S1E2 Faith Isn’t Pretty: Why God Wants Your Unfiltered Heart
Release Date: 11/10/2025
The Wilderness Is Where Trust Is Learned
Unfiltered Christianity
The wilderness isn’t where God abandons us. It’s where He teaches us to lean. In this episode, we walk through Scripture to discover why God repeatedly meets His people in the wilderness and what it reveals about trust, dependence, and intimacy with Him. From Adam’s creation to David’s caves, Elijah’s burnout, Hosea’s love story, and the bride leaning on her beloved, the Bible tells a radically different story about wilderness seasons than we often hear. This is an honest, reflective conversation about: • Losing control • Letting go of independence • Learning to lean on God...
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Is That God, Me, or Something Else? Discerning the Voice You’re Hearing
Unfiltered Christianity
LEARN MORE ABOUT SILENT RETREATS: kallahculture.org How do you actually know when God is speaking? In this episode, we explore one of the most common—and most misunderstood—questions in the Christian life: How do I recognize the voice of God, and how do I discern it from my own thoughts or other voices? Rather than reducing God’s voice to formulas or religious clichés, this conversation invites listeners into a deeper, more honest understanding of how God communicates. We talk about why hearing God isn’t primarily about the five senses, why Scripture can be read intellectually or...
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The Lost Practice of Lamenting Prayer & Why We Need It Back
Unfiltered Christianity
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvH41WBs47G76-7oxWwByAb1eFFlbKt-9 In today’s episode, we continue our deep dive into prayer by exploring a practice many believers have forgotten but desperately need — lamenting. Lament isn’t complaining. It’s not disrespect. It’s not faithlessness. It’s the honest, unfiltered cry of the soul — the place between what we know about God and what we are actually experiencing. Together, we talk through: What lamenting really means in Scripture Why the Western church has largely lost this form of prayer The difference...
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Prayer: What It Really Is And Why We All Overthink It
Unfiltered Christianity
LEARN MORE ABOUT SILENT RETREATS: kallahculture.org In this episode, Joey and Carla step into one of the most misunderstood parts of the Christian life — prayer. Not the polished, word-heavy version many of us grew up with, but the real thing: the communion, the awareness, the soul-level connection with God that often has no words at all. We talk about why so many believers feel like they’re “not good at prayer,” why we’ve all inherited narrow traditions around it, and how prayer is less about saying things to God and more about living in continual union with Him. We explore: ...
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Why the Lamb Matters: Rethinking Power, Innocence, and Spiritual Warfare
Unfiltered Christianity
In this episode of Unfiltered Christianity, we dive deep into one of the most familiar but often least understood titles for Jesus: the Lamb of God. Using real-life stories, Scripture, and raw personal reflection, we unpack what it actually means that Jesus is the Lamb, why God chose this imagery, what it tells us about His character, and how it reshapes our understanding of power, spiritual warfare, and following Jesus today. We explore the ancient sacrificial system, the innocence and purity a lamb represented, and the unbelievable reality that God revealed Himself not first as a lion,...
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S1E3 The Bride
Unfiltered Christianity
In this episode of Unfiltered Christianity, we dive into one of the most misunderstood and avoided subjects in the Church, the Bride of Christ. What does it really mean? Why does Scripture use this imagery? And why do so many believers, especially men, feel disconnected from it? Through raw conversation, personal encounters with God, Scripture, and real-life stories, we unpack: The mystery, beauty, and tension surrounding the Bride Why the passion of God toward His people is described in intimate, relational terms How Song of Solomon reveals God’s fierce love and why it was debated...
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S1E1a - Unfiltered Beginnings: Why We’re Doing This
Unfiltered Christianity
In this first conversation of Unfiltered Christianity, Joey and Victoria pull back the curtain on their stories and the heart behind the podcast. From atheist roots to lifelong church culture, they come from two very different worlds—but share one thing: an unshakable love for Jesus and a hunger to bridge the gap between faith and real life. They talk openly about encounters with God, the struggle with emotions, the weight of legalism, and the tension between what we believe and what we actually experience. This isn’t polished religion—it’s raw faith, real questions, and honest...
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S1E1b Imperfectly Faithful: Our Real Stories
Unfiltered Christianity
In Part Two of Unfiltered Christianity’s opening conversation, Joey and Victoria dive deeper into what it really means to live “imperfectly faithful.” Picking up where they left off, they unpack how emotions, doubt, and spiritual warfare collide with our desire to follow Jesus. From anxiety and worship to endurance, holiness, and the daily fight to stay grounded in truth, this episode gets real about what faith looks like when it’s tested. It’s not about having all the answers—it’s about learning to bring every part of ourselves, even the messy ones, back to Him. If you’ve ever...
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S1E2 Faith Isn’t Pretty: Why God Wants Your Unfiltered Heart
Unfiltered Christianity
In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the name of this podcast and talk about why “unfiltered” matters so much to us—and to real faith. We dive into the pressure so many Christians feel to say the right thing, believe the right thing, and show up polished before God and people… even when what’s actually happening inside is messy. Using Scripture, personal stories, and a lot of honesty, we talk about: why filtered faith keeps us stuck how trying to “say it right” blocks intimacy with God why emotions aren’t sinful, they’re symptoms how honesty with God leads to...
info_outlineIn this episode, we pull back the curtain on the name of this podcast and talk about why “unfiltered” matters so much to us—and to real faith. We dive into the pressure so many Christians feel to say the right thing, believe the right thing, and show up polished before God and people… even when what’s actually happening inside is messy.
Using Scripture, personal stories, and a lot of honesty, we talk about:
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why filtered faith keeps us stuck
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how trying to “say it right” blocks intimacy with God
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why emotions aren’t sinful, they’re symptoms
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how honesty with God leads to freedom, healing, and deeper relationship
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examples in Scripture where people met God because they were undone, not put together
This conversation gives you permission to be raw, real, and honest before God—because He already knows what’s going on inside you, and He wants connection, not performance.
If you’ve ever felt like you had to tidy up your prayers, hide your doubts, or put on a face at church, this one’s for you.