Episodes

What happens when we ask God for something—and His answer doesn't look anything like what we expected? In Episode 138, John and Terri talk about the reality that following Jesus doesn't mean life will be easy. Sometimes God answers our prayers differently than we imagined. Sometimes the storms remain, and we're given the strength to stand in them instead. The conversation explores the importance of surrounding ourselves with people who genuinely want to see us grow, recognizing when relationsh...

What does surrender actually look like? In this episode, John and Terry have an honest conversation about learning to let go without giving up. They talk about the pressure of feeling responsible for everyone around you, the desire to make yourself valuable and needed, and how difficult it can be to surrender control when you've spent years learning to depend on yourself. They also explore how our past shapes us without having to define us, and how two people can experience similar circumstan...

Life has a way of wearing us down. Sometimes this world will truly grind you into dust, and there are moments when you simply don't have the strength to keep your arms up. So who holds them up? In this episode of the Bumper Sticker Wisdom Podcast, we talk about the importance of community, friendship, church, and having people in our lives who are willing to stand beside us when we're struggling. We look at the story of Moses, Aaron, and Hur in Exodus 17 and what it teaches us about supportin...

"To know that even on life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." -Lao Tzu

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in the depths it has its pearls." - Vincent VanGough

"Reality is nwvwe frustrating, reality is always fulfilling. Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality." - Osho

"Whoever shows you your faults, keep him close, for he is a true friend!" - Ali Iba Abi Talib

"Let them be wrong about you. There's nothing to prove." - Unknown

"Everything is beautiful depending on the situation. A school bell sounds irritating at 9am, but the same bell sounds melodious at 4pm." - Unknown

"And God said love your enemy. I obeyed him and loved myself." - Kahlil Gibson

"To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and thememory of a bad past." - Seneca

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe adn sane future." - John F. Kennedy

"The true weight of a man is the gap between who he is and who he knows he should be." - Marcus Arelius

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you, if you allow it." - Leon Brown

"What is poison? Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be your, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever." - unknown

"3Courage is being scared and saddling up and doing it any way." John Wayne

How stubborn are we that we must continue to repat the same old things so we can say, "I did it on my own." How stuck in our ways must we be that we continue to know that we can't do it on our own but never turn to the who will never leave us? - Bumper Sticker Wisdom

"Life's tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing worse than being blind is having vision and no sight." - Helle Keller

"You can't save everyone. Some people ar going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them." - Bryant McGill

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."-Socrates

"Befor the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable."-Ven. Fulton J. Sheen