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Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation
Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation is a daily Christian devotional and meditation podcast designed to help you slow down, breathe deeply, and experience God’s presence in a personal, peaceful way.
Each week begins with a guided Christian meditation, followed by five daily devotionals that explore Scripture, prayer, and spiritual formation through a calm, reflective rhythm.
You’ll find meditations for anxiety, rest, grief, spiritual direction, hearing God’s voice, and emotional healing…
Episodes
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Acts 4: Holy Boldness — Praying for Courage When Faith Is Tested | Daily Devotion Series
Send us Fan Mail Getting threatened for telling the truth would make most of us shrink back. Acts 4 shows something different: Peter and John stand before…
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Acts 3: Rise and Walk — A Meditation on Healing and Spiritual Authority | Daily Devotion Series
Send us Fan Mail A familiar beggar. A routine hour of prayer. Then one sentence changes the entire scene: “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and…
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Acts 2: Pentecost — How the Holy Spirit Forms a New Kind of Community | Daily Devotion Series
Send us Fan Mail Wind that sounds like a storm. Fire that doesn’t consume. A crowd that suddenly realises they’re hearing God’s wonders in their own heart…
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Acts 1: Waiting on the Holy Spirit — Why the Early Church Started With Prayer | Daily Devotion Series
Send us Fan Mail Waiting can feel like a closed door, but Acts 1 treats it like training. We walk through the opening chapter of Acts where the risen Jesus…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Book of Acts: Daily Devotional Series
Send us Fan Mail A rigid blueprint can raise a house, but it can’t raise a microchurch movement. We’re coming back from real-world evangelism work with a fresh…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation Pt. 6 of 6: Leader Covenant | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail Ten people on mismatched couches can be more spiritually demanding than a thousand people in a sanctuary. When you remove the building, the…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation Pt. 5 of 6: Finances | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever watched church planning get treated like a business launch, you know the feeling: the mortgage, the blueprints, the complex…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation Pt. 4 of 6: Safety Net | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail The most beautiful part of a microchurch is the intimacy and it’s also the fastest way a community can fracture. When six to fifteen people…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation Part 3 of 6: Starter Guide | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail If your faith life feels like watching from the back row, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken. We’re digging into a microchurch starter…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation Pt. 2 of 6: Shared Living | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail Handing someone the keys to your car after knowing them for a month sounds like a boundary nightmare. Yet that exact image exposes the core…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationMicro-Church Formation: Pt. 1 of 6 | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail Stadium lights, smoke machines, huge crowds, a polished set you can only consume. Now swap that for a living-room circle where there’s no…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWe Are on Evangelism Vacation!
Send us Fan Mail Hi friends, we are still preparing for our Live Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat scheduled for July 18 & 19th 2026. If you haven’t registered…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationCountdown to Connection: Live Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat | 6 days
Send us Fan Mail Life has a way of pulling us in a hundred different directions. We stay connected to our phones, our schedules, and our responsibilities—but…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat to Expect at Our Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail What changes when worship loses the crowd, the stage, and the subtle pressure to look “spiritual”? We explore a virtual retreat design that…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat If Freedom Is Your Starting Point? | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Freedom is not a dramatic leap you work up the courage to make. It is a daily way of walking, and when we learn to walk in it, we become more…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat Happens When We Combine Faith & Works? | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Freedom isn’t just a feeling we hope shows up someday. We can practice it today, right in the middle of uncertainty, by taking one clear step…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat If Your Thoughts Are Not the Final Say? | Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail One stubborn thought can quietly run your whole day: I can’t, I’m stuck, nothing will change, God won’t come through. We slow down and face…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat Changes When Fear Stops Leading | Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Fear can feel responsible, even protective, but it quietly steals trust and drains peace. Pastor Robert Young leads a short, focused spiritual…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWhat Changes When You See Yourself Through God’s Eyes? | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Freedom doesn’t always start with a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes it starts with a quiet moment of awareness, when we finally notice the…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationBreaking Limiting Mindsets | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail You can have a full tank, a powerful engine, and a clear highway and still feel stuck at 40 mph. That’s what limiting beliefs do: they behave…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationA Father’s Day Blessing!
Send us Fan Mail Father’s Day can hit nerves you didn’t expect. Maybe you feel thankful for a dad who showed up, or maybe you’re carrying the ache of absence…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationRest: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Friday
Send us Fan Mail Running on 1% battery with twenty apps open feels normal now, and that’s the problem. We talk about the quiet contradiction many of us live…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationLament: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Thursday
Send us Fan Mail Sweeping dirt under the rug works for surprise guests, but it quietly ruins a home and it does the same thing to your inner life. We get…
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Self-Guided Meditation Music
Send us Fan Mail Now is your time to simply listen to God's prompting on your heart as you listen to familiar music from our Guided Meditations. God wants to…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationVirtual Guided Meditation Retreat | July 18, 19, 2026
Send us Fan Mail Summer is full of movement—vacations, plans, and noise. But what if this July, you paused… just for a moment? 🌿The Virtual Guided Meditation…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationCommunity: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Wednesday
Send us Fan Mail One lonely thought can snowball into a crisis when it only has your own walls to bounce off. We dig into Pastor Young’s idea that isolation…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationScripture: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Tuesday
Send us Fan Mail Panic has a way of hijacking your direction. One scary thought turns into ten, your body goes into overdrive, and you end up reacting instead…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationSolitude: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Monday
Send us Fan Mail Silence can feel like the last thing you need when life is loud, but the noise might be the very thing keeping you stuck. We are Dan and…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationJesus Wants to Shepherd Your Emotions: Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been taught to equate spiritual maturity with calm detachment, but that story collapses the moment you pay attention to Jesus. He…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: Jesus Experienced Loneliness | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Loneliness can make the world feel smaller and God feel far away. We begin with one of the rawest lines in Scripture, Matthew 27:46, where…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: Jesus was Surprised | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus marvels. That single word can undo a lot of our assumptions about what God is like. If you’ve ever pictured Jesus as calm but distant…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: The Exhaustion of Jesus | Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Some tiredness comes from doing too much. Another kind comes from being misunderstood, carrying feelings you can’t quite translate, or…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: The Anger of Jesus | Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus gets angry in Mark 3:5 and that single line can unsettle a lot of us. We’re often taught that anger equals failure, immaturity, or sin…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt.4: Jesus Wept | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus doesn’t rush past sorrow. He doesn’t hide his grief, spin it, or keep a stiff upper lip for the crowd. He weeps and that single, honest…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: The Emotional Life of Jesus | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been trained to admire the person who never cracks: the serene face, the steady tone, the spiritual “stiff upper lip”. But when we slow…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 3: Rise Into Your Calling | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail “Rise, let us go.” That single line from Matthew 26:46 can feel like a hand on your shoulder when you’re tired, stuck, or unsure what to do…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 3: Jesus Meets Our Weakness With Compassion | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Your intentions are real and your faith is real, so why does follow-through feel so hard? We open Matthew 26:41 and sit with Jesus’ words…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 3: The Courage To Surrender Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail One sentence from Jesus can confront everything we try to control: “Yet not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39). We return to…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 3: The Cup We Wish Would Pass | Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus doesn’t hide his dread in the garden. He prays, “Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me” (Matthew 26:39), and that one…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 3: The Weight Jesus Carried | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus approaches the cross carrying crushing emotional and spiritual weight and He doesn’t cover it up. We sit with that moment in Gethsemane…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series: Pt. 3 Strength in The Garden | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been trained to admire unshakable people the ones who never flinch, never doubt, never show fear. But the Garden of Gethsemane tells a…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt.2: Becoming a Living Temple | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail You can spend years trying to “clean yourself up” and still feel like something is off. We take a different route here: the bold spiritual…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 2: Making Room for the Outsider | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus clearing the temple can sound like a moment of pure confrontation, but we hear something else underneath it: protection, welcome, and…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 2: Jesus Confronts What Harms You | Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus flipping tables is one of the most misunderstood moments in the Gospels, and we slow down to hear what it actually reveals about his…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 2: Naming What Has Become Distorted | Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus flipping tables is one of the most misunderstood scenes in the Gospels, and we wanted to slow it down and let it read us. We start with…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Pt. 2 Series: Clearing Space for Jesus | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Jesus walks into the temple and does something that feels almost backward to how we handle stress: he deals with the space first. Pastor…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 2: Why Jesus Flipped the Tables? | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail Picture the scene most people think they already understand: Jesus storms into the temple, flips tables, and “finally snaps.” We slow that…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series: Jesus, Both Lion & Lamb | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail One verse can reframe your whole picture of Jesus: Luke 19:10 says the Son of Man comes to seek and to save the lost. We start there, because…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series: Jesus Exposes Motives | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail A clean outside can hide a crowded inside, and Jesus refuses to let us settle for appearances. We open with Matthew 23:25, where Jesus warns…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series: Jesus Combats Bad Theology | Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail “You are mistaken” is not an insult from Jesus, it’s a rescue line. We sit with Matthew 22:29 and let it do its work: exposing the subtle ways…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series: Jesus Exposes Hypocrisy! Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Your mouth can say all the right things while your heart quietly drifts, and Matthew 15:8 names that tension with unsettling clarity: “These…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About Series!! Jesus Confronts Corrupt Leaders | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Truth is comforting right up until it contradicts us. We open with John 8:32, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” and…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationThe Jesus No One Talks About! Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Send us Fan Mail The most familiar Jesus in our culture is safe, quiet, and almost impossible to argue with. But that picture leaves out a crucial Gospel…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWalking in The Grace God Provides: Persevering With God's Strength | Friday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Perseverance gets misread as stubborn toughness, but we take a different path: dependence on God. When we say “keep going,” we’re not talking…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWalking in the Grace God Provides: Spiritual Habits That Make Room for God's Grace | Thursday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Trying harder can feel spiritual, but it can also leave us tired and stuck. We slow down and name a different path: you don’t run to produce…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWalking in The Grace God Provides: Renewing the Mind With God's Power | Wednesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail The thought loop is loud, familiar, and exhausting and we often assume the fix is more effort, better habits, or a tougher mindset. Pastor…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationWalking in The Grace God Provides: Obedience Empowered by God, Not Forced by Us | Tuesday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail Obedience can feel like pressure, performance, and constant self-correction but what if that’s never what Jesus wanted for you? We name the…
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Walking in The Grace God Provides: Responding in Willing Surrender | Monday Devotion
Send us Fan Mail “Work out your salvation” can sound like a demand to strain harder, try more, and prove yourself. We slow that phrase down with Pastor Robert…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationHonoring Mothers Brings A Promise Of Goodness: Encore Episode
Send us Fan Mail Mother’s Day is easy to celebrate with traditions and treats, but it’s harder and far more meaningful to name what a mother’s love has…
Growing Closer to God with Guided MeditationGuarding Your Heart & Mind Series: God's Power is Made Perfect in Our Weakness | Friday Devotional
Send us Fan Mail The hardest moments are often the most honest ones: when you’re tired of trying to be “strong,” tired of pretending you’ve got it together…