What happens when you pray, believe, and God still doesn’t give you the outcome you desperately hoped for?

In this deeply personal episode, Scott reflects on the loss of a good friend and the painful tension of trusting God when healing doesn’t come and the story remains unresolved. Through Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane and His grief at Lazarus’s grave, Scott explores what it means to move beyond formula faith and remain with the Father when life still hurts.

This isn’t an attempt to explain suffering or offer an easy answer—it’s an invitation to be an example to our family by grieving honestly, refusing to grieve alone, and discovering that even when God doesn’t fix our pain, He faithfully meets us in it.

When someone close to you is struggling, your instinct is often to jump in with advice, correct the problem, or move the conversation toward a quick resolution. But sometimes the most loving thing you can do is simply stay, listen, and help the other person feel seen.

In this episode, Scott explores what Jesus teaches us about remaining present in uncomfortable and unresolved conversations—and shares how his urge to coach, defend, or accelerate can get in the way of genuine connection with his wife and children. Because the people closest to us don’t always need us to fix them; sometimes they just need us to listen.

Most of us don’t think our possessions own us—but what does it mean when a cracked windshield, an unexpected expense, or the pressure to be successful begins to quietly control us?

In this episode, Scott shares what he learned from an interaction Jesus had with a wealthy man, a Lent experiment in buying nothing new and an embarrassing reaction to a crack in his Volvo windshield. It’s an honest look at how money, possessions, appearance, and achievement capture our attention and begin to shape our identity, often without us knowing it.

At the end of the day, the goal isn’t for us to stop having things—it’s to stop letting things have us.