A Quiet Invitation to Pause, Reflect, and Hear God Again

You're the one people call. The steady one. The one everyone else borrows faith from on their worst days. But lately, there's a question you haven't said out loud. Not to your small group, not in worship, maybe not even fully to yourself: is God actually paying attention to any of this? In this episode, we sit with a man who knew that exact tension. John the Baptist was the most certain person in Scripture. He's the one who pointed at Jesus in front of a crowd and called him the Lamb of God. B

Some of us aren't just tired. Some of us are managing something specific: a name, a season, a version of ourselves we've built a whole avoidance strategy around, just so certain people never connect the dots. This week continues What's Behind Your Smile? with a question one layer deeper than where we started. If "fine" is the general cover story, this episode asks what's underneath the specific one. Melissa sits with the woman at the well in John 4, a woman who'd learned to time her entire day

Is anyone actually fine? Or have we all just gotten really good at saying it? Welcome to a brand new series: What's Behind Your Smile? Over the next five episodes, we're taking an honest look at what people are quietly carrying behind the version of themselves the world gets to see. In this opener, Melissa talks about the reflex answer we give without even checking if it's true, why "fine" has become the price of admission into a normal conversation, and what 1 Samuel 16:7 has to say about a G

Somewhere along the way, you stopped praying for it. Maybe you called it making your peace. Maybe you called it being realistic. Maybe you never called it anything at all — the prayer just slipped off the list, and you never noticed the day it went quiet. And here's the lie most of us believe about coming back: that you have to fix the reason first. That you have to stop being tired, get over the disappointment, lose the fear, or finally feel like you matter — and then you're allowed to pr

When life falls apart, most people have someone they call. The steady one. The one who prays, who checks in, who always seems to show up. Maybe that person is you. So here's a question worth sitting with: when life falls apart for you — who do you call? And when did you last pray as hard for yourself as you pray for everyone else? This week on My Question for You, we're naming the prayer a lot of faithful people quietly set down somewhere along the way: the one for themselves. My Question for

There's a name you used to bring to God all the time. And somewhere along the way — without ever really deciding to — you stopped. Maybe it's a child who walked away. A sibling who went quiet. A friend on the same loop you've watched for years. Someone who hurt you. You prayed for them, you really did… until somewhere in there you quietly concluded they were never going to change — and the prayer went quiet right along with that thought. This week, Melissa sits with the prayers we stopped pray