Worship is my Weapon Podcast with Rita Springer

Franni Cash joins Rita Springer for an incredibly honest conversation about growing up in what she describes as a cult, losing her community, questioning her faith, and eventually learning to separate who God is from the people who misrepresented Him.

Franni shares the story behind We the Kingdom and why she ultimately knew she needed to step away—even while the band was experiencing incredible success. She opens up about crying every night on tour, the return of self-harm, and the realization that something looking “blessed” from the outside doesn’t always mean you’re supposed to stay.
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What do you do when you know God is good, but you’re still heartbroken over something He allowed?

In this episode of Worship Is My Weapon, Rita Springer gets deeply honest about the difference between being heart-sick and being brokenhearted, the wounds we learn to live around, and the places where repeated disappointment can quietly affect our trust in God.

Rita shares how God began revealing broken pieces she thought she had already moved past and the invitation to finally hand those pieces back to Him.

If you’ve been praying, waiting, grie...

What happens when a genuine calling from God slowly turns into a need to be chosen?

Harvest Bashta Grapevine joins Rita Springer for an incredibly honest conversation about worship, ambition, disappointment, prophetic words, divorce, comparison and rediscovering why she fell in love with the presence of God in the first place.

Long before Harvest was a worship leader, she was a young girl praying, “God, make me a voice.” But after discovering her gift, hearing that she was “anointed,” and watching others receive the opportunities she thought God had promised her, something began to change.

What does it really mean to know who you are? 

Rita Springer sits down with Doe Jones for an honest conversation about identity, purpose, race, motherhood, anxiety, and living as the person God created you to be. 

From the story behind "Black Boy" to why she believes God made her a Black woman on purpose, this episode is a powerful reminder that your identity is found in Christ—not in the labels the world gives you.

00:00 Intro
01:04 Welcome Doe | The Story Behind Her Name
05:39 Growing Up Between Washington & Louisiana
07:24 Discovering Her...

What happens when the people around you are more talented than you?

Rita sits down with longtime friend and pioneering Vineyard worship leader Cindy Rethmeier for an honest conversation about comparison, insecurity, female leadership, creativity, and learning to recognize what only you can bring.

Cindy shares what it was like helping forge a path for women in worship, why increasingly talented musicians once intimidated her, and the lesson that eventually changed everything: comparison is deadly.

They also reflect on the early Vineyard worship movement, raising up people who eventually surpass you, the pressure...

Steven Curtis Chapman and Mary Beth Chapman have been married for more than four decades, but they'll be the first to tell you it hasn't been a fairy tale.

In this deeply honest conversation, Steven and Mary Beth join Rita to talk about the differences that once led a counselor to say they had “no business being married,” the devastating loss of their youngest daughter, Mary Beth's “free fall of faith,” and the decision to keep choosing each other through seasons that could have torn them apart.

They also unpack what they've learned about counseling, surrende...

Patrick Lencioni joins Rita Springer to unpack the life-changing concept of Working Genius, discovering the two kinds of work God uniquely designed you to love.

Together they explore burnout, calling, church leadership, parenting and why so many Christians feel like frauds when they're simply working outside their God-given design. 

If you've ever wondered why some work energizes you and other work drains you, this conversation is for you.

00:00 Intro

00:59 Rita's Unexpected Catholic Leadership Gathering

03:56 Pat's Vision for Christian Unity

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Christine D'Clario shares the story she never planned to tell. 

After accidentally admitting on live radio that she was battling mental illness, she expected her ministry to be over. Instead, her vulnerability opened the door for countless people to seek healing. 

This conversation explores burnout, trauma, Sabbath, therapy, worship, and the surprising purpose of healing.

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What happens when the worst thing imaginable becomes your reality?

Jennie Lusko shares the heartbreaking story of losing her five-year-old daughter and how she learned to trust God through unimaginable grief. Together with Rita Springer, they explore suffering, worship, healing, lingering in God's presence, and why grief doesn't mean you've lost your faith. This conversation will bring hope to anyone walking through loss.

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Did the Church accidentally make people afraid of the Holy Spirit?

In this conversation, Rita Springer sits down with Pastor Alex Seeley to unpack one of the most misunderstood topics in Christianity. They explore how one generation turned the Holy Spirit into a spectacle while another avoided Him altogether—and why both extremes miss God's heart.

Discover why the Holy Spirit is your greatest advantage, how to hear God's voice, why Scripture comes alive through His presence, and what it really means to live a Spirit-led life.

Whether you're skeptical, curious, or longing fo...

Jeremy Edwardson has spent years uncovering one of the most fascinating family mysteries imaginable. 

Could his ancestor have been the hidden daughter of Queen Victoria's mother? From DNA tests and centuries-old archives to grief, creativity, and God's unexpected guidance, this conversation explores history, mystery, and the surprising ways purpose can emerge from pain.

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Amy Grant joins Rita Springer for one of her most personal conversations yet. From influence beyond the stage to motherhood, songwriting, suffering, finding her voice, and learning to surrender, Amy shares the wisdom that has shaped over four decades of faith and music. This isn't just a conversation about Christian music, it's about living a life that truly sees people.
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Is it wrong to make money writing worship music? 

Can worship stay pure inside an industry? 

Rita Springer sits down with Poets & Prophets, the collective moniker for songwriters Rebekah White Williams, Josh Farro, Mitch Wong, and Tommy Iceland, four voices that have already shaped the landscape of modern worship and CCM, for an honest conversation about songwriting, calling, success, holiness, family and what the Church should be singing today. 

This vulnerable discussion challenges assumptions about worship while pointing back to Jesus, Scripture and serving the Church.

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What if hearing God's voice isn't about being gifted, but about being hungry?
In this solo episode, Rita Springer explores faith, trust, worship, and the story of Job. She challenges transactional Christianity, unpacks what it means to truly trust God through suffering, and explains why every trial can become a staircase into deeper intimacy with Him. 
If you've ever wrestled with disappointment, unanswered prayers, or hearing God's voice, this conversation is for you.

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What if the biggest danger facing the Church isn't outside the walls, but inside them? 

Rita Springer sits down with journalist and filmmaker Billy Hollowell to discuss miracles, angels, demons, deliverance, hearing God's voice, and why so many Christians avoid talking about spiritual warfare. 

From investigating supernatural encounters to his own unexpected journey through deliverance, Billy shares stories that challenged everything he thought he knew about faith and the unseen realm.

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Natalie Layne joins Rita Springer for an honest conversation about creativity, calling, identity, and the unexpected cost of carrying a message from God. 

From touring life and the pressures of the Christian music industry to losing her voice after releasing an album about joy, Natalie shares how God has been teaching her what true joy, faithfulness, and rooted identity really look like. 

This is a powerful conversation for artists, worship leaders, and anyone navigating purpose in a noisy world.

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Rita shares a powerful message for women worship leaders, songwriters, and creatives. 

From difficult experiences in ministry to the story of Eve, this conversation explores identity, authority, insecurity, leadership, and the unique gifts women bring to the Kingdom. 

If you've ever questioned your calling or felt overlooked, this episode is for you.

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Ginny Owens joins Rita Springer for one of the most honest conversations yet — about blindness, bullying, burnout, worship, singleness, and discovering God in suffering.

From losing her sight at age 3 to navigating the pressures of Christian music, Ginny shares how what once felt like a deficit became one of God’s greatest gifts in her life.

This episode is raw, wise, funny, healing, and deeply hopeful.
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In this episode of the Rita Springer Podcast, worship artist Ke'erron Sims shares his journey from Trinidad to Texas, growing up in a broken home, and finding healing through worship and community.

He reflects on painful family struggles, his father’s addiction, and being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, all while learning to trust God’s presence in suffering.

Rita and Keerron discuss identity, calling, creativity, and how true worship often comes through hardship and endurance.

Keerron explains that his upcoming music focuses on “waiting well,” embracing the journey, and recognizing God’s faithfulness even befor...

In this raw and deeply moving conversation, Jeff & Jourdan Johnson share their unconventional love story, Jeff’s journey with same sex attraction, and the pain of navigating these realities within the church.

Together, they open up about grief, identity, marriage, and the ways the church has often failed to create space for honest conversations around sexuality and suffering.

If you’ve ever wrestled with shame, belonging, or holding pain and hope at the same time, this episode is for you.
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In this honest conversation, Natalie Grant & Bernie Herms open up about insecurity, ambition, and the hidden struggles behind worship ministry.

From chasing success to surrendering identity, this episode challenges what we think calling really looks like.

If you’ve ever wrestled with platform, purpose, or comparison, this one is for you.
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A raw and powerful conversation with Joanne Moody as she shares her 14-year battle with chronic pain, a near-death encounter with Jesus, and the miracle that changed everything. 

This episode dives deep into healing, suffering, identity, and the authority believers carry.

If you’ve ever questioned God in pain, this is for you.

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She was one decision away from becoming a pop star… until the industry gave her an ultimatum: her baby or her career.

In this raw conversation, Rebekah White Williams shares how choosing life cost her everything, her record deal, her marriage, and the future she thought she had. But in the middle of loss, God rewrote her story in a way she never expected.

This is a story about obedience, healing, and finding your true calling.
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Trip Lee joins Rita Springer for one of the most honest conversations yet. They talk honestly about hip hop, worship, creativity, and suffering. 

From defending rap in the church to risking everything on a new worship sound, this episode dives deep into calling and what it really means to glorify God with your life.

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What does it look like to follow God in an industry driven by success, pressure, and recognition?

In this conversation, Tommee Profitt shares his journey from a basement studio to scoring major films, and the moments where obedience mattered more than opportunity.

We talk about creativity, calling, saying no, and what it means to stay true to God in the middle of influence.

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What if the way we’ve been thinking about Jesus’ return is completely off? 

In this conversation with John Bevere, they unpack why the Church has lost anticipation, how it affects holiness, and what it actually means to live ready for the King. 

This episode is both sobering and deeply hopeful.

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This episode is for anyone walking through a wilderness season, feeling stuck, forgotten, or waiting on God to move.

Rita shares the raw truth about pain, grief, and faith, and why the “other side” isn’t what you expect. 

What if breakthrough doesn’t start with your circumstances… but with your mind?

If you’re tired of waiting, this conversation might change how you see everything.

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Worship leaders Kristian Stanfill and Melodie Malone join Rita Springer to talk about the heart behind Passion’s new album Just That Good.

They dive into the struggles worship leaders face, the overwhelming spiritual hunger rising among Gen Z, and why the most powerful worship moments are often completely unplanned.

Plus, Rita shares a powerful idea: the enemy doesn’t attack your gifts, he attacks what you burn for.

This conversation explores worship, calling, humility, and the deeper purpose behind the songs the Church sings.

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Rabbi Jason Sobel joins Rita Springer to unpack the Jewish roots of Jesus, the hidden meaning of the cross in Hebrew Scripture, and why the Church has often made Jesus unrecognizable to the Jewish people. 

From supernatural encounters to The Chosen, anti-Semitism, and the powerful truth that the tomb became a womb, this conversation will deepen your faith and challenge what you thought you knew about Messiah.

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In this eye-opening conversation, Rita sits down with the creator of The Exorcist Files, Ryan Bethea to talk about spiritual warfare, deliverance, and the reality of the demonic realm.
From Ouija boards and sexual sin to trauma and generational doors, they unpack real exorcism cases, including a college student who gained a terrifying “gift” he didn’t want to give up.

Can Christians be oppressed?
How do demons gain access?
Why do some people choose not to be free?

This episode isn’t about fear, it’s about awareness, authority, and the power of J...

In this powerful conversation, Rita Springer sits with Jason & Rhonda Halbert to talk faith after loss, revival, worship culture, marriage, and obedience. 

From DC Talk and Sonicflood to walking away from the church industry, cancer, grief, and writing CARETAKER, Book 1 in The Goodpasture Chronicles. this episode is about holding onto God when everything falls apart.

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He grew up in church camps… but behind closed doors, it was violent and broken. 

Stephen McWhirter shares his journey from addiction, arrests, and hatred toward God to radical salvation, forgiveness, and leading thousands to Christ online. 

This is a story about mercy, thorns, industry tension, and a love that refuses to quit.

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Starting the year with hope… but what happens when the thing you’ve prayed for never comes? 

In this episode, Rita unpacks expectation, disappointment, obedience, and the moment her therapist used a water bottle to show her she’d been so focused on “the promise” that she missed everything around her. 

What does it mean to carry God’s presence while you wait? And what if waiting is shaping you more than arrival ever could?

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In this raw solo episode, Rita Springer addresses the growing reality of cover-up culture in the church. 

With honesty, compassion, and prophetic insight, she explores hidden sin, leadership failure, accountability, confession, and the true cost of doing the right thing. 

This conversation isn’t about cancel culture, it’s about repentance, healing, and restoring the fear of the Lord.

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What does it really mean to carry the presence of God, not just feel it? In this powerful solo episode, Rita Springer unpacks the story of the Ark of the Covenant and reveals how reverence, obedience, and discipline shape our spiritual lives. 

This is a call to deeper encounter, not emotional moments. 

As we step into 2026, how will you carry His presence?

Scripture references: 1 Samuel 6-7, 2 Samuel 6

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What happens when a worship leader leaves the platform but not the presence of God? 

In this powerful conversation, Rita Springer sits down with artist and former worship pastor Scott Coats to talk about prophetic encounters, rural revival, creativity as calling, and why comfort may be the very thing the church needs to lose. 

This episode will challenge creatives, worship leaders, and anyone asking God, “What’s next?”

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Rita joins designer Teressa Johnson in a breathtaking Italian villa for a week of creativity, beauty, and soul-deep conversation. 

Together they explore how rest, art, and hospitality reveal God’s heart. 

From floral design to faith, this episode captures the sacred beauty of slowing down and seeing God’s design in everything.

A soulful reminder that God is the ultimate creator and beauty can be found everywhere.

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As we close 2025, Rita shares a raw update on faith, fear, creativity, and the encounters with God that shaped her year. 

She opens up about new music, the future of worship in an AI age, her Italy creative retreats, and why the “clearing” after the wilderness changes everything. 

If you need renewal and vision heading into 2026, this episode is for you.

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In this deeply honest episode, Rita sits down with Holly (Hollyn) and Dillon Wilson to talk about obedience when God’s direction makes no sense. From years of waiting, financial strain, identity loss, and unexpected provision, this conversation explores what happens when you surrender your calling, your timeline, and your definition of success. This is a story about faith formed in silence, and fruit that comes later. 

This episode feels like sitting in a quiet room listening to people who have nothing left to prove.

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Worship legend Chris Tomlin joins Rita Springer for one of the most powerful and joy-filled conversations of the season. Chris shares the unbelievable story of how his calling began, the prophetic word that shaped his life, and how a 30-year journey with a mentor led him to the National Day of Prayer.

They dive deep into worship songwriting, the battle between transcendence and deliverance songs, the state of modern worship, and the heart behind Chris’ new album The King Is Still the King.

There’s wisdom, vulnerability, worship theology and...