Best Jill E. McCormick Podcasts (2023)

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#165: Grace in Parenting: Raising confident daughters with Susan Seay 55:37

3h ago55:37

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Raising godly daughters – how does a mom do it? How can you raise confident daughters? Listen in to Episode 165 with Susan Seay as we talk about grace-based parenting for moms raising girls. Girl-moms, let us continue to partner with Jesus as we raise confident women, who love the Lord, who know who God created them to be, and who speak life, not g…

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#164: Grace in Parenting: Raising responsible sons with Marnie Hammar 55:28

1d ago55:28

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Raising boys is a gift, privilege, and challenge. How can you raise your sons to be responsible? How you can connect with your son when you have different personalities? Listen in to Episode 164 with Marnie Hammar as we talk about grace-based parenting for moms raising boys. We need boy-moms who are speaking truth and life into their sons, who are …

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#163: Grace in Parenting: Balancing motherhood and ministry with Katie Scott 56:42

2h ago56:42

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How can we balance motherhood and ministry? Is it possible to follow your passions and be a mom? How can you handle mom guilt as you work in ministry? Listen in to Episode 163 with Katie Scott as we talk about grace-based parenting for those in ministry. You’re a mom. You're also in ministry, whether that’s by being on staff at your church, leading…

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#162: Grace in Parenting: Hope when your child’s choices break your heart with Mary DeMuth 44:17

23h ago44:17

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What is a wayward child? How do we love that adult child well when they continually make unwise choices? As parents, we have dreams and plans for our children, and those can come crashing down. What do we do with the expectations we hold about how our kids will turn out when they blindside us with the choices they make? Mom, there is hope. Do not g…

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#161: Grace in Parenting: How to rest in God’s love when your schedule is full with Crystal Paine 44:00

8d ago44:00

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Are you an overwhelmed mom? Are you struggling with a long to-do list? What are practical strategies + anchoring truths when you feel exhausted? Listen in for grace-based parenting help. As a mom, you juggle so much: the family calendar, the emotional needs of your people, caring for yourself, running a household, and working. How can you enjoy you…

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#160: Race + Grace: How you can do something about racism with Jenny Booth Potter 55:27

21d ago55:27

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How to fight racism is a question we want and need to answer. What can you do about racism? How can you make a difference? Listen in. Racism is hurting real people right now. Racism is hurting your brothers + sisters in Christ at this exact moment. Racism should make your skin boil because it is not God's plan for His people. So, what do you do? Wh…

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#159: Race + Grace: Expanding your friendship circle beyond those who look just like you with Torrie Sorge 51:45

22d ago51:45

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How to cultivate interracial friendship is a question we hold. How do we build friendships with people who don’t look like we do? What are do’s and don’ts in conversations with people of other ethnicities? Listen in. Diversifying our friendships is important. Diversifying our life is important too. Where do we start? What can we do to cultivate int…

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#158: Race + Grace: Weaving conversations about race into your real life with Michelle Ami Reyes 53:18

29d ago53:18

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Starting and holding a conversation about race with your people can feel intimidating. My hope is for us, as Christ's followers, to begin talking about race with the people most important to us because God’s heart is for people of every nation, tribe, and tongue to know and worship Him. If this is what heaven will look like, why can’t we bring heav…

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#157: The part of the gospel we don’t hear enough about 12:09

1M ago12:09

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You are loved by God. Yes, you are a sinner, AND God saved you because He loved you first. Sinning is a part of your story, but that’s not the only true truth about you. If you grew up with the drumbeat of messaging that reminded you of how sinful, unworthy, unrighteous, deceitful you were– which is certainly biblical but not the only or ev…

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#156: Grace Beneath the Waves: Grace will set you free 33:58

1M ago33:58

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Learn what it means to be free, the four steps to break free from sin, and how to break free from lies that don’t serve you well in Episode 156. Through this last chapter of Jonah, we’ll see that only grace holds the power to set you free. God’s heart for us is not to be trapped by anger or sin or worry but to be free. God created us to be free fro…

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#155: Grace Beneath the Waves: How to give grace to others 35:42

2M ago35:42

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Learn the four powerful steps of forgiveness, three ways to practically show people grace in your real life, and 10 simple ways to lead with humility in Episode 155. People frustrate us, right? We bump up against each other’s sharp edges when we live, work, and play together. To live and love as Christ calls us to live and love, we must extend grac…

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#154: Grace Beneath the Waves: How to receive God's grace 35:58

2M ago35:58

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Learn how to receive God’s grace, three reasons you might reject, and three phrases to put on repeat to live a grace-filled life. Listen in. God’s grace is for the perfectionists, the ones who feel like they don’t belong, the ones who hate being vulnerable, and the ones who find their worth in metrics and knowledge. In today’s episode, you’ll learn…

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#153: Grace Beneath the Waves: What is grace? 42:04

2M ago42:04

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Many of us feel today like we have been blindsided by a life we thought was going well; instead, we’ve been overcome by a health diagnosis. We feel untethered to who we are because our child is walking through hell, and we’ve done all we can, and we don’t know what to do, but we want our child’s pain to end. Or – oh, I don’t know: our world has bee…

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#152: Spiritual Health: Pouring out your heart to the Lord with Jennifer Dukes Lee 44:12

3M ago44:12

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It is no accident that our Spiritual Health series started with paying attention and ends with sharing what rumbles in our souls. Only when we wake up to what’s bothering us on the inside can we pour it out to the Lord as David did in the psalms. We must know ourselves – our fears, hopes, dreams, worries, nervous ticks, default coping mechanisms – …

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#151: Spiritual Health: Praying outside the box with Asheritah Ciuciu 50:13

3M ago50:13

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Learn how to cultivate a deep prayer life and pray effectively, including incorporating prayer in your daily rhythms in Grace In Real Life Ep 151 w/Asheritah Ciuciu. I’ve been talking to God since I was little. My prayer life started with those basic prayers of mimicking what my parents spoke and saying grace before meals. I’m pretty sure I went ra…

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#150: Spiritual Health: Developing curiosity about God, yourself, and others with Lore Ferguson Wilbert 46:12

3M ago46:12

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Curiosity is a skill we can use to better understand each other. But can we use that same skill to grow our faith? Can we develop curiosity about ourselves: Why do we tense up the way we do around that person? Why do we always say “yes” before checking our calendar? What does it look like to be curious about God, ourselves, and the world? Because d…

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#149: Spiritual Health: Overcome challenges in finding community with Rachael Wade 45:51

4M ago45:51

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Learn three easy places to find community, one sign you’re open to community, and two simple ways to encourage your friends. If you’re lonely and ever wondered how to find community and belonging, listen in to Grace In Real Life Episode 149 with Rachael Wade. God Himself is in community, being a part of the Trinity. He designed families as a way fo…

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#148: Spiritual Health: Study the Bible like a pro with Portia Collins 57:36

3M ago57:36

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You’ll learn easy ways to study the Word of God every woman can use. If you’ve ever wondered how to read God’s Word effectively, listen in to Grace In Real Life Episode 148 with Portia Collins. I’m 99% sure that you read the Bible. Maybe you read a verse a day or are reading the Bible chronologically or are reading it in a year. Maybe you listen to…

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#147: Spiritual Health: Sharing the love of Jesus with others with Twyla Franz 45:38

4M ago45:38

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Here’s how to spread the gospel without feeling awkward. This is evangelism without knocking on the doors of strangers. Jesus calls us to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything He commanded us. Nothing sounds more amazing and more ter…

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#146: Spiritual Health: Embracing a lifestyle of rest with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith 48:33

4M ago48:33

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What’s tired in your life? What area feels depleted? Today we’re talking about making rest a part of our everyday lives. If I were to ask every listener if she struggled with rest, I’m guessing 99.9% of you would say yes. When we rest, we feel: Guilty Unproductive Like it’s a waste of time Yet, God designed us to rest. In this episode, Dr. Saundra …

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#145: Spiritual Health: Spending time with Jesus with Arabah Joy and Jen Evangelista 51:56

4M ago51:56

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Today we’re talking about the spiritual discipline of spending time with Jesus. Is there any more transformational practice than spending time with Jesus? When we talk with Him and listen to Him and love Him and let Him love us back, it changes everything. We are no longer who we were after we’ve spent time with Christ. In this episode, AJ and Jen …

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#144: Spiritual Health: Paying attention with Anjuli Paschall 40:56

4M ago40:56

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Today we’re talking about the spiritual discipline of paying attention and awakening to God’s love for you. Through this series on spiritual health, I want us – women of God and sisters in Christ – to be healthy and to shed who we are not and the false narratives that don’t serve us well so we can live and move and have our being in freedom and gra…

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#143: Advent: Peace 7:20

6M ago7:20

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The story of Christ’s time on earth is the story of peace as a palindrome, you know: one of those words that reads the same forwards and backward. When Jesus was born, He came as Immanuel, God With Us. When Jesus died, was buried, rose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven, He is still Immanuel, God With Us. Jesus’s time here started wit…

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#142: Advent: Joy 9:03

6M ago9:03

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Joy is at the heart of Christ. And yet, joy is the noun I struggle with most. Joy causes a hitch in my throat that says, “But wait; what about all the hurt and sadness and violence?” Joy feels irrelevant or off-key or out of step in a world where: Human trafficking and slavery exist Women in the workplace face a wage disparity Racism flourishes Wit…

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#141: Advent: Faith 8:08

6M ago8:08

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Our great, big, powerful God invites us to have the great, big powerful gift of faith. Yet, this feels daunting to us. But what if our great big powerful God who created and offers the great big powerful gift of faith understands the beauty of small steps? When we look at the faithful giants of our faith, may we see the great big outcomes AND the s…

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#140: Advent: Hope 8:21

6M ago8:21

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We will revisit a well-worn story of a God who loves nearness with us and whose hallmark and name bear His With-ness. A story that started in the garden and ends in eternity. A story of a God who has taken the form of a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, AND who put on flesh and dwelt among us. A story of the infinite turned infa…

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#139: ‘Tis the Season: Ask a Counselor: Holiday Gatherings Edition with LPC Sara Peters 48:47

6M ago48:47

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As we interact with family members we only see a few times a year, and those who may hold political views or perspectives 180 degrees opposite of us, we see our humanity, our sin, our frailty, and our cracks more clearly now than at any other time of the year. We are especially conscious of wanting to be healthy and whole, and to act out of love, n…

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#138: ‘Tis The Season: Gift ideas for every Enneagram type 29:57

7M ago29:57

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We’re talking about gift ideas for each Enneagram type and how each type feels about gifts in general. Each Enneagram type has gifts they would love to give and gifts they love to receive. In today’s episode, we’re going to break down: Each type’s gift-giving philosophy How each type feels as a gift-giver and gift-receiver And gift ideas for all ni…

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#137: Grace vs. Fear: When asking for help feels like The Worst 22:00

7M ago22:00

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Some of us feel like asking for help is The Worst, and our reasons for that fall into three buckets: our sin (like pride), wounds inflicted by others when we’ve asked for help in the past, and lies we believe about what it says about us if we ask for help. We don’t want to stay stuck. We want to be helpers and helpees, so what do we do? Today, we’l…

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#136: Grace vs. Fear: When you believe you’re messing up your kids 27:00

7M ago27:00

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Most moms I know – at one time or another – have said some version of “I’m messing up my kids.” Because we’ve lived the power of words and actions in our own lives with our parents, and because we know the truth of science, and the practicality of much of the messaging, we know our impact is critical and we take our roles seriously. This is good an…

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#135: Grace vs. Fear: When you worry you’re selfish 22:36

7M ago22:36

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No grace-girl worth her salt wants to be selfish. Women – especially women raised in the church – do not want to be selfish or self-centered or someone who pursues selfish ambitions. Selfishness is a ninja that sneaks up on us and calls us out when we dare to watch a show and sit on the couch instead of doing laundry, sit on the back porch and read…

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#134: Grace-based Friendship: Friendship + the Introvert with Yohonna Smith 30:00

8M ago30:00

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No matter our temperament or personality type, God designed us to be in friendship with each other. Whether introverts or extroverts, God invites us to come together, spur each other on to good works, care for each other, confess our sins to each other, and build each other up. But what does this look like for introverts who love people AND also ne…

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#133: Grace-based Friendship: Are your friendships healthy? (And what to do if they’re not) with LPC Shundria Riddick 34:52

8M ago34:52

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Are your friendships healthy? How do you know if a friendship is unhealthy? God’s heart for us is to have deep friendships, but how do we know if our friendships are healthy and what to do about it if they are not? I’m so glad Licensed Professional Counselor Shundria Riddick is here because she talks to us about seven ingredients of healthy friends…

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#132: Grace-based Friendship: Making friends as an adult with Susan Seay 51:52

8M ago51:52

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We’re talking about how to make friends as an adult, especially when you have older kids. God’s heart for us is to have deep friendships, but how do we do that in real life, especially when we have older kids who we drop off and pick up from places? I’m so glad Susan is here because she talks to us about The difference between community and friends…

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#131: Grace-based Friendship: How your Enneagram type impacts your friendships 29:57

8M ago29:57

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How does your Enneagram type impacts what type of friend you are? Our goal here is for you to learn about how God wired you, but also for you to learn about those in your life so you can love them well, show them grace, and be the friend God created you to be. You were created by God with your personality type by design for a specific purpose, so y…

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#130: God, grace + emotions: Anger is not your enemy with Amber Lia 34:15

9M ago34:15

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We’re talking about where God’s grace meets us in our anger. Anger is one of those dirty, little secrets no good Christian woman wants to talk about. We don’t like to admit that we can be so easily swayed into an emotion that triggers behavior that is so incredibly ugly. And yet… we all get angry. Some of us give full vent to our anger, and some of…

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#129: God, grace + emotions: Radical grace for your distracted, swirling brain with Jeanne Stevens 50:07

9M ago50:07

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I know that you are a woman who wants to live with intentionality and presence. You want to show up for your people, and you don’t want to miss the good that God offers you right this very minute. And yet… we can’t focus on where we are now because we’re thinking about that hard conversation we need to have next week, OR we are thinking about how u…

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#128: God, grace + emotions: The grace of joy with Kimberly Davis 46:51

9M ago46:51

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How can we experience more joy in our real lives? Our world seems bent on stressing us out, inducing anxiety, and making us worry. Kimberly and I talk through What may be blocking your joy, Two lies you may believe about joy, And two easy ways to automatically increase your joy. Key Quotes “When I’m looking up, that’s when I experience God’s joy.” …

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#127: God, grace + emotions: Practical grace when you feel not enough with Richella Parham 52:21

9M ago52:21

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Every area of my life is exposed to the toxic element of feeling less-than. In my writing, I feel like others are more reflective and thoughtful. On staff at our church, I feel like everyone else in staff meeting is more spiritually mature. In volunteering, I believe the other leaders connect better with the students. So how can we handle feeling l…

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#126: God, grace + emotions: Overcoming guilt with grace with Sara Peters 51:00

9M ago51:00

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Ever felt bad because you said “no” to the cell phone or sleepover for your child, even when you knew it was the right choice? Ever felt like The Worst parent because you work, even if it’s a financial necessity? Maybe you’ve been guilted into serving on the PTA Board or spending Christmas with your in-laws. Guilt seems to stick close like a shadow…

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#125: God, grace + emotions: Combatting shame with grace with Becky Leach 59:37

10M ago59:37

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Shame is both an emotion and a weapon our enemy likes to use to distance us from God, others, and ourselves. Friend, we all suffer from shame. Shame about what we’ve done – or haven’t. What was done to us – or what we did to another. Becky and I talk through What shame is, When you feel like you’re too much, And how to move God’s love from your hea…

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#124: God, Grace + Emotions: Giving grace in anxiety and depression with J.S. (Joon) Park 50:20

10M ago50:20

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Friend, you may suffer from anxiety and depression, and you may not. This is a must-listen episode no matter what because I guarantee there is someone in your life who is struggling with these two emotions and diagnoses. Joon and I talk through If anxiety and depression are a lack of trust in God What’s going on when you’re frustrated that you can’…

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#123: God, Grace + Emotions: Sustaining grace in grief with Lisa Appelo 51:05

10M ago51:05

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Maybe your grief is that a child leaves for college this month. Maybe it’s that your husband’s new job requires him to travel every week, so you feel like a single parent. Maybe you’re grieving the end of a long-time friendship. As you listen, ask yourself, “What grief do I face today?” Then allow yourself the space and time to talk with your frien…

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#122: Grace in Parenting: Parenting in our brokenness with Monet Carpenter 51:22

11M ago51:22

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Can we agree that all of us are broken, wounded, and hurt in some way? Let’s spend some time together talking about raising kids as you heal from hurts. In today’s conversation, Monet shares gracious truths and practical wisdom when you: Are an angry parent, Crave margin, but aren’t sure where to find it, And when you want to heal AND need to paren…

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#121: Grace in Parenting: Raising kids as a single mom with Latasha Ferguson 1:03:07

12M ago1:03:07

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Friend, whether you are single parenting or not, Latasha fills this conversation with the hard-fought wisdom that only Jesus can provide when He’s seen you through the trenches. In today’s conversation, Latasha shares gracious truths and practical wisdom when you: Feel like God is mad or disappointed with you because of the choices you’ve made, Don…

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#120: Grace in Parenting: Raising children with special needs with Juli Henderson 1:02:45

12M ago1:02:45

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When raising a special needs child, what practical ways will help you get through the day? How can you strengthen your marriage? What do you do when you cannot reconcile your good God allowing your child to suffer? We’re in our Grace in Parenting series, and we’re talking all about raising special needs children with special needs advocate speaker,…

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#119: Grace in Parenting: Raising girls: Perfectionism, body image, and true friendship with Michelle Nietert 40:45

12M ago40:45

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How can we help our daughters when they struggle with perfectionism? Body image? Negative self-talk? How can we help our daughters set boundaries and identify toxic friendships? We’re in our Grace in Parenting series, and we’re talking all about raising daughters with Licensed Professional Counselor, author, speaker, and podcaster Michelle Nietert.…

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#118: Grace in Parenting: Raising girls + rooting their identity in Christ with Michelle Nietert 37:26

1y ago37:26

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What are the top three struggles our daughters face today? How can we raise our daughters to root their identity in Christ? What lies is the world teaching our girls, and how can we combat those lies? We’re in our Grace in Parenting series, and we’re talking all about raising daughters with Licensed Professional Counselor, author, speaker, and podc…

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#117: Grace in Parenting: Raising boys with Jasmine Holmes 43:50

1y ago43:50

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How can we raise our boys to be spiritual leaders? How can we love them well? What are the joys and challenges of being a boy-mom? We are back with another round of the Grace in Parenting series. To get the series started, author and boy-mom Jasmine Holmes joins the show. In our conversation, Jasmine shares: How to instill emotional vocabulary and …

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#116: Grace + Your Body: Embracing the body God gave you with Amber O’Neal Johnston 53:39

1y ago53:39

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How can we embrace and accept the body God gave us? I don’t know about you, but I have often wished for a body built very differently from mine. God gave me a body I keep wishing away. So how do we accept and embrace the body God specifically picked for us? How do we find belonging in our own skin? Key Quotes “There was this nagging feeling that be…

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