It Doesn't Work: Recent Episodes
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Geared for high school and middle school students, It Doesn't Work is a podcast where people share stories from their life of the things that didn't work but how God still worked through it. We believe by sharing stories of God's faithfulness in the midst of our failures, struggles, and mistakes, we can bring hope to students.
Pastor Jeff Coleman shares his story of being on the fence with God. He sort of believed in God, but wasn't convinced, and certainly didn't want to follow him. Jeff shares his story of how God showed up and invited him to more.
McKenzie Davies shares her story of struggling with loneliness that led to anxiety and depression. Through therapy, medicine, and her relationship with God, McKenzie found herself and the assurance of God's presence through it all.
In this episode Pastor Angela Johnson shares how important focus is when it comes to following the Lord. She shares the story of the things that caused her to lose focus on what God had called her to, and how God showed up and helped her get back on track.
There is so much freedom available to us. The problem is, we take our struggles and hide them, thinking no one understands us. In this episode, Alex shares her story of how she took darkness and brought it into the light and the healing the came from it.
Whitney shares her story about how, seemingly out of nowhere, anxiety became a debilitating struggle in her life. She tried to handle it on her own, but then God showed up to walk with her through her anxious moments.
Reece Winkler drops by to share his story of when his high school relationship, which started out really well, began to show signs of being unhealthy. God showed up in the midst of a tough breakup and began to heal what was broken.
Courtney Simmons shares his story about he closest friends, his band, broke up because of gossip and rumors being spread. Years later, God brought Courtney and his friends back together to fix the broken friendship and bring something new and exciting out of it.
We all experience moments when we realize how little control we have over our lives. In this episode, Matt Stapp shares the story when his son had a mysterious medical emergency and how God showed up to comfort him and his wife when life felt completely out of control.
Yonathan Pino shares his story of losing his father and the things that are helping him cope with losing a loved one.
When we begin to follow Jesus, we feel the need to behave better, pray more, read our bibles, stop sinning, etc. But pretty quickly, we mess up, we fail and feel shameful. And then we think we need to try harder, do better, and do it again. And then we fail again and the shame returns. This isn't the life Christ meant for us, so how do we break the cycle. Special Guest Greg Alexander tells us his story of fighting the shame cycle and how he broke out of it.