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Send us Fan Mail Courage looks different for each person. Some may be able to take a leap into the unknown, others may need the courage just to keep going each day. It can be hard to muster up courage and there are so many things that can work against us being courageous. We take a look at this subject today and attempt to inject some hope into the whole idea of us finding courage to be able to ke...

Send us Fan Mail Today we finish our series on wellbeing by looking at the benefit of looking after your spiritual health. We can sometimes think that spiritual health is about grading how good you are at being a Christian? That mentality skews so much to do with spiritual health - and that’s what we take a look at today, the importance of having a healthy perspective on what spiritual wellbeing i...

Send us Fan Mail The relationship that we have with money has a huge impact on how we feel and function as a human. When we are stretched financially it can add a burden that is so heavy to carry. Not only does this limit what we can practically achieve in life it also has a profound effect on our mental and emotional capacity to cope with life moving forward. Today we take a look at some of the c...

Send us Fan Mail Social wellbeing isn’t something that we talk about that much. The basic gist is seeing the benefit of having  social connections that positively impact your life. As we move through life we can find that friendships alter and shift, but we all need friends. Today we take a look at some of the social challenges we face, the importance and benefit of connection and the difference i...

Send us Fan Mail Managing our emotions can be quite a task. The current time we live in is full of so much stress, demand and expectation, so managing how we feel and how we function can be a real test for us. Today we’ll take some time to talk about understanding the weight we have to carry, some of the signs that can show we’re stressed and take a look at how we might begin to lighten the emotio...

Send us Fan Mail Our latest series is looking at wellbeing and this episode looks at the challenges around looking after our physical health. This is a difficult subject to talk about as it’s so personal but taking care of our physical health is so important.  I hope this conversation helps you think about some positive actions you can take to look after physical health. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail When we think about how Christianity works, so many people feel like there are a set of rules that need to be followed in order to be accepted. The better you are at following the rules the better ‘Christian’ you are. This mentality is riddled with so many problems and actually goes against so much of what Jesus said. We’re taking a look at this subject today, challenging that tho...

Send us Fan Mail The relationships that we have with those closest to us are so important in our lives. We can sometimes find that agenda creeps in and begins to affect these relationships - today we take some time to look at how this can happen, the impact that it can have and how we can recognise it and make a change. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail When we find a connection with God it can have a huge impact on how we function in our lives. Agenda can still have an impact on this relationship - in fact, it can easily be the foundation of the relationship. Getting rid of agenda in the way we relate to God becomes transformative. We’re taking a look at this today, learning to recognise agenda and how we can develop a stronger...

Send us Fan Mail It's so easy to feel overwhelmed with everything that we need to do in life and we can often neglect to effectively refill ourselves.  Today, Becky talks to us about the importance of loving ourselves, shares some stories and advise on how we can begin to address this issue. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail Great friends are such a gift to our lives. We need the input of numerous people to help us feel fulfilled in our lives. We can sometimes find that agenda plays a role in our friendships and can spoil the impact that we can have on our friends and vice-versa. Today we look at the importance of friends, the role agenda can play and how we sometimes need to be prepared to move on. F...

Send us Fan Mail We don’t choose our neighbours, so we have to work out how to relate to them. How do we love our neighbours? What does that look like? And how can agenda influence the way we behave in those relationships? Those are just some of the questions that we’ll be considering in this talk. Feel free to listen in xxx

Send us Fan Mail We spend around half of our waking ours in the workplace, so who we are in that environment is incredibly important. Today we’ll look at the kind of worker we need to be, think about how agenda can affect our contribution and consider what love looks like in the workplace. Feel free to listen in xxx

Send us Fan Mail If we’re meant to become love to all people then does that mean we need to be best friends with everyone? The thought of that is pretty daunting and, luckily, the answer is no. Today we look at the different dynamics of our friendships and how we will function differently depending on the scenario. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail Bob Goff writes in ‘Everybody Always’ that love with an agenda is no longer love. Today we introduce a series that aims to help us work out how we can become love to the people that we meet in our lives. Our hope is that we can begin to be the kind of people that Jesus would be if he was in our shoes. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail Reports of spiritual abuse are becoming increasingly common. With that in mind, we wanted to take some time to understand was spiritual abuse is, how to effectively support people who’ve been spiritually abused and how we can create healthy cultures that can stop spiritual abuse taking place. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail When we experience difficult things, the natural response is to run away from those emotions and attempt to eradicate them from our lives. Emotions like fear and anxiety can become debilitating, but in those times we can also harness some positives that can equip us to move forward. That’s what we’re looking at today - feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail We all need a certain amount of ego to have the confidence to do things. Getting the balance with ego can be a lot trickier than we realise, if left unchecked, it can begin to subtly impact so many things and affect how we feel and how we act. This is what we’re thinking about today - feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail Today we have the pleasure of listening to Sadie talking about our mentality towards other people. It’s easy to make love conditional, especially when people have made mistakes, but God continually models to us what real love look likes like, with no buts. Feel free to listen in xxx

Send us Fan Mail We can easily reduce repentance down to a single moment of saying sorry and treat that as the point of change. The reality of repentance is that it is way more than that and is more of a process that we need take time with. Today we look deeper in to this area and begin to look at ways of reframing our thinking around repentance that aims to give us a healthy perspective as we mov...

Send us Fan Mail Today we had the privilege of interviewing Penny. She told us about her life, the challenges she’s faced and how her perception of God and relationship with Him has changed over the years. We were all really inspired by hearing Penny’s story and we hope you are too. Feel free to listen in x

Send us Fan Mail The Lord’s Prayer is something that can roll off the tongue, becoming a routine that can make us feel like we’ve ticked the prayer box. Today we look at the reason Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer and the wider message contained in the prayer. Feel free to listen in xxx

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt guilty for not praying enough? I think most of us will have felt that at some point. There’s no doubt that having a positive discipline of regularly talking to God can be really beneficial to our lives but when we struggle to find the time and capacity to do ‘prayer’ then we can end up beating ourselves up about it. Today we take a look at this subject and how w...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast we take some time to reflect on some of the questions that we discussed before Christmas and begin to consider what kind of things we could do in The Living Room to help us grow together, grow spiritually and make a difference to other people. Feel free to get in touch with us if you’d like to get involved in any of the things that we mention. You can email us on i...

Send us Fan Mail This is a talk that we recorded a couple of months ago and forgot to post - it’s looking at the importance of empathy and the difference that we can make when we use our experience and understanding to be able to best understand and support people. Empathy isn’t just about knowing what to say in the moment, it also allows us to read the signs and the signals when someone may need...