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
211 episodes
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...
The Self-Doubt Epidemic - Reclaim Who You Are!
Self-doubt is getting louder, and it’s not just a confidence problem. When your worth feels tied to comparison, followers, likes, and constant evaluation, anxiety and impostor syndrome start to feel “normal” even when something deep inside you ...
Knowing Better Raises The Standard For Discipleship - Spiritual Light Increases Accountability
“When you know better, you do better” sounds like a gentle nudge. I argue it’s something far more serious: spiritual light changes you, and once it shows up, you’re accountable for what you do with it. That’s the uncomfortable mercy of clarity....
Build Faith One Focused Day At A Time with Prayer, Meditation, and Vision!
Faith doesn’t usually break in a dramatic moment. It drifts, quietly, one distracted thought at a time, until we look up and realize we’re nowhere near where we meant to be. We want a practical way back, not just a motivational quote, so we wal...
Remember Your Soul's Purpose Through The Light of Christ - Interview with Shane Murphy and Myles Treanor
Your mind can argue forever, but your soul often knows in an instant. Todd sits down with Shane Murphy and Myles Treanor to explore the Soul Alignment Method, a practical approach to remembering your soul's purpose by learning to listen for a t...
Becoming Unshakable - Moral Agency Part Three - Building a Foundation on Rock Not Sand
Part three of our Moral Agency discussion. Chaos doesn’t break most people all at once. Drift does. One skipped prayer turns into a week, one “I’ll handle it” turns into relying on willpower, and suddenly the old patterns are back. ...
Stop Digging The Ditch You Keep Falling Into - Agency Part Two
There’s a point in every battle where you’ve stabilized after the first hit and you finally have space to choose your next move. That’s the moment we focus on here: shifting from being acted upon to acting with spiritual agency. If you’ve ever ...
How To Protect Your Moral Agency In A Noisy World - Agency Part 1 of 3
Losing control and losing your agency rarely happens all at once. It happens the way a pilot gets off course: one small degree at a time, until you look up and realize you’re heading the wrong direction. That’s why we start with a dogfighting l...