Solid Steps Radio

Covid 19 - In January of this year, most of the planet didn’t know what that term meant. Now the world may never be the same. Do your finances and retirement look different now than before Covid? Talking finances, retirement and pandemics with financial advisor Matt Bell.

The dreaded phone call. “Your cancer is incurable.” That’s not what you want to hear from your doctor. Jon Ralls spent 4 years in the Navy, and 8 years as a missionary and entrepreneur in Taiwan. He had seen it all and faced many obstacles, but then he got the phone call. With a wife, 3 children and a ministry that is making an impact around the world, cancer seems to be a hitch in the plan. But w...

“Without love you aren’t fully developed”- Russell Burgan. On this week’s show, preacher Russell Burgan talked about his life growing up being abandoned by his family, helping to raise his sister while he was six years old, joining the military, working on a dairy farm and at the carnival. All before 21. On paper it doesn’t seem to have any chance of success when you have not received love, it’s a...

Men can run a company, complete complex projects, and accomplish challenging physical acts. When it comes to emotionally and relationally connecting with a child, however, it can be like speaking a foreign language. Not only is connecting with a child important, but being able to disciple them in the ways of God is even more crucial. On this week’s show, Manhood Journey founder and President Kent...

Over 1500 homes built, and no owner had to pay for them. What started as an opportunity to find something to do on college break, over 30 years and 30 states later, thousands have been served. It wasn’t by accident, it was on mission! On this week’s show, Crossroad Missions founder Rob Minton and employee Rich Shanks Jr discuss what it means to be on mission, whether it’s across the country or acr...

(This weeks show is a previously recorded show that we know you will still enjoy and need to hear!) “I just don’t want to argue with my wife.” Avoiding arguments is common for most spouses in a marriage. We try to do everything we can to avoid it but then when the time comes, the argument happens and it doesn’t go well. Is there a way good and bad way to argue? On this week show, Kurt and Chad wel...

“I thought all of my sins have been paid for on the cross? Aren’t I free already?” Are you walking in freedom? It’s a question you maybe never thought about, especially if you are already following Jesus Christ. But is there any area of bondage in your life you are unaware of? On this week’s show, the guys welcome Clay Hume to talk about author Neil Anderson’s The Steps to Freedom in Christ and ho...

John Jordan is the guest on this week’s show. He tells Kurt and Chad about his most exciting hunting trip ever - a grizzly bear hunt in a very remote part of Alaska. What John didn’t realize was that while he was hunting a trophy grizzly, God was hunting him. God’s love and blunt honesty forced him to finally confront his alcoholism, and get the help he needed. It’s a great story of hope and redem...

“You’re going to have to work twice as hard to be given average status.” - Gerald Kaufman’s mother. One great-grand father was a slave. One great-grandfather was white. He heard the “N” word for the first time at age 5. Waited in ER waiting room for over 10 hours because of the color of his skin. Growing up black in segregated Louisville, you see things from a different perspective. On this week’s...

“My body is healed. My body is whole. I am worthy.” You’ve heard a term used for people who have a life changing experience and they receive “a new lease on life.” What about receiving two!? On this weeks show business man Michael Collins talks about his journey with God. It began with living in rebellion against God, living a life of the flesh and doing what he wanted to do, with who he wanted to...

“God transformed me into something I didn’t think was possible.” - Angus Walker (This is a repeat from October 2019 - enjoy!)

This week Chad and Kurt talk with with James Santos and Chad Lewis about the power of friendship in lonely times

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed;” Proverbs 31:27-28 NIV “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” —Dorothy on The Golden Girls. Mother’s Day. It’s a day where mothers receive 1/365th of the attention they deserve each year. Mothers are the most revered and adored group in the w...

Can you imagine social distancing for 20 years? Hear from a man who has been doing that, long before the coronavirus ever existed. On this weekend’s show, Dr. Chuck Tackett talks with Kurt and Chad via a Zoom Facebook live interview. He tells about his journey with his daughter Carly (pictured with her Pastor Neal Gossett) who has been immunity challenged from a health perspective since birth. He...

The authorities enter the house, filled with 10 children from 3 different fathers, and a mother who struggles with mental illness. In the corner, is a little boy, barely clothed, malnourished, and all alone. After a few years of living in different foster homes, at age 6, he meets the people that become his family. But imagine this child growing up thinking and desiring just two things: hoping to...

Haiti - a Fifth world nation. You’ve heard of Third World nations, but what is a fifth world country? It’s a country where every year is worse than the year before. That is the state of Haiti, a country with a long history of social, political, economic, and natural catastrophes. Many say that the nation is cursed. Is that possible? On this week’s show, missionary Chris Brumley and businessman Dav...

“They found the stone rolled away...They didn’t know what to make of this.” Luke 24: 2,4 “They” were Mary Magdalene and other women, and they were confused about the tomb being empty. That was 2000 years ago, and many people are just as confused today in this information rich, but knowledge hungry world. On this weeks show, Kurt and Chad welcome Pastor and seminary professor Brian Payne to talk ab...

Depression. Anxiety. More than 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression. But how many suffer in silence? We’re on the air this weekend talking to Men’s Minister Ronnie Cordrey about his battle with depression and how it’s a reality in men’s lives. (This is a repeat from an episode in November, 2019 - enjoy!)

Liminal – relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process, a threshold. Many men (and women) are content to live a life of the “seen”. What we see is what we need to be concerned about. But what about the “unseen”? Those things about us that we don’t see but help make who we are - our heart, our soul, our beliefs, even our wounds. On this weeks show, Kurt and Chad welcome Bill Weedman and...

How many friends do you have? I’m not talking about social media numbers, I’m talking about friends you can call when your world is falling apart and you need someone there for you. When life seems to be squeezing you and you need a hand or word that breathes life into your sails. A person who knows all your junk, and still is willing to meet with you. Got them in mind? Ok, now, when was the last...

When you hear the word discipline what comes to mind? Often it’s in a negative connotation, as in disciplining your children. But what about spiritual discipline? The root word for discipline is “disciple,” as in being a disciple of Christ. Praying, reading the Bible, going to worship are all staples in most Christian’s lives. But how can the spiritual disciplines be soul transforming in the life...

The average life span of the American male is 76 years old. If that is true, where are you on the scale age wise? And here is an even more challenging question - how are you going to finish? So-so or strong? On this week’s show, Kurt and Chad, with guests Ralph Swallows and Austin Hayes, start a three week series on the book Finishing Strong. It is so rare that men will finish life strong (1 out o...

On this week’s show, Kurt and Chad talk with professor and author Dr Eric Schansberg about Moses, his father-in-law Jethro, and how it relates to us today. Eric recently wrote a Bible study book, The Word Diet - a year long journey through key books of the Bible. It is available on www.thoroughlyequipped.org (click on the Store button).

“Spiritual practices allow us to crawl into the lap of our Father in heaven.” - 
Professor David Roadcup. Prayer. Bible reading. Those are spiritual practices that the majority of Christians acknowledge are important in spiritual formation. What are some others? How do we connect with God through different spiritual practices? On this weeks show professor and Pastor David Roadcup talks about the l...

When you hear the word “intimacy” what do you think about? 
Sex? Something private between 2 people? Would you say that you and your spouse have an “intimate relationship”? On this week’s show, Kurt and Chad welcome licensed counselors Don and Danna Delafield. They talk about God’s plan for intimacy in marriage, how it may differ from the world’s, and maybe even your own.