Can I Meet Healthy Needs in Healthy Ways? With Tommy Brown [Episode 285]

Meet Healthy Needs Healthy Ways Tommy Brown

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book The Ache for Meaning by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Deep within each of us is a longing for acceptance, significance, and provision. Essentially, we’re all asking the same fundamental questions, “Will I have enough? Am I enough? And do I matter?”

Well, here’s something really cool…

The answers to all three questions can be found in the temptations of Christ. And today on the 4:13, Pastor Tommy Brown will pull back the curtain on Christ’s temptations to reveal how they represent your greatest needs.

Can I Ditch the Myth of Control and Relax? With Tara Sun [Episode 259]

Ditch Myth Control Relax Tara Sun

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Surrender Your Story by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Our culture often tells us we can and should control our life. “Create your own path. Decide your destiny. You are the author of your own story.” It’s the idea that we have the ability to control our circumstances and achieve any goal through positive thinking, redirected focus, and sheer force of will.

But, my friend, it’s simply not true!

Can I Leave Egypt Behind? With Jen Wilkin [Episode 188]

Leave Egypt Behind Jen Wilkin

We may not have carved an image to worship lately, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have idols in our lives. Our idols are much more subtle.

I had an interesting conversation on this very topic with Bible teacher, Jen Wilkin, while in the green room at a Lifeway Women Live event, and she does a great job explaining what an idol is, how they show up in our lives today, and the unsuspecting ways we worship them.

Can I Let Go and Live Free? With Rebekah Lyons [Episode 184]

Let Go Live Free Rebekah Lyons

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book A Surrendered Yes by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Rebekah Lyons spent years battling fear, anxiety, and panic until she found freedom in surrendering to God. From moving to New York City with young children to adopting a child with Down syndrome, Rebekah learned that saying yes to God is the first step to letting go and living free.

Today on the 4:13 Podcast, Rebekah will help you move from striving to make it all happen into finding freedom, joy, and rest. She’ll share her own rescue journey, and she’ll encourage you to give up the illusion of control.

Can I Loosen My Grip of Control? With Shannon Popkin [Episode 154]

Loosen Grip Control Shannon Popkin

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Control Girl: Lessons on Surrendering Your Burden of Control from Seven Women in the Bible by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

No one wants to think of themselves as controlling. But when a little change to plans causes an eruption, or when an itty bitty unexpected event dislodges an avalanche of worry, we’ve got to consider that control might be more of an issue than we think!

Can I Let Go and Trust God? [Episode 82]

Do you struggle with wanting to be in control? Oh, friend, you aren’t alone.

I used to be a total control freak—and I’m blind. So, try to figure that one out! Today, though, I’m a recovering blind control freak. But, it took me years to figure out that I have to let go of my perfect timetable and to-do list.