ToddTalks--Spirit By Design: Your Weekly Survival Guide
ToddTalks--Spirit By Design is for those of you who desire to increase your spiritual wellness, utilize spiritual gifts, and overcome spiritual obstacles. If you struggle to maintain your spirituality, your beliefs, your testimony, in this chaotic world, come listen in and learn some things that can change your life.
Maybe you can't make it to church due to your responsibilities whatever they may be. Maybe you struggle with your Testimony or beliefs and are looking for help. Maybe you just need someone to give you ideas on how to build and strengthen your faith. This podcast is to help you design your spiritual life. Spirit by Design means you are in charge of your life. You surrender it to God and allow him to help you design the life you desire. By developing and strengthening your spiritual side, you will find peace, joy and serenity in this chaotic world that is only getting worse.
Episodes
218 episodes
Don’t Judge Me Because I Sin Differently Than You!
The fastest way to feel righteous is to find someone else’s weakness, but it’s also one of the quickest ways to lose the Spirit. We dig into a trap that shows up in real Christian life: spotting “obvious” sins in others while missing the quiete...
What If Doubt Is Part Of Faith? Interview With Lila Willardson
Some prayers are peaceful. Some are honest enough to sound like a fight. Todd sits down with his close friend Lila Willardson for a real conversation about spiritual discipline, hearing the Spirit, and what it looks like to keep turning toward ...
Making And Keeping Covenants Is How You Grow Stronger Spiritually
Covenants can feel intimidating until you realize what they’re designed to do: connect you to Jesus Christ so His power can change you. We talk about why spiritual strength isn’t accidental and why simply learning more isn’t the same as becomin...
When God Is First Everything Else Falls Into Place
Your life can be full of good things and still feel out of order. We’re talking about one change that acts like a master switch: putting God first. Not as a vague intention, but as the real first priority that becomes the filter for your time, ...
What If Busy Is Your Biggest Temptation - Coose Between What’s Good, What’s Better, and What’s Best!
Something feels off even when you’re doing all the right things. You’re working, serving, learning, staying active, showing up for family, and trying to be a better disciple of Jesus Christ, yet there’s still that quiet sense that something is ...
Personal Revelation - God Teaches You How To Think With Him
If you’ve ever second-guessed a prompting, you’re not alone. We get honest about what personal revelation actually feels like when it shows up in normal life: a thought that lands with quiet clarity, a feeling of peace that won’t let go, or tha...
God Prepares You For A Moment Like This - Esther
The moment you’ve been avoiding has a question attached to it: will you choose what’s right even if it costs you something? We dig into the kind of courage that doesn’t come from hype or fearlessness, but from discipleship rooted in Jesus Chris...
God’s Glory Is Intelligence - Seek to Constantly Grow Intelectually
God’s glory isn’t wealth. It isn’t raw power. It’s intelligence, light, and truth and that single idea can change how you treat learning, creativity, and ambition as a disciple of Jesus Christ. I challenge the belief that “getting more spiritua...
Why Strength Training and Caring For Your Body Honors Jesus Christ
You can be deeply sincere about Jesus Christ and still slowly lose the physical capacity to serve, endure, and show up for the people you love. I’ve been thinking about that every time I walk through an airport and see how many people are worn ...
What If Your Trial Is Shaping You? Answer - It is!!
The hardest trials are the ones that don’t resolve on your timeline, the ones that make you whisper, “Why is this happening to me?” We sit with that question and walk straight into one of Scripture’s most intense stories: Job. Not to chase easy...
How To Use Visualization To Build An Abundant Life With Christ
Visualization gets lumped in with “manifesting,” hustle culture, and wishful thinking, but I want to reclaim it as something much older and much holier. When we understand it correctly, visualization isn’t about trying to force the universe to ...
Servant Leadership That Actually Changes People - Leadership part 3
Leadership can look impressive and still be hollow. We’re digging into a sharper standard: the real measure of a leader isn’t how many people know your name, it’s how many people come closer to Jesus Christ because they’ve come to know you....
What If Leadership Isn’t About Power At All - Leadership Part 2
If leadership is “getting people to do what you want,” you can win a lot of battles and still lose your kingdom. We pick up part two of our leadership series with a hard contrast: Rehoboam’s power-driven instincts versus the Savior’s Christlike...
The Cost Of Not Listening - Leadership Part 1
One stubborn moment can undo years of trust, and Rehoboam proves it. He inherits the greatest advantages imaginable as Solomon’s son, yet he manages to fracture Israel because he won’t listen. We unpack how that kind of leadership failure doesn...
If You Stop Learning, You Start Losing
One sentence can fracture a family, a team, or an entire kingdom. That’s why I’m leaning into a hard leadership lesson from the Old Testament: Rehoboam had a crown, resources, and a legendary father, yet he “forsook the counsel” that could have...
How To Love Like Christ Without Being Used
If you’ve ever felt guilty for saying no, even when you’re exhausted, this conversation is for you. We’re digging into one of the hardest tensions in Christian living: how to show real charity without being taken advantage of, and how to love l...
Signs Of The Second Coming - Are You Watching or Working on Becoming Holy?
The world feels like it’s accelerating, and not always in a good way. Wars flare up, families strain, truth gets treated like a preference, and technology races ahead faster than our ability to process it. When you feel that tension, it’s easy ...
How Prosperity Can Slide You Into Spiritual Apathy
Comfort isn’t always a blessing. Sometimes it’s the quiet condition that puts our spiritual life to sleep while we’re busy feeling “fine.” We dig into a danger that rarely announces itself: spiritual apathy that grows through ease, distraction,...
How To Stay Spiritually Anchored When Culture Tries to Shift Truth
Truth didn’t get weaker, but the pressure to treat it like a preference has never been louder. We sit with a hard question: why is it so difficult to stand for eternal truth in a culture that keeps insisting truth is negotiable? I walk through ...
Righteous People Suffer And God Still Refines Them - Lessons From Job
The hardest seasons of life can make you wonder if God has gone quiet or if you did something wrong. We go straight at that fear by walking through the Book of Job and the idea of the refiner’s fire: what if your suffering is not proof of aband...
Are You Training Yourself To Hear God Or Ignore Him
A tiny spiritual nudge can feel easy to dismiss, until you realize it might have been the exact help someone needed. I’m Todd, and I’m digging into a principle that has shaped my life: when we act on promptings from the Holy Ghost, we become mo...
What Anchors You When Truth Feels Optional - Stand in Holy Places
When your “instruments” fail in the clouds, your body can swear you’re level while you’re actually turning into danger. I open with a real C-130 cockpit moment where two attitude indicators disagreed and the only way to survive was to trust the...
Memorial Day Calls Us To Live Worthy Of Sacrifice
Memorial Day can feel like a holiday on the calendar until you’ve watched a grieving unit file onto an aircraft and stand over flag-draped coffins. I’m Todd, and I wanted to slow down and treat this day with the reverence it deserves, drawing f...
Real Faith Trusts God When Nothing Works - Lessons about God from George Washington's Life!
What if one of the clearest lessons about God doesn’t come from a pulpit, but from a battlefield? We take a fresh look at George Washington and the word he returned to again and again: providence. Not luck. Not vibes. The steady belief that God...
Tithing Is Not A Payment Plan, It Is a Transformation in Faith
“Tithing is fire insurance” might be one of the most repeated lines in Latter-day Saint culture, and also one of the most misunderstood. I’m not interested in a fear-based reading of God that sounds like “pay up or burn.” I want to get honest a...