The Friday ReFresh

Welcome in to the Friday Refresh Brought to you by the Adventures of Ben and Travis and the WorryCoaster. If you have a little one who struggles with anxiety or you work with students who do, this book, designed specifically for elementary age students -- but helpful to anyone -- is for you. The back pages even include some helpful tips for working with kids and teens who are burdened by fears and...

Welcome in to the Friday Refresh brought to you by the Adventures of Ben and Travis books. The WorryCoaster is in print and ready for you to order. You can have your copies today by going to BenandTravis.com. You can also preorder your copy of the JoyRider that will be out within the next year. Go to BenandTravis.com/books and order yours today. Brackets. Underdogs. Rivalries. Blue bloods. Cindere...

Welcome in to the Friday Refresh brought you you by the Adventures of Ben and Travis and the WorryCoaster children’s book. Written by myself and Travis Creasy and expertly illustrated by our friend and brother, Jacob Hennigan. It is a feel good story of how to overcome anxiety and fear with a section in the back for parents, youth workers and teachers with helpful hints to keep the conversation go...

This is your Friday Refresh Brought to you by the Helping. Healing. Humor Podcast with Ben and Travis ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/helping-healing-humor/id1457601152 ). If you enjoy this short burst of mental health and motivational content then join us as we explore similar topics in a little more depth and a lot more craziness. You can find the Helping Healing Humor Podcast with Ben a...

Brought to you by the Helping. Healing. Humor Podcast with Ben and Travis ( https://www.benandtravis.com/more-content ). If you enjoy this short burst of mental health and motivational content then join us as we explore similar topics in a little more depth and a lot more craziness. You can find the Helping Healing Humor Podcast with Ben and Travis at any of your favorite podcast providers. I have...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. We appreciate so much Liberte sponsoring this podcast for several months. It is a great ministry and we hope you will Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out more about their work. You can supply Bibles to people who  are thirsty for the word… and you can also have some of their workers visit your church to tell you more. That’s Trav...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. Winter can be tough. Especially for those who have recently experienced loss...and even for those who have experienced it many years ago. Darkness and depression seem to go hand in...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries (travisloveshaiti.com). Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. Here in the south cool breezes are starting to blow, leaves are starting to fall, and holiday songs have started filling the air. There will be plenty of Chr...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries (travisloveshaiti.com). Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. As you listen to this you may be trying to come down off a sugar rush or wake up after a long night of trick or treating and Halloween movies. Either way, I...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries (travisloveshaiti.com). Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. It has made me laugh. And It has made me cry. It has made me stop right in my tracks. And at other times it has made me move. It has entertained me. And yet...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries (travisloveshaiti.com). Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. Thursday night I was invited to attend the Faulkner Benefit Dinner in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a really spectacular night for many reasons. There was fant...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. I grew up watching the A-Team. Can’t tell you how many hours Travis and I pretended to be Hannibal, Murdock, Face, or B. A. Baracus. Of course one the most famous, oft repeated lin...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. What would you consider as the most powerful word? I’m sure there are plenty of arguments in the world over which word might carry the most weight. I know on some lists break them...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. They often appear with laughter Just as they do with mourning. They come when we expect them And then they come without warning. They show up at the beginning When we hear a newbor...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberté Ministries and TravisLovesHaiti.com! What does it take to make a difference? I suppose you could do a quick search online and come up with a variety of answers. There are thousands of stories of people who have done some great deed to make lives better. On the Ben and Travis podcasts we support works like Liberte that make a difference by helpi...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles to those who long to read the word of God and learn more through a visit to your church. A couple of years ago I came across a small pamphlet called “the cookie under the doormat.” The interactive story inside goes something like this: Think about two kids. You pick th...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Visit TravislovesHaiti.com to find out how you can supply Bibles and learn more through a visit to your church. Freedom isn’t free. There is always a price to pay. In 1776 a band of 56 men met in a hot room in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and officially made a Declaration of independence from England. The men who signed that Declaratio...

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This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 Are we there yet? If I heard that question, or some variation of it, once in the 6 hour drive to the beach I heard it 50 times. The youngest of the kids asked it the most. The others just looked on their map apps on the phone to figure it out. But every one of my...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 I often talk about my very eclectic taste in music. You might find me listening to country one moment, then 70s rock, then an acapella gospel song. Or it could be blue grass, then rap, followed by a couple of musical numbers from Disney or broadway. But in my phon...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 In every walk in nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir. This past Saturday I got to enjoy a Nothing Day. We didn’t have any formal plans so we slept in a little later than usual and then we went to our friends house to ride jeeps and four-wheelers...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 No one is immune to struggles. No one is prevented from pain. No one will avoid every heartache. In that way we are all the same. No one can claim all the answers. No one succeeds on their own No one can conquer every giant We weren’t meant to face life alone. No...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 One of my favorite things to do as I drive is to listen to podcasts. But not any old podcast. I like true stories. I like stories of people who face hard things head on and find a way through it. This started with one that my cohost of the Helping Healing Humor po...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 He started with eight. Not eight grown men. Eight boys. From a tiny blooming seed consisting of eight boys, he managed to grow the dream into something that well over 20,000 participate in each year now. Links mentioned in this episode: http://www.benandtravis.com...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by Collisions Auto Repair Services in Killen,Alabama. You can contact them at (256) 272-2007 The other day I was driving my kids to school and my 7 year old son began talking about how he dreads moving to the next grade in school. His lament went something like this: “what if I CAN’T do the work!” My immediate…almost visceral response was “don’t say the w...