If something feels hard, does that mean something is wrong? We live in a world that avoids discomfort at all costs, but what if that instinct is forming us in the wrong ways? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore the difference between comfort and formation, and how Scripture reframes suffering, endurance, and obedience.

What are your desires really after? What’s underneath the things you keep chasing? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore four root idols, control, power, approval, and comfort, and how they shape our desires, decisions, and discipleship. What if the issue isn’t the thing itself, but what we’re asking it to give us?

We live in the most informed culture in human history, and yet many of us still feel anxious, overwhelmed, and spiritually shallow. Podcasts, reels, articles, sermons, AI: we are constantly consuming information, but does knowing more actually help us live well? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom, and how Scripture reframes what it means to become truly formed.

We’ve been taught that freedom means having no limits, but what if limitlessness is actually crushing us? In this episode, Tory and Mary explore why Scripture presents limits not as punishment, but as part of God’s good design for human flourishing. What if the boundaries we resist most are actually the places where God forms trust, dependence, rest, and joy?

Many of us know what it feels like to wait on God. But what happens when the waiting stretches on, suffering deepens, and God's presence seems hidden? In this episode, Mary sits down with Tiffany Stein to discuss the Wall, the Dark Night of the Soul, and the painful reality of walking through seasons of grief, disappointment, and uncertainty. Drawing from Scripture and personal experience, they explore how hope, community, and God's faithfulness sustain us while we wait. Listener Note: This episode includes conversations about grief, death, cancer, and infant loss. Some parts may feel especially heavy, so please listen with care.

When someone we love is grieving, our instinct is often to find the right words, offer solutions, or try to make the pain go away. But what if one of the most powerful ways we can love others is simply by being present? In this episode, Mary and Tiffany Stein discuss practical ways to walk with the grieving, avoid common mistakes, and faithfully reflect the comfort and compassion of Christ. Together they explore what it means to weep with those who weep and offer others the same comfort we ourselves have received from Christ.

Most of us hear Recovery and think, “That’s for people with bigger problems than mine.” But the gospel tells a truer story: every disciple is being recovered from sin, shame, suffering, and selfreliance into life with Christ. Recovery isn’t a detour from discipleship, it’s discipleship applied to the very places sin, suffering, shame, and brokenness have distorted our identity, relationships, and dependence on Christ. In this episode, Tory and Mary are joined by Jessica, Tolu, and Jasmine to talk about Recovery at The Well and what happens when Jesus meets us in the places we’re tired of hiding. What are you still trying to overcome alone? Listener Note: This episode includes conversations about pornography, addiction, abuse, sexual immorality, and body dysmorphia. Some parts may feel especially heavy, so please listen with care.