Struggling Well: Recent Episodes
Tandem Spirituality
Struggling Well is a podcast from Jimmy and Suzi Kallam in which they honestly discuss life’s difficulties while continuing to look to Christ for hope.
In the light of Suzi’s brother’s passing, we replay an interview Jimmy and Suzi did with him back in August.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the importance of silence and how it leads to transformation of the heart.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the practice of Lent and the value of solitude, silence, and compassion.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss Isaiah 26 and what it means to trust in God and His perfect peace.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the different voices we hear in our lives but also what it means to trust the voice of the Good Shepherd.
Jimmy and Tim discuss what's it like to keep walking with Jesus after celebrating Christmas.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Tim discuss finding contentment with God as opposed to striving after the wind.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss Christmas traditions and how they can help or hurt our celebration of Jesus.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Jackie discuss the importance of perseverance in marriage, parenting teenagers, and a vision for your kids.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how to spend time alone with God to disrupt the overwhelming noise of our lives.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how to live in a world of injustice in a way that reflects Christ.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Tim discuss why we pray contingency prayers and what it means to trust and obey God.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the foundations we grow up with and how we can have a foundation with Christ.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss characters in the Bible and how they wrestled with the question of why.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how the Christian life begins on the inside and works itself out.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how distractions separate us from our relationship with the Lord.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss Cain and Abel and how Cain refused to listen to the voice of God.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Tim discuss how to emotionally process national disasters and tragedies.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how to turn to the Lord when you feel like something is missing.
Jimmy and Tim Briggs discuss the challenges of pastoring and how people can pray for their pastor.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the Christmas story and how God shows up in the mundane moments of our lives.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the political landscape and how it’s an opportunity to lift your eyes up to see that God is still in control.
Jimmy and Suzi are joined by Joe and Kay Harding to discuss struggling well in a different culture.
Jimmy and Suzi look at Romans and Lamentations and discuss how Jesus enters into the struggle.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss Lamentations and how to identify what God is doing in our hardships.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how to read the Scriptures and see the spiritual depth of Jesus.
Discipleship on the edge requires being anchored in the Word, submitting to the Spirit, and finding hope in a returning Savior.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how easily it is to feed off of our negative thoughts yet Scripture calls us to take every thought captive.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how we have citizenship in our nation but also in God’s kingdom.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss Psalm 121 and answer the question: When and where should we go when we need help?
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how we should be interruptible because God's plans are better than our plans.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss where we turn when we come up against anger and bitterness. How do we dismantle anger so that it doesn't become sin?
Jimmy and Suzi discuss ask: when life is out of control, can you experience God’s presence in your life?
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how you can’t separate the gospel from how you choose to live as a Christ follower.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how we are fearfully and wonderfully made and how we can lean into that for the glory of God.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss the importance of looking back and remembering what God has done for us.
In the face of hard circumstances, it’s difficult for us to understand that there’s a bigger story being told.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how being a Christian is growing through hard stuff rather than getting through hard stuff.
Jimmy and Suzi ask the question: When you’re feeling icy with God, what pulls you out of that place?
To have the mind of Christ is to be humble in conversations and consider the needs of others above your own.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss how God is always at work. There’s no such thing as routine and mundane in God’s kingdom.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss when circumstances don’t change, how to look to the refining of your heart.
Jimmy and Suzi give an update on Suzi’s health and discuss the sort of person you want to be when life doesn’t turn out the way you want.
Jimmy and Tim Briggs discuss New Year’s resolutions and how often God is apart of our hopes for a new year.
Jimmy and Tim Briggs discuss how peace is not something that is manufactured. It’s something that is produced by the Spirit of God that lives within us.
Jimmy and Suzi, along with Tim Briggs, discuss the Advent season and how we can wait and hope.
In the midst of all the activity and movement of the holidays, will we actually move toward Jesus?
Jimmy and Suzi discuss fluffy Christmas cards and wonder what Paul might write in a Christmas letter.
In Romans 5, Paul says that, “suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope…” Why is it important that endurance and character come before hope?
If life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved then the mystery of life is in God’s timing.
When we wrestle with the suffering in our life without God, we don’t find rest. We find chaos.
If you’re present with people in their midst of their brokenness, you can be an emissary for God.
Psalm 130 commands us to watch, wait, and hope and, thankfully, we are able to do that because of who God is.
We often see solitude and community as opposites in the Christian life but both are necessary to thrive.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Tim Briggs discuss the faulty ways we look for satisfaction and how only the Lord can offer true contentment.
When the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray, Jesus tells them the importance of the name of God.
Jimmy, Suzi, and Tim Briggs discuss how to navigate relationships with the opposite sex in marriage.
As you walk through the struggles of life, keep sight of eternity and know that you’re never alone.
In Romans 7, Paul talks about the wretched man that he is and asking who can set him free. Romans 8 gives the answer: God, through His son, Jesus.
Romans 7 describes the battle in our own hearts between the flesh and the Spirit. God shows us who we are but also who we can be.
In Scripture, there is a higher calling put upon our heavenly citizenship than our country’s citizenship.
Discipleship on the edge requires being anchored in the Word, submitting to the Spirit, and finding hope in a returning Savior.
Jimmy and Suzi answer questions about pastoral satisfaction and what they miss about local church ministry.
Jimmy and Tim Briggs discuss navigating tensions in the church, shepherding people through doubt and deconstruction, how a congregation can enter into a pastor’s struggle, and the loneliness of ministry.
Jimmy Kallam and Tim Briggs discuss the struggles of pastoral ministry, when people leave the church, and how ministry can be difficult on a spouse.
This book doesn’t end with clarity, it ends with confusion. Yet, throughout the story, God is near.
There are many servants of God in Scripture but perhaps one of the most confusing is the prophet Jonah. The Sunday School version of Jonah tames the story but the real story is much more gritty.
When someone is wounded, we have a desire to want to fix their problem. But the greatest gift we can offer is our presence all the while pointing them to Jesus.
If God treats us with His kindness, why is it so hard for us to be kind to other people?
If we long to be seen by God and by people, why do we so often resist it? What might it look like to surrender to the embrace of God?
We need to pay close attention to the words we speak because they have the power to speak life or death.
As 2023 comes to a close, Jimmy and Suzi discuss books, devotionals, and other resources to encourage your walk with the Lord.
Jimmy and Suzi discuss their worst Christmas gifts and then look at the life of Jesus to discuss expectations, trust, and when God’s ways make no sense.
How do we thrive in a culture that’s opposed to our faith yet remain rock-solid in our devotion to Christ?
Does Scripture teach that we can “gang up” on God and make Him do things for us? Or, should we aim to pray according to His will? In all of our wrestling with prayer, we know one thing with certainty: He hears us.
When life and ministry is hard, we can lean our face into God and what we will find is His infinite grace—even in the wilderness.
We are called to give thanks always and for everything but how do you do that in the midst of difficult family gatherings, pain, and suffering?
We think that if we perform well in our lives that we should be healthy, wealthy, and wise. But that’s not the reality. So, why does the struggle come? That’s an honest question but is there a better question to ask?
We have a deep desire to control life. Yet, the Lord calls us to not lean on our own understanding but to trust Him. Why is it so hard to trust God?
We typically don’t like to struggle so the idea of “struggling well” sounds like an oxymoron. To struggle well though requires being honest about the difficulties of life while fighting to find your true source of hope in Christ.