If you're coming into this Christmas exhausted or empty, it may be because you're focused on secondary things—from finding the perfect gift to enduring the imperfect family gathering. In this timely message of hope, John and Stasi reorient us to the deeper, truer story of Advent season—which is both a celebration of Christ's first coming as a babe in the manger and an anticipation of his second coming as King. Your Christmas joy will increase exponentially as you look not only back at Jesus' arrival into our world, but forward to his return.

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Where do you find yourself as Christmas nears? Are you entering into it with Jesus or lost in the rush of too little time and too much to do? The pull is to either up your game and be amazing...or lower expectations and settle for little hope and joy. In this third week of Advent, John asks Stasi, Jamie, and Stacey about the story they're telling themselves this Christmas, lessons from past holiday experiences, and the unique pressures women face in this season.
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Episode Number 802

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Story is how we make sense of life, but when the narrative is shaped by loss, loneliness, or  disappointment, it can keep us stuck in an echo chamber of old assumptions. As we begin the holiday season, John and Allen ask what story we're telling ourselves about this Christmas before it even happens. Jesus stands ready to reframe our narrative if we'll choose to embrace the story he's telling for us—and with us.

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Episode Number 801

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This three-part series concludes with John and Allen talking about the lure of "less-wild lovers" and how they seek to seduce us through false promises of comfort, control, and safety. John also reads a chapter from The Sacred Romance that reveals what's at stake in this battle for the heart—as well as how to choose the path that leads to the story God made us for.

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Episode Number 800

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Our hearts long for greater adventure and romance than this world can ever fully satisfy. This can't be it. There's got to be more. Thankfully, there is! In this second of a three-part series, John, Stasi, Allen and guest Mary Ellen Owen talk about how The Sacred Romance pulls the curtain back on this cosmic drama that God's been weaving since before time began. Like a lost message from Eden, it reveals a story big enough to satisfy your yearning for intimacy, beauty, and adventure in this world of danger, risk, and chaos.

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Episode Number 799

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The true story of every person is not the story we see, the external story, but the journey of their heart. Tragically, we try to ignore or silence our hearts—whether through busyness, work, hobbies, more church duties, or a colorful fantasy life. It never works, because we were made for more, and we know it. Which makes this the perfect moment to relaunch John Eldredge and Brent Curtis' book, The Sacred Romance. In the first of this three-part series, discover the origin story of this breathtaking message and hear John read the first chapter from the updated edition of this transformative book.

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John and Stasi are joined by Morgan and Cherie for a big announcement—the upcoming birth of a new ministry. It takes courage to say yes and follow wherever God leads. In today's podcast, Morgan and Cherie talk about the process of being open to God's calling—from their decades with Wild at Heart to the exciting adventure that's next. It's a tender, encouraging story of what can happen when we wholeheartedly embrace God's invitation into the unknown.

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Episode Number 797

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Incredibly successful in the eyes of the world's elite, Sam was good at keeping up appearances. But he had more lifestyle than life. Internally, he was afraid to trust others due to a series of immense betrayals. In this intimate conversation with John and Allen, this quiet man from the Big Island of Hawaii puts language to his journey from depression and isolation into a genuine community of love and trust. His story is featured in the final episode of Wild at Heart: The Series.

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Episode Number 796

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Leo is a successful basketball coach from Texas, but growing up, he grappled with one unanswered question: "Why did my dad leave me?" His father was a famous heavyweight prizefighter but had no idea how to fight for his son's heart. Leo joins John and Allen to talk about the long road to healing—including a devastating sports injury, facing the long-lost son that he, too, abandoned, and his unexpected encounter with the Father he'd always longed for. Leo's story is featured in episode 3 of Wild at Heart: The Series.

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Episode Number 795

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Early in his marriage, Pablo made a choice that caused him to lose the most important person in his life—his wife, Juanita. But God wasn't finished with his story or their marriage. John and Allen talk with Pablo and Juanita about their rough childhood years in Colombia, what blew up their marriage, and the miraculous redemption that followed as Pablo learned to fight for his heart and those he loves most. His story is also featured in the second episode of Wild at Heart: The Series.

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Mark Evans is an accomplished British artist who fights for the heart of fellow "barbarians" on the road to restoration. His story also happens to be the focus of the first episode of Wild at Heart: The Series. In this free-flowing conversation, John and Allen ask Mark about his stormy past, what it was like growing up as an outsider, his disruptive encounters with a wild and fierce God, and his reawakened creative passion.

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Episode Number 793

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