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There Will Always Be Storms... - Episode 568
2 augustus 2021 · 36 min
Do you wonder how you will ever get out from this place — the place of financial crisis, serious health problems, loss of job or relationship and are paralyzed to know what to do? There will always be life storms to overcome and survive — that is why I wrote Help, I'm Drowning. Lees meer
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We Forgive One Another: Our 24 Family Ways #8 - Episode 567
28 juli 2021 · 32 min
If we want our children to be godly leaders in this world, they must see self-sacrificing, humble forgiveness in and through our words, our lives and our actions.
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Overcoming Darkness with Rituals of Hope - Episode 566
26 juli 2021 · 34 min
Little by little, we must strengthen our children's muscles of brining hope to their world by giving them the opportunity to be sources of hope and comfort and love to those in need.
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We Encourage One Another: Our 24 Family Ways #7 - Episode 565
21 juli 2021 · 35 min
Words have influence over who a human being becomes. That is why we must consider how to invest words of love, hope, truth, and encouragement, practice saying them regularly, and why we must teach children to ponder what words of life are and how to give them to others. Lees meer
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Resources for Your Life: Help, I'm Drowning - Episode 564
20 juli 2021 · 31 min
Through almost seven decades of life, I found myself tossed about in overwhelming life storms through many different seasons. In Help, I'm Drowning, I reflected on challenges that took me by surprise. Though there are no easy answers, I would like to help lead you to the One who is with us and will see us through. Lees meer
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Walking Through Soul Darkness with Hope: Help, I'm Drowning - Episode 563
19 juli 2021 · 33 min
At 68, I can see that somehow, as I literally cried through these life storms, as I begged God for help and wisdom, He was there, even when I could not feel or see him. This week, I am gently sending Help, I'm Drowning out into the world. I pray you will be encouraged. Lees meer
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We Serve One Another: Our 24 Family Ways #6 - Episode 562
14 juli 2021 · 39 min
If a child grows up serving, it will become natural to them. Making " I love you" cards, plates of cookies for neighbors, and serving meals at the homeless shelter helped our children to learn to give time and effort to ease someone else's life. We are called the serve one another, just as Jesus called his disciples to serve along beside him and in this practice. Lees meer
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Clubhouse: Imagining Living an Inspiring Life (with Nathan & Joy Clarkson)
12 juli 2021 · 28 min
People are always asking us, "How did you do it? How did you inspire your children to be authors, movie makers, composers, college instructors, podcasters?" This was the way — imagination, nightly discussions over great meals, close, delightful relationships every day. This is how their hearts, minds, and lives were shaped into adults who could imagine influencing their worlds for good. Lees meer
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We Love One Another: Our 24 Family Ways #5 - Episode 560
7 juli 2021 · 46 min
Training a child to choose to love by showing kindness, gentleness and respect will prepare them to go before kings or paupers and to become leaders in their generation. It starts with an attitude that says, "God has designed me to love people, to be humble like He was, to show respect and kindness." Lees meer
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Joy: Actively Engaging in God's Goodness
6 juli 2021 · 35 min
Cultivating habits that sustain our lives and fill us with joy is one way we have learned to move forward every day, to find how to make life sustainable. Join Joy and me as we share some of our thoughts.
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We Listen to Correction: Our 24 Family Ways #4 - Episode 558
30 juni 2021 · 39 min
We have an incredible capacity to be strong, grow in intellectual excellence as we exercise the muscles of our minds, to leave a legacy of faith and integrity — but it requires that we also exercise our will, submit to God's discipline, and strain after His ways by following His heart. Lees meer
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Help! I'm Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace & Hope - Episode 557
28 juni 2021 · 20 min
In writing 'Help, I'm Drowning' I wanted to share some of the storms I faced and how walking with God led me to a life of flourishing and one in which He was building my life on the rock of eternal values. I hope you will be encouraged right where you are in your own storms and difficulties in life. Lees meer
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We Honor & Obey Our Parents: Our 24 Family Ways #3 - Episode 556
23 juni 2021 · 41 min
Honor comes with humility—the ability to see others as more important than ourselves. To teach honor and obedience means we will have to occasionally cross our children's wills. It's not easy, but it's necessary.
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Stay Fast to Your Ideals - Every Bit of Faithfulness Adds Up
23 juni 2021 · 20 min
Staying strong and faithful through all the years is what built my own precious one into the woman she has become. And though you can't see it yet, your thousands of moments of faithfulness is shaping that child into what will become a strong, loving, faithful adult. Lees meer
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Strength for Today, Hope for Tomorrow - Episode 554
21 juni 2021 · 41 min
Today, I'll talk about what it looks like to find God's strength, with Him lifting the load with me, no matter what I am carrying. I share some of my favorite verses about His strength. I pray that it will encourage you along your own path, and pray you will know God's love in your journey. Lees meer
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We Read the Bible Daily & Pray: Our 24 Family Ways #2 - Episode 553
16 juni 2021 · 32 min
The habit of coming to God every day, taking time specifically to seek Him, to listen to Him, to ponder His ways and engage in His truth is the most profound action that will shape your life.
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Joy & Sally: Cuteness & Fun - Episode 552
15 juni 2021 · 44 min
For a long time, I have wanted to do a weekly podcast that was just fun and informative, about what we are doing in the UK and tidbits of this and that. Today, that's just what Joy and I talked about.
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Kindness: The Act of Choosing to be Benevolent to Another, For Christ's Sake - Episode 551
14 juni 2021 · 34 min
I am seeing how much kindness means to me — to be served so sweetly, without any malice or resentment, through the loving acts of my family. It is the kindness of God I have experienced, and now I am more than ever moved to learn to become more kind, considerate in active ways to others who need my attention. Lees meer
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The Chosen with Dallas Jenkins - Episode 550
9 juni 2021 · 31 min
Millions of people all over the world have been brought closer to Christ through this transforming story so beautifully presented in full color through episodes that draw us into the intimacy of the stories Jesus lived. I hope you will watch The Chosen, directed by Dallas Jenkins, with your family. Lees meer
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This Beautiful Truth: A New Inspiring Book by Sarah Clarkson - Episode 549
7 juni 2021 · 39 min
In This Beautiful Truth, Sarah Clarkson shares her encounters with beauty in the midst of her decade-long struggle with mental illness, depression, and doubt. In a voice both vulnerable and reflective, she paints a compelling picture of the God who reaches out to us in a powerful way through the 'taste and see' goodness of what He has made and what continues to create amid our darkness. Lees meer
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Loving God with Wholehearted Devotion: Our 24 Family Ways #1 - Episode 548
2 juni 2021 · 54 min
Preparing to become mature at loving God or preparing my children to become adults who knew how to love started with teaching them God's most important commandment: to love Him with all their hearts, souls, and minds.
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The Greatest of These is Love - Episode 547
31 mei 2021 · 45 min
If we live breathing the depth of God's love for ourselves, we come to understand that God's love is essential to our understanding of Him, what drove Him to the cross, what He longs to share with us. Love is the essence of God's character. Join me today as I elaborate on verses that speak about God's steadfast love as a model for what we are to grow into. Lees meer
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Our 24 Family Ways Intro: Foundations That Cannot Be Shaken - Episode 546
26 mei 2021 · 32 min
Many years ago, Clay and I dreamed up the idea of Our 24 Family Ways as we discussed our desire to disciple our children as we walked along the path of life together. As parents of young children, we wanted them to have strong foundations of godly character and an understanding of what it meant to please God so that they could develop integrity. Lees meer
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Shaping A Beautiful, Meaningful Life - Episode 545
24 mei 2021 · 44 min
What if God designed home, motherhood, & family to be the foundational community upon which society was to emerge from — a place of truth, goodness, & wholeness? What if we were designed to be caretakers of such a task because of the sacredness God placed on women because of His great esteem for them? Lees meer
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Advocate or Adversary? How to Train Your Children - Episode 544
19 mei 2021 · 55 min
I have realized over the years that the most important element to a Christian parent, in regards to discipline, is not the method, but the heart attitude towards God as a Father of us. When we become our children's advocates, always for them, defending them, protecting them, we are helping them grow as we extend the mercy, kindness, and teachings of God. Lees meer
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Does My Sacrifice & Work of Ideals Really Matter? - Episode 543
17 mei 2021 · 29 min
Your faithfulness matters. The moments of lifegiving relationships, truth discussed, virtue modeled, happens over thousands of days, many years, lots of laying down of life. You are writing your own story of faith and faithfulness. Join me today and be encouraged in your own life to live faithfully. Lees meer
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I Just Love A Good Story! Perhaps Ours Will Someday Be Told
12 mei 2021 · 36 min
Your children long to see you as their heroes — those who inspire, live with courage, bring truth to bear in your generation. Each of us has a part. You will love the tales we talk about today and perhaps someone will be telling your faithful tale to others who need courage to live as women of valiance and light. Enjoy and be inspired. Lees meer
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Following God's Parenting Philosophy: Learning From Jesus
10 mei 2021 · 28 min
It is not getting the rules right that will make our children want to serve God. It is laying down our life for them, serving them, listening to them, loving who God made them to be, that will secure in them a desire to love God with all of their hearts. By seeing our love, they will more easily understand and receive God's love, as it will already be familiar to their hearts. Lees meer
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Accepting Your Own Reality In Marriage - Episode 540
5 mei 2021 · 28 min
The reality is that all marriages are filled with challenges. How a woman responds to her marriage will determine if it is a place where the light and beauty of God's love will be shown. One of the glories of women is the opportunity to spread the gracious spirit of love and peace in her home. It is a beautiful grace of godly women to behold -- the fragrance of unconditional love and the art of spreading light, even in the dark places. Lees meer
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Bringing Out the Song in Your Child's Heart (with Joel Clarkson)
3 mei 2021 · 33 min
When you first hold a baby in your arms, you can't even imagine the talents, personality, and strengths they will have as an adult. The miraculous and mysterious process of loving, training, cultivating skills, inspiring your children over many years results in a full-fledged adult that you could not have perceived in their earliest moments. Lees meer
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Soul Weary, Heart Sick: How To Grow Strong, Healthy, & Joyful Again - Episode 538
28 april 2021 · 38 min
Those who wait for the Lord, who patiently follow after Him, will indeed gain new strength, they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint. And their work and their reward will be sure.
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Walking the Path of Life with Your Teenagers
25 april 2021 · 42 min
Parenting can feel like climbing a mountain with high peaks and low valleys in between, especially with the onset of hormones, emotions, and changes — of them and of us! On today's new podcast, my friends and I discuss lessons we've learned and how we have walked through and are currently walking through life with our teens. Lees meer
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A Beautiful Life In The Midst Of Messes (with Jane Biel) - Episode 536
21 april 2021 · 46 min
Sometimes the circumstances of life are like our home -- messes and joys, fears and blessings all in the same breath. But it is what we see and how we perceive what is happening that will determine our comfort or our despair. Today, join me and my friend, Jane Biel, as we have a conversation about beauty amidst messes. Lees meer
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How To Raise Deep Thinkers - Episode 535
19 april 2021 · 48 min
Often, people will ask me: How did you raise children who think and who are articulate? Who engage and add to the discussion of truth, beauty, and goodness in our culture? Today, Nathan and Joseph and I discuss how to raise deep thinkers. It was so inspiring to me to hear them discuss what shaped them to become deep thinkers. I hope you will be encouraged as I was. Lees meer
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Calm My Anxious Heart (with Linda Dillow) - Episode 534
14 april 2021 · 51 min
Life for all of us is filled with anxious moments, yet, it really is possible to gain perspective of life in a fallen world, to learn how get stronger at being courageous and better at walking with God.
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Growing Slow (with Jennifer Dukes Lee) - Episode 533
13 april 2021 · 40 min
Growing takes time. Growing and waiting for the ripe moment requires hard work and patience. We are so used to instant gratification that we often quit on something before it has had proper time to grow -- but character building and training takes time. Lees meer
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When Darkness Threatens - Episode 532
7 april 2021 · 40 min
When darkness falls, especially on our emotions and thoughts, we can feel lost, moving toward depression or a cloudiness of soul. Today, two of my friends and I share our own stories of depression, dark seasons, and walking through these times with faith. Lees meer
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Lifegiving With Sally Clarkson - Episode 531
5 april 2021 · 27 min
As I look at the landscape of our times, I see a need for hope, strong faith, foundations of good character and integrity. All of these needs have been a part of humanity for generations. Women who caught a vision of becoming civilizers, life-givers, shapers of souls, were the ones who instilled these attributes through their homes. It was the conversations at the meals, bedtime blessings, morning prayers, that created human beings who learned to thrive in real life. Lees meer
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Fear Not! Living Beyond Anxiety - Episode 530
31 maart 2021 · 30 min
This time filled with anxiety and fear could, from God's eyes of history, be one of the finest hours for Christians to stay true, to be faithful until the end, to endure hardship, to rejoice in His reality, to live by faith, "assurance of things hoped for, convictions of things not seen." Lees meer
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Light Overcomes Darkness, Beauty Overshadows Evil - Episode 529
29 maart 2021 · 32 min
Whatever we pursue and cultivate will determine what we are able to pass on to all who we encounter. As stewards of our souls, we must seek to cultivate a garden of beauty -- it must be a regular habit, a discipline, to expose ourselves to great minds, musicians, artists, & theologians so that our souls will indeed reflect a museum of His great character and nobility. Lees meer
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Courage In Perilous Times - Episode 528
24 maart 2021 · 23 min
I challenge you to walk with courage and faith through this season, no matter how disastrous the voyage may appear to be. Your words of hope and faith will give you the strength and courage to keep going. You will leave a legacy of faith and faithfulness that will help generations to come. Lees meer
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Life Vision: Seeing Beyond What Is In Front Of Our Eyes - Episode 527
22 maart 2021 · 36 min
The dreams inside us point to the destiny we were created to fulfill. We each want to know that our lives matter, that we are not invisible. When we see them only as a series of mundane days, become consumed by busyness, or dwell on hurts, we become prisoners to the circumstances of our lives. Ignoring the eternal purposes God has designed for us leads to emptiness. Lees meer
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Mentoring with Love & Lifegiving Influence - Episode 526
17 maart 2021 · 41 min
To create a life where the hours and moments can be filled in satisfying interaction means that we must choose to fill the time our children could be engaged with machines or other entertainment with planned personal time that satisfies to the depths of their hearts, minds, and souls. Lees meer
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Ode To Tired Mamas - Episode 525
15 maart 2021 · 32 min
"A Joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." Take good medicine, and even in the midst of draining circumstances, plan on lighting a candle in the darkness, playing music through the pain, eating avocado toast, dancing in the midst of the mess, and smiling often as it is truly good for the heart! And above all, give yourself sweet grace! Lees meer
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A Wonder-Filled Mentor Inspires A Desire To Learn - Episode 524
10 maart 2021 · 37 min
A drive for purpose and a desire to impact others for the kingdom of God does not come out of a vacuum. Vision of the heart is what empowers all of us, as God's children, to follow Him in faith and purpose in becoming fishermen in the world. It flows from inspiration, not from moralistic rules or laws to be kept. Lees meer
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Humbly Resting in the Transcendence of God: Own Your Life, Chapter 6 - Episode 523
8 maart 2021 · 40 min
We know we are called to follow Christ, to take His message to the world, to raise our children to heed Jesus' call. But sometimes we fail to consider that following the Lord means leaving behind the familiar, exchanging a temporal view of life for an eternal goal. Lees meer
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Sick Of Being Responsible? Feeling A Little Wonky? - Episode 522
3 maart 2021 · 36 min
Life as a woman, mom, and wife can sometimes be stressful, overwhelming, exhausting, boring and demanding on many levels. Sometimes moms feel guilty admitting the variety of feelings they have. Feelings are natural -- they neither define who we are or take away from our righteousness. They are just a reaction to the situation we are in. Lees meer
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We Were Made For Love: Why You Are Irresistible - Episode 521
1 maart 2021 · 42 min
The longer I am a parent and grandparent, the more I understand how God feels about us. We are irresistible to Him. We are His own, he made us to be like Him. He champions us and celebrates us. He gave everything, even His own life, to redeem, heal, bring us back to the infinite fullness of life as He created it. Lees meer
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Celebrate: Dance to the Music of Life - Episode 520
24 februari 2021 · 21 min
Celebrating is a part of God's nature. The birds chirp to God, the sunrise and sunset sing of His glory, the stars declare His beauty. There is a life and hope and energy in this celebrating. It brings all earthly struggles into perspective, a baby bringing life that would conquer all ills, calm all storms, heal all wounds. Lees meer
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A Wise Woman Rests - Episode 519
22 februari 2021 · 27 min
Resting in Him, choosing peace and putting off responsibilities is sometimes such grand medicine for my soul, that after choosing to rest and to invest in fun and love and ease of life, my strength is renewed and all issues are able to be faced with grace. I know busyness is coming, but I will face it with courage later if I rest today. Lees meer