”Now may the God of hope fill you . . . . ” (Romans 15:13). How full does God want us to be? Join Steve Backlund as he looks at God’s message to the Children of Israel in a season of bondage and disappointment.

”Enabling people focuses on today’s comfort. Empowerment focuses on tomorrow’s freedom. Our goal isn’t to make life easier for people. Our goal is to make people stronger for life.” This is an excerpt from this podcast that looks deeper at what love really is in relationships.

The Pharisees defended truth, valued obedience, and devoted themselves to preserving God’s law. Yet most completely missed the Messiah standing before them. In this message, Steve Backlund inspires and equips you to be a modern day son or daughter of Issachar.

Steve Backlund uses an excerpt out of his book, Let’s Just Laugh at That, to speak into our beliefs about spiritual warfare and spiritual protection. Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and equipped to be a spiritual thermostat, not a thermometer.

Great leaders have skills in integrity, communication, vision-casting, tenacity, relationships, and more. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares a ”skill” that truly determines our influence level.

Many years ago, AAMCO Transmissions had a memorable slogan: "Pay now or pay later." Their message was simple. Spend a little money on maintenance today or spend much more repairing major problems later. In this podcast, Steve Backlund unpacks his leadership pillar of intentionality to inspire and equip us to have an investment mindset, not a debt mindset.

One of the greatest areas where we are tempted to be frustrated in our Christian life is believing for something that hasn’t happened yet. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares one of his most important life habits to navigate these situations with victory.

Melinda and Pieter Lagaay join Steve Backlund to share their incredible marriage restoration and to give a key for breakthrough and growth in marriages.

If we always wait for provision before deciding to do something, we will limit what our lives can become. In this message, Steve Backlund extracts from his book, Fully Convinced: The Art of Decision Making to inspire us to think big in our decision making.

We are all tempted to be ”small” on the inside of ourselves (offended, jealous, envious, selfish, entitled, etc) like the Bible characters of Cain, Joseph’s brothers, King Saul, and the Pharisees during Jesus’ ministry. In this message, Steve Backlund inspires us to go higher in our beliefs when others are experiencing what we want.