Podcast Episode

Paola Barrera — The Gift of Immigration

June 6, 2025

Venezuelan-Canadian author Paola Barrera joins Nate on Life With God to discuss her story of immigration and how it shaped her outlook on God’s kingdom.

Podcast Episode

Cindy Bunch — Be Kind to Yourself

August 11, 2020

Cindy Bunch, director of editorial at InterVarsity Press, believes that cultivating compassion toward self is a way to cultivate compassion toward others. This…

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Learning to See Christ Webb explains how the compassionate life—for Jesus, and for us—is grounded in "genuine, direct relationships, not nebulous issues."

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Jesus the Refugee Pastor and mental health counselor Randy Schrock helps us consider the plight of displaced people so that we can respond with the compassion of Christ.

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To Begin To Console Carol Berry recalls Henri Nouwen’s teaching on compassion and consolation as demonstrated in the extraordinary life of Vincent van Gogh.

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Hospitality: Making Space for the Least, the Lost, and the Lonely God can restore a sense of identity and value to those who have lost sight of their own worth. Randy Schrock shares a deeply personal story of healing and…

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Becoming Like Jesus: Compassionate Life Chris Webb examines what it means to live out the Compassionate Life "in the ever widening concentric circles of community in which we live."

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Is It So Terrible to be Useful? Drawing on a scene from "The Last Emperor," Richard Foster helps us shift our thinking from feeling used to becoming useful.

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Speak Truth to Power Use words when necessary. ​Measuring our words with wisdom does not mean turning a blind eye to evil. Carolyn Arends shares a recent piece from Faith Today about "the quiet power of a…

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To a Broken God Experience the brokenness of Christ anew with this song from Michael Card. It is an appropriate reflection at any time, but especially in the season of Lent.

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We Are Here to Love How can we conquer those feelings of self-consciousness that can tangle up the better angels of our nature and keep us from stepping out in love? Carolyn…

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Only By Prayer and Faith In thinking of how to ask for our daily bread, may we be inspired anew by George Müller and his orphanage in Bristol, England. Never asking a single person for…

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In Search of Those Bright Red Kettles Richard Foster shares this gentle reminder to take a moment (or several) to remember the poor during the Christmas season bustle by seeking out those Salvation…