The witness of Scripture is clear. The God who speaks is also the God who listens. And on this Midday Connection, Trevor Hudson joins us to continue our series on discovering our spiritual identity. We’ll focus in on how we open up our hearts to God and how we can be sure that everything we communicate to God is heard even when we struggle to believe this is true.

Featured Guest: Trevor Hudson
Hosts: Anita and Melinda

Most of us long for mentors, wise individuals we can watch and emulate and who will give us biblical counsel along our journey. On this Midday Connection Gordon and Gail MacDonald join us and they are just the people to help us navigate our spiritual journey. Join us as the MacDonald’s generously share what they’ve learned over the long haul.

Featured Guests: Gordon and Gail MacDonald
Host: Anita Lustrea

How do you access your creative side? On this Midday Connection, artist Tamara Peterson makes a return visit to talk about ways to engage your artistic self as she opens us up to “Creative Art Journaling”. We are made in God’s image, therefore, we do have creativity in our DNA. We’ll help you access it.  

Featured Guest: Tamara Peterson
Host: Melinda Schmidt

In the Song of Songs we read “Arise my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” How do we find ourselves responding to our one true lover? On this Midday Connection Dee Brestin joins us as we continue our series about Idol Lies. Dee will help flesh out how transformation comes when we do arise and come to Him and cast off our idols.

Featured Guest: Dee Brestin
Hosts: Anita and Melinda

It’s the Millrose Club on this Midday Connection and student and Moody Radio Intern Lebo Pooe will join us in the 4th chair. We’ll talk about our voice, do we like it, has it changed over time and have we ever tried to change it. And we’ll look at our favorite time of the day and day of the week. We’ll also listen to some thought provoking music as we learn to have deeper conversations.

Millrose Club: Millrose Club, Lebo Pooe

It’s Memorial Day and on this Midday Connection we remember the men and women who served in our armed forces, we will look specifically at those who served during the Civil War at the Battle of Gettysburg. Dr. Allen Guelzo, Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College joins us to talk about the 150th anniversary of that defining battle.

Featured Guest: Dr. Allen Guelzo
Host: Melinda Schmidt

What do you see when you look at the imperfect people around you? Or when you look in the mirror? Do you only see the mud, like the Pharisees saw, or do you see the masterpiece underneath like Jesus sees? On this Midday Connection pastor and teacher John Burke joins us to talk about why sinners were so attracted to Jesus but repelled by the religious.

Featured Guest: John Burke
Host: Anita Lustrea

Josh Riebock, author of Heroes and Monsters joins us again for a thought-provoking conversation.

Featured Guest: Josh Riebock
Host: Melinda Schmidt

It’s the book club discussion on Midday Connection and Dr. Rosalie de Rosset joins us as we talk about our current selection, Almost Heaven. Since Chris Fabry is the author, he’ll also be joining us for an added dimension to our discussion. We’ll find out why Billy Allman had a heart of gold and why Malachi the Angel was sent to protect this West Virginia hillbilly.

Featured Guests: Rosalie de Rosset, Chris Fabry
Host: Anita Lustrea

It's time for another Millrose Club on Midday Connection.

Millrose Club: Millrose Club, Tricia McMillan

We’re half way through the year, and we wondered if you ever think back to those New Year’s resolutions you made? On this Midday Connection we’ll help you assess where you are and we’ll catch up with a few people who called in to our program in January with their resolutions and we’ll find out how they’re doing. It’s a program of mutual encouragement.

Hosts: Anita and Melinda

It’s time for another visit from Counselor Ray Kane, and on this Midday Connection he’ll focus in on the principles of a healthy relationship. Most of us have experienced relationships gone bad and sometimes we can trace the reasons, sometimes we can’t. Ray will give us principles to build those relationships in such a way that hopefully they won’t implode or explode.

Featured Guest: Ray Kane
Host: Melinda Schmidt

Klaus Issler joins us once again to talk about his book Living Into the Life of Jesus.

Featured Guest: Klaus Issler
Host: Melinda Schmidt

God designed us to be drawn toward beauty that we might know more about God’s character, attributes, and work in our world. On this Midday Connection Margaret Feinberg joins us as we embark on a six week Bible Study of the Gospel of John. We’ll view the beauty of God as it radiates in the person of Jesus Christ as we explore the invisible attributes of God being made visible.

Featured Guests: Margaret Feinberg, Yolanda Fields, Randi Lundgren
Host: Anita Lustrea

It’s the Millrose Club on Midday Connection, and joining us in our 4th chair is Anita's son, John Lustrea. We’ll talk about how much sleep we get and do we need more. We’ll look at the best thing someone has given us as a gift, and we’ll talk about how to handle relational conflict while still showing God’s love. That’s all ahead on this Millrose Club Midday Connection.

Millrose Club: Millrose Club, John Lustrea

Trevor Hudson joins us as we continue our discussion on his book Discovering Your Spiritual Identity.

Featured Guest: Trevor Hudson
Hosts: Anita and Melinda

To survive means that you have developed a plan, a way out or an escape from your circumstances. On this Midday Connection, Christian Counselor Ray Kane joins us to talk about what it looks like to develop an eternal perspective that will help you survive the storms of life. It’s living reflectively vs. reactively through life’s storms on Midday Connection.

Featured Guest: Ray Kane
Host: Melinda Schmidt

We’re going to have some fun on this Midday Connection and let you pick the topic. It’s called the "Fish Bowl” and in our literal fishbowl we’ve put numbered envelopes containing a variety of topics. Someone who calls in to the program will pick the envelope and get first crack at the topic. It’s something new and something that involves you!

Hosts: Anita and Melinda

It’s week two of our Gospel of John Bible Study and on this Midday Connection, Margaret Feinberg joins us to talk about what it looks like when “God sees through us.” How many times has God seen through our facades, our attempt to make good first impressions? We look at Jesus the light and how he shines his light in the darkness as we dive deeper into the Gospel of John.

Featured Guests: Margaret Feinberg, Yolanda Fields, Randi Lundgren
Host: Anita Lustrea