We Are Wayfarers

In our final episode of Season 8, we talk about the spiritual discipline of service, the importance and power of pouring yourself out in service to other and adopting the same attitude as Christ.

In this episode, we talk about the importance and the struggles we face in embracing the practice of rest. Rhythms of renewal and rest, moving at a holy pace and surrounding yourself with fellow wayfarers who will encourage you are major themes in this conversation.

In this episode, Ben & Crystal talk about the spiritual practice of prayer and its power to posture your heart to pursue God and yield to His work in you.

In this episode, we talk about the power of meditating on God's Word, detaching from everything else and attaching to God, as well as how memorizing passages of Scripture gives you truth "at the ready" for the moments you need it.

Professor Ben (and Crystal too) talk about some principles that inform how we interpret God's Word!

We continue our conversation from the previous episode, digging into more methods to engage God's Word and grow as we hear His voice.

We follow our conversation about Sacred Space, with a natural next step discussion about engaging Scripture.

In this episode, we talk about the important practice of creating a "Sacred Space"; identifying, planning, preparing for and protecting a dedicated time to engage with God.

Pathways and Practices

As we prepare to enter 2026, we take some moments to look back and to look forward.

The holiday rush can easily leave hurting hearts weary, tempted to isolate and wishing the season would end. In this episode, we talk through the promises of Isaiah 35 and encourage our own weary hearts, and yours, that Christmas is for the weary.

We share some of our Christmas favorites: memories, traditions, music and what God is speaking to our hearts this Christmas season.

As we enter the Christmas season, we recount some of the ways we've seen God's faithfulness this year.

In our 5th episode of the season centered on advent, we take some time to talk about the distinct advent themes of hope, love, joy and faith and how they are pronounced at Christmas.

In the first episode of a very special Advent season of the We Are Wayfarers podcast, we share the focus of the season and reflect on some of our time and memories in the last several months.

In this episode, we continue our reflections and focus our thoughts on the season of Advent.

We turn our conversation to some of the Team Woods Christmas traditions. Some of our traditions have remained the same, and some have had to change in our separation from our Calla, but our traditions serve to hold us together as a family of 5 and focus our hearts on our King Jesus.

In episode 4, Ben & Crystal share how they see hope, love, joy and peace pronounced in the Christmas Story and how Jesus' first advent fuels our faith as we wait for His second advent!

In this unique episode, Ben and Crystal center their conversation on John 1 as Ben shares thoughts from a sermon he preached a few years ago celebrating that the Light has come!

Wayfarers, this brief episode is our prayer for you. May Jesus come close to you as you celebrate His first advent at Christmas and may His hope flood your heart as you look forward to the glorious day that He comes again! Oh, come Lord Jesus!

In our Season 6 finale, we talk about the hope that Romans 8 infuses into our hearts, making us groan for the day that Christ returns to set all things right!

In our 9th episode of the season, we talk about the hope that 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (and its surrounding verses) bring to our hearts and the promise that to be absent from the body is to be present with The Lord.

In Episode 8, we talk about Jesus' promises in John 14:1-4 and the hope that comes when we trust that He has gone to prepare a place for us and that He will come to bring us there when "everything is ready." Amen, Come Lord Jesus!

In this episode we talk about 2 Peter 3:9 and the compelling reason it gives for God's patience. As we are waiting for Him to return, He is waiting on everyone to repent and come Home. God's love drives His patience....and though He will not wait forever, the door is open right now through Jesus Christ for all who would accept His free gift of salvation!

In this episode we talk about how we grieve with hope and encourage each other with the words of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14. We grieve, but we grieve with hope.