The Collide Podcast

Join us this week as we continue on in our series on discernment and interpreting God’s call for our lives. The episode we have for you this week tells an incredible story of following the confirmation of community in our lives. Listen in as our host Willow Weston continues to roll out the story of her own journey into her calling and inspires you to follow yours, too.

What were you created to do? This is a question so many of us wrestle with throughout our entire lives. Listen in today as Willow tells the story of being called into ministry and the sacrifices she's made to lean in to that calling. Today's episode will teach and encourage you to look for the ways where God is paving your path, and dare to believe that He might see more in you and for you than yo...

No matter where you’re at, or what season of life you’re in, all of us moments where we’re looking around for answers to questions like, “Where am I supposed to go? What am I supposed to do? Where am I called to be? Is this the person I’m supposed to marry? Is this the job I’m really made to do? Is this the city I’m supposed to live in? Are these the people I’m supposed to do life with?”   Discern...

What began as our Founder Willow Weston saying "Yes" to mentoring one girl, became a Bible Study group of women, which became a one-day event, which became the non-profit ministry that is now Collide. Our story has God's goodness and provision laced prominently throughout and the next chapter is no exception. This winter God blessed Collide with our own space large enough to invite women to gather...

We hear so often that God loves the people on the margins. But what happens when we really call out who that is? People with special needs. People who have been oppressed and pushed out. People who don’t fit in to our expectation of what it looks like to be chosen. These are the ones Jesus calls out, lifts up, and sets apart as His beloved. Listen in this week as pastor Garret Shelsta talks about...

Every single one of us has incredible gifts. We are born with purpose, talent, and inherent goodness that God wants us to put out into the world. However sometimes we let that potential get road blocked by our insecurity at what others might think or say about us when we succeed. If you need a little encouragement to take your gifts out of hiding and proudly display them for God to use, tune into...

How often do you find yourself struggling with jealousy, disappointment and discouragement? It’s easy to fall into the fears and lies that bring us to those broken places when we look around and feel like God is delivering on His promises and doling out miracles to everyone around us, but we’re getting left in the dust. As our guest Kristen Mattila said, “Sometimes it feels like God is like Oprah...

This week on the podcast we’re honored to welcome one of our all-time favorite musicians and artists, Uriah Garay. Uriah is an incredible songwriter and worship leader with a whole lot of wisdom to share about stepping outside our comfort zones, giving it all we’ve got, and cultivating an attitude of true worship. This episode is jam packed with truth bombs and profound ideas on giving God our “ye...

We are thrilled to be joined this week by Elizabeth Boyle, who is an incredible people-gatherer, story-teller, and intention-setter. Elizabeth speaks with passion and enthusiasm about the beauty and practicality intentions can provide in our life and our faith. It can be so easy to have big dreams, yet settle for small lives, distracted by the apathy and stress of everyday life. However this week...

We are now a few weeks into January. How are you doing on those resolutions you made as you rang in 2019? Are they leaving you just as empty as you felt in 2018? This week on the podcast, Willow discusses the problem with the way we view resolutions. We may think our problem is our weight, our relationship status, our addiction, our schedule, or our messy home, but the real problem actually goes m...

We know we're always called to love, but it isn't always easy. Join us this week on the podcast as we share audio from our Always event of Collide's Founder and Director Willow Weston sharing her heart.  Willow vulnerably shares stories from her own life where the call to love collided with her pain and brokenness and forced her to examine how the degree to which we love has everything to do with...

This week on the podcast we are joined by none other than the New York Times best-selling author, devoted husband, fun-loving father, and enthusiastic follower of Jesus, Bob Goff himself! We're thrilled to share the audio of his Q&A session with Willow from our Always event. Listen in on his answers to questions like: -Why he only sings some of the words in worship songs -What he would tell his 8...

Join us this week as Willow talks with friend and pastor Kurt Ingram about what it means to have God with us in a season and a world where our heart cry is for Immanuel - someone to be for us, even in our loneliest state. As you’re wrapping presents, decorating dinner tables, frosting gingerbread people, or writing cards to loved ones, tune into this episode to reflect on the reality of the Christ...

Christmas is upon us and with it comes an array of traditions and emotions - there's singing and baking and anxiety and hope and family drama and gifts and joy. Not to mention all the weird stories about the large bearded man who breaks into our homes at night. This can be a confusing season, full of meaningful reflection, but also for some it is a reminder of deep wounds. Tune in this week as Wil...

Do you ever feel yourself disengaging or pushing people away, but you’re not exactly sure why you’re doing it? Or on the flip side, do you ever experience the rejection of a friend who seems to be withdrawing? In this episode, Willow interviews Mental Health Counselor Breeze Potts on the cycles of how our insecurity perpetuates loneliness and broken relationships. They discuss challenging our inne...

We're tempted to think that the only people worthy of "kingdom work" are those with amazing singing voices, great public speaking skills, or a special gift of counseling others. But God uses more than our talents. In this episode, we discuss with a panel of amazing women their experiences in how He actually uses their: -willingness -kindness -and even their brokenness to bring about incredible imp...

Join us this week as a few of our staff people get deep and real about their own struggles to love from healthy and whole places. From being jealous of all your friends in seemingly more desirable seasons of life, to withdrawing from friendships because of fear and insecurity, we all fall into patterns of bitterness and frustration because of our own pain. God calls us to love from a place of whol...

Let’s just come out and say it, shall we? The holiday season can be really stinkin’ difficult. Emotionally, spiritually, and even physically- the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays can take a toll on our hearts. For some, it will be their first Christmas without a certain loved one. For some, Thanksgiving brings with it the anxiety of disordered eating. For some, the holidays force time spent wit...

Christine Stone experienced a horrific accident that changed her life forever. Through the process of healing from that accident, Christine met God in all new ways for herself, and also allowed her pain and brokenness to be used to empower other women to seek and receive counseling for their own stories. Christine is a hopeful, honest, and strong voice to speak to the incredible truth that God is...

The definition of the word love has become an abstract concept in our culture. In this episode, our host Willow Weston reflects on the true meaning of love and the intentional, beautiful, sometimes difficult way Jesus went about doing it. We encourage you to listen to this episode cuddled up somewhere quiet, with journal in hand. As Willow discusses the true meaning of love and the way Jesus lived...

In this episode, Collide’s founder and director Willow Weston shares the message on her heart that derives from John chapter 6, where a small boy offers exactly what he has and Jesus uses it to do something incredible. For every “Not me” we tell God, He responds with “Yes, you.” Yes, you have gifts and talents. Yes, you are worthy and redeemed. Yes, you have something to offer the world. Yes, He p...

Barbara Demorest’s story may have begun with devastation, but God collided with her pain in BIG and unexpected ways to inspire thousands of women all over the world. We’re thrilled to welcome Barb as our very first podcast guest to share the experience of redemption and impact she never imagined for her life. This woman is truly incredible - you can hear her passion and hope straight through your...