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  • Listen to someone's story

222: “I Want to Hear Your Story”

I’ve come to learn that relating with people through the lens of “I want to hear your story” is a great way to live. It enriches our lives in more ways than you can imagine. I started thinking more deeply about this principle when Janet and I visited

222: “I Want to Hear Your Story”2025-07-02T11:24:30-05:00
  • An act of kindness by Polish mothers who reflect the character of God

221: An Act of Kindness Remembered Decades Later

You never know how an act of kindness will be remembered with fondness many decades later. It reminds us that when we are kind, it’s because God made us that way. Today’s episode is an example of how this works. Welcome to You Were Made for This But

221: An Act of Kindness Remembered Decades Later2025-06-12T12:30:22-05:00
  • You Were Made for This

220: A Podcast You and I Want to Listen To

Have you noticed how everyone seems to have a podcast these days? Most of them just don’t appeal to me. So, in 2018, I created one that does— a podcast I want to listen to and one you’ll want to listen to as well. I’m going to give

220: A Podcast You and I Want to Listen To2025-05-30T13:38:06-05:00
  • The Christmas Story for 2024

219: The Christmas Story for 2024

On that first Christmas Day, Mary treasured all its details and thought about them often. May we do the same with the Christmas story in 2024. So here's the original story told in Luke's Gospel, just as it happened: At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that

219: The Christmas Story for 20242024-12-23T11:20:47-06:00
  • It's better to listen than to talk

218: It’s Better to Listen Than to Talk

Today’s episode, #218, brings to a close  Season 8 of our You Were Made for This podcast. If you’ve been listening for any length of time, I hope you’ve come to appreciate the high value we place on the skill of listening as a way to enrich our

218: It’s Better to Listen Than to Talk2024-04-28T15:40:38-05:00

217: God Will Surprise Us

In the past dew episodes I’ve been talking about how I tracked down my birth father and met him for the first… and last time in my life. You’ll find links to those episodes at the bottom of the show notes. Today’s show concludes this painful chapter in

217: God Will Surprise Us2024-04-13T16:34:05-05:00
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