This week we turn our focus to the subject of success. The culture around us tells us to pursue our ideal selves at the expense of everything else. Scripture, as it always does, flips the status quo on its head and says to pursue God at the expense of ourselves. As we do, we'll start to see three things that will be required as we pursue life His way.  After the show, head over to the podcasting platform of your choice and leave us a rating and review on the podcast. 

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Episode 146 - Some Thoughts on Success

If you've listened to the show for a while now, you've picked up on the importance of clear communication, affirmation, and shared values when it comes to general effectiveness in life. Today, Tom will frame all of these attributes within the context of the family.  After the show, head over to the podcasting platform of your choice and leave us a rating and review on the podcast. 

Episode 145 - 5 Keys to a Functional Family

Today we continue part two of our series on Grace. If you missed part one, you can listen here: https://pointtaken.libsyn.com/episode-143-grace-part-1 You might also be interested in listening to our episode called "The Grace Test" from November 2018: https://pointtaken.libsyn.com/episode-11-the-grace-test 

Episode 144 - Grace [PART 2]

Grace allows you to experience a reality that you have no ability to create on your own. We talk about this in-depth in today's episode and discuss how to be cheerful distributers of underserved merit to others.  After the show, head over to the podcasting platform of your choice and leave us a rating and review on the podcast. 

Episode 143 - Grace [PART 1]

The past few weeks we've been discussing the power that lies within our words. In the last episode, we talked about how life can flow from our words. They have the potential to draw out hope and inspiration from other people. Today, we examine the other hand and discover how destructive unbridled words can truly be. Gossip destroys relationships. Consequently, God's word has a lot of warning we should heed as we reflect on the words we allow ourselves to use.  After the show, head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and leave us a rating and review on the podcast.   

Episode 142 - Gossip

In this week's episode, we continue the discussion on "words" by turning our attention to life-giving words. Tom provides three types of life-giving words every person needs to hear.  After the show, head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and leave us a rating and review on the podcast. 

Episode 141 - Life-giving Words

It's interesting, as you read through scripture, it doesn't take long to discover that God has a lot to say about our words. And He should, because our words are a clear indicator of what is in our hearts. Since we have a good Father who is concerned about what is taking root in our hearts, it shouldn't surprise us that He gives clear guidance on how to deal with the fruit of our hearts, which is our words. Today Tom discusses the importance of our words and gives some clear guidance on how to tame our tongues.  After the show, head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and leave us a rating and review on the podcast. 

Episode 140 - Your Words Matter

Today we turn our attention the topic of comfort. As modern people living in a developed and increasingly automated world, we are quite familiar with the concept of comfort. Our physical surroundings are saturated with tools and tech that facilitate our comfort. And it’s a rich blessing. However, as familiar as we are with comfort in our physical surroundings, we’re often distant from the presence of comfort within our souls. We walk around empty and broken because we don’t tap into the source of Christ and draw abundantly from the soul-comfort He offers. Today, Tom’s going to give us three ways we can reverse this course and find lasting comfort in God’s presence. After the show, be sure to head over to the listening platform of your choice and leave us a rating and review.

Episode 139 - Comfort

Christians believe in the power of prayer, but too few engage in the discipline to ever see the Lord's guidance in their day-to-day circumstances. Today, we discuss an Old Testament character whose prayer habit put his life in danger. Through his example, we can learn to have a more consistent and engaging prayer life.  After the show, head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and leave us a rating and a review on the podcast. 

Episode 138 - A Primer on Prayer

Having a healthy, life-giving family culture is essential to long-term effectiveness in leadership. Today, Tom walks through several tips on how to invest in one of the most important components of leadership—our family life.

Episode 137 - Leaders and their Families

Our minds are maleable; much more than we tend to assume. And they will often take the shape of the molds (or influences) to which we expose them. Knowing that, one of the best things we can do to promote spiritual health is to take care of the things that shape our minds. Today, Tom discusses the supreme mind shaper—memorizing scripture—and discusses strategies for locking away more of God's word into your long-term membory.

Episode 136 - Memorizing Scripture

Today we bring you an episode from Mother's Day 2019 when we sat down with Rhonda and Mackenzie to discuss the joys and challenges of motherhood.

Episode 135 - Happy Mother's Day! [Ep. 34 REPLAY]

Approach your relationships like this and you're destined for failure. Tom discusses this doomed approach today, and gives us direciton on how we can avoid some major relational pitfalls.

Episode 134 - Relationships

Last week we discussed some of the important markers of healthy relationships. Today, we dive into one of the most important tools for ensuring long-term relational health—tough love. It's not pleasant. In fact, most people avoide it at all cost. However, the distance between superficiality and intimacy is often only bridged by tough love.

133 - Tough Love

Is your love growing, plateaued or dying? Today, Tom gives us several characteristics to consider when evaluating the state of our love.

Episode 132 - Love Builders

This is PointTaken, the show where we talk about the four areas of your life where you can have the greatest impact on the world: your marriage, your family, your leadership and your spiritual development.

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