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Life’s tough--Get a helmet...or a relationship with Jesus! Join Dennis and Christine each week as they use over 3 decades of experience in church ministry and faith formation (with a little wit and wisdom!) to help listeners encounter the love of God and live well in the modern world.

"Every valley shall be lifted up, every mountain and hill made low . . . Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed.”
Isaiah 40:4-5
The Future Is Ours © 2020 by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

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23 minutes ago
The Faith-Off
23 minutes ago
23 minutes ago
Dennis and Christine face off in Catholic Trivia. Dennis pranks Christine. Christine doesn't handle it well. Happy April Fool's Day.

5 days ago
Self-Love & Self-Care
5 days ago
5 days ago
In this week's episode, Dennis and Christine dive into the much ignored topic of real self-love and consider ways in which caring for the body and the soul can lead to a deeper understanding of God's unimaginable love for us. Also, the two co-hosts share a rare moment of friendship and sincerity and then conclude with a Litany of Self-Love.
Find the Litany of Self-Love here: https://www.thefaceofmercy.org/blog/litany-of-self-love

Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Control
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Struggle with control? Join the club! This week, Dennis and Christine tackle the issue of control and how we can welcome God into ALL areas of our life so we can live in peace! It's time to let go of "our" story and enter into his plan for our lives--a plan that is always full of hope.

Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Would You Rather? Edition
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
It's the one year anniversary of the podcast! To celebrate, Dennis and Christine offer a unique Coffee and Tea Talk edition of Mountains Made Low and play a rather cantankerous game of Would You Rather?
Would you rather eat manna for 40 years in the desert or be struck dumb for 9 months?
Would you rather scrub floors with Therese of Lisieux or feed the homeless in Calcutta with Mother Teresa?
Enjoy these answers and more!

Thursday Mar 06, 2025
You Are a Masterpiece!
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
If we could only see ourselves as God sees us, it would be a huge game-changer! In this episode, Dennis and Christine dive into Ephesians 2:10 to help listeners see themselves as masterpieces of God's creation and understand it's implications.

Thursday Feb 27, 2025
What Were You Made For?
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
This week, Dennis and Christine dive into why God made YOU! Were we made for pleasure? Power? Recognition? Something more?? Find out how God made us for happiness and what that means for our relationship with him this side of heaven. And yes, Christine is acutely aware that the title of this episode ends in a preposition. Her mother would NOT be happy.

Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Why Be Catholic?
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
This week's episode is an enthusiastic conversation on why Catholicism is unlike any other religious tradition in the world. Dennis and Christine talk about how we are imprinted with the Divine Image everytime we receive the Eucharist and how any conversation on the Catholic Church has to begin and end with the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist--Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
I Need a Miracle!
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Have you ever received a miracle? Chances are you have, but all too often we fail to recognize those moments when God is breaking into our day to remind us of his presence and his love. In this episode we help listeners understand that the miraculous is far more than wondrous events that defy scientific explanation. God works miracles in our lives all the time!