Teen Life Survival Guide: Recent Episodes
dana millet
This podcast is for teens that want answers to life's toughest questions. It's for those who want to learn how to survive the daily challenges of life and realize that they matter. We will also dive into scripture and break down why we do the things we do as Christians. Any faith denomination is welcomed!
Our daily lives consist of making one decision after another. This podcast goes into making decisions with a faith filled heart.
It is a common trap to worry about what others are doing but God knows what they are doing. This podcast will remind us to let go of what we can't control and focus on what we can. And that is focusing on what we are doing not what they are doing.
No one likes to suffer but unfortunately it is unavoidable. At some point we will all suffer. But how we view our suffering can change our mindset and help bring hope and even joy in the midst of hard times.
The movie the notebook is a classic that reveals some truths about love. But when we watch it we are so focus on the feeling that we often don't pay attention to the trial, suffering and work love can bring. This podcast will talk about love and the true aspects of it.
This podcast dives a little deeper into learning about the Holy Spirit. We can love how each and every one of us has the ability to use the gifts God has given us for good and His glory.
God's Judgment of Character can be different from our own. Often the expectations and values of the world can cloud us from what is truly important and what holds value. This podcast will reflect on what God sees and what truly matters past our own full understanding.
What you say matters, the tongue has power. This podcast will explore the power of the tongue using scripture from the book of James.
This podcast will help you work on not judging others and instead seeing their perspective and how we can be loving in the midst of frustration.
This podcast reflects on a bible passage that teaches so many lessons. We will focus on taking a deeper look at being merciful to people we might have forgotten are so near to us and need help.
We will be on our last podcast for the series on Jonah. In this podcast we will focus on changing our focus to what someone did that could hurt us or cause us to judge them, and instead focus on what God did for us even when we didn't deserve it.
This podcast is part 3 of our 4 part Jonah series. In this podcast we will dive into the book of Jonah and look at the many ways that God was merciful and faithful to all those who cried out to him.
God can turn all things for good. Although God doesn't want us to sin because it brings us further from him and causes us pain, he has conquered sin. Out of his great love he uses even our short comings for good. This podcast reflects on how God uses even our struggles and mistakes for the greater glory of his kingdom.
When God calls us to do things that don't make sense or do not match with our plan it gets really hard to be obedient. This podcast will cover part 1 of a 4 part series on Jonah. We will dive into what Jonah was actually running from and in what ways we might be running from the things God is calling us to.
We all have strengths and weaknesses. This podcast will go over how to identify our weaknesses and use them as a strength. We will be reading from Matthew Chapter 4.
Last podcast we talked about the heart and how to live for God. This podcast will go over some things we as humans do that might mold our hearts away from God and shed light on those things so we can turn away from it.
Our heart dictates our words and actions. The bible tells us to guard our heart but what does that truly mean? This podcast will go over how to make sure we have a pure heart and how we can make sure it algins with God's will.
This podcast will go over the things in our life that separate us from God and make doing his will hard. When we know what traps us and how to not let it steal our ability to be fruitful we can do so much more for Gods kingdom through the strength he provides us.
In this podcast we explore what the joy of the Lord is through the bible verse Nehemiah 8:10.
This podcast will explain why the Holy Spirit makes such a difference in our lives and why he is needed daily. How the Holy Spirit is the key to how we can all work together for the glory of God.
Peter is chosen by Jesus to lead the Church. Why Peter? Just like everyone else Peter was a normal human and he made mistakes often but Jesus still chose him. This podcast will talk about why and how we can learn from him to do what God calls us to do for his glory.
The word peace is often used but not in the way Jesus often uses it. This podcast will help you see the importance of true peace and why its so important.
Drama surrounds everyone and its tough to know how to handle it. This podcast will discuss tips to help avoid drama while also facing it head on when you need to.
We might not always like our situation or where we are in life right now. Jeremiah 29:7 will help us reflect on how we can still shine and be the best version of ourselves even in the toughest places.
Having a support system is very important in life, especially when you are a teen or young adult learning about life. This podcast will help you identify your true support system. It might not be the people you think it should be.
We all have experienced trauma in our lives. When God calls us to new relationships sometimes our past can effect our present and future. This podcast guides your through how to deal with your past trauma in a way that effects your present in a positive way.
We know what Judas did and it did not deserve forgiveness. At the same time we know our God is loving and decided to forgive us even when we don't deserve it. This Podcast will go through the reason Judas wasn't forgiven so we don't fall into the same trap.
We take a deep dive into scripture and learn how Jesus shows his love and compassion for us. He is praying for us when times get hard, he could focus on himself but instead his focuses on us.
God calls us all, will you accept the call? This podcast will go over the wedding feast parable and how God calls us all. This will help you reflect on if you truly are accepting the call.
We often talk about having faith but what does real faith look like? This podcast will go over what it means to have true faith.
We all want to find true love and give that love to someone else but most of the time we love based on a worldly expectation instead of the way God sees it. This podcast will explore 1 Corinthians 13 to find out how to love the way God calls us to love.
We want to live a happy and joyful life but we often fall into traps of empty promises. This podcast will go over many different promises that we might know are bad for us and some that get normalized by worldly views and habits. We will talk about how to recognize and avoid these promises. We learn to focus on the true promises, the word of God and his teachings.
Sometimes we know what the right thing to do is but we let others lead us to making a different choice than the one we know is the right one. This podcast will take a closer look at Pilate from the Bible and use him as a example of how the pressure of others can lead us to making the wrong choice.
Secular music has become a very popular debate in today’s society. This podcast will go over secular music verse worship music and why it matters what you listen to.
A lot of times we wonder why we are so stressed out or how we got into the circumstances we are in. Yet a lot of times we are doing things the opposite of how God commands us and we don't even realize it. This podcast will remind you of Gods truth that often gets over shadowed by the way of the world.
If we want to walk a life filled with joy instead of temporary happiness we have to know our true identity. But a lot of times, more than we realize, we find our identity in worldly things instead of fully rooted in God. Sometimes we know we are suppose to be rooted in Christ and our identity is found in him, yet we use our own strength to do things and wonder why we still feel so lost. This podcast will model how to have a true idenity through Christ himself, not just your hobbies or deeds as a Christian.
No one likes to be hurt or betrayed by others. Unfortunately, we live in a broken world and all humans fall short. This podcast will go over how to forgive when our emotions tell us not to. It will review some of the truths we can find in the bible that helps us follow Jesus teachings verse the world view.
God is so good and so faithful yet most of the times we let the things we don't have steal our joy. This podcast will help you reflect on what temptation or situation is stealing your joy so you can look past it and see all the million of other ways God is being faithful to you.
There are many common bible verses people like to use. These verses give us hope so we put them on cups, tshirts, ect. But most of us don't know the deeper meaning these verses give in context. This podcast will dig into those popular verses and discuss the context of each passage that revels the deeper meaning intended with these verse.
Faith can be a tricky thing. We clearly see in the bible it says not to be prideful but at the same time we are suppose to love ourselves. See ourselves the way Jesus sees us. This podcast will teach how to balance self-worth while also not becoming prideful.
Jealousy/envy and comparison are things that break apart relationships, stirs anger, and steals our joy. It has also become a very common thing for us to accept as okay. This podcast will go through what Jesus teaches us abut these things. This will help us recognize and combat the sin of jealousy and comparison that easily takes root in our hearts.
Sometimes we get left out, rejected, hurt, ect. but that does not define who we are. Through this podcast we will walk through reasons why we might get left out and how to deal with it.
Sometimes we have an idea of what our life should look like, but God might have different plans. Sometimes we don’t get our way and sometimes God gives us help and miracles and we miss them. Why do we miss them? Because we look for them through our lens instead of God’s. This podcast will help you reflect on how God might send you help and comfort from situations and people you might not expect it from.
We all want to do well and follow Jesus but we fall short a lot of times. This podcast will go over what it means to have authentic faith and how we can stay loyal to following Jesus instead of being misleading by worldly views.
Everyone knows to get closer to God, reading the Bible is important. But the Bible can also be overwhelming. This podcast goes over basic steps and advice on how to get the most out of reading your Bible.
We all want to be viewed in a positive light but a lot of time we are judge by our appearance. This podcast will teach us how to accept our body image and the truths God teaches us about our body image. It will also help us self reflect if we view others based on the right or wrong things.
We all have many types of relationships. Having relationships are important but they can also drive our emotions and steal our joy. This podcast gives us tips on how to relate to people who love you but think differently than you do.
Often our mind is filled with the thoughts of the world. If we want to have joy, peace, and a successful faith life we must have the right mindset. This podcast analyzes many of God’s chosen ones and how they used their mindset to build God’s kingdom even thought they were flawed humans.
Bible people and stories covered:
David- 1 Samuel 17 : 38-40, Psalm 51
Schadrach, meschac and Abednego- Daniel 3
Moses- Deut. 32 and Numbers 28: 8-12
Paul and Silas- Acts 16: 22-34
John the Baptist- Matthew 3:4
Trust is not always easy, especially when we can not see Gods plan. When things don’t go our way, we have a choice to take matters into our own hands or follow Him. This podcast will model why it is so important to drop our own nets, our own plans and follow his.
Scripture used Luke 5
When we are corrected or shown our flaws we often get upset and want to defend ourselves, but God teaches us through the bible that we should humble ourselves. This podcast will teach us how to humbly grow through the perspective/ criticism of others and why its important to grow. It will also teach us how to deal with others and understand their flaws better.
Bible verses: Proverbs 15:31, Proverbs 14:18, Proverbs 10:17, Matthew 7: 3-5
Most people have heard Philippians 4:13 “ I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” But miss the point Paul is making about being content. This podcast will teach how we can learn to be content with whatever comes our way so we can have God’s strength to do all things.
Scripture reading- Philippians 4: 10-14
A lot of times we feel lonely, our heart feels empty, and we don’t know how to feel complete. This podcast will discuss how to feel filled even in times that you are alone. It teaches how to be filled with the right things so when things do not go as expected, we are still full through the love of the Lord.
We will always face trials at some point in our lives. And we will all fall short at some point too. God loves us and will give us the healing we need but in His own way. Will we say yes to this healing or will we stay stuck to our excuses, our expectations and miss the healing? The choice is ours, this podcast reflects on how to get unstuck with the flesh wants something that the spirit does not need.
Our way might not always be God's way. This podcast reflects on how to not let the wants of our flesh be greater than the want to follow God's will.
The enemy and the flesh want us to judge others and hate them for their actions but God calls us to love. This podcast is to remind us to see pass the sin and see the person for who they truly are, a child of God. We must not cause others to stumble more just because we don't agree with their actions. This podcast reminds us that we are all sinners, we must chose God's love and forgiveness above all else.
In a world where we feel like we have to do, do, do to be successful, God reminds us that nothing we can do can earn his love. He already died for us before we were even born. This podcast teaches us to rely on him and his strength and only do the things God calls us to do. We don't have to over work or over stress. We just have to do our small part.
Being human, we have many emotions which are normal but can also cause problems. In our faith life, if we act on every emotion we feel it might go against who God calls us to be. Emotions might lead us to not want to trust God and his plan. This podcast teaches how to let your emotions out without them dictating your actions.
This podcast will cover how high schoolers can deepen their faith even if others around them are going in a different direction. How to show grace while also standing your ground in your faith. It will also cover how to make sure you have the right friendships.
This podcast with tackle some of life's toughest topics as we try to follow God's teachings on homosexuality, our call to vocations, and our call to love others.
Childlike faith is something Jesus calls us to have but what does that truly mean? This podcast explains what it truly means to have "childlike" faith.
A lot of times we want God to work through our lives but we often get in our own way. We want him to be in control but we often find ourselves forcing things to happen by trying to do things on our own so we get what we desire. This podcast will help you to remember that God is the only one that can make things happen. We must get out of His way, stop trying by our own will, and just be still allowing God to work through us and for us.
Most people know the word hope but we don't fully understand how to be hopeful or who to put our true hope in. This podcast shows us how to have true hope in our hearts.
Sin can sometimes be hard to see. We will work together to identify sin that we might have let take control of our lives without us even knowing.
Who we let into our inner circle is very important. This podcast goes over the realities of finding the right friendship, not just the ones that seem easy.
We all have things that we fear but what happens when our fears come true? This podcast will discuss how to combat fears and what actually happens when our fears come true.
Prayer is very important to any faith journey. This is just one valuable way to pray that many never heard of.
Kids are a wonderful blessing from God. But a lot of times we get a false sense of what having kids is truly like based on social media and what you see in the outside world. A lot of times you don't see the amount of work that is done before leaving the house. This podcast covers the reality of having kids to help listeners understand the vocation of having children.
This podcast will help teens understand what marriage actually looks like. Most of the time we are given a false sense of what marriage is supposed to be through social media, tv, etc.
This podcast is short and sweet but such a challenging part of our faith. We must remove our fears and trust God even when the world tells us not to.
We break down a topic many don't like to talk about to see how we can come together to fix the issue that kills so many precious souls.
This podcast will discuss trusting God even when we are broken. It will review how to trust God when you don't want to and when you feel like you are having to rebuild every part of you.
World views cloud our thinking and we forget that we are enough. This podcast is to remind us that we are enough.
We will be using the book of Isaiah to discuss the power of letting God fully into our lives.
Many question if the bible was made by man or made by God. This podcast will break down key points to help you see how it had to be made by God.
This episode will talk about the different types of stress and how to come up with a plan to combat over-stressing ourselves.
This episode will discuss the struggles with being an atheist. It will remind us not to judge others but instead love them. It will also remind us why it is so important to have God in our lives.
We all know the main importance of Easter is that Jesus died to save us from our sins so that we may go to heaven if we follow him. However, that's not all that we celebrate during Easter. This podcast was created to make sense of the relationship between the Easter Bunny, eggs, and Jesus. It helps us dive a little deeper into what Jesus did and how it should effect us in our daily lives.
This episode will be focused on the struggles of fitting in and overcoming rejection. This episode will remind us of the purpose of self-worth and who God says we are through his eyes.
A teen asked me to discuss the pressures of sex and drinking and the solution to overcoming the temptation.
In this episode, we will discuss why people abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent. We will learn the true purpose of these traditions. This topic is good for all denominations to learn how to prepare their hearts for Easter.
Many times scripture can confuse us. Sometimes we tend to think God is being mean and showing anger. In this episode, we will discuss if God truly is a mean God or if we are missing something as we read. We will discuss Matthew 5 & 23 along with some other verses.