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Pull up a chair for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and the moments that change everything. On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and...
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Pull up a chair for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and the moments that change everything.
On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and practical biblical insight for people who want to know God more personally.
Some conversations begin with doubt. Others begin with loss, fear, marriage, family, or a moment when God showed up in an unexpected way. Wherever you are in your faith, there’s a place for you at the table.
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On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and practical biblical insight for people who want to know God more personally.
Some conversations begin with doubt. Others begin with loss, fear, marriage, family, or a moment when God showed up in an unexpected way. Wherever you are in your faith, there’s a place for you at the table.
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4 SEP 2026 · What do you see when you look at yourself—a masterpiece or a mess still waiting to be fixed? God does not wait until His work is finished to call you valuable.
Ken and Julie explore what Scripture says about your identity, your worth, and the patient work God is doing in you. Through the picture of an unfinished painting and a field growing through different stages, they show why being unfinished does not make you a failure.
They also share the moving story of a scarred young woman who asked, “Does God love me?” Hear how the answer in 1 John transformed her understanding of who she was.
The conversation then turns outward. If we believe God sees every person as valuable, how should that change our words, our mercy, our patience, and the way we treat unfinished people?
Chapters:
00:00 What Does God Think of You?
01:59 Trust the Process: The Unfinished Painting
06:41 You Are God’s Masterpiece
10:35 Wonderfully Made at Every Stage
12:31 Growth Happens in Stages
17:37 Seeing Yourself Through God’s Eyes
19:57 Written on the Palms of His Hands
21:50 Finding Who You Are in Christ
24:54 Replacing Other Voices with God’s Truth
29:09 The Woman Who Asked, “Does God Love Me?”
31:13 Hearing God’s Answer
34:16 A Face Transformed by Love
36:31 See Others the Way God Sees You
38:05 No One Is Finished Yet
41:02 How God Calls Us to Treat One Another
44:00 Are Your Words Like Honey?
46:24 Love Mercy and Walk Humbly
48:42 A Prayer to See Through God’s Eyes
50:20 Be the Change ===========
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*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
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28 AUG 2026 · God may be speaking—but how do you know it’s really Him?
Ken and Julie use an unexpected comparison from metal detecting to explore how we learn to recognize God’s voice. Every detector has a language. Some signals lead to treasure. Others lead to trash that sounds almost exactly the same. Our spiritual lives can feel just as uncertain.
Ken shares the childhood discovery that brought Singapore’s bomb squad to his neighborhood and the Guam beach search that recovered a stranger’s lost wedding ring. Then Ken and Julie turn to the healing of the man born blind in John 9. He had never seen Jesus. At first, all he knew was the sound of His voice—and he chose to follow it.
How do we tell God’s voice from our own desires, fear, skepticism, or deception? This conversation offers four practical safeguards: be willing to listen, spend time in God’s Word, expect Him to speak, and respond when He does.
Chapters:
00:40 Hearing God’s Voice
01:43 A Bucket-List Conversation
03:13 Metal Detecting at the Beach
04:16 Learning a Detector’s Language
08:11 Trash or Treasure?
09:40 Why the Search Is Worth It
13:47 The Find That Called the Bomb Squad
22:41 Can Hearing God Feel This Real?
25:58 The Blind Man Who Heard Jesus
30:12 “Do You Want to Be His Disciple Too?”
32:06 Recognizing Jesus by His Voice
33:46 Who Is Really Blind?
35:22 My Sheep Know My Voice
37:23 Jesus at the Door
39:10 When Other Voices Drown Him Out
42:20 How Sheep Know Their Shepherd
46:02 Four Ways to Hear God
46:13 Be Willing to Listen
50:12 Spend Time in His Word
52:46 Expect God to Speak
54:35 Respond When He Speaks
58:18 The Search for a Lost Wedding Ring
64:19 A Prayer to Hear God Clearly ===========
Pull up a chair!
*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
🌐 Watch Full Episodes of The Visiting Table:
https://www.vop.com/thevisitingtable
📖 Receive free Bible studies and resources from Voice of Prophecy:
https://www.vop.com/biblestudies
💛 Support the Voice of Prophecy and help share Christ-centered media worldwide:
https://www.vop.com/give
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21 AUG 2026 · What are you really worshiping—even without realizing it?
In this episode of The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie explore Paul’s encounter with the altar to the “unknown God” in Acts 17 and what it reveals about the things people seek for meaning, peace, identity, and fulfillment.
They look at the way Paul connected with people before asking them to believe: spending time with them, learning what they valued, understanding their culture, and showing them how their deepest desires pointed toward the God who created them.
Ken and Julie also share stories from Thailand, Guam, and the United States about learning to connect faith with the real questions people are asking.Then the conversation becomes personal. Where do our time, money, conversations, and affections point? What are we depending on for identity, value, happiness, or peace? Even good things can quietly become substitutes for a real relationship with Christ.
Chapters:
00:00 Hidden Idols and Two Masters
00:49 The Hole in Our Heart
01:27 A Fresh Look at Acts 17
02:55 Paul and the Unknown God
06:08 What the Altar Revealed
09:49 How Paul Connected With People
13:19 Learning What People Value
17:26 Relationship Before the Message
19:02 “Where Is Thailand in the Statue?”
20:57 Why Reaching People Takes Time
21:54 A Young Man Finds a New Identity
27:49 Paul’s Method of Connection
31:05 In the World, Not of It
33:33 What About Our Own Hearts?
33:56 What Are We Really Serving?
35:18 Where Do Your Affections Go?
36:31 When Good Things Become Altars
38:07 Paul’s Message Turns to Jesus
39:03 Was Paul’s Sermon a Failure?
40:28 Delight Yourself in the Lord ===========
Pull up a chair!
*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
🌐 Watch Full Episodes of The Visiting Table:
https://www.vop.com/thevisitingtable
📖 Receive free Bible studies and resources from Voice of Prophecy:
https://www.vop.com/biblestudies
💛 Support the Voice of Prophecy and help share Christ-centered media worldwide:
https://www.vop.com/give
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14 AUG 2026 · Have you ever prayed with faith and still heard “no”—or nothing at all? What do you do when the answer you hoped for never comes?
In this episode of *The Visiting Table*, Ken and Julie explore answered prayer, unanswered prayer, and trusting God’s timing. Beginning with Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane, they uncover a simple four-part pattern: approach God as Father, believe He is able, make your request directly, and submit to His will.
They also share personal stories about a long-awaited answer, a remarkable birthday prayer that led a friend to baptism, and the peace God provided at exactly the right time. Discover why prayer is not a blank check, how it changes us, and why Jesus invites us to keep asking, seeking, and knocking.
Chapters:
00:00 A Conversation About Prayer
00:53 An Answer That Took Years
04:13 Why Prayer Can Be Hard to Understand
06:09 How Abiding and Prayer Work Together
08:42 The Prayer Jesus Prayed When God Said No
14:18 Four Parts of Jesus’ Prayer
17:56 Why Prayer Is a Daily Battle
19:44 Is Prayer Really a Blank Check?
21:29 The Birthday Prayer That Led to Baptism
30:03 When God Says “Wait” or “No”
31:48 Praying According to God’s Will
33:33 Can Prayer Bring Peace in Anxiety?
39:47 Keep Asking, Seeking, and Knocking
43:41 Why You Should Never Stop Praying for Someone
46:27 “Call to Me, and I Will Answer You” ===========
Pull up a chair!
*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
🌐 Watch Full Episodes of The Visiting Table:
https://www.vop.com/thevisitingtable
📖 Receive free Bible studies and resources from Voice of Prophecy:
https://www.vop.com/biblestudies
💛 Support the Voice of Prophecy and help share Christ-centered media worldwide:
https://www.vop.com/give
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7 AUG 2026 · Why do you feel stuck in the same old habits? You love God, go to church, and try to change—so what’s the problem?
In this episode of The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie explore Jesus’ teaching in John 15 about abiding in Christ. Discover why lasting spiritual growth comes from staying connected to Jesus through His Word and prayer, rather than relying on personal effort alone.
They also discuss spiritual pruning, the transforming power of Scripture, full joy in Christ, and a timeless insight from Steps to Christ. ===========
Pull up a chair!
*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
🌐 Watch Full Episodes of The Visiting Table:
https://www.vop.com/thevisitingtable
📖 Receive free Bible studies and resources from Voice of Prophecy:
https://www.vop.com/biblestudies
💛 Support the Voice of Prophecy and help share Christ-centered media worldwide:
https://www.vop.com/give
31 JUL 2026 · A death threat in Thailand forces Ken to face what he truly believes, while Julie discovers that life without God has left her empty. Their separate turning points begin a journey that leads them to Christ—and eventually to each other.
Show Notes
Ken and Julie Norton begin The Visiting Table by sharing how they met Christ—and each other.
As a university freshman, Julie decided she no longer needed God directing her life. But after following her own path, she found herself alone in her dorm room admitting, “God, I’m empty.”
At nearly the same time, Ken was serving as a student missionary in Thailand. After men from a local village warned that someone would be killed if the group sang and preached again, Ken faced the possibility of death—and the truth that he knew about God without truly knowing Him. What happened next changed the direction of his life.
Their two stories eventually converge in friendship, Bible study, marriage and a shared desire to help others know God personally through His Word.
Scriptures:
- Psalm 16:11
- John 15:1–8
- Ephesians 3:20 ===========
Pull up a chair!
*The Visiting Table* is a place for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and discovering the God who meets us right where we are. *The Visiting Table* is a production of the Voice of Prophecy, a Seventh-day Adventist media ministry.
🌐 Watch Full Episodes of The Visiting Table:
https://www.vop.com/thevisitingtable
📖 Receive free Bible studies and resources from Voice of Prophecy:
https://www.vop.com/biblestudies
💛 Support the Voice of Prophecy and help share Christ-centered media worldwide:
https://www.vop.com/give
Pull up a chair for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and the moments that change everything. On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and...
show more
Pull up a chair for honest conversations about faith, relationships, and the moments that change everything.
On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and practical biblical insight for people who want to know God more personally.
Some conversations begin with doubt. Others begin with loss, fear, marriage, family, or a moment when God showed up in an unexpected way. Wherever you are in your faith, there’s a place for you at the table.
show less
On The Visiting Table, Ken and Julie Norton share real stories, thoughtful questions, and practical biblical insight for people who want to know God more personally.
Some conversations begin with doubt. Others begin with loss, fear, marriage, family, or a moment when God showed up in an unexpected way. Wherever you are in your faith, there’s a place for you at the table.
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| Organization | Voice of Prophecy |
| Categories | Christianity , Relationships , Self-Improvement |
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