A Prayer for When Victory Is Needed

The year was 1809. The world had its eyes fixed on Napoleon Bonaparte and the sweeping battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition. But while the nations watched the conflict, heaven was watching something else entirely — the births of Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Tennyson, Louis Braille, and others whose…

A Prayer to Embrace Imperfection

Isn't it oddly freeing to be humbled? To be gently caught in a blind spot and brought back down to solid ground? In this warm and disarming episode, Lia Girard invites us to reconsider our relationship with imperfection — not as something to be ashamed of or frantically fixed, but as part of God's …

A Prayer to Connect with God in the Woods

The moment you step onto a forest trail, something shifts. Traffic fades. The pressure of your schedule loosens its grip. Sunlight filters through branches, leaves crunch underfoot, and suddenly — almost without trying — you find it easier to notice God. In this quietly beautiful episode, Whitney H…

Bonus Episode: Tim Tebow on Identity, Intimacy and Impact Through the Lens of the Cross

Join us for a special weekend episode from the Built Different podcast hosted by Dr. Zach Clinton. What defines a life well lived? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Zach Clinton welcomes Tim Tebow to discuss identity, intimacy with Christ, and living a life marked by lasting impact. While many kn…

A Prayer to Develop the Spiritual Fruit of Self-Control

A screaming, fist-swinging baby who wants the whole world to know he's unhappy — it's a picture that's easy to laugh at, until we recognize ourselves in it. In this honest and relatable episode, Vivian Bricker reflects on how many of us feel that same urge to cry, kick, and lash out — and how the f…

A Prayer for God to Empty You

"You can't pour from an empty cup." It's a phrase that floods social media feeds and self-care conversations — and on the surface, it sounds reasonable. But in this episode, Emily Rose Massey gently but boldly challenges the ideology beneath it. Because if we wait until our cup is perfectly full be…

A Prayer for When It's Hard to Love Others

In the film Where the Wild Things Are, a boy in a wolf suit discovers what most of us already know but rarely say out loud: loving others is hard. The wild things wanted a king who could keep them together and shield them from sadness — but no king, no matter how great, can do that. And neither can…

A Prayer to Value Solitude

We live in the most connected era in human history — and yet loneliness has never been more widespread. In this thoughtful and beautifully grounded episode, Lia Girard makes an important distinction between two very different kinds of being alone. There is the loneliness we dread — that gnawing dis…

A Prayer to Accept Criticism and to Grow from It

Sitting across from her career coach, listening to her own writing be described as "dead," Vivian Bricker felt the familiar sting of criticism land somewhere deep — not just in her confidence as a writer, but in old wounds she thought had healed long ago. In this honest and tender episode, Vivian s…

A Prayer for Dreams You Don’t Understand

Have you ever woken up from a dream that felt too vivid, too specific, or too persistent to simply brush aside? In this episode, Whitney Hopler gently opens the conversation about a topic that many believers wonder about but rarely discuss: can God speak through our dreams? The answer, rooted in Jo…