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448: Stop Running from Your Life. Terry Crist Reveals Secrets That Fracture Your Soul, Healing the Orphan Spirit, and the Idolization of Therapy

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

Release Date: 07/02/2025

472: [Formed.] Will You Kill Entitlement and Self-Pity? Kristene DiMarco Unpacks Rekindling Spiritual Hunger, The Danger in Numbing Boredom, Training Your Soul for Godliness, and Laying Down Your “Right” to Be Offended by Life show art 472: [Formed.] Will You Kill Entitlement and Self-Pity? Kristene DiMarco Unpacks Rekindling Spiritual Hunger, The Danger in Numbing Boredom, Training Your Soul for Godliness, and Laying Down Your “Right” to Be Offended by Life

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a reason your hunger fades when life gets busy and your soul gets loud: boredom becomes a shortcut to numbing, entitlement masquerades as discernment, and self-pity convinces you that endurance is optional. This week on Win Today, Bethel Music’s Kristene DiMarco joins me to confront the quiet habits that starve spiritual hunger and to show us how to train the soul when worship feels flat, prayer drags, and offense stands in the doorway of growth. We talk about the discipline of boredom, the anatomy of hunger, why entitlement and self-pity atrophy endurance, and how to lay down...

info_outline 471: [Formed.] Take Responsibility for YOUR Spiritual Growth. Dr. Eric Mason on The Greatest Problem with Bad Teaching (That Few Recognize), Why You Can’t Give God Ultimatums, and Why You Can’t Make Your Assignment Your Purpose show art 471: [Formed.] Take Responsibility for YOUR Spiritual Growth. Dr. Eric Mason on The Greatest Problem with Bad Teaching (That Few Recognize), Why You Can’t Give God Ultimatums, and Why You Can’t Make Your Assignment Your Purpose

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

You can admire spiritual maturity from a distance, or you can take your formation journey seriously. Many of us prefer the former. We outsource growth to personalities, call delayed obedience “wisdom,” and bargain with God when surrender would cost too much. This week on Win Today, Dr. Eric Mason joins me to confront the quiet drift that hollows discipleship: the consumer posture that fuels bad teaching, the spiritual immaturity that bargains with God, and the confusion that happens when we make our assignment our purpose. If your faith has been built around sermons more than...

info_outline 470: I Didn't See THAT Coming: What Happens When We Hit the Wall, Why God’s Silence Isn’t His Absence, and the 4 CRITICAL Words You Must Embody in 2026 show art 470: I Didn't See THAT Coming: What Happens When We Hit the Wall, Why God’s Silence Isn’t His Absence, and the 4 CRITICAL Words You Must Embody in 2026

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

We’re told to trust God when life falls apart and to cling to hope when we feel abandoned. To pray louder when heaven feels silent. But what if the silence isn’t a punishment…but a pathway straight to His presence? What if the wall you’ve hit isn’t the end, but the beginning of a deeper formation? This week on Win Today, I’m re-airing a raw and timely conversation with Dr. Lee Warren—one that took an unexpected turn moments before we hit record. What followed was one of the most personal and Spirit-led conversations I’ve ever had about wilderness seasons, grief, intrusive...

info_outline 469: Your Body Is Telling the Truth. Jordan Rubin on The Food That Kills Your Sex Drive in Minutes, Whether EMFs are Dangerous, How to Get Sick Quickly, and Why Physical Health is Spiritual Health show art 469: Your Body Is Telling the Truth. Jordan Rubin on The Food That Kills Your Sex Drive in Minutes, Whether EMFs are Dangerous, How to Get Sick Quickly, and Why Physical Health is Spiritual Health

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

This week on Win Today, Jordan Rubin reveals how the body doesn’t lie—and why the ancient wisdom of Scripture contains the keys to healing not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. After nearly dying from severe Crohn’s disease, Jordan discovered that health isn’t compartmentalized. Everything is connected—gut to brain, body to soul. And that the Bible had already mapped out the blueprint for healing. If you’ve tried to fix your body but stayed anxious… if you’ve addressed trauma but still feel inflamed… or if you’re wondering why prayer isn’t...

info_outline 468: LEVEL UP! Zach Windahl on the Unified Story of Scripture, Why “Belong Before You Believe” Fails, and How to Study Scripture When You’re Bored or Confused show art 468: LEVEL UP! Zach Windahl on the Unified Story of Scripture, Why “Belong Before You Believe” Fails, and How to Study Scripture When You’re Bored or Confused

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

You love Jesus, and you want to love the Bible, but most days, life crowds it out. And when you do open the text, it can feel confusing, disjointed, even offensive; so you reach for personalities who make it feel easier. The problem is that celebrity clarity often replaces biblical clarity. This week on Win Today, Zach Windahl—creator of The Bible Study and founder of The Brand Sunday—joins me to recover the unified story of Scripture and to challenge a popular church slogan: “belong before you believe.” Belonging matters, but the New Testament’s pattern is belief that forms a...

info_outline 467: Bored with Bible Study? Faith Womack on How to Wrestle with the Tension of Scripture, The Mistakes Pastors and Teachers Make When Teaching the Bible, and Building a Faithful Hermeneutic show art 467: Bored with Bible Study? Faith Womack on How to Wrestle with the Tension of Scripture, The Mistakes Pastors and Teachers Make When Teaching the Bible, and Building a Faithful Hermeneutic

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a difference between loving the Bible and learning how to read it. For many, study has felt complicated, clinical, or—worst of all—boring. Some of us were discipled by personalities instead of passages; others learned to chase quick application while skipping context. This week on Win Today, Faith Womack, author of No More Boring Bible Study, joins me to rediscover a way of reading Scripture that is honest, thoughtful, and engaging. We wrestle with tension instead of flattening it; we name the mistakes that teachers and pastors often make, and we rebuild a...

info_outline 466: When Pain Gets Wasted. Shawn Johnson on Stewarding the Middle Season of Life, How Bitterness Erodes Trust, and Why We Settle for Temporary Rest Instead of True Peace show art 466: When Pain Gets Wasted. Shawn Johnson on Stewarding the Middle Season of Life, How Bitterness Erodes Trust, and Why We Settle for Temporary Rest Instead of True Peace

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a way to live that squanders pain while your heart hardens and your trust thins. Things like numbing, retelling the wound, and calling it wisdom. This week on Win Today, Shawn Johnson, lead pastor of Red Rocks Church and author of Attacking Anxiety, joins me to explore how people waste pain and how to steward the middle seasons when nothing seems to be moving, but everything inside you is being formed. We draw the line between rest and peace, why bitterness and distrust grow in the same soil, and how to turn waiting into worship without pretending the ache away. If you’re...

info_outline 465: Stop Ignoring Your Body! Justin Whitmel Earley on Embodied Discipleship, Resisting Body-Idolatry, and How Sleep Rebuilds Your Soul show art 465: Stop Ignoring Your Body! Justin Whitmel Earley on Embodied Discipleship, Resisting Body-Idolatry, and How Sleep Rebuilds Your Soul

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a way to discuss spiritual growth that ignores the body, and a way to treat the body like a god. Both break you. This week on Win Today, Justin Whitmel Earley joins me to recover a practical theology of the body: why your habits, hormones, posture, screens, meals, and sleep are discipling your soul every day. We confront the twin errors of ignoring the body and idolizing it, and we name what happens when we undo created order—when we chronically outrun limits, trade rest for hurry, and expect spiritual vitality while violating how God made us to live. This isn’t theory. It’s a...

info_outline 464: When the Marriage Is OVER. Lysa TerKeurst on Narcissistic Abuse 101, Ending Self-Betrayal, and Why Unhealthy People Never Meet a Boundary They Like show art 464: When the Marriage Is OVER. Lysa TerKeurst on Narcissistic Abuse 101, Ending Self-Betrayal, and Why Unhealthy People Never Meet a Boundary They Like

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a moment when “endure it” becomes “end it,” not because you stopped believing in God’s power to heal, but because refusing to betray your God-given boundaries is how you stop betraying yourself. This week on Win Today, Lysa TerKeurst joins me to confront the realities so many live in silence: when it’s biblically wise to end a marriage, how we talk ourselves out of our own boundaries, why loneliness is sometimes God’s operating room, and what you must know about narcissistic abuse—gaslighting, trauma bonds, and DARVO—so you can name what’s happening and get...

info_outline 463: Why Life Really Begins at 40. Mark Batterson on The Danger of Half-Present Living, Delayed Obedience, and Why We Need to Fall in Love with Gradual Progress show art 463: Why Life Really Begins at 40. Mark Batterson on The Danger of Half-Present Living, Delayed Obedience, and Why We Need to Fall in Love with Gradual Progress

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a way to move through your forties that looks busy but stays small, a way to talk about calling while postponing obedience, and a way to live half-present in the present while telling yourself you’re being “wise.” This week on Win Today, Mark Batterson joins me to reclaim the middle decades as the beginning, not the end, and to confront why delayed obedience is still disobedience and why the slow, daily road of incremental growth produces what hurry never can. We’ll name the subtle drift that fragments attention, why “later” sounds prudent but hollows character, and...

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You’ve been told therapy is the answer to everything. That if you just unpack hard enough, you’ll finally be free. But what if that’s not the full story? This week, Terry Crist joins me to challenge beliefs that cause deeper destruction. He’s seen how long-standing secrets fracture the soul, how the orphan spirit grows in Christian homes, and how many believers never outgrow wounded identity, even into legacy years.

In this conversation, Terry decodes why running away from truth never works, how idolizing therapy can drain godly authority, and why healing is never finished, even if you’ve been in the room for decades. He brings the fight where healing meets holiness, and shows how to refuse lie-lay, stop hiding, and step into belonging. If you’ve ever carried a secret, felt disconnected in the Church, or believed your wounds had an expiry date, you need to hear this episode.

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