Rise Up

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.

There's a place for celebrating champions, but it's dangerous when we forget: we all share the same, broken human nature. Steve and Tim discuss respecting Christian leaders without putting any person on a pedestal.

Then: Birds, no need to bless Steve. You've blessed him enough already.

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.

Expectations, listening, understanding...Steve and Tim talk about communication in a relationship.

Then: Did you mean to send this to us?

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.

Like a winter-weary person looking to Punxsutawney Phil's prediction, sometimes we ask God, "how much longer?" Steve and Tim talk about the life-seasons you wish would hurry up...when God might have different plans.

Then: Steve's not impressed with decaf's origin story.

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's the difference between "spending" and "investing"? Steve and Tim talk about how we think about what we steward, especially when it comes to our time.

Then: just HOW afraid someone can be of a needle...

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 shouldn't shock a Christian: not everything in life is about you! Steve and Tim discuss when what you get doesn't stop with you—it gets passed on for someone else's good.

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 a lifestyle of committed (not perfect) engagement with God's Word, while the year is still young!

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 see how they did with their predictions for 2025, and then brainstorm some new ones for this New Year. 

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.

After Christmas is unwrapped, now what? Steve and Tim talk about what Christmas does for the other 364 days of the year. 

Then: a special poem, just for that magically melancholic day: December 26th. 

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 did you used to think about Christmas that you see differently now? Steve and Tim look again at some holiday misunderstandings.

Then: if Tim sees one more steam cleaner attachment—he's gonna have to show some grace.

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.