Rise Up

Involvement at church isn't for "super Christians"—whatever one of those is... Steve and Tim talk about us "normal" believers serving at church!

Then: why have a leaf blower when what you really need is a Pumpkin Pie Blower?

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.

October is Pastor Appreciation Month! Steve and Tim share some of the most memorable lessons learned from the pastors in their lives.

Then: Tim is all ears for Steve's traffic update.

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.

"Jesus said his followers would suffer in this life, but the Bible promises joy for God’s children. Steve and Tim talk about what “joy” means, and what this spiritual fruit can do in the Christian life."

Then: Tim figures out what's really behind his buddy's "drive through luck."

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.

Community with other believers is crucial for Christians—but what about our influence on “the world”? Steve and Tim talk about what's waiting for us inside and outside of “Christian bubbles.”

Then: Tim shares his mom's words of wisdom.

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.

Healthy routines don’t just happen. They’re deliberate choices. That works for the soul as well as the body!

Then: Steve tells us about a compliment he almost certainly never got.

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 more than school; the coming of Fall is basically "Back to Everything" season. Steve and Tim brainstorm the brightsides afforded by changing gears.

Then: the pilot episode (and almost certainly, Series Finale) of... "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.

Everyone might have a different song that "gets" them. Steve and Tim share some of their heart on worship songs.

Then: Tim laments that he now finds boring things interesting.

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.

Sharing the good news about Jesus is at the heart of the Christian faith! Steve and Tim talk about what "mission" can look like to spread the truth.

Then: no one has to keep wondering what a cow and a fly have in common.

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.

"Everything happens for a reason," or "God wastes nothing"? When it comes to comfort in hard times, Biblical reassurance needs to be present with accuracy and also sensitivity. 

Then: Steve removes all doubt who's "hipper" in this morning show duo. Plus! A poem that could jerk a tear if you're sending one of yours off to college...

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.

Your life might be preaching better than you know to the people near you. Steve and Tim talk about living a faithful example of the Gospel.

Then: Steve's off to the snail races...he's late but that shouldn't matter. 

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've been there...you think you've got it bad—till you meet someone who has it worse. Steve and Tim talk about perspective and refusing to stop thanking God.

Then: Steve's plumbing bumperstickers might not take off. 

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 can have faith in a shovel to be able to dig a hole—if you're gonna then DO something with that trustworthy shovel. Steve and Tim talk about trusting God, and then acting. 

Then: just a couple fanatics of floor-to-ceiling partitions...you know: "Wall Nuts."

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.

In a first-ever special guest episode, Chef Nick joins Steve and Tim to talk about the joys of food.

Then: "frozen dairy dessert" just doesn't have that ring to it...

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 sounds like a cliché, but God’s timing IS the best. Steve and Tim look at ways how God’s timetable isn’t like ours.

Then: Steve's advice on porcupine handling makes a good point.

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.

Why do we hold onto things that we'd be better off dropping? Steve and Tim grapple with our lives' Tugs of War (..."Tug of Wars"?).

Then: Maturity on the level of "I know you are but what am I?"

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 isn't a choice to do whatever I want; it's living the way I was made to! Steve and Tim talk about true freedom. 

Then: you can't get 3 tubes of Home Glue if you call in the next 20 minutes. 

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.

What treasures could we miss that might be right in front of us? Steve and Tim talk about finding joy here and now.

Then: Steve's iconic phrases are allegedly being stolen.

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 chat about life's more difficult treks, the growth God brings along the way, and what encouragement looks like in a "valley." 

Then: Steve sees some puppies—and you actually might cry. 

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 volley thoughts on dadhood in the early and the later seasons.

Then: Tim's dog gets preached to. 

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 Christians get together to teach kids about the Bible, adults end up learning and growing spiritually, too. Also, who ever said flannel-graphs shouldn't still be a thing?

Then: Marvel movies make Tim think of the old Testament.

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 life’s “graduations,” and on what CS Lewis called going “further up and further in!”

Then: if that JanSport 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.

Sometimes the job’s just gotta get done – and you’re the one to do it. Steve and Tim reflect on lessons learned from just taking care of business!

Then: we begin chiseling out Mount Faithmore. 

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 the world-changing power of Moms. The work they do literally shapes the future!

Then: Don't be afraid of Steve's humor. 

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 can't solve the mystery of prayer, but they can still share its power in their lives!

Then: If we had a nickel for every dime...

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 a phrase we use so often that we forget to appreciate it: "take it for granted." Steve and Tim take a look at keeping gratitude after seeing God work!

Then: Tim's beard tells him things...

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.