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
065: End With Asking This Important Question
Asking follow-up questions is a key part of one of the greatest gifts we give someone. The gift of listening. Learn how in today's episode.
In recent episodes we’ve considered how our lack of curiosi…
064: Start with this Important Question to Ask
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today we pick up from last week's episode, no. 63
If you didn't catch last week's show, the problem we discussed is that we may want to engage with…
063: Six Reasons Why We’re not More Curious About People
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode, where as always, I’m here to help you find more joy in your relationships, because that’s what you were made for.
In episode 62 last week, “Vaccine Now …
062: Vaccine Now Available for this Relational Virus
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode, where as always, I’m here to help us all find more joy in our relationships.
Before we get into today’s topic I want to share several responses from lis…
061: How Changed Thinking Leads to Changed Relationships
Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode where today we talk about how changing the way we think changes the way we relate to others. But before we get into this, I have two responses from liste…
060: One Perspective on Stay-At-Home You Probably Haven’t Heard Before
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today, as always, I’m here to help us consider how we can experience more joy in our relationships.
Are you tired of all the coronavirus news? Almo…
059: The Last Place You Would Ever Think to Find Joy
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today, as always, we're here together to consider how we can experience more joy in our relationships.
I had another episode all ready to go for to…
058: How a Crisis Can Bring Out the Best in Us
Welcome to today’s episode where today we look at several examples of how people are reaching out and caring for each other during our present day global health crisis. Hopefully these stories will i…
057: Relational Goodness in Times of Crisis
Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today we reflect on the impact the coronavirus is having on our relationships. There’s no shortage of information about the virus itself. How it’s …
056: Changing How We Think
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 56, where today we consider one relationship that affects all others. Our relationship with our self, and how we think.
In the last few episodes, 54, The Greates…
055: How to Overcome our Greatest Relationship Obstacle
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 55 where today we talk about the solution to the most dreaded relational virus that has plagued human beings since we first walked this earth.
Self-centeredness.
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054: The Greatest Obstacle to Relationships
Hello and happy March 4th to everyone who is listening in real-time today, March 4th, 2020. If you haven’t yet decided where you want to march forth today on March 4th, I have a suggestion for you at…
053: An Inconvenient Relationship Reality
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 53 where today I talk about an “inconvenient truth” concerning relationships. I like this term first coined by Al Gore about his view of climate change. Regardle…
052: Six Examples of Listeners Using this Podcast Content
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 52 where today we hear how listeners are applying the content from this podcast in their daily lives.
At the end of most podcast episodes I often mention that it…
051: More Than the Music
Welcome to episode 51 where today we consider a hidden benefit of good relationships. A benefit I bet few of us have ever considered.
Not too long ago I was on the search team for our church looking …
050: Three Reasons Why Relationships Are Worth It
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 50 where today we consider three reasons for why relationships are worth the work they take to grow and maintain.
Before we get into this, I know some of our lis…
049: Sacrifice in Relationships
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 49 where today we consider the importance of sacrifice in our relationships.
In episode 48 last week, I made the case that chapter 12 in the Book of Romans is to…
048: Worship Without Words
Hello everyone and welcome to episode 48 where today we start Season 3. It’s so good to be back!
I’m generally a person who’s comfortable within my own skin. I’ve never been very good athletically. I…
047: What Mary Treasured on Christmas Day
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Hello everyone and welcome to episode 47 where today we revisit the Christmas story from the perspective of Mary, and how the birth of Jesus affected her relationships, because his birth a…
046: Where Joy to the World is Found
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We know all too well that the our relationship with the real meaning of Christmas is so easily lost in the cultural trappings of December 25. It's become more a holiday than a holy day. …