Epic Every Day

45 episodes in and we’re still talking about the CSCs! But they’re still relevant considering our society seems designed to isolate or only interact in the social media echo chamber. It takes intenti…

Does going deeper in a friendship or starting a new relationship cause fear? Do you tend to push into your relationships only to see them fall apart? You may hesitate to trust or trust too soon. Evan…

Fear shuts down vulnerability before intimacy can happen. Evan and Liz Frerichs talk about how we all think we won’t be accepted by various groups. But no matter how many people reject us, the scales…

If you’re too busy to connect, you’re not prioritizing well. Good connection is worth the stress of setting it up. Evan and Liz Frerichs discuss how it takes two to make relationships work and how ea…

Rugged individualism poses some big problems to the Christian life which is a life lived in community—a spiritual family. Rugged individualism is also a sure way to shoot yourself in the foot when it…

Firefighter-mode is a result of moving through life off-centered, moving independent of your relationship with God. Side effects of this lifestyle may include an abundance of pet peeves, finding your…

How do you define your self-worth? Evan & Liz Frerichs take a crack at it and offer some ideas about how to make sure the value we come up with is accurate. An accurate self-worth can act as a shield…

Why is it so hard to keep track of the closest person to you—yourself? If we’re not intentional, all manner of outside forces will attempt to define who we truly are. Even if we can keep these extern…

The invisible hands of culture are gentle until you try to deviate from the norm. Engaging in the CSCs (Being Calm, Surrender, Centered, Connected, & Complete) will make the work of those hands evide…

The heart is the wellspring of life – your passionate and adventurous side. But often as Christians, we favor our head—the logical, security seeking side. Evan and Liz Frerichs discuss ways Christian…

Life is meant to be lived in the slipstream—the place where your actions and God’s will sync up. This is the place where the work you get done is happening through surrender and no significant effort…

The struggle is real, and it’s mostly inside of you. Surrender gets that struggle out into the open where God can do His work. When you refuse to let go of a problem, you are guaranteed to crash and …

It’s too easy to treat a mistake as a roadblock. When progress comes to a grinding halt, it’s really difficult to get moving again. Part of surrender is trusting God is big enough to handle our mista…

Both control freaks like Liz and people eager to trust like Evan will find today’s episode challenging. You may only want to surrender when the results are a sure thing, but that’s not really surrend…

Everyone you know will let you down at some point, so why is surrender so important? Mistrust is a cultural mindset, and it’s going to take practice to overcome that and believe something else. Is it…

We’re going to talk about practical ways to work on calm and gain peace. So get your pencils out because we’re just going to throw out a bunch of ideas. Depending on where you’re at with God, some of…

The fullest expression of humanity is a human being in relationship with their Creator. And God promises peace to those who know Him. There isn’t another brand of peace out there that compares. Today…

We learned in school that looking at someone else’s work is cheating. In life, you can also get yourself into trouble comparing yourself to others. The nice thing about the Christian life is our indi…

This episode is for those of you who don’t have time for peace. It’s desirable to learn something once and then be set for life. It is discouraging to find that as you get older, some of the things y…

Denial is so seductive. We all want to live in a world where everything is ordered and nice. But that’s not the real world. As Christians, we’re called to live in reality—the world God made. And it’s…