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Resilient Faith Podcast

Resilient Faith Podcast

Written by: Michael D.Davis-Thomas
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 Welcome to the Resilient Faith Podcast, a space for honest, heartfelt conversations about navigating life’s toughest challenges through faith, resilience, and personal growth. Each episode dives deep into real-life struggles and triumphs, exploring topics like hope, despair, forgiveness, trust, and the power of resilience in our everyday lives.

Hosted by individuals who have walked their own journeys of faith and resilience, this podcast brings relatable stories, practical insights, and spiritual encouragement to listeners from all backgrounds—whether you’re a long-time believer, new to faith, or simply seeking strength and guidance. With a blend of personal reflections, faith-based wisdom, and open dialogue, we tackle questions about finding purpose, healing from pain, and building a resilient spirit in a world full of uncertainty.

Join us as we uncover how faith can anchor us, how resilience can carry us through, and how we can find hope, joy, and peace even in life’s hardest moments. Whether you’re facing challenges or just looking to deepen your spiritual journey, the Resilient Faith Podcast is here to support you every step of the way.

Tune in for real conversations that inspire real growth.Michael D.Davis-Thomas/MDDTSpeaks Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Self-Help Spirituality Success
Episodes
  • PART 1: “Parenting Through Grace, Not Projection”

    PART 1: “Parenting Through Grace, Not Projection”
    Sep 20 2025
    🎙️ Resilient Faith Podcast Miniseries: Built on the Rock

    EPISODE 3, PART 1: “Parenting Through Grace, Not Projection”

    Hosted by Carrie Davis | Featuring Michael D. Davis-Thomas

    Produced by MDDTSpeaks Ministries Description Parenting is sacred—but it’s also sanctifying. It exposes our deepest wounds, mirrors our unhealed places, and confronts us with the uncomfortable truth: we may be projecting our own pain onto the very people we’re called to protect. In Episode 3, Part 1 of Built on the Rock, Carrie Davis and Michael D. Davis-Thomas open a necessary, raw, and revelatory conversation on what it means to parent through grace—not projection. This episode pulls back the curtain on generational trauma, survival-mode parenting, control disguised as discipline, and the emotional scars left when parents operate from unprocessed pain. Carrie vulnerably shares her own journey as a mother navigating triggers, blended family dynamics, and emotional fatigue, while Michael offers lived experience, biblical insight, and a powerful reminder: “Your child shouldn’t have to heal from the version of you they met when you weren’t healed yet.” Together, they wrestle with the tough questions:
    • What do we say to the child inside us who never received grace?
    • How do we disciple our children without dominating them?
    • What if we’re co-parenting in chaos, but still trying to walk in Christ?
    From spiritual insight to practical truth, this episode is not about perfect parenting—it’s about surrendered parenting. It’s a call to lay down ego, learn how God parents us, and begin again, even if we weren’t shown how.

    Key Themes & Segment Highlights

    🔹 Opening Reflection — “What Broke You?”

    Michael and Carrie explore how survival, trauma, and past dysfunction often influence how we show up as parents. They ask listeners to examine: Are you parenting from wisdom… or woundedness?

    🔹 Discipline Without Damage

    Together with a surprise guest, the hosts unpack the difference between healthy correction and toxic control. They challenge listeners to reject culturally normalized harshness and return to parenting led by grace, not fear.

    🔹 Co-Parenting in Chaos

    When the family dynamic is fractured, the call to Christlike parenting doesn’t disappear—it deepens. Michael reminds us, “You’re not God—your job is to model Him.” From setting boundaries to releasing bitterness, this section equips those navigating complex co-parenting realities.

    Key Scriptures & Reflections
    • 📖 Proverbs 22:6 — Align your child to their God-given purpose, not your unresolved expectations.
    • 📖 Deuteronomy 6:6–7 — Are you impressing faith… or fear?
    • 📖 Colossians 3:21 — Don’t break your child’s spirit in the name of correction. Spiritual & Practical Takeaways


    📝 Journaling Prompts
    • What parts of my parenting are shaped by my trauma—not my faith?
    • When I discipline, am I correcting… or controlling?
    • What would it look like to parent more like God parents me?
    🙏🏽 Prayer Focus
    • Lord, help me unlearn what no longer honors You.
    • Heal the wounded places in me that keep trying to parent from pain.
    • Teach me how to love my child as Yours—not my possession.
    🪞 Reflection Challenge
    • Watch your tone more than your child’s behavior this week.
    • Write a letter (you’ll never send) to the person you're co-parenting with—just to release what’s been weighing you down.
    Real Talk Quote of the Episode “Your child shouldn’t have to heal from the version of you they met when you weren’t healed yet.”

    About the Hosts

    🗣️ Carrie Davis brings wisdom, warmth, and realness as she opens up about the struggle and beauty of parenting in a blended, high-responsibility world.

    🗣️ Michael D. Davis-Thomas, Founder of MDDTSpeaks and Host of Resilient Faith, brings years of experience working with youth, deep biblical study, and raw reflections from his own journey through trauma, healing, and redemption.

    Listen Now on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts.

    🎧 Don’t forget to rate, share, and leave a review to support the mission of this Spirit-led miniseries.
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    51 mins
  • Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait

    Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait
    Jun 1 2025
    🎙️ Resilient Faith Podcast Miniseries: Built on the Rock
    EPISODE 2: “Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait”
    Hosted by Carrie Davis | Featuring Michael D. Davis-Thomas
    Produced by MDDTSpeaks Media

    What does it mean to date while devoted? In a world where hookups are easier than healing and standards are often sacrificed for attention, this episode tackles the real tension between honoring God and navigating the emotional landmines of modern dating.

    In Episode 2 of Built on the Rock, host Carrie Davis and guest/co-host Michael D. Davis-Thomas, CEO/Founder of MDDTSpeaks and host of the Resilient Faith Podcast, take us deep into the heart of spiritually-centered relationships. This isn’t a “Christian dating advice” episode—it’s an unapologetically honest conversation about lust, loneliness, spiritual boundaries, trauma, discernment, emotional sobriety, and waiting well.

    Michael and Carrie dismantle the myths of godly dating being boring or repressive and instead frame it as a form of spiritual protection and emotional maturity. They address how trauma can distort clarity, why silence and secrecy in relationships can be spiritual warfare, and how to differentiate between desire and discernment when it comes to love and lust.

    🔥 “If they’re fine, saved, and toxic—that’s still a no. Being equally yoked means more than just claiming Jesus. It’s about whether their life reflects Him.” – Michael D. Davis-Thomas

    Whether you're single, dating, waiting, healing, or reevaluating what love even looks like for you—this episode will convict, challenge, and comfort you all at once. You’ll walk away with a clearer picture of what it means to be anchored in God before ever swiping right.

    Key Talking Points
    • Why God must be at the center before any romantic connection
    • Spiritual identity and emotional sobriety in dating
    • The difference between desire and discernment
    • Boundaries as protection—not punishment
    • Recognizing red flags we often spiritualize
    • The impact of trauma, casual sex, and secrecy on spiritual alignment
    • Navigating loneliness, lust, and the longing for love without compromising your call
    Featured Scriptures & Contexts
    • Proverbs 4:23 – “Above all else, guard your heart...”
      → Hebrew root for “heart” means your full inner self: mind, will, emotions.
    • 2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers...”
      → Paul was speaking to spiritual alignment, not just spiritual labels.
    • Song of Solomon 2:7 – “Do not awaken love until the time is right...”
      → An ancient warning against rushing emotional and physical intimacy.
    Reflection Prompts📝 Journaling:
    • What patterns am I calling “preference” that are really unhealed trauma?
    • Am I emotionally attached or spiritually aligned?
    • Have I awakened love too soon out of fear of being alone?
    🙏🏽 Prayer:

    “Lord, align my heart with Your truth. Heal what I hide. Guard me from counterfeits and distractions. Teach me to wait with expectation—not desperation—and to recognize Your voice over my own desires. Amen.”

    Action Items for Listeners
    • Reevaluate your dating boundaries through the lens of God’s Word
    • Hold yourself accountable to the emotional and spiritual fruit of your choices
    • Examine who’s in your life: do they push you toward God or pull you away?
    • Reflect on your waiting season: is it refinement or resistance?
    • Share this episode with someone silently struggling with dating in faith
    Host Notes

    Carrie Davis and Michael D. Davis-Thomas are unfiltered, faithful, and fearless in this conversation—reminding us that if God’s not first, everything else falls apart. Their synergy, scriptural depth, and lived experience offer a roadmap for listeners ready to date with intentionality, maturity, and most importantly, resilient faith.

    🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t forget to rate, review, and share to help us reach more people navigating love, loss, and faith in a complicated world.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • What a Relationship with God Really Is

    What a Relationship with God Really Is
    May 17 2025
    What if the reason your relationships feel off isn’t about them—but about how you see Him?

    In the debut episode of our powerful new miniseries, Built on the Rock, host Carrie Davis and guest co-host Michael D. Davis-Thomas dismantle the surface-level definitions of faith many of us were raised on. This is not a conversation about religion. It’s about relationship. Raw, honest, unfiltered communion with the God who wants more than your Sunday best—He wants you.

    Titled “Start Here: What a Relationship with God Really Is”, this episode digs deep into the foundations of faith that often get lost in tradition, trauma, and performance-driven spirituality. Through authentic storytelling, scriptural grounding, and hard-won wisdom, Michael and Carrie explore what it truly means to walk with God—not just work for Him.

    From breaking generational habits of passive belief to learning how to hear God's voice in the silence, this conversation is an invitation to rebuild your understanding of intimacy, identity, and intentionality with God. If you’ve ever felt like you were doing all the right things but still felt far from Him—this episode was crafted for you.

    Scriptures referenced:

    John 10:27 — “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
    James 4:8 — “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you…”
    Psalm 42:1-2 — “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God…”

    Real Talk Moment:

    “If you don’t trust God with your wounds, you’ll worship Him with walls up.” This episode explores:
    • The difference between knowing of God and actually knowing Him
    • How childhood faith becomes adult formation—or dysfunction
    • Learning to approach God honestly without performance or polish
    • Why your view of God shapes every other relationship in your life
    • Practical, non-performative steps to begin (or restart) a relationship with God today
    Whether you’re deconstructing, rebuilding, or just now searching for what’s real—this is your invitation to start here. Not with religion. Not with rules. But with relationship.
    Because everything else falls apart… if He’s not first. LISTEN NOW on the Resilient Faith Podcast.

    Stream the full Built on the Rock miniseries wherever you get your podcasts.
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    52 mins
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