Bumper Sticker Wisdom

In Episode 140 of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, John and Terri explore what it means to recognize that the enemy is not people.Beginning with Ephesians 6, the conversation looks at spiritual warfare, the battles we cannot always see, and the importance of directing our focus toward the real enemy rather than lashing out at the people around us.They also talk about grace, the price Christ paid for us, and the responsibility we often feel for protecting the people we love. What happens when we realize that we cannot fix everything or carry every burden—but Christ has already paid the price?It’s an honest conversation about faith, relationships, responsibility, and learning to fight the right fight.Episode 140: The Enemy Is Not Who You Think.

How do you see yourself?When we look at ourselves, we often focus on our failures, mistakes, flaws, and all the places where we feel like we haven't measured up. We can recognize how far we've come and still focus on how far we have left to go.But what if we're looking at ourselves through the wrong eyes?In this episode of Bumper Sticker Wisdom, we talk about grace, salvation, God's love, the Bible, and the way we judge ourselves and others. Along the way, the conversation leads to a powerful question:If you could truly see yourself through the eyes of Jesus, what do you think you would see?Maybe we spend too much time defining ourselves by our failures and not enough time considering how Christ sees us.Join us for an honest conversation about faith, identity, grace, and learning to see ourselves through the eyes of Christ.

What happens when we ask God for something—and His answer doesn't look anything like what we expected?In Episode 138, John and Terri talk about the reality that following Jesus doesn't mean life will be easy. Sometimes God answers our prayers differently than we imagined. Sometimes the storms remain, and we're given the strength to stand in them instead.The conversation explores the importance of surrounding ourselves with people who genuinely want to see us grow, recognizing when relationships may no longer be healthy for us, and understanding that even difficult experiences can shape who we become.We also talk about imperfection—our own and everyone else's. God doesn't require us to have perfect stories before He can use us. Every person has a story, every person has a calling, and we're meant to help one another along the way.And because relationships aren't always easy, we talk about disagreement too. We can have firm beliefs and still be willing to listen. We don't have to agree with one another to love one another.This is another honest conversation about faith, struggle, growth, relationships, and learning to trust God when the road isn't easy.God didn't promise easy. But He never asked us to walk it alone.

What does surrender actually look like?In this episode, John and Terry have an honest conversation about learning to let go without giving up.They talk about the pressure of feeling responsible for everyone around you, the desire to make yourself valuable and needed, and how difficult it can be to surrender control when you've spent years learning to depend on yourself.They also explore how our past shapes us without having to define us, and how two people can experience similar circumstances and still choose very different paths.One of the biggest realizations in the conversation is that facing the same struggle doesn't mean you're starting over. Sometimes you're simply facing it from a different place because you've grown.And maybe that's part of what following Jesus looks like—not finally arriving at a place where we have everything figured out, but learning over and over again to trust God with the journey.Letting go doesn't mean giving up. Sometimes it's learning to trust God enough to keep going.Join John and Terry for another honest, sometimes funny, and always imperfect conversation about faith, life, relationships, and growth.Bumper Sticker Wisdom: presenting a perfect man in a not-so-perfect way.

Life has a way of wearing us down. Sometimes this world will truly grind you into dust, and there are moments when you simply don't have the strength to keep your arms up.So who holds them up?In this episode of the Bumper Sticker Wisdom Podcast, we talk about the importance of community, friendship, church, and having people in our lives who are willing to stand beside us when we're struggling.We look at the story of Moses, Aaron, and Hur in Exodus 17 and what it teaches us about supporting one another. Moses couldn't keep his arms raised forever. When he became tired, Aaron and Hur came alongside him and held his arms up.Maybe that's what community is supposed to look like.Not people who have everything figured out. Not people who are always strong. Just people willing to stand with each other when the battle gets heavy.We also talk about how God has been changing our perspective on church and community, what it means to be there for the people around us, and why success isn't always about how many people you reach. Sometimes helping just one person is enough.Because all of us will eventually have a moment when we can't hold our arms up anymore.The question is: Who will be there to hold yours up?🎙️ Bumper Sticker Wisdom Podcast A conversation about faith, life, and growth, hosted by two friends who are learning as they go.Honest conversations. Real life. Faith without the pretense.Because we believe in presenting a perfect man in a not-so-perfect way.

"To know that even on life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." -Lao Tzu

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in the depths it has its pearls." - Vincent VanGough

"Reality is nwvwe frustrating, reality is always fulfilling. Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality." - Osho

"Whoever shows you your faults, keep him close, for he is a true friend!" - Ali Iba Abi Talib

"Let them be wrong about you. There's nothing to prove." - Unknown

"Everything is beautiful depending on the situation. A school bell sounds irritating at 9am, but the same bell sounds melodious at 4pm." - Unknown

"And God said love your enemy. I obeyed him and loved myself." - Kahlil Gibson

"To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and thememory of a bad past." - Seneca

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe adn sane future." - John F. Kennedy

"The true weight of a man is the gap between who he is and who he knows he should be." - Marcus Arelius

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you, if you allow it." - Leon Brown

"What is poison?Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be your, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever." - unknown

"3Courage is being scared and saddling up and doing it any way." John Wayne

How stubborn are we that we must continue to repat the same old things so we can say, "I did it on my own." How stuck in our ways must we be that we continue to know that we can't do it on our own but never turn to the who will never leave us? - Bumper Sticker Wisdom

"Life's tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing worse than being blind is having vision and no sight." - Helle Keller

"You can't save everyone. Some people ar going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them." - Bryant McGill

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."-Socrates

"Befor the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable."-Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

"No man knows how truly bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good." C.S. Lewis

"I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"It was pride that turned angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." - St. Augustine

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain

"Everything hangs on ones thinking... A man is as happy as he has convinced himself he is." Seneca

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God forgave the inexcusable in you." - C.S. Lewis

"We are not what we know, but what we are willing to learn." Mary Catherine Bateson

"Love all, trust only a few." - William Shakespeare

"It may be your sole purpose in life to simply serve as a warning to others." - Unknown

"The blindness of humanity is so great that people are actually proud of their blindness."-Augustine of Hippo

"It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul." - Heraclitus

"Nobody is going to pur truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself." - Noam Chomsky

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for what he has not,but rejoices for that which he has." - Epictetus

"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing."-Bruce Lee

"The world is changed by your example, not your opinion." - Paulo Coelho

"The strongest of all warriors are these two--time and patience"- Leo TolstoyThis is a conversation about the upcoming milestone of 100 episodes, and led into the challenge of freindships and growing those relationships.

"Saying nothing sometimes says the most." - Emily Dickinson

"Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them."-John Ruskin

"If you want to be succesful, you must respect one rule - Never lie to yourself" - Paulo CoelhoWe discuss many topics in this Christian walk. Like; that authority we have in Him, how Chrsit found us worth the price he paid, and Him calling us by name and not our sin.

"I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have loast and found parts of myself that I never knew existed and I am blesed." - Val Kilmer

"I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizzarely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed and I am blessed. - Val Kilmer

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."-Seneca

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesnt calculate his blessings." - Rene Decartes

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can only anger you when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."-Epictetus"We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools"-Martin Luther King Jr.