Shakin' The Salt
Television/radio host and author Dr. Debra Peppers, shares how she overcame her own personal struggles of being 100 pounds overweight, depressed, and even suicidal, so that you too can be equipped and prepared to receive God‘s love, forgiveness, strength, and joy for living each day. Learn how you can apply God‘s word to change areas in your life, face the unknown trials of each day and be equipped for the great future that God has for you. Debra uses her life examples, sprinkled with humor, of being a high school dropout to PhD to Teacher of the Year and from Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame. Life is short and it’s time for you to have joy for your journey.
Episodes
312 episodes
BROKEN
Have you ever felt completely broken, and unable to “fix” yourself? What if that very brokenness was exactly what you needed in order to surrender, so that you could be completely healed and made brand new?
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Season 7
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Episode 27
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9:23
Celebration To Surgery
Did you ever have one of those weeks where everything was wonderful, celebrating an anniversary, and then you end up in the hospital? Although there was nothing tragic it still puts things in perspective!
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Season 7
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Episode 26
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8:32
Girls' Night Out
Every month we have a Magnolia Circle Girls Night out. All of us gals from our street on the Lake here bring a favorite dish, and we become slumber party teenagers all over again. Inside, we ARE teens!
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Season 7
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Episode 25
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10:28
Loving Life!
What do you say to a friend who is so depressed she truthfully doesn’t even want to wake up in the mornings? Having also been through depression, I can assure her that she can learn to love life again.
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Season 7
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Episode 24
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9:24
Back In Jail
People ask me why I love teaching, speaking and ministering in jails. I always say, “But for the grace of God, there go I!” After all, my parents let me spend time in jail in Mexico when I was only 16!
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Season 7
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Episode 23
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12:26
Shave My What?
Why does God heal some people and not others? I have been in pain for 26 years and keep trying everything doctors may advise, but I ultimately keep trusting the Great Physician. So another surgery? Why not!
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Season 7
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Episode 22
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10:20
Woman In The Window
My very active friend who has broken both ankles is now physically halted temporarily. Yet, what a Godly example Annie is, perched atop her home hospital bed in front of her big picture window!
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Season 7
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Episode 21
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9:32
Back To The Beach For My Birthday
I have always loved to celebrate special days in BIG ways. When we went to the beach for my birthday, I don’t care how old I am, I want to swim…and get caught up in the waves, and tumble and gasp for air!
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Season 7
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Episode 20
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9:41
Mama Bootsie At The Beach At 100
After celebrating Mom’s 100th birthday in St. Louis, a week later my brother brought her and my sister here to stay while he performed a wedding. Where do you take a 100 year old in Florida? To the Beach!
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Season 7
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Episode 19
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9:47
Crabby Old Person
Most of us can remember a crabby old person we knew when we were children. And hopefully we all had a really precious old person in our life as well! Which will you be one day – or are you there already?
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Season 7
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Episode 18
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9:13
Happily Ever After
Everyone wants to have a care-free life with the perfect job, the perfect spouse, perfect children and to never have any problems or worries. Yet we all know that never happens. But I know a secret!
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Season 7
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Episode 17
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9:16
Spittin' Cotton
Some of my Midwest slang doesn’t coincide with my husband’s Alabama roots and vice versa. And the Northeast verbiage can sound like a foreign language to me! So when did I learn “Christianese” and use it with my friends who didn’t understand.
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Season 7
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Episode 16
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10:18
My Mama Bootsie Is 100!
Not many have the privilege and honor of living to be 100. My sweet mother “Bootsie” was born in 1925 when Calvin Coolidge was president, lived through the depression, WWII, and so much more.
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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11:12
No Healing Today!
If you have battled pain or illness like I have for 25 years, you too may really become discouraged at times. Maybe you have been mad at God like I was. So what is the answer? Why doesn’t God heal me?
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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11:22
Do You Have A Soul?
We often hear the word ‘soul’ spoken today but do we really know what it means? Are soul-mate, soul brother, soul music, and soul food even related? And what does any of that have to do with your soul?
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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12:20
I Hate Easter!
Most people are shocked when they hear a professing Christian say that they hate Easter. I used to be shocked as well…until I became one who feels the same! I also used to be a C and E church goer, if that!
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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11:04
Betrayed by a Friend
Have you ever been betrayed by a friend? A co-worker? Your spouse or loved one? Maybe even a family? I have, and I don’t know that we ever forget it, even if we forgive and move on with our lives.
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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10:23
Pray For My Hubby Again!
For two weeks we thought he was healed! Have you ever gotten your hopes up and then the rug is pulled out from under you again? Now he has to be Bud in the bubble for 40 sessions – for 2 hour each day!
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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10:15
Your Vibe Attracts Your Tribe!
After 25 years of success in radio and TV, then beating cancer twice, a former student of mine and a St. Louis legend, Brian Mckenna was killed by a car while he was crossing the street Saturday night!
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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10:32
Pray for My Brother Duke
It seems ironic that two years ago my husband was healed of prostate cancer, and now my brother Duke was recently also diagnosed with the same. He asked everyone on his nightly Words of Encouragement to please pray.
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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12:34
Don't Lose Your Confidence
Have you ever wondered why young children are so carefree and eager to try new things, and then somehow by the teen years, that totally changes? Confidence has been replaced by self-consciousness.
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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10:45
Not The Hospital Again!
Everyone needs to use the bathroom, but no one ever expects to see all blood! My poor husband had just gotten over two rounds of the flu, which was two years since his prostate cancer. ER here we come!
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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10:39
Will This Be On The Test?
When you go through life’s various trials, do you ever wonder if you are somehow being “tested” to see if you make it? I know I have! As a retired high school teacher, I know that no one likes taking tests!
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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8:29