Limitless Spirit

Share your thoughts Your past doesn’t define you. Your pain has a purpose. Your story matters. Those of are some of the things that Kelly Butner learned after she came to know Christ after a traumatic childhood. Kelly felt broken, but on a mission trip to Romania a few years ago, she felt God healing her as she publicly shared her testimony for the first time. Kelly discovered that she had a voice...

Share your thoughts Psalm 92 says the righteous flourish like a tree and still bear fruit in their old age. Lowell Glidden, the guest on this episode, living this verse out in his life.  For years, Lowell has been faithfully serving God and bearing fruit, whether it was during his time in the military, in his marriage and family, or his ministry efforts. Even though he’s in his late 80s, Lowell co...

Share your thoughts Every child needs to be loved and to know what love is. Unfortunately, JoAnn Wolfe didn’t grow up that way. Her parents were too broken themselves to give her proper love and nurture. JoAnn’s first experience with church at the age of fifteen wasn’t positive either. After having to practically raise herself she felt like church was all about rules and “do’s” and “don’t’s”. It w...

Share your thoughts Pride… Control… Not respecting the leadership…  These are the things that led Jason Raine to walk away from God after he had a bad experience during a mission trip in high school. Looking to find his true identity Jason threw himself into building a successful career. But the same issues that caused him to leave church created a conflict at work that almost cost him his job.  A...

Share your thoughts “That saved my life. I mean, me being laid off saved my life.”  From losing her job to finding her greater purpose, Ellen Yao knows that God has been at work in her life. After immigrating from South Korea and growing up in church, surrounded by Christian friends and family, Ellen tried to find her own way and identity as a young adult. But everything she tried, from partying t...

Share your thoughts On this episode of the Limitless Spirit podcast, you’ll hear DeAnna Moore’s story.  In her young adulthood she struggled with mental illness, alcoholism, and the tragic consequences of the lifestyle that went along with substance abuse. Only later in life she found out that her father was not the man who raised her and that she was subject to sever abuse as an infant due to gen...

Share your thoughts Marijuana was his idol … Using it was his source of joy, dealing it was the source of income. He enjoyed this lifestyle until he encountered someone.  Paul Lamendola spent 25 years using and dealing marijuana. But when  a "Christian junkie” friend brought him to church something changed in his heart. After accepting Jesus Paul didn’t know how to quite the lifestyle he has...

Share your thoughts Is it possible to love God more after He has seemingly failed to protect you? Katrina Griffin lived through an experience that could simply be described as “every woman’s worst nightmare.” After a man sexually assaulted her in her 20s, the police falsely accused Katrina of making it all up. Those traumatic experiences made her very angry at God in the weeks, months and years th...

Share your thoughts In this last episode of Season 1 the host Helen Todd looks back at the year 2020 and shares four observations that she believes equip us for a great year 2021. Support the show Thanks for listening! Visit our website rfwma.org and follow us on Facebook :https: //www.facebook.com/limitlessspiritpodcast/ and Instagram: @limitlessspiritpodcast Help us make more inspiring episodes:...

Share your thoughts “I can’t do this… I can’t go through with this baptism.”   That’s what Carrie Ann Lewis told her boyfriend just days before her baptism into the Mormon church. She’d been having strange but meaningful dreams about her dad, a strong Christian who’d passed away years earlier, and that made her second guess the religious path she was on.  From that moment on, Carrie Ann’s life was...

Share your thoughts Nate Allen grew up in a Christian home and said the sinner’s prayer when he was five years old. He went to Bible college and worked as a youth pastor. But Nate did not personally know Jesus… until he met Him in a bar.  Nate had drifted from God after his son was born stillborn, his marriage broke up, and he began living a party lifestyle. And when Nate hit rock bottom, Jesus wa...

Share your thoughts Grief is a natural way of confronting loss unless a person becomes stuck in it.   This is exactly what happened to Melinda Fazzolari when her son, Louie, died from cancer before his second birthday. For almost 25 years, Melinda’s life was deeply affected by a sorrow she could not shake. She finally settled for a life without joy or hope. But God never left Melinda and through a...

Share your thoughts On the fourth episode in the “Greater Purpose” series, Sheila Ruffin shares how she began a whole new life in Christ after healing from childhood trauma.  Even after accepting Christ as a Savior, Sheila struggled with addictions and depression for years until God led her on a journey to discover what was broken inside of her. The pain of losing her father in the Vietnam War, lo...

Share your thoughts Josepha Mbouma’s family came to the United States from Cameroon with God’s divine help. Though Josepha grew up in a Christian home, the most important thing in her life was always basketball. She had dreams of being a star athlete and achieved the impressive feat of being an NCAA Division 1 basketball player. But the highs and lows of being a college athlete led Josepha to ques...

Share your thoughts God calls each of His children to be generous, good stewards of the things He’s given us. In the second episode of “The Greater Purpose Series,” entrepreneur and businessman Barry Marks shares an amazing story of how he saw God working when he went to Lake Charles, Louisiana to give away $100,000 in cash to people who had been devastated by Hurricane Laura.  Now, it wasn’t Barr...

Share your thoughts God created each one of us for a greater purpose that fills life with deep fulfillment. Building life around this greater purpose is what makes us thrive.  In this first episode of a new series on Limitless Spirit called “The Greater Purpose Series,” law enforcement officer and missionary Debra Yokley shares her story of pursuing her greater purpose after she discovered she cou...

Share your thoughts Whether you are facing cancer yourself or have a person in your life who is, cancer can become a test of faith and perhaps the hardest challenge in life. Having resources at hand to answer questions, encourage and offer strength at the weakest moment is incredibly important. In this episode Helen Todd talks with Deborah Barr, author of the book “Strength for the cancer journey”...

Share your thoughts Whether you are a person who possesses the virtue of patience or not, there’s hardly a person in this world who would say they enjoy waiting. Usually waiting is perceived at best as annoyance, and at it’s worst an absolute torture depending on the importance of what you are waiting for. Yet, waiting is unavoidable in life and for those who study the word of God, it is a very Bi...

Share your thoughts We are facing the epidemic of loneliness in the US. 2 in 5 Americans struggle with loneliness. It has a negative effect on our health equal to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. It also feeds the division and the radicalization in our society and therefore poses threat to democracy. What is the root of loneliness? It is not just the lack of meaningful interaction with others. Lonel...

Share your thoughts One of the life altering side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating relationship between people, and particularly the strain it has created in marriages. The conventional marriage has been under attack in recent years. The challenges and the uncertainty that came with the pandemic added to it. Even without the outside pressure marriages are sacrificed to busy sched...

Share your thoughts “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy Whether your marriage is a happy one or a rocky one the last few months have brought new challenges for marriages and relationships. In this interview with the bestselling author, radio host and marriage counselor Dr. Gary Chapman we discuss the signs of trouble in marriages and relations...

Share your thoughts Statistics show that only 8% of people achieve the goals they have set for themselves. Even those who actively pursue their goals often find themselves struggling with disappointment and dissatisfaction. Dr. Deb Gorton, the author of the book “Embracing Uncomfortable: Facing your fears while pursuing your purpose” believes that it happens because we often confuse our goals with...

Share your thoughts Society in the United States and around the world is becoming more and more polarized over issues that are not necessarily the root of the problem but rather the symptoms. Often these “symptom” issues are political, rather than spiritual and cause a dangerous division in the body of Christ. Today the United States are in agony over the old and new wounds caused by racism and th...

Share your thoughts Nobody likes pain, nobody likes giving something up, nobody likes leaving the comfort zone. But constantly conforming to what is comfortable and familiar can lead us to unhappiness, dissatisfaction and sometimes a crisis. What happens if we decide instead of avoiding what is uncomfortable embrace it? Dr Deb Gorton promises that if you are willing to take this chance, the reward...

Share your thoughts There is a deep divide in our society over the issue of reopening the economies versus continuing lock downs and thus keeping people safe. Who is right? What is a moral responsibility of a Christian when faced with this dilemma? What must we do to help ourselves while contributing to the well-being of the society in the face of COVID-19 pandemic? Our guest is Phillip Todd, econ...