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What if the thing haunting your present isn't your past itself, but your refusal to believe that God has actually made you new?

This week on The True North Podcast, we're telling ghost stories. But not the spooky, scary movie kind. We're talking about the ghosts of who you used to be—the mistakes you wish you could erase, the decisions you regret, the old versions of yourself you'd rather forget, and the people who won't let you move on.

Because here's the thing: Just because something is part of your story doesn't mean it gets to define your identity.

Scripture reminds us that anyone in Christ is a new creation. The old has passed away, and the new has come. So why do we spend so much time living haunted by things Jesus has already forgiven?

Through the biblical stories of Peter's denial of Jesus, Saul's transformation into Paul, and the Samaritan woman at the well, we're exploring what it really means to overcome shame, let go of your past, embrace God's forgiveness, and walk confidently in your identity in Christ.

In this episode, we're talking about:

• How to stop letting past mistakes define your future

• The difference between godly conviction and condemnation

• Why your past doesn't disqualify you from God's purpose

• How Peter's restoration demonstrates the grace and forgiveness of Jesus

• What Saul's transformation into Paul teaches us about becoming a new creation

• Why your testimony can be one of the most powerful ways to share the Gospel

• How to move forward when other people still remember the old version of you

• What the Bible says about overcoming guilt, shame, and regret

If you've ever wondered whether you've made too many mistakes for God to use you, struggled to forgive yourself, or felt trapped by the person you used to be, this episode is for you.

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What do you do when you're praying, trusting God, doing everything you know to do… and absolutely nothing seems to be happening?

In this part of our Listen on Your Lunch Break series, we're diving into Psalm 27:13–14 and talking about one of the hardest parts of the Christian walk: waiting on God's timing.

Whether you're waiting for an answered prayer, healing, a new opportunity, a relationship to change, or simply a difficult season to end, it's easy to feel like life is passing you by while everyone else moves forward.

But here's the reminder you might need today: Waiting doesn't mean wasting.

We're talking about what it really means to trust God when you can't see what He's doing, why biblical waiting requires courage, and how to stop putting your happiness, peace, and purpose on hold until your circumstances change.

Because God's goodness isn't reserved for the next season of your life. There's goodness to be found right where you are, even in the middle of an unfinished story.

In this episode, we'll discuss:

• What Psalm 27 teaches us about waiting on the Lord

• How to trust God's timing when prayers seem unanswered

• Why waiting on God doesn't mean your life is on pause

• Finding contentment and joy in your current season

• Letting go of comparison and the pressure to have everything figured out

• Remembering God's goodness even when life is difficult

Plus, we're wrapping up our three-part Psalms reading plan with one final encouragement: You don't have to turn every difficult experience into an immediate lesson. Sometimes, you just need to sit with the Lord and let His Word remind you of who He is.

If you're feeling discouraged, impatient, or exhausted from waiting on God, consider this your invitation to stop living for the next season and start recognizing His presence in this one.

Grab your lunch, open your Bible, and let's get into it. 🤍

Have you ever prayed and prayed, only to feel like God isn't listening? Have you ever wondered how much longer you're going to have to endure a difficult season?

If you've ever felt forgotten by God, discouraged in your faith, or exhausted from waiting on an answer to prayer, this episode is for you.

In Part Two of Listen on Your Lunch Break, we're diving into Psalm 13, where David asks a question many of us have wrestled with: "How long, Lord?"

Through this passage, we're reminded that feeling discouraged doesn't mean you've lost your faith, and feeling like God is silent doesn't mean He's abandoned you.

David doesn't hide his frustration, manufacture a perfect prayer, or pretend everything is okay. Instead, he brings his pain directly to God. And while his circumstances don't visibly change throughout the psalm, his perspective does.

In this bite-sized devotional, we're talking about:

• What Psalm 13 teaches us about God's silence and unanswered prayers

• Why lament, sadness, and discouragement aren't signs of weak faith

• How to trust God's character when your circumstances aren't changing

• The importance of remembering God's faithfulness during difficult seasons

• Why you don't have to have the perfect words to approach God in prayer

Here's your lunch break reminder: Don't allow one difficult chapter to convince you that everything God has already shown you about Himself is suddenly untrue.

God's faithfulness isn't determined by your feelings, and His goodness doesn't disappear when life gets hard.

Grab your lunch, take a few minutes to reset, and let's get into the Word together.

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Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or like life is asking more of you than you have to give? This one's for you. 🤍

Welcome to Listen on Your Lunch Break, a new bite-sized devotional series from The True North Podcast designed to bring a little biblical encouragement into the middle of your busy day.

In this episode, we're opening up Psalm 61 and talking about what it really means to depend on God's strength when our own just isn't enough.

We live in a culture that glorifies busyness, independence, and doing it all. But somewhere along the way, we've started confusing exhaustion with faithfulness and being needed with being called.

What if the answer isn't asking God for more strength to keep up with everything? What if it's asking Him whether everything you're carrying is actually yours to carry?

Through David's honest prayer in Psalm 61, we're reminded that we don't have to pretend we're strong, have everything figured out, or push through every difficult season on our own.

In this devotional, we're talking about:

• Finding peace and strength in God when life feels overwhelming

• What Psalm 61 teaches us about prayer, surrender, and trusting God

• Why being busy doesn't necessarily mean being faithful

• The difference between being needed and being called

• Learning to acknowledge our limitations instead of glorifying exhaustion

Whether you're listening in the car, sitting at your desk, or taking a much-needed lunch break, consider this your reminder that you don't have to carry everything just because you're capable of carrying it.

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What if the very thing you're asking God to restore is something He's asking you to release?

We love watching the leaves change colors in the fall, but when things start falling away in our own lives? Suddenly, we're not quite as excited about changing seasons.

In the final episode of our Autumn Reset series, we're talking about how to let go of the past, trust God's timing, and embrace new seasons of life without constantly looking backward.

Because sometimes the things we're holding on to aren't necessarily bad things. They're old friendships, former opportunities, past versions of ourselves, unanswered questions, or even seasons of faith that once felt so fruitful. Other times, we're holding on to hurt, resentment, regret, and the apologies we never received.

In this episode, we're talking about:

• Why even good things can have an expiration date

• How to recognize when you're holding on to a past season

• The difference between forgiveness and reconciliation

• Why dwelling on past hurts can keep you spiritually stuck

• What Lot's wife teaches us about looking backward

• How to stop defining yourself by who you used to be

• Trusting God when He's doing something new in your life

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What are you feeding your spirit—and what is it producing in your life?

In Part 2 of the Autumn Reset series, we’re talking about harvest. 🍂 And not just the pumpkin-patch, hayride kind.

Scripture tells us that our lives produce fruit, but that fruit doesn’t appear overnight. Long before there’s a harvest, there’s a seed. The content you consume, voices you listen to, relationships you surround yourself with, thoughts you entertain, and habits you repeat are all planting something.

And eventually, what’s happening in the root shows up in the fruit.

In this episode of The True North Podcast, we’re unpacking what the Bible says about the fruit of the Spirit, fruit of the flesh, sowing and reaping, spiritual growth, and discernment—including how easy it is to get so accustomed to an “off-brand” version of Christianity that we forget what the real thing tastes like.

We’ll talk about:

• What “fruit” actually means in the Bible

• The seed → root → fruit → harvest framework

• Fruit of the Spirit vs. fruit of the flesh in Galatians 5

• Why you can’t manufacture spiritual fruit by simply “trying harder”

• How people-pleasing can disguise itself as kindness

• How avoidance can look like peace and perfectionism can look like self-control

• How social media, entertainment, friendships, and other influences shape your spiritual appetite

• Why what you repeatedly consume eventually starts to feel normal

• What the Bible teaches about sowing and reaping

• How to recognize counterfeit or “off-brand” spirituality

• Why Scripture has to remain the standard we use to check our fruit

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It’s officially sweater weather—but what are you hiding underneath the layers?

In Part 1 of The Autumn Reset, we’re taking a soul check and asking a question that might be a little uncomfortable: What’s keeping you from going all in with God?

We all have our own version of a “comfort cardigan”—something that makes us feel safe, covered, protected, or in control. Maybe yours is a relationship. Maybe it’s achievement, busyness, people-pleasing, perfectionism, resentment, control, or even an old version of yourself you don’t know how to let go of.

But what happens when the very thing making you feel safe is also keeping you from experiencing the deeper relationship with God you’ve been asking for?

In this episode, I explore what the Bible teaches about surrender, trusting God, letting go, and following Jesus even when you can’t see what comes next.

Sometimes surrender looks like releasing what made you feel safe before you know what God is going to do next.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why you may feel disconnected from God
• What it actually means to go all in with Jesus
• Identifying the things you use for security instead of God
• How control, relationships, busyness, perfectionism, resentment, and people-pleasing can become “comfort cardigans”
• Adam and Eve hiding from God in Genesis 3
• What the woman at the well teaches us about leaving our burdens behind
• Why the rich young ruler struggled to surrender
• The significance of Bartimaeus throwing off his cloak before he was healed
• Trusting God when you can’t see what’s ahead
• How to surrender what is hindering your relationship with God
• Hebrews 12:1 and the call to “throw off everything that hinders”

Ask yourself: What cardigan have you gotten so comfortable wearing that you’ve forgotten God never asked you to hide beneath it in the first place?

Scriptures mentioned:
Genesis 3:6–10
John 4
Mark 10:17–22
Mark 10:46–52
Hebrews 12:1
Isaiah 61:10

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We’re having a baby! 🤍

After finally sharing the news that we’re expecting our first baby, Peyton is joining me on The True North Podcast to talk about what this season has really looked like behind the scenes.

Plus, we get into the fun stuff: pregnancy cravings and aversions, surviving the first trimester, what surprised Peyton most about pregnancy, what we’re most excited about as parents, and why sour candy deserves an honorable mention in this pregnancy story. 😂

Whether you’re pregnant, preparing for parenthood, walking through a season of uncertainty, or simply learning how to trust God when you don’t have all the answers, we hope this conversation reminds you that you don’t have to know what happens next to find joy in what God is doing right now.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Our pregnancy announcement and finding out we were expecting
• Becoming first-time parents
• Our first trimester pregnancy experience
• Pregnancy symptoms, nausea, cravings and food aversions
• Hearing our baby’s heartbeat for the first time
• Pregnancy anxiety and surrendering control to God
• Trusting God when you can’t see what He’s doing
• Choosing joy during uncertain seasons
• Preparing spiritually for Christian parenthood
• Building Christ-centered rhythms as a family
• Slowing down and being present in the season God has given you

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What if the worst investment you’re making has nothing to do with money?

We invest our time, energy, attention, sleep, peace, and emotions into worry—hoping somehow it will make us more prepared for what’s coming. But what has worry actually done for us?

In this episode of The True North Podcast, we’re talking about how to stop worrying, trust God with the future, and break the cycle of anxiety and overthinking through the truth of Matthew 6:25–34.

We’ll talk about the difference between responsible planning and obsessive worrying, why worry can masquerade as control, and how anxiety causes us to emotionally experience problems that haven’t even happened yet.

In this episode, we chat about:

• What Matthew 6:25–34 teaches us about worry and anxiety
• How to stop worrying about the future
• Trusting God when you don’t know what will happen
• The difference between planning and worrying
• Why trying to control everything doesn't create peace
• Remembering God's faithfulness when anxiety takes over
• How to seek God first instead of seeking certainty
• Letting today be today and tomorrow be tomorrow
• Proverbs 31:25 and learning to “laugh without fear of the future”
• Practical questions to help you audit the worry in your own life

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What do you do when your life, heart, plans, or relationships feel like they’ve been shattered into pieces?

Sometimes we ask God to put everything back exactly the way it was—to restore the old relationship, bring back our confidence, fix the situation, or make us feel like ourselves again. But what if God isn’t trying to recreate the old version of your life? What if He wants to rebuild something new?

In this episode of The True North Podcast, we’re talking about how to rebuild your life with God after heartbreak, disappointment, failure, loss, or unexpected change. Using the Japanese art of kintsugi—repairing broken pottery while highlighting the cracks with gold—we’ll look at how God can redeem the broken pieces of our stories rather than simply erase them.

We’ll dive into Jeremiah 18 and the story of the potter and the clay, where God reminds us that the Potter is not limited by a vessel that has become marred. He can reshape it into something new.

Then, we’re taking a deeper look at Nehemiah and the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls to uncover a biblical process for healing and restoration: grieving what was broken, praying before trying to fix it, honestly inspecting the damage, and finally rising up to rebuild with God.

Because there is a difference between rebuilding yourself and rebuilding yourself with the Lord.

If you’ve been walking through heartbreak, church hurt, disappointment, a broken relationship, a major life transition, regret, or simply a season where you don’t recognize yourself anymore, this episode is for you.

God does not have to hide the cracks in your story to redeem them. The places that once looked like evidence that you were ruined can become evidence that you were restored.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How God restores and rebuilds broken lives
• What kintsugi can teach us about redemption and restoration
• The potter and the clay in Jeremiah 18
• What Nehemiah teaches us about rebuilding after devastation
• Why grieving is an important part of Christian healing
• Bringing your brokenness to God before trying to fix it yourself
• How to identify the areas of your life that still need healing
• The difference between inspecting a wound and obsessing over it
• Why healing requires both surrender and participation
• Trusting God when your life doesn’t go back to the way it was
• Finding purpose in pain and allowing God to use your testimony
• How God can create something stronger, healthier, holier, and more beautiful from the broken pieces

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