in heaven. But while we're here on Earth we're called to think about heaven, bring heaven down to Earth, and eagerly wait for heaven. Someday we too will be heading home.

What can the 80's movie Back to the Future teach us about Jesus? A lot actually (and not just how to drive a DeLorean)! While Marty McFly travels to the past to change things, Jesus doesn't want to change our past, instead he wants to redeem it. To redeem our past Jesus frees us from it, he's drawn to it, and he uses it. Our past isn't something to be ashamed of, to Jesus it&ap...