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The Pastor’s Studio with Paul Basden

The Pastor’s Studio with Paul Basden

By: Paul Basden
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The Pastor’s Studio is a space for honest conversations, meaningful questions, and stories that reveal how faith meets real life. Hosted by pastor and author Paul Basden, this podcast brings together authentic dialogue, spiritual reflection, and real-life experiences to help listeners navigate what it means to follow Jesus in a complex world.

Across every season, the aim is the same: to help listeners see God more clearly, understand themselves more deeply, and live out their faith with wisdom, humility, and grace.

Thoughtful, grounded, and full of heart, Pastor Paul invites you to slow down, listen well, and pay attention to the story God is writing in and around you.

Season 1: Uncomfortable Conversations with Christians
Season 2: Why Do I Do What I Do - Exploring the Enneagram
Season 3: This is My Story


Paul Basden is an author and serves as co-senior pastor of Preston Trail Community Church in Texas. A native of Dallas, Texas, Paul earned his BA from Baylor University and his Master of Divinity and PhD from Southwestern Theological Seminary. Paul also served as university minister and a professor of theology at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife, Denise, have two grown daughters and four grandsons.

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    What if the marriage that started with love… still started falling apart?

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    • When marriage struggles expose deeper personal wounds
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    References

    Baptism at Preston Trail: https://prestontrail.org/baptism

    Luke 1:45 Proverbs 3:5 Ecclesiastes 3:1

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  • S3E11: From Shame to Surrender: Ron Daniels on Addiction, Recovery & God’s Steady Grace
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    What happens when the life you’ve built starts to quietly fall apart?

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