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.
New episodes of the Sound Mind released weekly!
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EP 54 | The Waiting Room: When Life Feels Stalled
What do you believe God is doing when nothing appears to be moving?
In this reflective episode, Jonathan Kindler explores the quiet ache of waiting through the lens of Psalm 40 and Lamentations 3. The waiting room is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is just slow. The answer has not come. The door has not opened. The grief has not lifted. And the longer we wait, the more our hearts start interpreting the silence.
Blending scripture, storytelling, and counseling insight, this episode looks at what waiting exposes in us: our fears, our assumptions, our need for control, and the stories we begin telling ourselves about God when life feels stalled. But Psalm 40 reminds us that waiting is not nothing. It is faith refusing to move on from God.
Whether you are waiting for clarity, healing, reconciliation, relief, or your own heart to feel alive again, this episode calls you to name what you are waiting for, refuse to turn delay into a verdict, and take the next faithful step.
The waiting room may feel still, but stillness is not the same thing as abandonment. The Lord hears before you see movement. He works before you feel it. And He knows how to bring His people up.
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EP | 15: When God Didn’t Stop It
What do you do with the pain God did not prevent? Where do you take the question that lingers, “Where were You?”
In this honest, Scripture-rich episode, Jonathan Kindler sits with the deepest questions that surface when faith and suffering collide. Through a vivid opener and biblical portraits of Hagar in the wilderness, Jeremiah in the pit, and Job in the ashes, he names the tension many believers feel: God did not stop it, yet He has not left. Jonathan clarifies what sovereignty is and is not, why God is not the author of evil, how Jesus enters our suffering, and why faith and grief can live in the same heart.
With clear counsel and five anchors for the season when God feels distant, this conversation gives you permission to ask why, language to pray when words are thin, and a path to steady your soul in the presence of Christ. If you have felt forgotten, this episode invites you to be seen, to be held, and to borrow hope until your own returns.
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