Episode 67: Who Gets a Front Row Seat? Choosing What Shapes Your Life

Episode 67: Who Gets a Front Row Seat? Choosing What Shapes Your Life

🎙️ Episode 67: Who Gets a Front Row Seat?: Choosing What Shapes Your Life What is shaping you right now, and have you given it permission to sit that close?  In this episode of Unshaken, Tony and Kristy talk about the voices, environments, habits, relationships, and everyday inputs that quietly shape who we are becoming. From childhood warnings about good company to adult realities like coworkers, family culture, church friends, social media, and familiar places that may not be healthy, they invite us to look honestly at what has a front row seat in our lives.  The voices closest to you will help form the person you are becoming. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/who-gets-a-front-row-seat-choosing-what-shapes-your-life/ This conversation is not about suspicion, isolation, or only spending time with people who think like us. It is about wisdom, discernment, and rootedness in Christ so we can love people well without losing our way. Tony and Kristy talk about growth, comfort, courage, godly counsel, humility, patience, and the practical step of asking God what voice, habit, relationship, or environment needs our attention first. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: How environments, voices, habits, and relationships shape us over time Why familiar does not always mean healthy How to decide who gets a front row seat in your life The difference between loving people and giving them influence Why growth starts with prayer, wisdom, discernment, and one faithful step 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday.  📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #FaithFamilyResilience #ChristianPodcast #SpiritualGrowth #GodlyWisdom #ChristianFamily #Discipleship #FaithAndLife #BiblicalDiscernment #StandFirm We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2461867/fan_mail/new] This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

Episode 66: Leading Your Home Without Controlling It

🎙️ Episode 66: Leading Your Home Without Controlling It What does steady, Christlike leadership look like in real family life? In this solo episode, Tony reflects on Father's Day, spiritual leadership, and what it means to help build a home that is more faithful, peaceful, courageous, resilient, and rooted in Christ.  A title does not make a man trustworthy, faithfulness does.  🔵 For Deeper Study:  https://unshakenpodcast.org/leading-your-home-without-controlling-it/ From Joshua 24, Ephesians 5, 1 Peter 3, and the faith of Lois and Eunice, this episode walks through the difference between servant leadership and control, the cost many women carry when men are passive, and the grace of repentance when a man realizes he has not led well. This conversation is not asking anyone to endure abuse, hide harm, or carry leadership alone, and anyone in an unsafe situation should seek immediate help from trusted people and appropriate local support. 🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode: * Why biblical leadership starts with responsibility, not control * How repeated patterns shape the spiritual temperature of a home * Why women who model faithfulness in hard homes are not invisible to God * The difference between protecting a family and controlling a family * How repentance, prayer, and ordinary presence can begin a new chapter today  🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you'd rather reach out by email, we’d be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Don’t forget to like, follow, and share, new episodes every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #UnshakenFamily #ChristianLeadership #ChristlikeLeadership #FaithAtHome #FamilyDiscipleship #BiblicalManhood #ChristianFatherhood #ServantLeadership #FaithFamilyResilience We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2461867/fan_mail/new] This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

Episode 65: What Makes a Family Feel Like Family: Why Family Culture Matters

🎙️ Episode 65: What Makes a Family Feel Like Family: Why Family Culture Matters What makes a family feel like family when the ordinary routines, rituals, and values are easy to overlook? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about family culture, the quiet and loud patterns that shape a home, and what they have been learning as their households have come together in a new season. The small things are not small when they keep telling someone, "You belong here." 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/what-makes-a-family-feel-like-family-why-family-culture-matters/ From Deuteronomy 6 to Colossians 3 and Joshua 24, this conversation looks at how faith gets woven into ordinary life. Family culture is not about creating a perfect brand or copying another household. It is about paying attention to what your family protects, repeats, repairs, celebrates, and carries forward so that love, safety, faith, and belonging have room to grow. 🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode: Why family culture is bigger than traditions and often feels like gravity How Deuteronomy 6 calls faith into ordinary moments at home, on the road, and throughout the day Why joy, peace, safety, repair, and small rituals all teach people what belonging feels like How blended families and changing seasons can honor the past without letting one culture win One faithful way to begin shaping a Christ-honoring household culture now 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you’d rather reach out by email, we’d be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Don’t forget to like, follow, and share, new episodes every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #UnshakenFamily #FamilyCulture #ChristianFamily #FaithAndFamily #FamilyDiscipleship #HomeDiscipleship #ChristianParenting #FamilyRhythms #BiblicalFamily We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2461867/fan_mail/new] This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

Episode 64: When You Need Community but Don’t Have the Energy

🎙️ Episode 64: When You Need Community but Don’t Have the Energy What do you do when you deeply want Christian community, but the process of getting there feels exhausting? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk honestly about the tension many people carry in church life: wanting to be known, needing community, and still feeling worn out by hallway conversations, small group sign-ups, uncertainty, anxiety, caregiving demands, disability-related barriers, grief, or simply a low social battery. Wanting people and needing quiet can live in the same heart. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-you-need-community-but-dont-have-the-energy/ If you have ever walked into church already tired, wondered whether there is a place for your family, or felt ashamed that connection takes more energy than you have, this conversation is for you. Tony and Kristy remind us that the body of Christ was never meant to be built only around the most visible, energetic, or socially confident people. Belonging begins with Jesus, and the next faithful step toward community can be small, honest, gentle, and sustainable. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: * Why wanting community and feeling overwhelmed by it are not opposites * How low capacity can be mistaken for disinterest in church life * Why safety often comes before belonging, especially for families carrying disability or past hurt * How clear information can become an act of hospitality for anxious visitors, caregivers, and overwhelmed parents * Why consistency, not intensity, may be the healthier path into Christian community 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you'd rather reach out by email, we'd be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM  🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Don't forget to like, follow, and share, new episodes every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #ChristianCommunity #ChurchFamily #BodyOfChrist #SmallGroups #FaithAndFamily #Caregivers #DisabilityMinistry #Belonging #SpiritualEncouragement We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2461867/fan_mail/new] This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

Episode 63: When Your Home Feels Like an Airport: Finding Peace in a Busy Family

🎙️ Episode 63: When Your Home Feels Like an Airport: Finding Peace in a Busy Family What happens when your home starts feeling less like a refuge and more like a terminal, with everyone rushing to the next gate? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about the pressure busy families carry when schedules, activities, responsibilities, work, school, and constant transitions begin to shape the emotional tone of the home. They share honestly about the difference between healthy structure and emotional overload, and how families can begin moving toward peace without pretending life is less full than it really is. A busy home can still be a gentle home. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-your-home-feels-like-an-airport-finding-peace-in-a-busy-family/ If your family has ever lived in task mode, proactive yelling, last-minute scrambling, or the quiet tension that builds when everyone is overstimulated, this conversation is for you. Tony and Kristy remind us that peace is not a personality type, a silent house, or a perfect schedule. Peace is a home where people can breathe, speak, repair, laugh, and be received because gentleness is shaping the way we treat one another. 🔶 What You’ll Hear in This Episode: Why a busy family can start to feel emotionally exhausting How healthy structure can reduce panic without removing responsibility Why task mode communication can make marriages and families feel transactional How small resets, apologies, hugs, and honest questions can restore connection Why Philippians 4:5 helps families practice gentleness under pressure 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you'd rather reach out by email, we’d be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM  🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Don’t forget to like, follow, and share, new episodes every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #UnshakenFamily #FaithFamilyResilience #BusyFamilyLife #ChristianParenting #FamilyPeace #GentleHome #Philippians4 #MarriageAndFamily #EmotionalSafety We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2461867/fan_mail/new] This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.