Sound Mind is a podcast that invites listeners into immersive, scripture-rich reflections on the mental, emotional, and spiritual realities of life—guided by a biblical lens and pastoral heart


The Host of Sound Mind is Jonathan Kindler is faculty professor of Biblical Counseling at the Living Faith Bible Institute, professional counselor and associate pastor at Midtown Baptist Temple.

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EP 51 | The Desert: When Thirst Tells the Truth

What do you do when life feels dry, empty, and strangely hard to explain?

In this immersive episode, Jonathan Kindler begins a new series called The Places We Find Ourselves by exploring the desert seasons of the soul through Psalm 107. Sometimes hardship does not look like crisis. Sometimes it looks like responsibility. You are still showing up, still working, still caring for people, still doing what needs to be done, but underneath it all, something feels faint.

Blending Scripture, storytelling, biblical counseling insight, and honest reflection, this episode gives language to the dry places where comfort gets thin, thirst starts telling the truth, and false relief begins to look like water. Through Psalm 107 and the promise of Christ as the bread of life, Jonathan points listeners back to the God who hears, leads, and satisfies the longing soul.

Whether you are wandering, weary, spiritually dry, or just realizing that the things you keep reaching for cannot finally satisfy, this episode is an invitation to bring your thirst honestly before the Lord. The desert may tell the truth about your thirst, but it does not get the final word. The Lord does.

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