Risë's Pieces

Host Rise Rafferty highlights the incredible health benefits of green leafy vegetables (GLVs). She explores their nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, and carotenoids, and their roles in fighting inflammation, supporting heart, eye, and bone health, aiding weight management, cancer prevention, and cognitive function, while sharing practical ways to enjoy them daily.

Host Rise Rafferty explores fungi, focusing on mushrooms as a superfood and medicinal powerhouse. She explains their roles in ecosystems, gut health, and plant communication, highlighting nutrients, antioxidants, and bioactive compounds that support immunity, brain function, liver, heart, and anti-inflammatory benefits, while introducing medicinal varieties such as lion’s mane, maitake, and reishi...

Join host Rise Rafferty as she explores elderberries, a powerful medicinal food rich in antioxidants, anthocyanins, and flavanols. Rise highlights their immune-boosting, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-diabetic properties, along with benefits for circulation, digestion, and urinary health, emphasizing elderberries as a safe, effective, and versatile superfood for overall wellness. —————————...

Host Rise Rafferty continues exploring vitamin D, highlighting its critical role in sleep, weight regulation, gut health, and immunity. She explains how deficiency is widespread, worsened by age, obesity, or magnesium shortage, and emphasizes sunlight exposure and supplementation as essential strategies for maintaining optimal vitamin D levels and overall health. —————————————————————————    📻 Li...

Host Rise Rafferty explores “D” in the ABCs of Nutrition: vitamin D. She highlights its crucial role in bone health, immune support, cancer prevention, mental health, and chronic disease reduction. And how that despite abundant sunshine, deficiency is widespread, making supplementation or safe sun exposure essential for optimal health. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  ht...

Host Rise Rafferty explores “C” in the ABCs of Nutrition: curcumin, the powerful compound in turmeric. She highlights its anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and metabolic benefits, including blood sugar regulation, liver support, and arthritis relief, while sharing practical ways to incorporate this potent, natural medicine into daily life. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to 3ABN Radio: ...

Join host Rise Rafferty as she continues her ABCs of Nutrition series, highlighting “B” for broccoli sprouts. She explains sulforaphane, a powerful compound with anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying effects, supports the brain, heart, liver, and metabolic health. And finnaly she offers practical tips for incorporating these potent sprouts into daily life. —————————————————————————    📻...

In this new series, the ABCs of Nutrition, Rise explores healing foods alphabetically. She highlights amla, the Indian gooseberry, revealing its powerful antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, and liver-protective properties. She also explains research benefits for immunity, and practical ways to incorporate this “wonderberry” into daily life. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to...

Host Rise Rafferty talks with Christina, a nurse, wife, and mother, about her journey from guilt and past mistakes to healing and faith. They discuss overcoming guilt through God’s Word, prayer, safe community, and Celebrate Recovery, showing how confession, forgiveness, and faith restore peace, purpose, and spiritual freedom. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3ab...

In this final episode of "Core Hurts", host Rise Rafferty and guest Sheila explore core hurt feelings such as:  abandonment, shame, and unworthiness—and how they shape our lives. They discuss recognizing intrinsic value, using God’s truth, affirmations, forgiveness, and assertive communication to break cycles of self-devaluation, build confidence, and experience healing, worth, and empowered relat...

Host Rise Rafferty and guest Sheila discuss core emotional hurts such as abandonment, shame, and feeling unworthy. Sheila further explains that these painful beliefs are often lies that can be replaced with God’s truth. Through prayer, Scripture, and affirmations grounded in faith, individuals can heal emotional wounds and develop a healthier sense of value and identity. ————————————————————————— ...

Host Rise Rafferty and guest, Sheila explore how core hurts—like feeling abandoned, unloved, or unimportant—recur throughout life, shaping reactions and relationships. They discuss identifying these pains, by confronting the lies that reinforce them, and howfinding healing, self-worth, and hope through faith, Scripture, and God’s unconditional love brings lasting joy. —————————————————————————   ...

Host Rise Rafferty and guest, Sheila continue exploring “core hurts”— emphasizing deep emotional wounds like shame, guilt, and feeling unwanted. Sheila shares personal experiences and counseling insights, explaining how awareness, processing, and faith in God’s love can help individuals heal, find empowerment, and transform pain into hope, value, and emotional resilience. —————————————————————————...

Rise Rafferty and guest, Sheila explore “core hurts,” and deep emotional wounds like, shame, guilt, and feeling unworthy. Sheila shares how identifying and processing these hurts can foster healing, prevent dysfunctional coping, and empower survivors of trauma, domestic violence, and substance to use challenges to reclaim emotional freedom and resilience. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen liv...

Host Rise Rafferty talks with Sheila, a trauma and substance use professional: about how her childhood pain shaped her work. Sheila introduces “core hurts,” powerful emotional wounds, and explains how recognizing and processing them can foster healing, growth, and resilience. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵 Check out the 3ABN Radio Music Channe...

Join host Rise Rafferty as she expounds upon the gospel truth, and true freedom that comes from willingly making God our Master. Using Romans, John, and Israel’s wilderness journey, she illustrates how sin enslaves us, but surrendering to God’s guidance brings sanctification, liberty, and lasting peace through Christ’s imputed righteousness. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radi...

Host Rise Rafferty explores the gospel truth that believers rest in Christ’s righteousness, not their own works. Using Luke 10 and David’s life, she illustrates how God’s grace sustains us in sin, failure, and victory alike. This gospel truth provides stability, peace, and joy, anchoring our relationship with God through faith in Jesus. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  h...

Rise shares gospel truth number nine: the gospel assaults pride and strips away boasting. Through Lucifer’s fall and Nebuchadnezzar’s humbling, she shows how pride alienates us from God. The gospel reveals our true condition and lifts our eyes to heaven, bringing repentance, humility, and restoration. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out...

Risë explains how the gospel exposes our sin yet lifts us up. Through Simon the Pharisee and Mary Magdalene, she shows how encountering Jesus reveals our true debt, awakens repentance, and deepens gratitude. The more we grasp God’s mercy, the more we love and worship Him. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out the 3ABN Radio Music Channel:...

Dietitian and host Rise Rafferty shares gospel truth number seven: the gospel sets us free from guilt. Through Jacob’s night of wrestling and the Pilgrim’s Progress, she shows how confession, repentance, and clinging to God’s promises break sin’s power and replace crushing guilt with forgiveness, freedom, and peace. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio...

Rise Rafferty shares gospel truth number six: the gospel contains all we need for life and godliness. Through the widow’s oil and the feeding of the five thousand, she shows how God supplies every need, pays our debt, and offers daily inheritance through Christ, the Bread of Life. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out the 3ABN Radio Music...

Rise, discusses how distrust and doubt of God’s character lead to disobedience. Through the Scarlet Pimpernel, Eve’s deception in Eden, and Saul’s conversion, she shows how misunderstanding God, breeds alienation. The gospel restores trust by revealing God’s true character in Jesus Christ. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out the 3ABN Rad...

Rise explores the gospel as daily protection through the Passover story in Exodus 12. The lamb’s blood shielding Israel, symbolizes Christ’s sacrifice covering believers today. Applying His blood and abiding in Him brings freedom from sin’s slavery and security from spiritual destruction. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out the 3ABN Radi...

In this program, Rise explores how the gospel transforms those who behold it. Using Israel’s fiery serpents and the bronze serpent in Numbers 21, she shows that healing comes by looking to Christ. And, like her own journey, transformation happens through daily gazing at God’s Word—beholding and becoming. —————————————————————————   📻  Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check o...

Host, Rise Rafferty explores the gospel as the highest density of God’s power. Through the floating axe head in 2 Kings 6, she illustrates how sin drags us down, but Christ’s cross and resurrection rescue and restore. The gospel alone lifts, redeems, and empowers believers. —————————————————————————    📻 Listen live to 3ABN Radio:  https://3abn.org/radio 🎵  Check out the 3ABN Radio Music Channel...