Rita Springer explores church hurt and the bad behavior of leadership through the lens of Jonah's story. Rita shares breakthrough moments when reclaiming personal value, warns against blaming God, and emphasizes the need for community, not wounds, in church. Discover the impact of harboring ill will, question the purpose of anger, and learn why mirroring Jonah leads to pain. Rita challenges us to allow the Lord to take us captive for proper healing. Join her for powerful insights and a...

Rita discusses navigating hurt in the Church and the Christian music industry. She explores why offenses happen and how we can choose to respond and walk free from them. Rita uses Jonah's example to unpack how we can allow offenses to drive us out of the church community to isolation, where we must seek forgiveness and healing. Join Rita's Newsletter: https://worshipismyweaponshow.com/ Subscribe Now to Worship is My Weapon Podcast  For more from Rita, follow Rita on Patreon here. Click here...

Rita discusses bad behavior in the Church and how you can walk out healing from church hurt and wounds. Rita explores the Book of Jonah and how we can learn from Jonah's example of how to respond better to dysfunctions in the Church. Rita identifies ways to journey through bad behavior in the Church. Join Rita's Newsletter: https://worshipismyweaponshow.com/ For more from Rita, follow Rita on Patreon here. Click here to follow her on Instagram, @RitaSpringer. If you're enjoying the show,...

Rita Springer and Anna Golden engage in a compelling conversation about forgiveness, church hurt and Anna's latest record, "Church." Explore forgiveness, the transformative journey after pain, and the divine timing of God's work. Delve into songwriting and the intersection of forgiveness and justice. Experience the impact of "Manasseh" and the beauty in its testimonies. Witness worship as a powerful weapon and a journey of personal healing. In the closing chapter, Rita and Anna infuse value...

Join Rita Springer in a riveting podcast episode featuring artist Madeline Kiel. Starting as a childhood passion, Madi's artistic journey takes unexpected turns—shifting from music to painting during the pandemic. Explore her focus on black cowboys, struggles with rejection, and the transformative power of embracing imperfections. Madi's story unfolds through unexpected breakthrough, commissioned works, and insights on progression and self-acceptance. Discover the beauty in every stroke and...

Rita sits down with Francesca Battistelli, a fellow singer songwriter who describes what her life has been like laying down the fame of the music industry and opting for a simpler lifestyle of worship. Francesca shares vulnerably her journey as a woman and a mother in the industry and how she has maintained her humility and focus to ensure her God-given calling is protected. Francesca also shares on how opting for living on a farm has radically shifted her lifestyle and given more of a focus...

Rita Springer shares the final part of her inspiring journey of understanding worship as a powerful weapon. From her early struggles with authenticity to becoming a renowned worship leader, she shares pivotal moments, including encounters at a Vineyard church and navigating her mother's terminal illness. Uncover the revelation of worship as a transformative tool against life's challenges. Discover your weapon of worship and overcome giants with the power of the altar.  For more from Rita,...

Rita shares her powerful story of how worship literally saved her life. Rita discusses the incredible impact worship has played in her life and how she was transformed through it. She encourages us to discover the authentic power of worship in your own life and how you can persevere through challenges with worship. Join Rita as she shares her journey with us and invites us to go deeper with the Holy Spirit in Worship. For more from Rita, follow Rita on Patreon here. Click here to follow...

Rita Springer sits down with Scott Volk from 'Together For Israel' to delve into the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. They discuss the importance of approaching the situation from a biblical perspective rather than getting caught up in politics. The interview ultimately seeks to answer the question: How should the church, comprised of both Jews and Gentiles, respond to the Israel-Hamas conflict? What attitude and disposition should they adopt? Join Rita Springer and Scott Volk for an insightful...

Rita Springer begins to share her compelling journey and the powerful moments that shaped her life. She covers various life stages, including her challenging and religious upbringing, her father's battle with cancer, and the early stages of trauma and identity crisis. It's an authentic story of resilience, faith, and healing.  Follow Rita everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ritaspringer For more from Rita, follow Rita on Patreon here. Click here to follow her on Instagram, @RitaSpringer. If...

It's been an honor to share this time with you each week. For the last episode in this season of the Rita Springer Podcast, I'd like to spend some time sharing what God is stirring in my heart. I'm going to talk about this transition and where I feel like I'm being led, what you can expect in the future, what you can pray toward, and where you can partner with me. I love each and every one of you, not only for your kind comments, reviews, and overall support. Before I leave you, let me ask...

Josh Baldwin may lead worship, write incredible songs, and have the voice of an angel, but he’s also one of my favorite drummers I’ve ever had. Josh and I have a great deal of life and ministry history together. He’s a solid one I’ve watched and am incredibly proud to know and call, friend. He’s hilarious, a deep well, gifted, thoroughly kind and humble with an ease that’s contagious.  If you’re a musician, singer, worship leader, creative, or merely someone left of center— you’re going to...

What a privilege to have Daniella Mason for a second episode. I felt our conversation was important enough to carry on into a part two and I know you will too. The roar of death is mighty and shaking, especially when it comes from the mouth of someone who's walking out, "To God Be The Glory," regardless of the loss on many sides. This conversation is real, unbridled by posturing, and just full of Jesus and the peace He breathes. Daniella's countenance is aware, determined, and unflinching...

Talking to Daniella Mason is like opening a fire-hydrant of testimony. She doesn’t drown you in story or processing, but she does flood you with an undeniable perspective that has been touched by the miraculous hand of God. She loves the Lord fiercely and wields creative excellence in every sphere she touches.  Her walk and the belief shaped in her through harsh environments, is something we can all learn and glean from. She’s seen enough and she can’t come back from the undeniable truth of...

What a joy to have Patrick Mayberry on with me this week! I love this guy and his pastor’s heart. I so relate to his journey and I know you will too. What God has refined in his heart is an invitation for each of us. Will we let the Holy Spirit affirm and permission us to be fully alive in our calling, free from expectations and what we think it “should” look like?  So much great ground covered here, but it’s all about believing the bigness of God and aligning our faith with who He is....

I thought we would do something a little different today. I'd like to just invite you into where I am right now. I'm in the middle of sending my son to college, navigating some life changes, and in a new writing season altogether. So let's think of this as a catch up. This is really an episode for every creative who has felt led to produce or create something God has asked them to  ... and for those same ones who know that it doesn't always look like we think it will.  Pioneering doesn't...

Today, join me as we chat with a Jesus-loving producer who beautifully talks about process and how pastoring can look in a different seat. I’m so grateful to have Michael Howell on as we delve into the unlimited nature of God and how we can see it in our creativity. When surrendered talent, humility, and truth come together amazing things can happen. “If it’s authentic and it’s truth, it can be revolutionary.” This episode covers a lot of ground so I don’t want to keep you any longer. Go...

With graduation season upon us and summer in full swing, change is inevitable ... and it feels particularly personal this year. So I wanted to take this episode as an opportunity to talk about letting go. Why? Because that's what the Lord and I have been talking about and I wanted to invite you to our conversation. Change itself is an invitation and one the Lord extends to us often. So what do we do with it? Currently, I find myself in a place where I'm unwinding and recapturing my identity...

It’s so easy to let the weightiness of life affect what should be second nature to us. Having a great day and someone asks you for a dollar? That’s easy enough. Having a bad day on the heels of a bad week and someone asks you for the same dollar? You might not find yourself at the same answer as easily. But the truth? Generosity, and the compassion that empowers it, are at the center point of who we’re called to be as believers, who God is, and what He’s called us to extend of ourselves....

How do we choose forgiveness when all we’re craving is vindication? How do we extend mercy to those we’ve been crushed by, those we’ve trusted most in leadership? If ever there was a time for this conversation, friends, it’s now.  Now, get excited. You’re in for more tidbits, wisdom, stories, and laughs than normal because I have some true worship-leading, people-loving, powerhouses on with me today. I’m so excited to have Anna Golden, Hannah Hobbs, and Abbie Gamboa here. The Holy Spirit...

I’m so excited to introduce you to my new friend, Jey. He’s from Kenya, a DJ, a true creative, a father. Our conversation today is one I don’t want you to miss.   So many of us have never known true hunger … have never been made to beg or steal as a child in order to survive and been arrested and jailed as a result— But Jey has. God met him many years ago out of His goodness and through an integral organization, Compassion. Listen to his story, but more so, listen to how God can radically...

This one is for the moms. I know I need some encouragement sometimes and I thought maybe the mothers out there could too. Whether you have children of your own or are a spiritual mother to others, I hope you feel encouraged and loved with this episode. Happy Mother's Day! For more from Rita, follow Rita on Patreon here. Click here to follow her on Instagram, @RitaSpringer. If you're enjoying the show, please rate and review!

If you ask me, Stephen and Sandra Hogue are two people living in the center of Christ’s call on the Church. They live out beautifully pure religion and love the orphan with their whole lives.  Today, we’re talking foster care, burdens, comfort and convenience, where we’re called, and where we’re called to step up in support. Hop aboard for a great and quick chat! To learn more about One Family, and to see how you and your church can be a part and support, visit OneFamilyFL.com. As...

The Lord's quite wonderful at restoring what was once taken, and doing so in a way only He can. This week, my sister Roxanne is finishing her story and I don't want to give anything away. I just want you to know that regardless of what you're facing now, despite how life and the enemy may be coming against you and your peace right now, God is willing to meet you at every point in every step along the way. Roxanne has clung to Jesus where so many would easily walk away in heartache. What He's...

My sister is a beautiful woman through and through and I love her very much. I want to be upfront and tell you, you might need a tissue or two for this episode. It's not because it's sad, it's because you can feel the Lord's kindness so tangibly when she tells her story. My sister has known the Lord to be Father, Husband, Provider, and Friend and the way she talks about their relationship? It's simply quite stunning to hear. I know this conversation is going to build your spirit and faith...