Breaking Bread Podcast

By default, our children enter into our families in a relationship with us.  After all, they are our sons and daughters. However, relationships are not in name only. In this episode, Craig Stickling and Brian Sutter speak to the importance of building meaningful relationships with our children.

Teaching is wonderfully optimistic. The sky is the limit; what do you want your students to know? With a little intentionality, parenting is exciting in the same way. In this episode, Craig Stickling and Brian Sutter, interviewed by Matt Kaufmann, encourage us to seize the parenting moment of teaching.

Christ chose discipleship as the means to pass down faith and sanctify lives. When we engage in Christian discipleship, we participate in the divine and ancient classroom of Christ. In this episode, Arlan Miller and Matt Kaufmann help us understand what discipleship looks like in the church. 

October marks a milestone for Breaking Bread. Two years, 48 episodes and 46,000 downloads later, we are blessed to find our listenership growing. We rejoice in Christ, our Broken Bread who meets our many and varied needs. He is the substance of our hope in every conversation. In celebration of this milestone we have given Breaking Bread a fresh look and a new sound. Check it out today by listening to our special broadcast.

Our brains are plastic – moldable, changeable. In this episode Dr. Aaron Plattner connects the dots between our thoughts and our actions. He explains how thinking patterns can be changed for the better. This is very good news and ups the ante for our thought life.

When it comes to human organs, the brain is arguably the most precious.  Thinking, feeling and behaving find their genesis in the brain.  How has God created our brains to function?  In this episode, Psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Plattner helps us understand this brilliant creation.  He sheds much needed light on the intersection of faith and psychiatry.

You don’t need to be an intellectual to make a defense for the faith. A visible hope, a genuine love, an honest humility and a listening ear will go a long way in this regard. In this final episode of the Apologetics series Brian Sutter and Matt Kaufmann peal back the onion of faith to reveal the beauty of God and give some tips on how we can engage the skeptic.

The Christian faith is not a house of cards, tenuous and in need of protection. Thus, questions and challenges are welcome. Within the church especially. Within our families absolutely. In this episode, Brian Sutter helps us understand four main lenses through which we can understand apologetics and make a defense for the faith.

Christian apologetics is the discipline of making a defense for the Christian faith. Apologetics, therefore, has an important place in the life of a believer. But what place does it have? Does our faith rest on the sum total of a bunch of rational arguments? Or, do the arguments rest on our faith in God and thereby give rise to worship? In this episode, Brian Sutter, interviewed by Matt Kaufmann, cites the importance for both but advocates for worship. Apologetics offers a great deal of health and hope to the believer.

The tools for shedding hurt should be viewed as items in a tool belt to be used upon demand as opposed to items stored away in a box if per chance the need for use arises. In this final episode of the “Shedding Hurt” series, Ted Witzig Jr. explains both the importance and the skills for not allowing hurt to pile up.  Having a lifestyle of shedding hurt will allow us to weather life’s many disappointments.

At the root of forgiveness there are two gifts to be given. The vindication we want to give to the offender we give to Jesus.  The grace we want to keep for ourselves we give to the offender.  In this episode, Ted Witzig Jr. walks through the steps of forgiveness and helps us give these gifts to the right recipient.

Are you hurting? Have you sustained an emotional wound? Suppose you could shed that hurt. Suppose that hurt could fall away. Ted Witzig Jr. suggests it can.  In this podcast series, Matt Kaufmann leads Ted in unpacking the disciplines of shedding hurt, anger, and bitterness.

Settling your identity on Christ will be a journey. A journey worth taking. In this episode, Amber Miller identifies the road markings for this journey and provides some practical helps along the way.    

Who am I? Some of us ask this question out right. Others of us ask this question beneath our awareness. To be sure, all of us ask this question. The degree to which we are settled, content, satisfied and secure partially rests in this answer of identity. In this episode, Amber Miller helps us understand the health that is ours when we place our identity in Christ.

To misquote William Shakespeare, “All the world is the audience.” The stage is our technology.  With ever widening audiences our lives are broadcasted in circles we never intended. Users of technology need to understand this principle as well as others to navigate technology in the twenty-first century.  This episode speaks to three final principles in technology use: time usage, Christ likeness and social appropriateness.

The Bible makes no mention of the internet, apps or virtual reality.  Yet it speaks to them.  In this episode, Arlan Miller and Matt Kaufmann provide a few helpful principles to use when discerning our technology use.

The intimacy between a husband and a wife holds immense promise, for it springs from immense holiness – The Holy Trinity. Christian marriage is a living testimony of God’s Oneness. In this episode, Kaleb Beyer helps us understand sex as God designed it.

Marriage is meant to be a reflection of Christ and the church. When husbands and wives take their cue from Christ, they become a living testimony of this most holy relationship.  To be sure, Satan wants to upset this metaphor.  In this episode, Kaleb Beyer explains where he does and how we can, through Christ, be re-centered.

From Genesis to Revelation, marriage is a major narrative of the Bible. This divine institution is a visible testimony of the relationship nature of God. In this episode, Matt Kaufmann will lead Kaleb Beyer in a discussion that will attempt to peer into marriage and discover the gospel elements contained therein.

Life is hard. Part of being human is working through tough stuff. In times like these people tend toward isolation. However, God bundles the answer in relationship. Counseling, lay or professional, is this relationship that exposes  our hurts to Christ’s healing light. In this episode, Ted Witzig Jr introduces the discipline of Christian counseling and gives you a window into the heart of Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services.