Daily Devotions for Busy Lives
Too busy for quiet time this morning? Spirit running on empty before your day even starts? This short daily podcast helps you reconnect with God without rearranging your whole schedule. Join Dr. Bart Leger each weekday morning for a few minutes of Scripture, real-life encouragement, and a simple way...
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Dec. 19, 2025
Parenting When You’re Bone-Tired
Exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering if you’re failing as a parent? In this episode, discover how God gently carries you as you care for your kids, giving special grace to those who are worn out and “have young.”
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Aug. 11, 2026
What to Do When Nothing Is Wrong but You Feel Empty
A lot of Christians hit stretches where nothing is exactly wrong. The bills are paid. The family is functioning. You have plenty to be thankful for, and you are, and still you wake up with a dryness you can't explain. You're moving through good days without tasting them. There's no crisis to point to and no obvious hole to fill, which can be more confusing than an outright problem, because you can't even say what's the matter. This episode opens with Ann Voskamp, who ran a family farm, was rais
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Aug. 10, 2026
What to Do When You're Afraid to Hope
After enough letdowns, you decide it's safer to expect nothing. If you don't get your hopes up, they can't come crashing down. You watched a prayer go unanswered. You trusted someone and they let you down. So now you hold everything at a careful distance, bracing for the next disappointment before it comes. Hope starts to feel like a setup. This episode opens with Kashia and Riley Palmer, who longed to be parents for years. After fertility treatments failed, they turned to adoption, and a call
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Aug. 7, 2026
When You Find Yourself Judging Other People
We size people up in a second, then miss the story we can't see. Discover why Romans 14:4 says the person you're judging was never yours to judge, and how to catch yourself in the moment. You're standing in a checkout line, or scrolling a feed, and you catch yourself passing judgment on someone you've never met. The way they're handling their kids. The opinion they posted. In a second flat, you've tried them and moved on, and half the time you don't notice you did it until it's already done. Th
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Aug. 6, 2026
Trusting God with What You Can't Control
Some of the things that worry us most are the ones we have the least power over. You can't control what your adult child decides to do. You can't guarantee your health will hold up tomorrow. The economy, or what other people think of you, some of it you can nudge and a lot of it you simply can't touch. Part of why we grip these things is that worrying feels like doing something. If I'm anxious about it, at least I'm taking it seriously. But worry only wears the costume of responsibility. It chan
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Aug. 5, 2026
What to Do About the Time You Feel You Wasted
Some Christians look back on a stretch of their lives and see wasted years. Time sunk into a relationship that damaged you. A career you chased that turned out to be the wrong one. A lot of the time there's no big sin to confess, just the grief of years you can't return and can't redo. That's its own kind of loss, and it deserves to be named. Bart has watched people, good people, add up years of their lives and call them a waste, and he's learned to take that grief seriously, because God does.
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Aug. 4, 2026
When You Resent What Your Body Has Become
There comes a stretch of years when the mirror stops feeling like a friend. Your knees don't work the way they used to. The energy you took for granted at thirty isn't there when you reach for it. You catch a photo of yourself and don't recognize the person looking back, and something in you resents it. Bart knows the feeling. In his mind he still feels like he's in his thirties, until he bends down to tie his shoes, hears himself groan, and remembers his body didn't get the memo. This episode
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Aug. 11, 2026
Why Christians Feel Empty When Life is Good: Spotting Cracked Cisterns
When your life is stable, your bills are paid, and your family is functioning well, waking up with a deep, unexplained spiritual emptiness can feel deeply confusing. This article explores why comfortable, busy Christians often experience a hollow so…
Aug. 10, 2026
Why You Stop Praying for Specific Outcomes (And How to Start Again)
When an unanswered prayer leaves you bruised, you often quietly stop asking for what you truly want. This post explores why we abandon specific requests, how fear masquerades as protection, and how to safely bring your deepest desires back to God wi…
Aug. 7, 2026
How to Stop Making Snap Judgments of Strangers in Public
Stopping snap judgments of strangers requires recognizing the mental habit of sizing people up within seconds. By understanding that a quick read is often a guess dressed up as knowing, you can learn to pause, acknowledge when you are picking up a g…
About the Host
Bart Leger
I’m a husband, father, pastor, and lifelong encourager with a passion for helping people grow in their faith, especially when life feels full and fast-paced. After forty years of ministry and walking with people through both joy and crisis, I’ve learned that the most powerful moments with God often come in the middle of our everyday routines.
Whether I’m teaching the Bible, offering support during difficult seasons, or simply sharing a word of encouragement, my heart is to remind you that God is faithful—even in the chaos. I don’t believe you have to be perfect to grow spiritually. You just need a willing heart and a little space to pause, listen, and trust that God is working in your story.