Unshaken

Tony & Kristy
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A community built on faith, strengthened by family, and grounded in resilience, created for people like you. Welcome to the Unshaken Podcast, where you do not have to navigate life alone. Hosted by Tony and Kristy, this show is about living out Faith, Family, and Resilience when life does not go as planned. Each week, we have honest, Christ-centered conversations about Christian marriage, family resilience, disability and faith, caregiving, disability ministry, church inclusion, and the everyday challenges families face. Through biblical truth, real stories, and practical encouragement, we explore what it looks like to love well, stand firm, ask for help, make room for others, and keep following Christ through seasons that are harder than expected. Whether you are an individual, a couple, a parent, a caregiver, a ministry leader, or someone walking through a difficult season, you will find encouragement, practical support, and lasting hope in Christ. We are building a community where real stories matter, struggles are honored, disability does not disqualify anyone from belonging or leadership, and no one has to feel alone. This is Faith. Family. Resilience.This is Unshaken.

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 78: When Your Family Can't Keep Saying Yes

    🎙️ Episode 78: When Your Family Can't Keep Saying Yes What happens when every yes is good, but together they become more than your family can carry? This episode is about family boundaries for Christians who are trying to serve faithfully without overloading their household. Tony and Kristy talk about ministry commitments, marriage, hidden workload, and the discernment it takes to decide what your family can faithfully carry and what you need to decline. Good things can still add up to more than your family can faithfully carry. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/when-your-family-cant-keep-saying-yes/ A full calendar is not the only sign that a family is carrying too much. The real cost of a yes can include preparation, transportation, childcare, household work, physical energy, recovery time, and the load another family member quietly absorbs. Through Ephesians 5:15-17 and Galatians 5:13, Tony and Kristy explore how to protect the assignments God has genuinely entrusted to you, say no to good opportunities that are not yours to carry, and make those decisions before exhaustion becomes resentment. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why an open calendar does not always mean your family has available bandwidth How to recognize the hidden cost a yes may place on the rest of your household Why not every good opportunity or real need becomes your assignment How to protect the yeses you believe God has genuinely entrusted to your family Why saying no early, clearly, and humbly can prevent exhaustion from becoming resentment 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #FaithAndFamily #ChristianMarriage #FamilyBoundaries #BiblicalDiscernment #FamilyResilience #MinistryLife #ChristianLiving We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  2. Sep 8

    Episode 77: When Help Adds to the Burden

    🎙️ Episode 77: When Help Adds to the Burden What if the help we offer is making a hard season heavier? Tony and Kristy look at why good intentions can still add work for someone who is already overwhelmed, and how specific, consent-based, reliable support can actually lower the load without taking away dignity or agency. The goal is not to feel helpful. The goal is for someone else's burden to become lighter. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/when-help-adds-to-the-burden/ From James 2:14-17 and Romans 12:10 to newborn days, disability, surgery, meal trains, prayer, and church care, this conversation asks what faithful help looks like in real life. Sometimes it means making a concrete offer. Sometimes it means becoming the steady person who follows through. And sometimes it means accepting a no without making the person in need manage our feelings too. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why "let me know what you need" can create one more decision for someone already carrying too much How specific offers and "counterbids" make help easier and safer to receive Why initiative still needs consent, timing, and attention to the details that actually matter How reliability, continuity, and a trusted point person can reduce ongoing mental load Why receiving help does not require surrendering dignity, agency, or your voice 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #ChristianCaregiving #FaithInAction #CaregivingSupport #ChurchCare #PracticalFaith #FamilySupport #ChristianEncouragement We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  3. Sep 1

    Episode 76: When Your Parents Start Needing You

    🎙️ Episode 76: When Your Parents Start Needing You What happens when the people who have always been your touchstone begin needing you in new ways? Tony and Kristy talk about the slow, sometimes surprising shift that happens as parents age and adult children begin carrying more responsibility. They explore how to offer practical help while still honoring a parent's dignity, agency, privacy, wisdom, and right to participate in decisions about their own life. Love does not have to erase dignity just because the roles are changing. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-your-parents-start-needing-you/ This season can hold grief and gratitude at the same time. It can bring hard conversations, sibling tension, changing schedules, outside care, and the temptation to turn a parent into a list of problems to solve. Tony and Kristy make room for all of that while returning to a steadier posture: tell the truth with tenderness, ask before taking over, share the load when possible, receive help when you need it, and keep looking for the person beneath the needs. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: How honoring your parents can change as family roles change without ignoring reality or taking over unnecessarily Why help should support dignity and participation rather than make an aging parent feel smaller How efficiency can quietly work against love when a parent can still choose, contribute, and enjoy familiar traditions Why caregiver capacity, sibling responsibility, respite, and outside support are matters of stewardship, not failure How to protect ordinary moments, memories, and the parent-child relationship while practical needs keep increasing 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #AgingParents #ChristianCaregiving #FamilyCaregiving #CaregiverSupport #HonorYourParents #AgingWithDignity #FaithAndFamily #AdultChildren #UnshakenPodcast #UnshakenFamily We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  4. Aug 29 ·  Bonus

    Unshaken Conversation: Gary Steffes: When Trying Harder Is Not the Answer

    🎙️ Unshaken Conversation: Gary Steffes: When Trying Harder Is Not the Answer What if the harder you try to live the Christian life, the more exhausted you become? In this Unshaken Conversation, Tony sits down with his friend Gary Steffes, who leads Pure Encouragement. Gary shares how God met him in the anxiety and performance pressure of his hockey career, transformed the way he understood confidence, and taught him that spiritual strength does not come from trying to become the power source. The branch was never meant to become the power source. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/unshaken-conversation-gary-steffes-when-trying-harder-is-not-the-answer/ From pre-deciding to stand firm, to "going vertical" in marriage and parenting, to building trusted brotherhood and making prayer a non-negotiable part of life, Gary keeps returning to John 15:4. This conversation is for believers who are tired of trying to muscle fruit into their lives and want to learn what it means to stay close to Jesus and let Him produce what effort alone cannot. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: How Gary moved from performance-driven anxiety to finding his identity and confidence in Christ Why resilience often begins with a heart-level decision made before the pressure comes How John 15:4 shifted Gary from trying harder to abiding more deeply in Jesus What "go vertical" looks like in real moments of marriage, parenting, and emotional pressure Why trusted community and prayer matter when you want to live with spiritual strength 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #AbideInChrist #ChristianResilience #IdentityInChrist #FaithOverFear #Prayer #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianEncouragement #UnshakenPodcast We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  5. Aug 25

    Episode 75: When Your Story Is Not Public Property

    🎙️ Episode 75: When Your Story Is Not Public Property What happens when a question that seems harmless starts to feel exhausting? How do we balance grace for people who are trying to learn with the right to protect our own story? In this episode of Unshaken Podcast, Tony and Kristy talk about questions, privacy, agency, and dignity through the lens of faith, family, resilience, disability, and real life. They share what it is like to repeatedly answer questions about disability, how intent and impact can be different, and why being visible does not mean every detail of your life is public information. Your story is still your own, and you get to decide who receives access to it. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-your-story-is-not-public-property/ This conversation explores how Christians can ask better questions, answer with grace, and protect the dignity of others. Tony and Kristy discuss agency, caregiving, family conversations, and the responsibility we have when sharing someone else's story. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: The difference between genuine curiosity and questions that cross personal boundaries. Why repeated questions can create fatigue even when they are asked with good intentions. How visible does not mean public, and why agency matters. How spouses, caregivers, and families can protect someone's dignity and story. Why grace and boundaries can exist together. 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday. 📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org #UnshakenPodcast #FaithAndDisability #ChristianLiving #DisabilityAwareness #FaithFamily #Resilience #ChristianPodcast We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  6. Aug 18

    Episode 74: What If the Strongest Christian in the Room Needs Help?

    🎙️ Episode 74: What If the Strongest Christian in the Room Needs Help? What if the strongest Christian in the room is not the person who needs the least? Tony flies solo for an honest look at how Christians define strength, dependence, weakness, and calling. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 1, Mark 10, 2 Corinthians 4, and Hebrews 4, he asks whether our picture of strength has been shaped more by self-sufficiency than by Christ. Christ is not asking you to become invulnerable before his grace can meet you. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/what-if-the-strongest-christian-in-the-room-needs-help/ Tony reflects on his own journey with cerebral palsy, unanswered prayer, and receiving visible help, while making an important distinction: grace never asks us to excuse sin, harm, neglect, or growth we are able to pursue. Christian strength is not passivity. It is dependence on Christ, honest limits, service, courage, and faithfulness. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why self-sufficiency is not the Christian definition of strength What Paul's thorn teaches about grace, calling, and unanswered prayer Why visible dependence does not diminish dignity, competence, or spiritual credibility How to distinguish limitations that call for acceptance from sin, harm, or patterns that require action Why asking for help, receiving care, and serving within limits can be expressions of faithful strength 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at:prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday.  📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org  #UnshakenPodcast #ChristianStrength #GraceInWeakness #FaithAndDisability #DependenceOnGod #ChristianPodcast #ChristianResilience #CerebralPalsy #FaithInRealLife #BiblicalEncouragement  We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  7. Aug 11

    Episode 73: When School Feels Impossible: What Your Child May Be Trying to Tell You

    🎙️ Episode 73: When School Feels Impossible: What Your Child May Be Trying to Tell You What if the morning meltdown is not the problem, but a clue to something your child cannot yet explain? Tony and Kristy talk through the mornings when a child is crying, shutting down, bargaining, complaining of a stomachache, or simply saying they cannot go to school. Instead of treating the refusal as the whole problem, they look for what may be underneath it, including bullying, academic overwhelm, sensory stress, health needs, disrupted routines, embarrassment, or a loss of safety.  Before you punish the refusal, make sure you understand the story underneath it. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/when-school-feels-impossible-what-your-child-may-be-trying-to-tell-you/ School matters, and so does what a child may be experiencing there. This conversation holds compassion and responsibility together, with practical ways to ask better questions, notice repeated patterns, work with the school, build trusted support, consider accommodations, and pray with your child while you keep moving toward a workable path forward. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why school refusal can be a clue instead of a complete explanation How repeated classes, people, transitions, sounds, symptoms, or fears can reveal patterns Why "I don't know" may be an honest answer when a child cannot name what feels wrong How compassion, responsibility, school partnership, and accommodations can work together Ways to build trusted adults, practical options, prayer, and support before the next hard morning 🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday.  📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org  #SchoolRefusal #SchoolAvoidance #ChristianParenting #ParentingSupport #SchoolAnxiety #ListenFirst #ParentSchoolPartnership #FaithAndFamily #UnshakenPodcast #FamilyResilience We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

  8. Aug 4

    Episode 72: Make Room Without Keeping Score

    🎙️ Episode 72: Make Room Without Keeping Score Who do you invite when there is nothing in it for you? Tony and Kristy open Luke 14:12-24 and confront the hidden economy that can turn hospitality into a quiet exchange. They ask what it means to invite people because they belong, especially when disability, age, transportation, food needs, sensory needs, or accessibility make welcome cost more than convenience. Christ does not confuse someone else's inconvenience with what you're actually worth. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/episodes/make-room-without-keeping-score/ Jesus does not offer a softer version of selective hospitality. He changes the guest list, removes the expectation of repayment, and calls His people to bring near those who are often left outside. This conversation speaks both to the person shaping the table and the person who has learned to wonder whether needing accommodation makes them a burden. 🔶 What You'll Hear in This Episode: How reciprocity can quietly turn welcome into scorekeeping What Luke 14 reveals about who belongs at the table Why real inclusion changes plans, removes barriers, and costs something A pastoral word for anyone who has felt like an inconvenience Everyday ways to practice hospitality beyond parties and dinner tables  🙏 Need Prayer or Encouragement? 💬 Want to leave a public comment? We'd love to hear from you. 🕊️ Prefer privacy? You can send a completely anonymous text prayer request here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2461867/open_sms 📧 Or, if you would rather reach out by email, we would be honored to pray for you at: prayer@unshakenministries.org 📌 Subscribe & Listen Weekly: 🎧 Prefer audio-only? Listen on your favorite platform: 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rsw92clmmA83HL1NR0zM 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken/id1803953295 🌍 Or anywhere else: https://unshakenpodcast.org/ 🛎️ Do not forget to like, follow, and share. New episodes release every Tuesday.  📱 Stay Connected: Facebook: facebook.com/unshakenministries.team Instagram: @unshaken.ministries Website: https://unshakenpodcast.org Email: info@unshakenministries.org  #ChristianHospitality #Luke14 #BiblicalHospitality #DisabilityInclusion #ChurchInclusion #ChristianCommunity #Belonging #FaithInAction #UnshakenPodcast #MakeRoom We’d love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, stories, or prayer requests, let’s stay connected. This podcast is for encouragement and spiritual support. While we hope it uplifts and equips you, it’s not a substitute for professional counseling or pastoral care.

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A community built on faith, strengthened by family, and grounded in resilience, created for people like you. Welcome to the Unshaken Podcast, where you do not have to navigate life alone. Hosted by Tony and Kristy, this show is about living out Faith, Family, and Resilience when life does not go as planned. Each week, we have honest, Christ-centered conversations about Christian marriage, family resilience, disability and faith, caregiving, disability ministry, church inclusion, and the everyday challenges families face. Through biblical truth, real stories, and practical encouragement, we explore what it looks like to love well, stand firm, ask for help, make room for others, and keep following Christ through seasons that are harder than expected. Whether you are an individual, a couple, a parent, a caregiver, a ministry leader, or someone walking through a difficult season, you will find encouragement, practical support, and lasting hope in Christ. We are building a community where real stories matter, struggles are honored, disability does not disqualify anyone from belonging or leadership, and no one has to feel alone. This is Faith. Family. Resilience.This is Unshaken.

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  • Creator
    Tony & Kristy
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    82
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Unshaken Ministries. All rights reserved.
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    Unshaken