LifeTalk Podcast

Send Us Your Questions/Comments A quiet room in Nazareth. An unexpected greeting. A teenaged girl who chooses surrender over certainty. We walk through Luke 1:26–58 to see how God’s promise moves from ancient prophecy to embodied hope, and why “nothing is impossible with God” is more than a comforting phrase—it’s a reorientation of life. We start with Luke’s precision: real names, real places, and...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Each week Pastor Mark takes time to go deeper and talk about the week's message!  If you have questions you'd like him to answer or hear more about please send those in by texting us at the link in the show notes! You can also view video of this podcast and our Sunday sermons by visiting our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@lifehousemot A discoura...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What if the years you call silence are actually preparation? We walk through Luke 1 and watch God break four centuries of quiet with the birth of John the Baptist, beginning in a temple where a faithful priest meets a fearsome promise. Zechariah and Elizabeth are introduced not as failures but as righteous people who carry an old ache. In the holy place, Gabriel ann...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments We're excited to add to our podcast lineup and content by adding our weekly discussions with our Lead Pastor Mark Lashey!  Each week Pastor Mark takes time to go deeper and talk about the week's message!  If you have questions you'd like him to answer or hear more about please send those in by texting us at the link in the show notes! Zechariah 1:1-6...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Season 7 is here!  We are excited to kickoff 2026 Monday episodes with Lifetalk in talking about the Bible!  We will be journeying through the Gospel of Luke, don't miss an episode as we bring you deep conversation verse by verse that you can apply to your daily life and faith! Start here if you want a faith that can carry weight. We open season seven by settin...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Year-end conversations get real fast when you measure a year by people, not projects. We sat down with Pastor Mark to trace God’s fingerprints across 2025—sending out a new church plant, welcoming guests from around the world, celebrating dozens of baptisms, and watching a young woman meet Jesus and start serving kids with contagious joy. We also faced hard moments...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments If love feels slippery or one-sided, this conversation brings it down to earth. We sit with Chris and Kathy Daly, they learned in their marriage to trade performance, guilt, and quiet resentment for something sturdier: a Christ-shaped love that chooses, forgives, and serves even when the feelings lag. Their story doesn’t hide the hard parts—blended family tensions,...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What if the love you need isn’t a feeling at all? We sat down with Rob and Stephanie to unpack a winding adoption journey that began on mission trips and led to a Thai orphanage, a handful of miracles, and a daily practice of surrender. The story starts with simple compassion for children overseas, grows through years of closed doors and waiting, and arrives at a mo...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Love that never costs you isn’t love at all. We press into agape—the biblical love that acts, gives, and endures—and connect December’s focus to the whole arc of a faithfully different life. From the birth of Jesus to his determined walk toward the cross, we see how God’s love moves first, tells the truth, and changes how we live with family, friends, and even enemi...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What if the turning point of your life arrived the moment you finally ran out of ways to cope? That’s where Cody’s story begins to change—at the end of self-reliance and the start of grace. We walk through a childhood marked by divorce and distance, the learned art of compartmentalizing pain, and the slow magnetism of church that didn’t fully land until years later....

Send Us Your Questions/Comments A broken dishwasher led to a breakthrough. When an appliance repairman asked, “What church do you go to?” Jeremy and Cathy realized their biggest barrier wasn’t the lack of options—it was a lack of surrender. From that honest moment, their marriage and family took a different path: rooting in a Bible-preaching church, serving with their hands, and reframing parentin...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments A green shirt in the lobby can mean more than a friendly hello—it might be the quiet promise that you can worship in peace. We sit down with Gus and Gary, longtime law enforcement pros turned church servants, to explore how God redeems our work and how practical vigilance can coexist with deep, joyful faith. Gus traces his journey from a mixed religious upbringing t...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments A small-town parade and a kids’ choir on a float changed everything. That’s the unlikely doorway where Gelsie’s story turns—from church hurt and distance to a clear encounter with the gospel, repentance, and a next-day baptism. From there, her life took on a new rhythm: serve where God is moving and watch him work up close. We walk through the layers of that calling...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What if your job—loved or loathed—could become worship? We pull back the curtain on a bigger, better story of work, starting with Genesis 2 where God places humanity in the garden “to work and keep” it. Before the fall, work is a gift; after the fall, it’s harder; through Christ, it’s redeemed. That shift reframes how we see our careers, chores, parenting, and churc...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments When life bottoms out, the next move can feel impossible. We sit down with Bill Beaton to trace the path from an empty apartment and a lost job to quiet, durable hope built through faith, counseling, and community. Bill’s story starts with a blended childhood, a sincere but uneven walk with God, and the slow drift of college freedom. Marriage brought new pressures,...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments The path through grief is never straight, but for Kyle and Paige Schelts, it twisted in ways they never imagined. After losing their infant daughter, Layla at just 14 days old, they found themselves navigating both spiritual awakening and devastating loss simultaneously. Their raw, emotional story unfolds as they share how this tragedy became the catalyst that event...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What happens when you've placed your hope in all the wrong things and they've left you empty? Yvonne Santiago's powerful testimony traces her journey from a fatherless childhood to divorce at 27, career upheavals, and finally discovering authentic hope in Christ. Growing up Catholic in Nebraska after immigrating from Germany, Yvonne knew about God but...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments When life tilts—whether toward loss or success—where does your hope actually rest? We open our October theme on hope by drawing a clear line between fragile wishes and the rugged assurance Scripture describes. With Jarvis Brennan joining us, we explore why biblical hope is not a “maybe,” but a confident expectation rooted in God’s character and promises—and how that...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments The power of intergenerational investment takes center stage as we welcome Dave and Nancy Lashey—parents of Lead Pastor Mark Lashey—to discuss how seasoned adults can continue making profound impacts in their families and church communities. Drawing from their rich life experiences spanning military service, farming, and now active church involvement, the Laceys off...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments How do we effectively disciple the next generation in today's challenging cultural landscape? This question stands at the heart of our faith communities' future, and our conversation dives deep into practical answers with three ministry leaders who specialize in different age groups. The journey begins with understanding that faith formation starts remarka...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Money talks—but what is it saying about your heart? In this eye-opening episode of Life Talk podcast, Nate sits down with Jonathan Bush, co-leader of LifeHouse Church's financial counseling ministry, to unpack what biblical investing truly means beyond portfolios and retirement accounts. Jonathan shares his personal journey from receiving his first credit card...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments Redefining investment through a kingdom lens challenges everything our culture teaches us about value and growth. While the world fixates on financial returns, God's economy measures success by transformed lives and spiritual fruit that remains. This episode dives deep into what it truly means to invest as Christians in a society obsessed with immediate gratifi...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments In this episode, we sit down with Outreach & Missions Director Herb Welday IV to talk through his testimony of Jesus saving him and leading him to come on staff at LifeHouse Church many years later!  New episodes every Monday www.lifehousemot.com info@lifehousede.com Join us Sundays at 9 & 11 AM Intro music by Joey Blair

Send Us Your Questions/Comments What does it truly mean to "go" for the gospel? Eric and Lena Bauer's powerful testimony challenges our comfortable Christianity as they share their remarkable journey from corporate America to international missions. After twenty years in banking, Eric found himself unexpectedly unemployed—a door God deliberately closed like "a bank vault"...

Send Us Your Questions/Comments In this episode, we look at what it means to step outside the walls of the church and bring the love of Christ into our community. Following Jesus isn’t just about gathering on Sundays — it’s about living sent, carrying hope and truth into the places where people need it most. In a world that often keeps faith private, this is a bold reminder: the gospel was never m...