Living Loved Podcast - Season 5
Updated: Oct 20
Theme: Heart Questions from Mark's Gospel
Episode 53 - Who Will Roll The Stone Away? (Season Finale)
In this season finale, we explore the question the women asked on their way to Jesus’ tomb, found in Mark 16:3. Their experience reminds us that God is often already at work overcoming obstacles we cannot move ourselves. But sometimes our greatest obstacles are fear, unbelief, and hardened hearts.
Discover how the risen Jesus goes before us, works with us, and calls us to share the good news—even when we feel afraid, inadequate, or unprepared. The question is no longer simply who will remove the obstacles, but will we go?
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
Name your stone: the one thing you believe stands between you and sharing Jesus. Is it a stone only God can move, or a fear to bring to him? Then tell one person this week what Jesus has done for you. It can be your “and Peter” story.
Episode 52 - What if I don't know myself?
How well do we really know ourselves?
In Mark 14:17–31, the disciples ask Jesus, “Surely, not I?” Yet hours later, they abandon him. Their story reveals how easily we can overestimate our own faithfulness.
In this episode of Living Loved, we explore how to recognize our blind spots without falling into pride or fear. Discover the freedom of being fully known and deeply loved by Jesus, who knows our weaknesses before we do—and loves us anyway.
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
Every morning this week, pray Psalm 19:12: “Who can detect their errors? Clear me from hidden faults.” Then add, “Lord, keep me.” As you pray, imagine Jesus saying your name the way he said Peter’s, and let yourself hear that the invitation includes you.
Episode 51 - Should I be afraid of the end times?
Should we be afraid of the end times?
In Mark 13, the disciples ask Jesus when the end will come and what signs they should look for. Instead of giving them a date, Jesus calls them to stay awake, refuse fear, remain faithful, and keep doing the work God has given them. In this episode, we discover that preparing for Jesus’ return is less about predicting the future and more about living faithfully and hopefully in the present.
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
This week, name one voice feeding your fear about the future and turn it down for seven days. Then write down the work God has put in your hands, in your family, job, church, or neighborhood, and do it faithfully as someone who expects the Master home.
Episode 50 - Will I see them again?
What happens to the people we love when they die? Will we recognize them again, and what will our relationships be like in the resurrection?
In this tender 50th episode of Living Loved, we explore Jesus’ surprising answer in Mark 12:18–27 and the hope it offers those carrying grief, unanswered questions, or unfinished business with someone they’ve lost.
The living God does not lose what he loves.
Celebrating 50 episodes
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
This week, write down the name of someone you have lost, and under it, write the question you still carry about them. Bring both honestly to God in prayer. Then say that question out loud to a mature Christian or a spiritual leader you trust. Questions grow heavier when we carry them in silence. They get lighter when we speak them in community. You do not need every answer about heaven. You need to know who is holding it.
Episode 49 - What if I don't have enough?
This season, we take questions people asked Jesus in Mark's gospel, and we hold it up next to the questions we are asking right now. We walk through five questions: Can I trust God to provide for my needs? Why is this happening to me? Where is God in all of this? Am I spiritualizing a problem that actually just needs a practical solution? And finally, what do I actually do about it this week? You are allowed not to fully understand your lack and to still be deeply loved by God.
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
This week, write down the actual number — whatever gap you have been avoiding naming — and bring that exact number to God in prayer, without softening it or inflating it. Then ask yourself the harder question honestly: is there a practical step in front of me right now that I have been avoiding by calling it spiritual? If there is, take it this week. And watch for where the leftovers show up. They will not always look like bread.
Episode 48 - What Does It Actually Mean to Be Holy?
In Mark 7, Jesus challenges a view of holiness built around rules, rituals, and outward behavior and takes us straight to the heart. In this episode, we explore why holiness is not a wall separating us from others, but a wellspring flowing from a heart surrendered to God. And when old habits and struggles remain, we discover how the Holy Spirit cleanses, transforms, and empowers us to walk a new path
Scripture: Mark 7:1-23
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
Pray Psalm 139:23–24 each morning this week: “Search me, O God, and know my heart.” If the Holy Spirit shows you something that needs to go, don’t hide it behind good behavior. Confess it, and be decisive about one step — delete the app, make the call, tell one trusted person the truth.
Episode 47 - Help my unbelief.
In this episode of Living Loved, we wrestle with one of faith’s most vulnerable questions: "Is it okay to admit that I doubt?" Through the desperate father’s prayer in Mark 9—“I believe; help my unbelief”—and a deeply personal story of unanswered prayer, we discover that doubt does not have to drive us away from Jesus.
It can become an invitation to bring our questions honestly to him, return to dependence, and discover that God’s love for us does not depend on the perfection of our faith.
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
Finish the father's prayer for yourself. Say: "Jesus, I believe" — then fill in your request. "Help me to trust you more." Then tell one other person what you wrote.
Episode 46 - Who do you think you are?
What happens when the people who know you best can only see who you used to be? In Mark 6, Jesus returns home to Nazareth, where familiarity keeps his neighbors from recognizing who he truly is.
In this episode, we explore what to do when others try to keep us in old boxes, and how we might be doing the same to others. Discover how to keep moving, travel light, leave the dust of rejection behind, and live from an identity grounded not in others’ opinions, but in being deeply known and loved by God.
LIVING LOVED CHALLENGE
Name the old version of yourself you're still performing somewhere. Think of one person you're still relating to as who they used to be, and ask God if it's time to close that file. Then name one piece of dust from an old rejection you're still carrying — and leave it where it fell.
Episode 45 - Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?
What do you do when you know God can help, but it feels like he isn’t doing anything? In Mark 4:35–41, the disciples find themselves caught in a terrifying storm while Jesus sleeps, leading them to ask, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are perishing?”
In this episode, we explore what their question reveals about our own fears, our expectations of God, and what it means to trust Jesus when life feels like it’s capsizing. Discover why the storm is not evidence that God has abandoned you, and how faith invites us to trust who Jesus is, even when we cannot control the outcome.
Episode 44 - Why does He eat with sinners?
Why does Jesus eat with tax collectors and sinners, and what does that mean for how we engage people who don’t share our faith?
In this episode, we explore Mark 2:13–17 and discover a holiness that doesn’t retreat from brokenness but moves toward people with grace, hospitality, and love. We’ll also consider what often holds us back: fear, insecurity, and rejection—and how knowing that we are deeply loved frees us to listen, build genuine relationships, and follow Jesus into uncomfortable spaces.
Episode 43 - Who can forgive sins?
In Mark 2:1–12, Jesus’ healing of a paralyzed man reveals that our deepest need goes beyond what is visible. In this episode, we explore what Mark teaches us about sin, why Jesus has the authority to forgive, and how faith shapes our response to his grace.
If you have ever wondered whether you can truly be forgiven, or whether you have gone too far, this episode is an invitation to discover the forgiveness and restoration Jesus offers.
Episode 42 - What is this?
This episode begins a new season for the Living Loved podcast, "Heart Questions from Mark's Gospel."
Have you ever experienced a moment that made you stop and ask, "What is actually happening right now?" In this opening episode of Heart Questions from Mark's Gospel, we explore the crowd's astonished question in Mark 1:27—"What is this?"—after Jesus demonstrates His authority over evil.
Together, we'll discover that this question points to the arrival of God's kingdom, invites us to trust that God is still at work in our broken world, and challenges us to consider how we will respond to King Jesus today.
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