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Brave: Eric and Laura’s Adoption Story

Bravery is showing the mental or moral strength to face danger, fear or difficulty –it is the state of being brave.  In this episode featuring Eric and Laura’s adoption story, you will hear the couple’s journey from their chance meeting on a church softball field, to their marriage, fertility challenges and then the highs and lows of an adoption journey which is illustrative of the difficulties associated with domestic infant adoption. Their story brings into sharp focus the duality of bravery required by both the couple for stepping into the unknown as well as the birth mother for making the unnatural decision of having another parent in her place.

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Rob’s Story:  Burn

In another life-story-driven episode, Roane and Craig introduce you to Rob Lohman, whose drinking career started in his teens, leading him to dark places in life with the climax being a suicide attempt botched by his dog, Jake. You will grip the steering wheel as you hear about his rap sheet, which includes divorce, gambling addiction, bankruptcies and a prison sentence for arson, before finding wholeness through helping others.

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God, Close Friends, and a Therapist with Linda MacDonald

In this fast-paced show, Therapist and Infidelity Specialist, Linda MacDonald, discusses the importance of forgiveness when facing intimate betrayal and infidelity.  She shares her personal struggle to come to terms with a broken marriage and talks about the necessity for the right type of professional help.  Join Craig and Roane as they dive into the different types of relational responses to adultery as well as the path to healing from heartbreak.

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Don’t Talk, Don’t Trust, and Don’t Feel with Jason Smith

What does a pastor do when he is not okay?  Jason Smith was burned out after covering pain with performance for decades. His coping mechanism was service, describing his relationships with the people he served as codependent.  When the limitations of the global pandemic created isolation, he was unable to receive energy and purpose from others, so his unconscious facade fractured, making him feel trapped.  Thinking like no area of his life was good, he felt hopeless.  Listen to this episode to find out how a dedicated ministry leader and professional helper took steps to get well.

The Dirty Details with Robert Saums

Security Support Services are experts on getting people who cheat busted. They have been working behind the scenes for over 30 years to provide the truth to clients whose spouses are less than honest.  Robert Saums, VP of the company, dishes with Craig and Matt about the complexities of the professional investigation business as well as what it takes to catch cheaters in their extracurricular activities.

Ground Zero with Jim Cress

Licensed professional counselor, certified sex addiction therapist and radio talk show host, Jim Cress, is our guest on this special Father’s Day show.  Jim tells his story and talks about the work he does to foster integrity and wholeness with couples and individuals at “Ground Zero” of their personal stories –collecting the dots to connect the dots.  Craig, Roane and Jim dive deep into the concepts of the eternal father hunger within each of us and how all fathers bankrupt us on some level as we bump into their brokenness.

Crossroads Ministries: You Have What You Have Until You Get Where You are Going

In an emotional, recovery story from the perspective of two moms, hear how Keisha‘s transition from an 18-year incarceration intersected with Shannon’s journey to find health, wholeness and meaning when both were at “crossroads” in their lives. Craig and co-host Eva Hunter narrate this captivating account of the power of being fully known and how recovery is available for everyone brave enough to search for it.

Roane and Craig take a deep dive with Ben Derrick about Jesus, emotional health and the Church. Topics range from childhood wounding and the associated toxic messages we carry into adulthood, to the reason fantasy and escapism almost work. Searching for yourself requires relational healing and a bridge between the gap of the ideal to the real, freeing us from the prisons of our own making. This episode contains such rich content about the journey inward, you will want to listen to it over and over.

Gale Mills combines training in psychology and law enforcement as one of the few female certified polygraph examiners in Mississippi.  Conducting over 12,000 polygraphs, listen as this 30-year veteran professional truth finder educates and entertains in this discussion about sifting through lies and deception to uncover the honest truth.

Life for Brooke seemed to be a story written for someone else.  A glass-half-full Southern girl, the expectations of her family and community left her feeling voiceless.  Her desire to take the wheel of her own life led to unhealthy coping mechanisms and a bad relationship, so when she finished college and was dating her future husband, who was a “nice guy”, the music of the cake walk of life stopped and she sat next to him.  Lean in to find out what happens when you try to follow a life scripted for someone else.