Fish Food

Loving Your Brother as Yourself

Mark Casson spent 15 years in prison for attempted murder.  But incarceration wasn't nearly as difficult as the lack of freedom he faces in communicating his greatest love with his brother.  

Mark is the executive director of Metanoia Prison Ministries.  In this episode we talk about his years in Corcoran Prison, how he met his wife while there, and the difficulty of talking about Christ with family members.  

Finding Grace in Loss and Transition

Dr. Timothy Lane is a counselor, pastor, conference speaker, trainer, and author. He is the Founder and President of the Institute for Pastoral Care, a non-profit that equips local churches to care for their people, and Tim Lane & Associates, a counseling practice in Peachtree City, GA.

 

Tim has authored Living Without Worry: How to Replace Anxiety with Peace, and co-authored How People Change and Relationships: A Mess Worth Making.

 

In this episode, Tim talks us through what it looks like to find mercy and grace through loss and transition as he has experienced career transition as well as loss within his family.

Weakness? Are You Sure?

This week we visit with Ed Eubanks. Weakness, PTSD, rheumatological disease, community, counsel, and prayer . . . Ed walks us through how two areas of his life revealed his weaknesses in ways he would have never chosen, but how those weaknesses have become something life-giving and beautiful for himself and others.

When We Don't Get What We Want

This week's episode deal's with the heart struggle of when we don't get what we want. The host of Fish Food gets interviewed by Holly, his wife, regarding a desired dream job gone south and the resulting effects both good and bad.

 

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Can I Pray My Way Out?

In this week's episode of Fish Food I am invited into the home and lives of Randall and Diane Yelverton of Florence, Alabama.  We talk about 34 years of ministry in a small town in the south, coming to grips with depression, and the importance of community for longterm health.  Randall has been a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and in the Associate Reformed Church (ARP).  Diane was a school teacher in the public school system in Alabama.  

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I Like Being Liked: Future Hope and Our Self-esteem

We all liked to be liked.  What happens in our hearts when someone doesn't like us?  In this episode, Chas Morris walks us through his struggle with depending too much of what others think of him.  How can our future hope speak into our present struggle with being liked?  Chas is the pastor of Grace Blue Ridge in Hendersonville, NC.  He is a pastor, really good beer brewer, a runner, and has a love for enteraining others.  

Out of Self and Into Others: a journey from self-loathing to the well-being of others

Calvin Armerding is a counselor, writer, and a musician.  In this episode we hear of his struggle with belieivng that if he didn't stay circumstancially beneficial to others, they would either abandon him or die.  We invite you to listen in and hear of the transformation Calvin underwent and is undergoing.  

Depression, People-Pleasing, and Living for Christ

In this episode Andy Lewis walks us through his struggles as a pastor with depression and how it was related to people-pleasing and a martyr complex. Andy is the pastor of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. You can also see an edited print version at www.fishfood.me.

. . . Nevertheless: betrayal, divorce, and living a life through grace - Lacey Keigley

Humble vulnerability is powerful.  The greatest leaders are those who are willing to tell the stories of their struggle in order to be a help to others.  Fish Food is a media company that desires to help tell those stories so that you can be encouraged, strengthened, and directed to a true and lasting hope despite the circumstances you face.  

In this episode, Lacey Keigley leads us through the story of unfaithfulness, betrayal, becoming a single parent, and God's mercy through it all.