Faithformed: Honest Faith for People Who Don't Have it All Together

Send us Fan Mail Nobody signs up for the wilderness. One day you've got momentum, the thing is working, and the next you look up and the ground has changed. The green is gone. And the desert doesn't just make you tired. It makes you doubt. Because you start doing the math: if I were really walking with God, I wouldn't be out here. This is part one of a new four-part arc on the wilde...

Send us Fan Mail "Be anxious for nothing." If that verse has ever felt less like comfort and more like a command you keep failing, this episode is for you. You're in the third row with your hands up and your heart racing for no reason you can name, and underneath the worship there's one quiet question: what is wrong with me? You love God. So why can't you make the anxiety...

Send us Fan Mail I felt like recently celebrating Juneteenth was as good a time as any to address something I see a lot on social media and something I’ve even said myself.  I used to say "I'm a Christian before I'm Black," but only in one kind of room. Never around people who looked like me. Always in white-leaning spaces, where the disclaimer made everyone else relax and made...

Send us Fan Mail "Why am I so hard on myself?"  Have you ever wrestled with that question? If so, you've found just the right episode to help you understand it.  There's a voice that gets to you before you're even fully awake. It tells you you're behind, you're failing, you should've done more by now. And most of us never argue with it. We think it's ju...

Send us Fan Mail Not everyone who has an opinion about your vision has earned the right to speak into it. Knowing the difference might be the most important thing you do with what God gave you. Episode 42 closes the Formation Trilogy -- nine episodes on purpose, calling, and vision -- with the two questions this arc was always building toward. The first: what does God do with the person who is sti...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the thing God gave you goes into the ground? Not stalls. Not pauses. Collapses. When the vision you carried for years ends in a way you did not choose and cannot fully explain, and you are left holding the pieces trying to determine whether what you are standing at is a burial or a death. In this episode of FaithFormed, we walk through the full arc of Joseph&ap...

Send us Fan Mail You stopped saying it out loud. Not because you stopped believing it. Because you got tired of the look on people's faces when the evidence didn't match the declaration. In Episode 40,  we open the Vision Arc of the Formation Trilogy by naming one of the most disorienting experiences in a life of faith: carrying a God-given vision when the conditions for it have not yet...

Send us Fan Mail You are not waiting for God to speak. You are waiting for God to be clearer. And if you have been treating those as the same problem, it may be the reason you have been standing still longer than you needed to. You have a sense of the direction. The calling is real. But the path is obscured and you have been telling yourself you cannot move responsibly until you can see further th...

Send us Fan Mail You know what you're called to. That's what makes the waiting so hard. You've prayed, prepared, and positioned yourself as best you know how. And still the door stays shut. The opportunity doesn't materialize. And over time the silence starts to speak — maybe I missed God, maybe I did something wrong, maybe He changed His mind about me. This episode goes direct...

Send us Fan Mail How do I know my calling? Have you ever asked that question?  You are still waiting for the moment. The clear sign. The unmistakable confirmation. The voice that finally says this is it. And it hasn't come the way you expected — not with the clarity and certainty you've been told should accompany a real calling from God. So you keep waiting. And the waiting has slowly ma...

Send us Fan Mail You've settled the identity. You understand the calling. You've held your assignments with open hands. And purpose still feels like something out ahead of you — like you're always one assignment away from feeling like you've arrived. That is not a you problem. That is the destination trap. And this episode is about getting out of it. This final episode of The P...

Send us Fan Mail You have changed lanes before. A new job, a new ministry, a new chapter — each one entered with real hope that this would be the one that finally fit. And none of them fully answered the question. There isn't something wrong with you. You have been chasing the wrong thing — because nobody ever gave you a map. This episode gives you the map. There are three levels — primary ca...

Send us Fan Mail You have been asking the purpose question for years. What am I here for? What was I made to do? And the answer keeps not quite arriving — not because you've missed something, but because you've been looking in the wrong place. Purpose is not found in what you do. It is revealed by understanding whose image you bear. This episode opens The Purpose Arc — Part 1 of The Form...

Send us Fan Mail You've named the wound. You've done the work. And now you're standing at the edge of trying again — ready and terrified at the same time. This episode is for that moment. Not to push you through the door before you're ready. But to make sure that when you walk through it, you walk through it differently than you have before. In this final episode of The Belongi...

Send us Fan Mail You went back. You found a new church, learned the names, showed up consistently and drove home one night still completely alone. The problem wasn't the people. The problem is that what you returned to was community. And what you actually needed was belonging. Those are not the same thing. In this episode, we go deeper into The Belonging Arc by making a distinction that most...

Send us Fan Mail You didn't leave because you stopped believing in God. You left because the place that was supposed to hold you hurt you instead. And if no one has said this to you clearly, the wound is real. In this episode, we open The Belonging Arc — a three-part series asking one of the most honest questions a believer can ask: Where do I actually belong? Where do I fit? Before we talk a...

Send us Fan Mail You've surrendered the dream. You're walking with the limp. Now you're sitting in the silence. Nothing is happening. God feels absent. How long does this last? What do you do while you wait? This is Holy Saturday. The day between the death and the resurrection. The space where Jesus was in the tomb and the disciples didn't know He was coming back. American Chri...

Send us Fan Mail God didn't heal Jacob's limp. He blessed it. What if your failure, your wound, your permanent scar isn't a sign God abandoned you—but proof that you encountered Him? In this episode, we unpack Genesis 32 and Jacob's wrestling match with God. After a night of struggle, Jacob received both a blessing and a wound. He walked away with a new name (Israel) and a perm...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your God-given dream dies? When the church closes, the business fails, the ministry collapses, or your prayers go unanswered? This episode explores the biblical discipline of detachment—what St. Ignatius called “Holy Indifference.” Learn how to surrender control to God, practice spiritual detachment without falling into apathy, and discover why God sometimes lets...

Send us Fan Mail I'm a "failed" church planter.  We've spoken about many things over the last 26 episodes, but I feel like it is time to really be open about our journey with church planting and where it led us. 11 years of waiting for 6 months of services? That doesn't exactly track, does it?  Maybe it does.  This episode is designed to encourage you that obedience doesn&...

Send us Fan Mail Can you forgive someone and still block their number? Can you pray for your ex while keeping the locks changed? Can you wish someone well from 50 miles away? If you've ever been told that "real forgiveness" means letting toxic people back into your life, this episode will set you free. In this extended episode of Faithformed, we tackle the most dangerous lie in Chri...

Send us Fan Mail How do Christians use hospitality to create change? The U.S. Surgeon General recently declared "Loneliness" a public health epidemic, stating that isolation is as lethal as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. But political philosopher Hannah Arendt warned us decades ago that isolation isn't just a health crisis—it is the primary preparation for tyranny. In a world that wan...

Send us Fan Mail When the world is on fire- when we see injustice in the headlines or face tragedy in our own homes- the modern church often tells us to "look on the bright side." We are handed a theological band-aid and told that "faith" looks like a permanent smile. But what if your grief isn't a lack of faith? What if it’s actually the proof of it? In Episode 24 of Fait...

Send us Fan Mail It’s 11:30 PM. The house is quiet, but the blue light of your phone is illuminating your face. You are reading terrible news—about raids, about separated families, about a world that feels like it’s catching fire. You know you should sleep, but you can’t look away. You feel like if you stop watching, you are abandoning your post. In this episode of Faithformed , we argue that our...

Send us Fan Mail If Saul of Tarsus lived in 2026, he wouldn’t be a theologian—he would be a federal enforcer with a warrant in his pocket. In a world where power is unchecked and "breathing threats" has become a political strategy, how should the Church respond? In this episode of Faithformed , we thoughtfully explore the "Third Way" of Jesus through the lens of Acts 9. We move...