Christian counsel for ordinary turning points.
Breaking Bread Podcast is a reflective Christian counseling show from Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services. Its conversations connect Scripture, emotional health, family life, and practical next steps without rushing past uncertainty or pain.
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Breaking Bread Podcast is a Christian counseling and discipleship show built around patient conversations. It comes from Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services, and that setting shapes its register: warm, reflective, scriptural, and practical. The show does not treat faith as an abstract topic. It places belief inside ordinary pressures: hard decisions, strained conversations, repentance, parenting, prayer, marriage, and long-term growth. Episodes often start with a familiar tension. Someone is second-guessing a choice. A family conversation is getting tense. A parent wants children to grow into gratitude and humility. A believer wants to change but feels stuck between effort, surrender, and fear. The discussions move slowly enough to give those tensions shape. They also offer handles listeners can actually use. In the episode on decisional doubt, confidence is not portrayed as total certainty; it is connected to values, wise counsel, and the ability to move forward faithfully. In the repentance conversation, change is described as turning from disagreement with God toward agreement with God, sometimes dramatically and sometimes by small degrees. Prayer receives similar care. The Lord's Prayer is approached as both a poem and a template, with attention to God as Father, God's name, God's kingdom, and submission to God's will. Relational episodes are especially concrete. Stress-reducing conversations are framed around connection before correction, helping people feel understood before a teachable moment is attempted. Accepting relational influence is presented as a marriage and relationship practice grounded in responsiveness, humility, and mutual submission. Parenting episodes translate spiritual formation into repeated habits, including gratitude, apology, and daily practices that shape character over time. The personal growth material resists all-or-nothing measurement. Instead of demanding perfection, it encourages people to locate the next step from where they actually are. Across the show, the pace is measured and the vocabulary is pastoral without being airy. It is best for listeners who want emotionally literate Christian guidance, especially around family life, relationships, inner change, and discipleship in the middle of ordinary life.
Made for: Breaking Bread Podcast is for Christian listeners seeking practical, faith-shaped help with relationships, parenting, prayer, decision-making, and personal growth. It especially suits people who appreciate calm counseling conversations grounded in Scripture.
What sets it apart: The show blends pastoral reflection with counseling-room practicality, translating spiritual ideas into habits, questions, and relational practices. Its strength is the careful pace: it gives uncertainty, emotion, and growth room to be named before offering a next step.
Around the meal table, needs are met. As participants we celebrate the common solution to our physical need - bread. While we do so, bread of another type is broken as well. Help, hope and encouragement are shared to meet the needs of our struggles, heartaches and questions. Breaking Bread is reminiscent of these life giving conversations. This podcast strives to meet some of our common needs through our common solution – The Bread of Life.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Breaking Bread pairs Christian reflection with practical conversations about parenting, relationships, technology, and the habits that shape family life.
Matt Kaufman turns big questions into patient guest conversations about family relationships, personal change, faith, and the choices parents face.
Even 'please' and 'thank you' become a bigger question here: who are you helping your child become?
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A steady look at choosing when certainty will not cooperate.
Breaking Bread takes up decisional doubt, that uneasy point where a choice matters but certainty stays out of reach. Ted and Kathy handle it with a calm, practical tone, circling back to values, counsel, and the need to keep moving without slipping into either paralysis or haste.
Repentance becomes an ongoing turn toward God, measured in degrees as much as dramatic reversals.
Breaking Bread frames repentance as human change and reorientation, not merely the harder work of buckling down. Chad Lehman and Brian Suter consider turning back to God as both a 180-degree change and a quieter course correction of only a few degrees.
A practical conversation about leading with connection in tense moments.
Breaking Bread centers on stress-reducing conversations with Matt Kaufman, Brian Suter, Caleb Beyer, and Craig Stickley, and it keeps returning to a simple discipline: check the emotion, name it together, and choose connection before correction.
A practical talk on shaping kids through small habits, gratitude, and apology.
This conversation with Brian Suter frames habit formation as a path to freedom when those habits line up with what the Lord says is right, good, and true.
A faith-centered conversation about measuring growth by the next step, not by perfection.
Breaking Bread treats personal growth as something measured by movement, not perfection: where someone is now, and what the next faithful step might be. Ted Witzek Jr.
Advent prayer, Christmas longing, and kingdom language meet in a conversation that stays close to the hymn.
Breaking Bread from Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services turns to O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and the Lord's Prayer, with Matt Kaufman and Joe Lehman framing Advent as a season of anticipation, anxiety, and prayer that reorders the heart toward God's priorities.
A calm guide to where AI helps, where it misleads, and where it should stay out.
Breaking Bread takes a steady, practical view of AI, using David Verkler's work in technology security at ACCFS to keep the discussion tied to real use, real caution, and real judgment.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Care, culture, and the choices shaping Black women's lives.
Root-cause health, explained plainly.
Hope, tested in real conversation.
A discussion on decisional doubt, exploring how to move forward with decisions despite uncertainty.
On Breaking Bread, a podcast from Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services, guests Chad Lehman and Brian Suter open by reframing repentance as letting go of control rather than gritting your teeth and trying harder.
Isaac Funk challenges the idea that discipleship mainly serves new believers, comparing spiritual growth to the difficult second and third laps of a mile.
Joe Lehman discusses the Lord's Prayer as a poetic template for prayer, focusing on its structure and meaning.
A panel discusses how to have stress-reducing conversations in relationships, rooted in Christian faith and love.
A discussion on the importance of accepting influence from one's spouse to strengthen marriages and relationships, with scriptural backing.
Brian Suter says saying "I'm sorry" matures from a rule into specific ownership of wrongdoing.
Ted Witzek Jr. says a dissertation should feel like "a journey of a hundred steps," not step 95 on day one.
A discussion on aging with intention, featuring a retired nurse and a church elder sharing insights on life transitions and purpose.
Matt Kaufman and Joe Lehman connect Advent hymnody, especially "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," with the Lord's Prayer phrase "your kingdom come." Joe argues that the prayer works as both a poem and a template, with "six boxes" that train believers to pray for God's glory before personal needs.
Matt Kaufman interviews David Verkler, who runs technology security at Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services, about how parents should understand and guide their kids' use of artificial intelligence.
A discussion on improving brain health through stewardship of the body, emphasizing the connection between physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
A discussion on welcoming correction as a disciple of Christ, drawing parallels between teaching and discipleship.
A discussion on how parents can help their children navigate disappointment without offering temporary fixes that lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms.