What does it really mean to be “pure in heart”? It may have less to do with perfection and more to do with what is filling our hearts.

In this episode, Scott and Deb talk honestly about divided desires, control, resentment, appearances, and the pressure to seem better than we feel. A crowded heart can miss what a clear heart begins to see. But when we become honest, surrender what is competing for our attention, and keep turning back to God, we begin to recognize that He has been present all along.

Ashley Arnson spent six years keeping God at a distance—not because she hated Him, but because she was afraid of what He might ask her to become.

In this honest conversation, Ashley shares how performance, perfectionism, and fear shaped her view of God—and what happened when she finally prayed again. What she found wasn’t control or condemnation. She found patience, light, and an invitation to come home.

What does it mean to become a peacemaker through Jesus Christ?

In this episode, Scott and Deb talk honestly about the difficulty of choosing kindness when it is hard, seeing beyond outward behavior, and responding to others with greater charity. Peacemaking is not weakness, avoidance, or the absence of boundaries. It is allowing Christ to shape the way we see, speak, and respond.

As we look to Him, we begin to see others more as He sees them—and through Him, we become people who bring peace into difficult places.