Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

This podcast is hosted by John Eldredge, an author, counselor, and president of Wild at Heart, a ministry that helps people find God's love and Kingdom. With his experience as a counselor and teacher, John shares insights on how to discover the heart of God, recover one's heart in God's love, and learn to live in God's Kingdom. The podcast covers topics related to faith, personal growth, and discovering one's purpose in life, providing guidance and encouragement to listeners who are seeking to deepen their relationship with God.

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June 16, 2025 54 mins

If you're feeling like this world is an increasingly unstable place, you're not alone...or crazy. During moments of intense global transition and shaking, it's helpful to have an accessible voice explain the historical and cultural forces at work from a Christian worldview. In this two-part series, Mark Sayers joins John and Blaine Eldredge for a fascinating, globe-spanning conversation. In Part 1, he explains how we're ac...

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Allen has a new batch of questions for John to answer—including why we say what we do in the Daily Prayer, when to search for a new church, how to navigate the challenges of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), what to do when a spouse uses freedom as an excuse to avoid structure, and how to stay close to God when everything is stacked against you.

Show Notes: Send your podcast questions to John and Allen at questions@wilda...

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June 2, 2025 56 mins

In this two-part series, John and Allen respond to some of your biggest questions—including one you've likely never had until now: Why is Cap'n Crunch in this week's podcast title? In Part 1, the questions cover a variety of topics including what happens when we hear from God but things still go sideways, how can there be no sadness in heaven if people we love won't be there, why does it seem so hard to pursue union with G...

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It's possible to experience a marriage that isn't just good, but truly life-giving. In this series conclusion, Dan and Becky Allender swap stories with John and Stasi on how to cultivate intimacy and delight within a marriage. They also reveal ways for spouses to repair what has been broken and choose each other again—whether in seasons of suffering or joy.

Show Note: The Deep-Rooted Marriage, by Dan Allender and Steve Call...

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Dan and Becky Allender join John and Stasi Eldredge for a two-part conversation about the highs and lows of married life. Drawing from Dan's new book—The Deep-Rooted Marriage—they talk about why spouses often feel unseen, unheard, or neglected, the greatest agent of harm in a marriage, and how to overcome it by cultivating intimacy, healing, honor, and delight.

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May 12, 2025 43 mins

It’s easy to fill our summer calendars with activities—from family gatherings and home projects to kids’ events. Yet we often forget to ask God what his plans are for this time. Thankfully, there's a better way—and it's not too late! To help you rethink what your heart needs most this summer, John, Allen, Jamie, and Conrad share stories of their past misses and current pursuits of joy, rest, and adventure.
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May 5, 2025 49 mins

The Wild at Heart Pause app is one of the most beautiful, powerful resources we've ever offered. Since its release, countless people have experienced deep daily intimacy with God through the One Minute Pause and 30 Days to Resilient. In this week's podcast, John and Allen unveil an all-new Pause offering called Experience Jesus, share the story of how it came to be, and take you through the first session of this transforma...

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April 28, 2025 49 mins

We often endure our deepest hurts and pains in isolation, choosing to just suck it up and pretend all is well rather than risk transparency and asking for help. In this week's podcast, Allen brings to light an issue he's been struggling with in private, how God orchestrated a path to bring others into his suffering, and the process of pursuing healing in both the physical and spiritual realms.

Show Notes: The prayers John r...

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April 21, 2025 44 mins

Every week we receive beautiful, heartfelt questions on almost every topic imaginable. In this podcast, John and Allen respond to as many questions as possible. Today's topics include how to guard our hearts during loss, what to do with a desire to be married before Jesus returns, how to understand God's will, ways to pursue our creativity with God, and how to interpret and combat increased spiritual warfare and fear.

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April 14, 2025 60 mins

John is joined by Sam Eldredge, Stacia Littlefield, and Michelle Patterson to talk about how to overcome our stuck places. Discover the role pervasive shame plays in your stuckness, what it looks like to be "in process" as you move from stuck to unstuck, and the different ways to enter into and experience God's healing for your story.


Show Notes: For more on upcoming Noble Workshops (including May, June, August, and Nov...

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John Eldredge and pastor, author, and podcaster Jon Tyson continue a wide-ranging conversation on the unique challenges and opportunities of this particular cultural moment. Discover how to counter the fog of chaos and unbelief, why a rightly oriented heart is the key to everything, what's fueling the current revival among young adults, the important distinctions between sociology and spirituality, and why so many men's li...

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In the first of this two-part series, John Eldredge asks pastor, author, and podcaster Jon Tyson about how he came to know God, his incredible journey from Australia to New York, the apologetics of longing, Jon's deep love for the people of New York, and his heart for the Kingdom of God.
Show Note: Jon Tyson's weekly Church of the City New York Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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John invites singer and songwriter Josh Garrels back into the podcast studio to talk about the difference between knowing about God and knowing God, friendship with Jesus, how to risk well in loving others, and Josh's song "What A Friend."

Show Notes: Josh Garrels' song "What A Friend" from his Chrysaline album is used with permission and available wherever you get music.

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March 17, 2025 61 mins

What difference does it make to choose an experiential life with God? It quite literally changes everything! In Part 4 of the Experience Jesus Really series, John and Allen are joined by friends Gloria and Sylvia to talk about what it looks like to pursue all we do with God as everyday, ordinary mystics.
Show Notes: Experience Jesus. Really. book, audio book, and 5-session study guide/streaming video series are availabl...

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In Part 3 of our series, John shares a video session from the new Experience Jesus. Really. curriculum. Then John, Allen, Jamie, and Alex process what it means for Jesus to be the integrating center of everything, including our humanity.

Show Notes: Experience Jesus. Really. book, audio book, and 5-session study guide/streaming video series are available wherever you buy books. The Experience Jesus video series is available...

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John's new book—Experience Jesus. Really.—releases this week! In Part 2 of the series, John reads from one of the book's most important chapters, exploring the nourishment of God and his full Kingdom that we need in order to flourish in an hour like this one.

Show Notes: Experience Jesus. Really. book, audio book, and 5-session study guide/streaming video release March 4th and are available wherever you buy books and on Ama...

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February 24, 2025 47 mins

This new series begins a remarkable journey into the core ideas and practices of John's new book, Experience Jesus. Really. In Part 1, John shares why he felt compelled to write this vital message of refuge, strength, and wonder. He also reads extended passages from two chapters, revealing how we're all Disciples of the Internet, what it means to be an "ordinary mystic," and why we need to turn from distractions and toward...

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February 17, 2025 52 mins

Our Wild at Heart podcast reaches countless people around the world with weekly conversations on how to love God and live free. Yet it's actually not the epicenter of our work but simply an entry into a world of incredible resources for the restoration of your humanity and for a deeper life in God. In this week's podcast, John and Allen take you on a tour of some of our top video offerings—including the Wild at Heart and C...

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February 10, 2025 64 mins

If someone came and lived with you as your disciple for a week, what would the effect on them be from adopting your ways of life? That's just one of the intriguing questions John asks the Wild at Heart team during this Q&A session from Survival School. The focus is on our dailies, because the choices we make each day determine the trajectory of our lives—from spiritual practices like soul care and sacred nourishment to...

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In the second half of this series, Allen asks John the questions listeners are most curious about. This week's topics include why it's so hard to hold on to the breakthroughs obtained at Wild at Heart retreats, how women can host local Captivating Fires, and what our relationship will be in the coming Kingdom to those who've gone before us. We'll even answer the number one topic people write in about...a question that may ...

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