The Lionborn Studios Podcast

If God is good and God is powerful — why is this happening to you? That's not a weak faith question. It's the oldest one in the world. And in this episode of Lions and Lambs, we're not going to skip past it with a slogan. We walk through the pattern written into the structure of reality itself — muscle, trees, gold — and what it means for the human soul in a hard season. We get into Ro...

You're doing fine. And then you open your phone — and four seconds later, your life feels small. In this episode, we go after the comparison trap. Why the grass always looks greener from a distance. Why leaving a good field for a greener one almost never works. And what Paul meant when he said he'd learned the  secret of contentment — from a prison cell, in chains, not knowing if he'd...

You can be doing fine — genuinely fine — and still lie awake feeling like you're missing something you can't even name. In this episode of Lions and Lambs, we go after the question most people avoid: what actually makes a life meaningful? We walk through what Viktor Frankl observed about meaning inside a Nazi death camp, what the Hebrew phrase  tselem Elohim  meant in the ancient world, an...

You finally got the thing. And then one typical Tuesday — the same quiet emptiness came back. So you picked a bigger target. In this episode of Lions and Lambs, we get into why success doesn't fix your problems — it just gives you more expensive ones and removes your last excuse. We cover the hedonic treadmill, what C.S. Lewis got right about desire, and a conversation Jesus had with a woman w...

Playing it safe is the most dangerous way to live. Not the most comfortable. Not the most peaceful. The most dangerous. Because you don't avoid risk by playing it safe — you just trade the risk of failure for the risk of a wasted life. In this episode of Lions and Lambs, we get into why the thing most people fear isn't failure — it's being seen failing. What the research on regret actu...

When life feels like it's swallowing you whole, God feels small. Your problems feel like the size of the sky. And the weight of it just keeps pressing in. But here's the thing about distance — it lies to you. In this episode, we use one image — a water tower — to talk about why God feels small when you're far and massive when you're close. We walk through Peter stepping out of the...

You're moving constantly. Grinding, producing, pushing. And somehow still empty. In this episode, we get honest about the treadmill — the difference between running toward something and just running. We look at why the formula culture handed you was never going to deliver, what Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert found about achievement and happiness, and why Matthew 11:28 completely inverts e...

You got the thing you wanted. And then the emptiness came back. In the OFFICIAL Episode 1, we name the one ache that sits underneath every ambition, every relationship, and every moment of real fulfillment you've ever experienced. We walk through why achievement, validation, legacy, and even the best relationships always come up short — and why that's not a flaw in you. It's a signal....

Most people have never actually investigated whether Jesus of Nazareth was a real historical figure. They've inherited an opinion — either from church or from culture. Neither one is a conclusion. In this first episode of Lions & Lambs, we go straight to the historical record. Secular Roman historians. Jewish sources. Over 5,800 Greek manuscripts. And the one detail — the women witnesses —...

The system stole you. Here is why your generation feels lost, and how to overcome it.

Are you stuck, anxious, and unsure of who you are — even when life looks fine on the outside? You're not alone. An entire generation is silently struggling with identity, purpose, and meaning — and the culture profiting from your confusion is never going to tell you why. In Episode 1 of the Lionborn Studios Podcast, Kole Schapker breaks down the real reason young adults feel lost, burned out,...