Rise Up

Is "faith" over "sight" an unreasonable or unrealistic way to live? Or is the unseen already so much a part of the world God made, that we have no reason to doubt even what we can't see? 

Then: Steve becomes a college founder, cafeteria worker, and PR guy, all for a bit. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

God tells many spiritual truths in the Bible using pictures from the natural world. Steve and Tim look at what we can learn from how things grow.

Then: Your Pro Wrestler name is the last food you ate plus your highschool mascot.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Too soon to taste pumpkin spice? Too soon to spy Halloween decorations? Seasonal enjoyments aside, Steve and Tim talk about a different issue: rushing to tomorrow when God has us in today. 

Then: Steve educates the younger generation about The Beatles. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim get honest about the World Cup having left our shores...and a good chat about what we value ensues. 

Then: "You are here." But, where is that?

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Teaching the Bible to kids has enormous impact...it just may take a bit before you see the seeds start to grow. Sow them anyways!

Then: who doesn't love a good pandiculation?

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim freely share their own ignorance...with minimal embarassment. What if we were less ashamed to admit what we don't know?

Then: It's a beautiful weekend for grilling some charred chard. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

"Freedom" gets top billing this time of year in America. Christians get to celebrate that reality, whichever earthly country they find themselves in.

Then: Don't lead with "Dear That..."

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve heard a thought-provoking phrase from a counselor recently. He and Tim dig into: "Feel it to heal it."

Then: Steve "heard" a perplexing sound from an antelope...and wants to share it with you.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Maybe you'd call your experience "eclectic" - Steve and Tim think God works through scattered-feeling resumes and life's winding paths!

Then: "No, you first"—it's like not knowing who should go first at the red light, but with conversation...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Not everyone will be a dad thesmelves, and not everyone had a good example of a father. But God still wants us to approach Him and know Him as our faithful Heavenly Father.

Then: otters inspire Steve's parenting.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Showing hospitality is thoroughly Biblical. And there's nothing wrong with "entertaining guests" - but is that always the same thing as Biblical hospitality?

Then: Steve remains humble about his physical strength. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim wonder why we so easily forget to remember. Well, God understands human nature, so He's wisely instructed us to do just that: remember. 

Then: when you take a drink of something that isn't what you expected...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Kids play "make believe" by nature. Steve and Tim imagine what can happen by a certain kind of "making believe" in our faith.

Then: between Tim's overthinking and Steve's "underthinking," somewhere it all evens out.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

When one of life's threshholds approaches, how do we respond? Steve and Tim reflect on steps of faith when changes come.

Then: the afternoon radio hosts have a little fun with Steve and Tim in the morning.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Enough can't be said about moms. Still, Steve and Tim give it a shot!

Then: Steve floats a dessert idea past Noah. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Look around - you won't find them. Look in your Bible - you'll only get one: a perfect person. Jesus is the only one without sin, which is good news for all of us who desperately need to receive - and show others - His grace.

Then: Steve shows Tim the right kind of question for AI. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim look at the impact of everyday obedience - simply following God's heart!

Then: an ode to church coffee.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Christian parents lean on the verse: "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Steve and Tim look at the influence parents - and other adults - have on kids' ongoing faith.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

When you think you're looking at an ending, what if God is really preparing you for a new beginning? Steve and Tim think about the daily hope from Jesus' Cross, Burial, and Empty Tomb!

Then: If the Empty Tomb of Jesus could talk...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Steve and Tim reflect on their own Easter memories, how little traditions can have a lasting impact, and the significance of invitations to Church on Easter.

Then: Tim struggles to maintain middleschoolers' attention when 6-7 comes up in the Bible...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Prayer isn't a wishlist, a gripe session, or a security blanket. So, what IS happening when we talk to God? Steve and Tim chat about it.

Then: what happens if the Family Life on-air hosts get together for game night?

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

You might not picture a man being ready to open up about his feelings and emotions—why is that? Steve and Tim talk about the emotional work that men have cut out for them. 

Then: answered prayers in breakfast terms, and Steve remembers bananas.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

How do Christians process and respond to global turmoil? Steve and Tim look at Gospel hope, especially as we approach Easter.

Then: Steve recounts a story from his first days of walking with Jesus!

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

It's never too late—for a lot of things, but namely: for all of the good that God can still do in a life!

Then: Tim forgets to proudly display some very important artwork...

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.

Sometimes, having to let go - whether we choose it or not - means there's a new opportunity to grow.

Then: Steve and Tim contrive their own Olympics...in the name of free food. 

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.