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After ten seasons of deeply gratifying, inspiring Gospel stories, Amy Townsend brings the Salt Podcast to a close. But Amy has one last recommendation to make. Click on over to listen to the Aspire podcast , brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College students.

For the final episode of Season 10, Amy Townsend introduces us to a woman with a vast experience of the nature of grief. Nancy Guthrie has written many books on the sorrows of life and how to navigate them. With her husband, she has developed respite retreats for the broken-hearted, and 'Grief Share' videos that lessen the burdens people carry. This episode, Nancy begins by telling Amy how God int...

What does it look like to literally live thinking that today might be your last day? This episode, Amy Townsend introduces us to Michael Fattal. Michael was born with a severe medical condition that gave him a life expectancy of just a few years. He is the first person in Australia to survive the 'lungs in a box' surgery. And his up-beat attitude will totally inspire you. Salt is proudly brought t...

This episode Amy introduces us to not one but two faithful servants of Jesus. Howard and Trish Spencer have been married for over forty years. In that time they've faced the mission field together, along with infertility, violent crime and long seasons of depression. You think that would be enough, but now they question whether you ever really need to retire from a life of service. Salt is proudly...

This episode Amy introduces us to a man whose Christian journey has involved vast amounts of soil and salt - with a few goats thrown in. Steve Campbell didn't know where God was going to take him. He just preferred that it would be outdoors. God honoured that and took him into the line-up of a local beach, and on to surfing as a ministry. Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bib...

Amy Townsend's guest this episode is one half of the perfect marriage. In some respects, Carolyn Woods and her husband Steven were the odd couple - never meant to be together! Yet God used hardship on hardship to hammer out a beautiful union. But what happens when half of your reason for living goes away? Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College . Click here for more i...

Demon possession ... spiritual powers ... the overcoming presence of evil. In our Western world these are elements of Hollywood fantasies.  But this episode Amy introduces us to Yakim (not his real name), who has lived in a place where these are real experiences. Join us on a journey that has taken one man and his family from Western enlightenment to Eastern mysticism. Salt is proudly brought to y...

This episode, Amy Townsend introduces us to Miriam Braithwaite, a woman whose idea of her best life was never leaving home.  For Miriam, family and the quiet life were everything. But God's introduction to a fluffy, blue friend opened the door to an exciting new world.  Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College . Click here for more information on the wide range of cour...

What if there is more to the prosperity gospel than we think? Amy's guest this episode is Tamie Davis. Tamie had a heart for mission from an early age, but after years of training and preparation what she found on the mission field was not what she expected. Tamie shares with Amy how God used her time in Africa to change her heart and mind, just as much as she changed the hearts of others. Salt is...

Mission kid or missionary? Amy Townsend's guest this episode is Lachlan Field, and he had a foot in either world. At age 9, Lachlan moved overseas with his family to share the gospel. But was that his calling, or something he was called upon to do? And how has he come to see mission work now? Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College . Click here for more information on...

Have you ever felt like you're fighting against yourself? This episode Amy Townsend speaks to a woman whose struggle falls well outside society's expectations. Today we meet Danica Vega and discuss pornography - a woman's story. Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College . Click here for more information on the wide range of courses available. If you're interested in fol...

What were your childhood dreams growing up? For Lachie Massey it was singing, music and composition - and those dreams started coming true, age six. 20 years on, the next step in Lachie's musical career is finding the harmony between faith, music, and the gospel. Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible College . Click here for more information on the wide range of courses ava...

It's the return of Salt for it's epic tenth season, and host Amy Townsend begins by introducing us to Desmond Chin. Desmond had the ideal life, and starting a family was the ideal next step. The birth of his son Jordan should have been one of the happiest moments of his life.  But instead, it led him to the brink of suicide.  Listen in as Amy explores the world of post-natal depression for men. Sa...

Host Amy Townsend is ready to deliver months of carefully collected stories from next week as Season 10 of Salt gets underway.

Two more weeks and Amy Townsend will be back with another collection of always-inspiring stories of lives transformed by the Gospel.

Amy Townsend welcomes you to tune in for Season Ten of the ever-popular podcast series, Salt.

For the final episode of season 9, Amy Townsend interviews Salt's most familiar talent. Over the past six years she has gathered and shared over one hundred stories of how God has been at work in and through His people. She's brought salt and light to our everyday lives as listeners, and we are delighted that we can finally persuade her to sit on the other side of the microphone, ready to share he...

This episode Jenny Salt welcomes on board Karl Deenick. At the tender age of 16, Karl made a decision not to marry but to dedicate his life to serving the Lord Jesus, whatever that looked like. Closing that door opened another that led to a PhD on the strangest subject you'll ever encounter. LINKS You can click on these link to find Karl Deenick's books, Righteous By Promise and Washed by God: The...

In this episode, Amy Townsend welcomes a woman whose fantasies highlight the facts about Jesus. Kristen Young is a successful fiction author.  Kristen's tale is one of childhood dreams coming true for a little girl who loved stories. But along the way, Kristen had to learn that what we read, watch and listen to shapes our lives for good and bad. Ultimately, Kristen learned that a story is a pathwa...

This episode Jenny Salt talks to a woman who took the good news to a country where the gospel has grown old and stale. Kelly Landrigan grew up in a fibro house in working-class Sydney. Her family went to church regularly, learning about rules to please God that she could never keep. But hearing the gospel, and understanding grace, took her on a journey to deepest, darkest France. LINKS Salt is pro...

This episode Amy Townsend speaks to a man whose heart for the gospel sent him west. Alick Arkapaw has a deep love of sport and a 'tell it like it is' attitude.  He grew up in an Australia that is fast fading away. But his love for this great brown land and the people who populate it led him to take his young family to the bush. There, he discovered the real spiritual needs of today's man on the la...

Jenny's guest this episode is Tamar Pollard. You won't have necessarily heard her name before, but if you were living in the UK in 1997 you would have seen photos of her family on the front page of every newspaper.  And the headlines would have included words like 'murder' and 'tragedy'. Tamar's story is one that does include details of horrific circumstances.  But it's also a story of incredible...

This episode Amy Townsend talks to Jenny, someone who has left her Australian life behind to be a stranger in a foreign land. We can't tell you her last name because Jenny is currently doing gospel work in an unreached part of the world where being a Christian is not a safe thing to be. But there's a lot more to Jenny's story than her time on the mission field.  Today, we'll be talking about the c...

This episode Jenny Salt speaks to Jackie Gibson, a woman with a heart for mothers going through the hardest times. Jackie has lived in the US and the UK both as a child and as an adult, and currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and kids. Jackie's journey as a mum has been a great joy, but also marked by deep sadness. Her book, You Are Still A Mother , was written in the light of her exp...

Today Amy Townsend brings us a first for the Salt podcast, interviewing not one but two guests - Amy and Mikey Nhieu. Amy and Mikey grew up with very different backgrounds, but ten years ago they met and became a wonderful ministry couple.  They have a great story of what it looks like to serve God together. But no-one really wants to think about what happens when our best efforts fail, or when a...