A common lie we believe is that we are not enough. But, what if we don't have to be? Join Emily and Sara as they talk about how God uses us despite our perceived shortcomings. When we step out in faith, the outcome is always more than we could imagine, because He is enough.

Often, we enter a new year with the best intentions to make radical changes to our lives setting goals and resolutions. We aren’t quite a full month into 2024, for those of you who have made resolutions, how many of you have already given up on them? In this episode, Emily and Sara talk about how we can make resolutions that stick, and how important it is that those goals bring us closer to Jesus.

As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. In this episode, we talk about how floating in the perfect love of God allows our love for others to be complete.

As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. In our previous two episodes we talked about what hope and peace look like when they’re centered on Jesus. Today, we talk about joy and how we can choose to have joy in the midst of difficult circumstances. As we bring our authentic selves to God, He can turn our mourning into gladness.

As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. This week we talk about what true peace is when it is found in Jesus. It is not just the absence of conflict, it is also the act of restoring what is broken. When we receive peace in the presence of God, we can carry that peace with us to a broken world.

In these weeks leading up to Christmas, we would like to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each of the four candles of Advent represent- Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. First, hope. When we think about hope specifically during the first week of Advent, we reflect on how Christ came into the world to bring hope to a broken people in need of salvation. Prophecies fulfilled through His birth, death, and resurrection give us hope for the prophecies that remain unfulfilled, the second coming of Christ our King. 

We are officially entering the advent season, but before we begin celebrating the anticipation of the arrival of Jesus our Savior, we want to have a conversation on gratitude. The Bible calls us to gratitude from beginning to end and science tells us the benefits of expressing gratitude. As we move into the advent season, let's continue to remember all of the blessings God has given us in our lives, to be present and see God at work in the little and the big, but then to remember the bigger gift He has given in his son and the hope that brings us. The hope that allows us to experience joy in every circumstance. 

In the last couple of episodes, we’ve talked about what unhealthy church cultures look like, the harm they cause, and how to walk through the harm toward healing. In this episode, we want to talk about what it looks like to contend for healthy culture in your church. As we depend on the Holy Spirit, certain characteristics should be evident in ourselves and our churches.

In this episode, we continue a conversation in response to a listener’s question about the tension between church holding some of our greatest memories along with some of our deepest hurts. What do you do when you’ve been wounded by the church? Ignore what happened and stay? Pretend everything is fine? Deconstruct your faith? Give up on the church all together? It is possible to stay with Jesus while you walk through the wounding. Listen in as we share, authentically, about our journeys toward healing.

In this episode, Sara and Emily answer a listener question about their thoughts on deconstruction and the tension between beautiful memories and deep woundings from church experience. If you have been wounded by the church - we see you, you are not alone, and what happened to you is not okay. This episode may contain triggers for those who have been wounded as we talk about the definitions of spiritual abuse, church hurt, and religious trauma. But Jesus. He is with us as we try to make sense of our experiences and rebuild our faith on a solid foundation.