Save a Seat Podcast

Canaan was a worship leader, yet behind the stage lights she was hiding addiction and hidden sin. Canaan Lucas sits down with Christian and Cole to tell the story most people never got to hear. Canaan opens up about becoming pregnant at 17 in an abusive marriage, finding her footing at Mercy Ministries in Nashville, and then spending years leading worship while quietly falling apart. She talks about the moment at 44 years old, alone in a detox bed with COVID, when she realized it was surrender or death, and how that single choice rebuilt her identity from the ground up. This isn't a cleaned-up testimony. It's the real one: comfort, counterfeit, and all. This episode is for anyone who's performing for an audience of everyone except God, anyone white-knuckling their way through addiction, and anyone who needs to hear that surrender isn't the end of the story. It's the start of it. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Got questions or feedback? Email us here.

There's a song a lot of us sing in church asking God to "open the scroll" and "break the seal." Do we actually know what we're asking for? Christian and Cole dig into Revelation and the scroll only Christ is found worthy to open, the culmination of human history itself. They talk through what it means that we're currently living under a season of God's grace before judgment, why breaking the seal is really a request for Jesus to return, and what it looks like to actually answer the invitation in Revelation 3: "I stand at the door and knock." A conviction-heavy episode for anyone who's sung the words without sitting with what they mean, and anyone wondering if they've truly let God in. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Got questions or feedback? Email us here.

Ever had a pastor tell you God is a loving, perfect Father... and then remembered the Book of Job? Yeah, that was Christian's week. This episode kicks off with an honest gut check: how do you square a good God with the fact that He straight up told Satan "go ahead, test my servant"? Christian and Cole read through the actual conversation between God and Satan in Job 2, roast Job's three friends for their genuinely bad takes on suffering (seriously, wait till you hear Bildad's), and sit with God's response out of the whirlwind, which honestly kind of ends the debate. They also get into why the cross isn't supposed to make logical sense, why doubting your faith might be one of the healthiest things you can do, and a hard truth: the more you're actually used by God, the bigger the target gets on your back. If you're in a season of unanswered suffering right now, or you've been made to feel like you're not allowed to ask God the hard questions, this one's for you. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Got questions or feedback? Email us here.

David Altizer had built a YouTube channel to nearly 100,000 subscribers and a full-time income, then heard God tell him, in one quiet moment, to give it all away. Christian and Cole sit down with David, a YouTube strategist and thumbnail designer, to talk about the small still voice that told him to delete the channel, the verse God used to confirm it, and what happened financially in the weeks after he actually obeyed. A conversation about surrender, identity outside of your job, and what it looks like to trust God with the thing you built your life on. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Got questions or feedback? Email us here.

Stuart McCloud was a worship leader on the outside and falling apart on the inside, leading Sunday mornings while secretly living a completely different life. Christian and Cole sit down with him, the first-ever guest on Save a Seat, to talk about the moment God met him with nothing left to give, why he fasted music for 30 days, and how idolizing the church almost cost him his faith entirely. A raw, honest conversation for anyone stuck between who they're pretending to be and who God says they already are.