Breaking Bread Podcast

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is becoming a house hold term.  In this episode, Ted Witzig Jr. continues to shed light on trauma and it’s effects.  He helps us understand PTSD and more importantly what Jesus thinks of trauma.

The event is in the past.  It jeopardized your core, basic human needs.  Yet your mind and body remain on alert as if the event was in the present.  In this episode of Breaking Bread, Ted Witzig Jr. educates us on trauma.

A supporting community is not just a nice idea for those with special needs.  It is essential.  Wonderfully, the church is such a community.  In this episode, Randy and Evie Mogler conclude their remarks about supporting those with special needs.  Included in their remarks are practical tips for engaging those with challenges as well as a high and noble calling for the church.

Jesus engaged those with special needs -the blind, the lame, the leper.  And we should too.  In this episode of Breaking Bread, guests Randy and Evie Mogler educate us on the beautiful world of special needs.

The previous episode focused on the “What is” of emotional intelligence.  In this episode Brian Sutter and Amber Miller address the “how to.”  Expect practical ways to regulate your emotions.

Emotions play a huge role in governing our behaviors and subsequent wellbeing.  It is so important then, that we are able to perceive, understand and regulate them.  In this podcast Brian Sutter and Amber Miller help us do just that.

The greatest born among women, Jesus called him. Yet this man, who was set aside by God to proclaim Christ’s deity, questioned it deeply. John Reinhard and Brian Sutter explain three critical lessons we learn from the way John the Baptist dealt with his doubt.

Because doubt is such an affront to faith, it can be ignored in Christian circles.  Yet John Reinhard and Brian Sutter see doubt much differently.  Doubt is not an affront to faith, it is necessary for faith.

Families are a system.  A set of dynamic moving parts that effect and influence each other.  Over time they form up our norms for family life.  In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kaleb Beyer exposes the nuances of family systems and helps us notice where adjustments can be made.

Giving and receiving a “no” is painful.  Ron Messner and Amber Miller discuss the complexities that swirl when this has happened.  While easy answers will not be given, a cradle for carrying the difficult questions will be.

Marriage decision making is under consideration in this episode of Breaking Bread.  Guests Ron Messner and Amber Miller discuss critical elements that form up “marriage by faith”.

If He hasn’t already, God will likely force your hand to face your fear.  At the core of fear is trust and God very much desires to shift our fears from circumstances to a reverent fear of Him.  In this episode Roger Gasser helps us make this transition.

What are you afraid of?  Often fear lurks just below the surface of our lives.  While the fear itself may be concealed, its manifestations are not.  In this episode Roger Gasser helps us understand fear - what it is, its purpose and how to deal with it.

We know life is not a sprint, but at times it sure feels like it is and we need a serious breather.  The fact is, God intends for us to have a breather, quite regularly actually.  He has created us to need rest.  His rest affords us the respite to be resilient.

In part 1, Kaleb Beyer and Ted Witzig Jr. unpacked what abuse in marriage looks like.  In this episode they walk us through the daunting and tricky task of responding to abusive marital situations.  We learn a great deal by listening to them speak to both victims and abusers.

News of abuse is all too common today.  Sorting out fact from fiction can be challenging.   In this episode, Ted Witzig Jr. and Kaleb Beyer stick to the facts as they walk us through the ins and outs of marital abuse.

As an extension of God’s love, He speaks to us. As an extension of our love, we speak to our children. In this episode, Craig Stickling shares five strategies for speaking with our children: envisioning, reinforcing, reminding, redirecting, and open ended questions.

Mission work is not without its difficulties and unmet expectations.  Yet it possesses the potential for deep joys.  In this episode, Kirk Plattner and Amber Miller speak to critical aspects of preparing for mission.

Repetitive, degenerative, unmanageable, medicative and destructive – the earmarks of addiction.  In this episode, Roger Gasser continues to educate us on these characteristics while at the same time framing up the hope that can be found.