You Were Made for This
You were made for fulfilling relationships. Listen each week to stories of people finding hope and encouragement in their relationships so that you can too. Host and award-winning author John Certalic, together with his guests, share principles of life-giving relationships.
John’s relationship story starts with his birth to a single mother and placement in foster care for the first 16 months of his life. From this comes four different careers, 53 years of marriage to the same wife, and much he has learned about relationships. John draws from all this, along with inspiring stories from his guests, to share how you can find more fulfillment in the relationships you were made for.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 225
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
045: Seven Relationship Lessons from the Greatest Christmas Movie Ever Made
Show Notes
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 45, where today we look at 7 relationship lessons found in the greatest Christmas movie ever made. I never, ever, in a hundred million years, ever wan…
001: Six Reasons to Listen to the "You Were Made for This" Podcast
NOTE: The show notes you see below were for the very first episode, which appeared on November 28, 2018. It's all still true. But a more recent updated version for reasons to listen to this podcast c…
044: Thankful for the People who Invested in Us
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 44, the last in our "November to be thankful" series. I’ll have links to the other 3 episodes in the show notes below.
Carol pointed out to me that some listener…
043: Thankful for People Different from Me
Show notes
My greatest fear about aging is finding myself living an increasingly narrow life. I see it in my 96 year-old mother-in-law. The memory care and assisted living facility Elda lives in is f…
042: Thankful for the Irritations of Life
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 42, where Friday the 13th falls on a Wednesday this month. This 13th of November in the year of our Lord, 2019. I hope you’re not superstitious; instead, this is…
041: Thankful for the Cheerleaders in My Life
Show notes
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 41. Last week, we waved good bye and said see you next year, to October, the month that makes me smile. This week, we welcome in November, the month t…
040: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Show notes
Do you ever feel out of place in a group, where you just don’t quite fit in? I know I do from time to time. In today’s episode we’ll talk about how to deal with this kind of relationship w…
039: Listener Responses to Relationship Issues
Show Notes
In last week’s episode 38, I shared listener responses to the question I raised in an earlier email to our listeners about the verse from Hebrews 10:24, “Let us think of ways to motivate o…
038: Motivating Others to Love and Good Works
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 38, where today I’ll be sharing responses from several listeners to a question I posed in my September 19, 2019 weekly email. The question was about the Bible ve…
037: The Two-Step Process to Solve Relationship Conflicts
Have you ever been in conflict with someone that just gnawed at you day and night? Where you did everything you could think of to try to solve the conflict? Where you may have talked to the other per…
036: Investing in Relationships
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 036, Investing in Relationships. Before we get into this topic with two guests I interview on today’s show, there are a two quick items I want to mention.
First …
035: Relationships and a Lawn Mower
If you’ve been a regular listener around here you may recall a few episodes back in episode 32, I talked about how we were made for relationships. And one characteristic of a fulfilling and life-givi…
034: Rescuing and Raising a Relative's Child
A few weeks ago a friend and listener to the podcast asked me in the lobby of our church, WHERE do you get your ideas for your podcast? Others have asked the same thing.
For me, they come from being …
033: The Power of One Simple Question
I can’t seem to get last week’s episode #32 out of my mind. The one where I mention that if we know what we’re made for, it will answer the question, what am I here for? What is my purpose in life?
I…
032: What Am I Here For? What is My Purpose in Life?
Hello everyone and welcome to Season Two, and episode 32, What am I here for? What is my purpose in life? It’s great to be back with you after a summer off from podcasting. I enjoyed the weekly blogs…
031: The Rhythms of our Relationship with Time
Our relationship with time can re-energize us when we return to the rhythms of life that once brought us joy. Today’s episode illustrates the point.
I love living where I do because of the four dist…
030: An Adoption Relationship Story - Part 2
The longing to belong is a powerful motivator in relationships. It can spur us on to reconnect abandoned relationships, as we see in today’s episode of an adult adoptee finding her birth mother.
In …
029: An Adoption Relationship Story - Part 1
Behind every relationship is a story. The better we know the story of the people in our life, the deeper our relationship will be with them. Today’s episode is about a woman’s search for her own stor…
028: A Memorial Day to Remember
Remembering life-giving relationships from our past is to remember God’s love for us in sending just the right person, at just the right time, to do just the right thing we needed. It’s a Memorial Da…
027: When He Asks to Marry Your Daughter
We knew it was coming. Our 22-year-old daughter Jennifer had already told us they were planning to get married. So the priority mail letter I received from her boyfriend Tim, inviting me to breakfas…