How to Pursue Intimacy and Strengthen Marriage in Every Season | Life in Motion
Release Date: 08/28/2025
From Wanting Change to Becoming New: The Power of Spiritual Practices | Tell Me More
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Real change doesn’t happen through inspiration alone—it happens through formation.The bridge between wanting to change and actually becoming new is found in practices: small, repeatable rhythms that shape our desires and direction over time. In this episode, Whit George, Blake Zimmerman, and Blaine Bartel explore how spiritual practices are counter-formation, slow and often resistant, but deeply powerful. As we commit to faithful practices—body, mind, and soul—we learn to trust the process, resist the path of least resistance, and allow Jesus to do His quiet, transforming work...
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Finding Community & Faith in Seasons of Change | Life in Motion
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Life doesn’t stop changing just because we grow up. As traditions shift, kids become adults, and seasons evolve, we’re invited to hold our expectations with open hands. In this episode, Jamie and Heather reflect on navigating changing family rhythms, letting go of “how it’s always been,” and discovering that even ordinary things—like cleaning a closet or showing up for a friend—can be deeply spiritual. As we step into 2026, the invitation is simple: make room for new memories, lift one another’s burdens, and don’t try to do life alone.
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Breakthrough: Desire, Idolatry & the Life We Were Made For | Tell Me More
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What are you really hungry for? In John 6, Jesus calls Himself the Bread of Life—not just Savior, but the fulfillment of our deepest desires. In this episode, Whit George, Casey Shirley, and Lee Martin explore idolatry, misordered love, and why true life isn’t found in optimizing ourselves, but in being satisfied by God. What if believing He could truly satisfy you changed everything? Show notes: Listen to Pastor Whit’s message: What’s Keeping You from Life to the Full? In the episode they talk about attachment theory. You can learn more on our Life in Motion...
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Breakthrough: Do You Want to Be Healed? | Tell Me More
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One of the most difficult tensions in conversations about healing, mental health, and spiritual growth is learning how to hold two things at the same time: compassion for what’s real and responsibility for what’s within our control. In this episode, Whit sits down with Jamie Jobe and Valerie Isaacs, a licensed professional counselor supervisor, reflective consultant, and mental health trainer. Jamie shares openly from her own journey with depression, Valerie brings language to the patterns that shape us long before we realize they’re there, and Whit grounds the conversation...
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Parenting Is Sanctification in Disguise | Life in Motion
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Parenting isn’t just about shaping our kids—it’s about shaping us. Through boundaries, consistency, repair, and everyday inconveniences, God uses parenting to expose our hearts, grow our maturity, and form us into people our children can trust. It’s messy, humbling, and lifelong—but with Jesus, even our mistakes become part of the work of grace. In this honest conversation, Jamie and Heather reflect on the parenting lessons they've learned (and are still learning). Show Notes: In this episode they mention the book by Amy Elizabeth Olrick and Jeffrey Olrick, PH.D. ...
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What is Christian Hope? | Tell Me More
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In the face of loss, unanswered prayers, when something bad happens—We often look for a balancing of the scales of good and bad. We try to make sense of tragedy by making it purposeful, but that’s not Christian hope. Of course, God works in the midst of difficult circumstances, but we don’t need to settle a score in a life where you’re not always going to see the score settled. So, what do we do instead? How do we follow God through despair, loss, and tragedy? How do we follow God in success, good times, and answered prayers? In this episode, Church on the Move Pastors Whit...
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Parenting From a Secure Place: Attachment, Repair, and Abiding in Jesus | Life in Motion
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If you’ve ever lain awake wondering, “Am I messing my kids up?”—you’re in good company. So many of us are parenting without a clear template. This is where the language of attachment can be a gift—not as a label to shame you, but as a tool to understand how you were shaped, how you’re parenting now, and how Jesus can bring healing and security into the story. In this episode, Jamie and Heather sit down with Valerie Isaacs, a licensed professional counselor supervisor, reflective consultant, and mental health trainer. It’s honest, eye-opening, grace-filled,...
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Seeing Conflict as an Invitation to Grow | Tell Me More
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Conflict has a way of exposing what’s inside us. For many, our reactions are rooted in how we learned to handle tension growing up. But instead of running from discomfort, James invites us to “count it all joy”—to see every trial as an opportunity for formation. In this episode, pastors Whit George and Casey Shirley explore what James chapter 5 teaches us about steadfast endurance and the true meaning of faith. Show notes: Listen to the message: How to Respond to Adversity In this episode, Whit reads a prayer from the book A Guide to Prayer for All God's...
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The Christian Life is Centered on God (Speech, Money, and the Future) | Tell Me More
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Faith isn’t about managing behavior—it’s about submitting your whole life to a sovereign God. The book of James confronts pride, judgment, and the illusion of control, reminding us that mature faith doesn’t trust in outcomes but in who God is. In this episode, Pastors Whit George and Blake Zimmerman unpack the end of James 4 and the beginning of James 5, exploring how our plans, words, and money reveal what our lives truly orbit around. In a culture driven by impulse and self-interest, James calls us to live differently—to see everything we have as His, to give freely, and to center...
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Parenting Through Fear: Trusting God in the Struggle | Life in Motion
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Parenting digs deep—it exposes our fears, control issues, and insecurities. In this conversation, Jamie and Heather explore the two ditches parents often fall into: being too controlling or too hands-off. Both stem from fear—fear of losing control, fear of comparison, fear that our kids’ choices reflect us. Real growth happens through struggle, not avoidance. Parenting is one of God’s greatest discipleship tools, shaping both us and our children. Show Notes: In this episode, they mention About Church on the Move: We are a family of churches in northeast Oklahoma....
info_outlineAs we wrap up a summer of candid conversations on intimacy, marriage, and sex, we’re looking back at what we’ve learned along the way. This season has challenged us to see intimacy not as something that “just happens,” but as something we intentionally pursue, protect, and nurture.
In this episode, Heather and Jamie talk about the reality of distractions, shifting seasons of life, and the need to take ownership of our connection with our spouse. Marriage is always in motion—and so is intimacy.
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If you missed an episode, find them here: https://churchonthemove.com/category/marriage-parenting/
Book Recommendations:
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Embodied by Gregg Allison
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The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Wray Gregoire
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How and When to Tell Your Kids about Sex by Stan and Brenna Jones
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van Der Kolk, M.D.
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