Latest Morings Podcast Episodes
No Suffering Is Unseen – Vaneetha Risner
Kurt and Kate Mornings - July 02, 2024 15:52 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOur friend Vaneetha Risner was bullied as a child, suffered multiple miscarriages, buried a son, has had to deal with a debilitating disease, was left by her first husband and has struggled with single parenting. She understands what it’s like to deal with loneliness, fear, discouragement and tr...
Weather Jingle
Kurt and Kate Mornings - July 01, 2024 21:58 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsK&K Mornings listeners have grown accustomed to hearing a "sweet and short" weather jingle that introduces meteorologist Alan Winfield. It got Kurt and Kate wondering what our listeners really thought of the jingle. Listeners weighed in with their comments and one even attempted to sing along wi...
Merge Challenge
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 28, 2024 23:24 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe greatest commandments are to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. How many of us read and study these commandments only to get on with our days, having forgotten what we have read? This week, we issued the challenge to ...
Pregnancy Resource Center of Southwest Florida – Nicole Shanks
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 27, 2024 13:57 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNicole Shanks is the Executive Director of the Pregnancy Resource Center of Southwest Florida. We love to talk about the fight for life. So many aspects of this! https://supportprc.org/ | https://aspirewomensclinic.org/ | https://www.care-net.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Known For Love – Casey Hough
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 26, 2024 14:04 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe live in a world with competing voices about what it means to love and to be loving. It's tough—if not impossible—to feel this tension. But what does it mean that Jesus was known for love? We want to be like Him—known for love—but that can quickly become confusing when feelings, family, and d...
How to Make Friends At Church – Nadya Williams
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 25, 2024 14:10 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMaking friends in a new church is hard. Ever been there? Once you’ve settled on a local congregation, just how do you make friends? Author Nadya Williams recently moved and has faced this challenge. She stopped by and shared some tips on how we can begin the process of making new friends! Tex...
Why You Can’t Let Yourself Feel Content – Justin Poythress
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 24, 2024 15:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOur guest this morning writes this: “I’ve prayed about discontentment. I’ve confessed it. I keep a gratitude journal. But it was only this past year that I got a breakthrough as to the real problem. I don’t want to be content. I’m afraid of it.” An interesting take on contentment isn’t it? htt...
Bible Q&A – Dr. Ron Sauer
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 24, 2024 14:43 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOur good friend, Dr. Ron Sauer, spent decades serving as a professor at Moody Bible Institute. Dr. Sauer loves God and His Word and lives to share the Good News of Christ! He continues to do so today as a pastor near Chicago. He joined us for conversation and took some Bible questions from our l...
Othered —Jenai Auman
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 21, 2024 17:49 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGod's people are meant to be a blessing to others. Yet in the Scriptures, throughout history, and in our own times we too often see the people of God causing harm to people on the margins. Rather than caring for the widowed and the orphaned or loving the sojourner, too often we see abuse of powe...
Trust the Whisper – Kathy Izard
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 20, 2024 13:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEver feel like it's easier to believe we'll meet God in the afterlife than it is to feel God at work in this life, with its chores and schedules and messes and unrealized dreams? The truth is, God is at work every day of our lives, but because this work is quieter than we expect, we so often dis...
Words You Love to Hate
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 19, 2024 15:10 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWords are powerful and their meanings are sure to evoke a certain type of emotion. Many words have seen their meanings change over the years. Other words are invented. With these changes, new interpretations can foster feelings of love or hate for a particular word! Listeners weighed in, sharing...
Loneliness: Don’t Hate It or Waste It. Redeem It. – Steve DeWitt
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 18, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLoneliness. We’ve all been there haven’t we? Maybe you’re there right now. For years, Steve DeWitt was the only never married megachurch pastor in the United States. This put him in proximity to thousands of people, yet he lived his daily life alone. Over some 8,000 days as an adult single, and ...
Too Much Times — Karen Wade Hayes
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 17, 2024 14:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEveryone experiences what writer Karen Wade Hayes calls "Too Much Times,” perfect storms where our most demanding challenges meet our most significant weaknesses and can lead to our lowest moments. “Too Much Times” are days, weeks, or whole years marked by too many demands, responsibilities, and...
The Missing Years – Mary Nolte
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 14, 2024 13:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBlogger Mary Nolte writes this: “We were preparing for our daughter’s wedding when she called me one day in a slight panic, “Mom, I have no pictures of myself from 2009-2011! What happened?” Mary calls them the “missing years." You might have some, too. That goes for all of us! Mary dropped by t...
Waiting Isn’t a Waste – Mark Vroegop
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 13, 2024 15:13 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThroughout our lives, we experience countless periods of waiting. Some moments are mere nuisances―others are daunting seasons filled with intense worry and doubt. We grow impatient by immovable traffic or crave an impending answer to a medical condition. Whatever our current circumstances, our i...
Slouching Towards Saul When Selecting Leaders – Dave Harvey
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 12, 2024 13:40 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSelecting new leaders in the church. This is crucial! Ministry leader Dave Harvey stopped by and helped us take a page out of “God’s Playbook” to help us think clearly about what to look for… and what to look out for when it comes to choosing a leader. https://revdaveharvey.com/2024/05/07/slou...
At the Curb
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 11, 2024 14:18 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsYou never know where the Lord will take a good, spontaneous conversation. A recent conversation about the furnishings in Kate's office, specifically, her couch, revealed that there are some great gifts to be found online, at garage sales and also sitting alone on the side of the curb. Listeners ...
Peace Over Perfection – Faith Chang
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 10, 2024 13:44 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMany Christians, often without even realizing it, struggle with a type of Christian perfectionism. We strive to please God but are plagued with anxiety about making mistakes. We want to do God’s will but live with a self-berating inner voice even as we seek to serve Him! We sincerely believe the...
When Intrusive Thoughts Come – John Beeson
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 07, 2024 13:53 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDo you ever battle intrusive thoughts? Our minds are factories of thoughts—some intentional, some not. We strategize, reflect, and ruminate. Sometimes uninvited thoughts pop into our minds. Sometimes these thoughts are born of morbid curiosity. While driving along a winding mountain highway, sud...
Or For Worse : Loving Your Husband Through Hard Times – Emma Chambers
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 06, 2024 16:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEmma promised "for better or for worse" on her wedding day, but when hard times came, it seemed impossible for her marriage to survive. Some around her advised divorce. But God spoke truth to her heart and helped her see her part in the crumbling of her marriage. She discovered she needed to le...
Loving Your Adult Children – Gaye Clark
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 05, 2024 13:49 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEver have trouble talking with your adult children? As kids grow, so do the pains of parenthood. Patterns of miscommunication and resentment can cause damage over the years, leaving parents and adult children with a fractured relationship. Confused, hurt, and sometimes angry, moms and dads can s...
A Dog Named Mattis – Sgt. Mark Tappan
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 04, 2024 13:36 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSergeant Mark Tappan shares a unique bond with his K9 partner Mattis, one of the most decorated police K9s of all time. Mark knew from the first time they interacted that Mattis was something special. As a follower of Jesus, Mark also knew that God's most profound teaching often comes through th...
Bible Q&A – Dr. Stephen Nichols
Kurt and Kate Mornings - June 03, 2024 13:43 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKurt and Kate’s Bible Q and A! In for Dr. Jim Coakley this week is Dr. Stephen Nichols. Dr. Nichols is president of Reformation Bible College in Sanford, Fla., chief academic officer for Ligonier Ministries, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He also hosts the podcasts 5 Minutes in Churc...
4KIDS – Rick Jacobs
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 31, 2024 17:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMay is Foster Care Awareness Month. 4KIDS in southwestern Florida is propelled by the vision of a home for every child. Executive Director Rick Jacobs joined us to give us an update on all that is happening and to share several ways in which you can help to bring hope, homes, and healing to kids...
Wayward Children: Finding Peace, Keeping Hope – Stuart Scott
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 30, 2024 15:39 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOver the last month, almost 2,000 names of wayward children have been texted to the Kurt and Kate Hotline (888-777-6810). Heartbroken parents are prayerful these prodigals will return to the Lord. To parent a wayward or unbelieving child is one of the most difficult trials a Christian can face. ...
Kevin Sorbo Previewing The Firing Squad / Movie Release: Aug. 2, 2024
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 29, 2024 16:25 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 'Firing Squad' is a true story of redemption, turning drug dealers into devout Christians. This powerful film can change lives and can save people! For more information, click here: https://www.firingsquadfilm.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Death of Attention – Bryan Schneider
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 29, 2024 15:11 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhether sitting in your home or at a restaurant, we feel the pull of distraction coming from our screens. They come in different shapes and sizes. Pastor and author Bryan Schneider writes this: "Our culture can't stand boredom. We can hardly imagine sitting in silence. We can't wait in a doctor'...
De-sizing the Church – Karl Vaters
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 28, 2024 14:19 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBig churches didn't create the problems facing today's congregations. But our obsession with size has come at a great cost. For a long time, we thought bigger was better. "Church growth" and "numbers" dominated our thoughts and conversations. But more than ever, people are feeling disconnected. ...
5 Things Prayer Has the Power to Do – Doug Eaton
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 24, 2024 13:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe often hear the phrase, “There is power in prayer,” but what does prayer have the power to do? The ultimate power in prayer is that God acts as our Father, giving us good things when we ask. He desires to do good to us, and He answers when we pray, but to help us meditate even further on the p...
Bread and Bibles: D.L. Moody’s Evangelism and Social Action – Gregg Quiggle
Kurt and Kate Mornings - May 23, 2024 15:43 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen I was at work in the City Relief Society, before the fire, I used to go to a poor sinner with the Bible in one hand and a loaf of bread in the other. –D. L. Moody Dwight Lyman Moody was a preacher, pastor, and visionary whose impact is still felt around the world. He was a servant to poor ...
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