John Certalic

You Were Made for This

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You were made for fulfilling relationships. Listen each week to stories of people finding hope and encouragement in their relationships so that you can too. Host and award-winning author John Certalic, together with his guests, share principles of life-giving relationships. John's relationship story starts with his birth to a single mother and placement in foster care for the first 16 months of his life. From this comes four different careers, 53 years of marriage to the same wife, and much he has learned about relationships. John draws from all this, along with inspiring stories from his gues...

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John Certalic

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006: The Gift of Joy - Part 2 19.12.2018 15:28

Today in "The Gift of Joy - Part 2" I need to admit that all the joy we hear around Christmas time often doesn't register with me. For me, the more melancholy Christmas carols drown out the mood of the joyful ones. The ambience around "I'll be home for Christmas" and "White Christmas" more typically characterize my emotions than "Joy to the World." My heart tend to drift the melancholy side of lif...

005: The Gift of Joy - Part 1 12.12.2018 12:05

I don't know if you've noticed, but it seems too me there's an awful lot of talk about joy this time of year. December. The Christmas season. The Christmas carols. It's even gotten into marketing, the joy of this, the joy of that. It seems we all want joy. But for all the talk, where do we see joy and how do we get it? More joy in our life. More joy in our relationships. In this episode, and the n...

004: The Gift of Even Though 05.12.2018 20:01

Many of us have holes in our heart. I'm not thinking of the physical kind, I'm thinking about the emotional kind. The emotional holes in our heart. I've noticed that some people never get over what's missing in their life, while other people compensate for what they don't have , and redeem this lack in their lives by filling that hole with something else that is good, and noble, and pure. In today...

003: A Gift for the Person Who Has Everything 28.11.2018 15:52

Carol, my producer, said her Thanksgiving was great, and that she enjoys it more than Christmas because there's no gift buying. She said the hardest part of gift buying is getting something for the person who has everything. Well today we're going to talk about that, and hopefully solve that problem for Carol and our listeners. Today's episode is about giving a gift that you can't buy online, or i...

002: The Gift of a Background Relationship 28.11.2018 17:12

As I mentioned in the previous episode, this podcast is all about relationships. It's the THIS you were made for. Fulfilling, life-giving relationships is what is what we are all made for. Relationships have the power to lift us, encourage us, and give significant meaning to our lives. At the same time, they can suck the life right out of us and make us want to spend summer afternoons on the couch...