Leaving the Shallows

Join us in this episode as we discuss the book of Job and share our own personal stories of walking through hard things. We can often find ourselves asking God, “where are you?”. We can wonder if we did something wrong. We tend to tell ourselves that if I do this good thing, then God will surely bless me. So, when we find ourselves in hard situations and even unthinkable situations, we are faced w...

Today we’re joined by Pastor David Campos from One Chapel to discuss a popular saying, “Once Saved, Always Saved.” There tends to be two extreme camps of people around this topic. One camp believes that you can never lose your salvation-say it once and that’s my ticket to heaven and in the meantime I’ll do what I want. The other camp lives in this constant fear that God is about to smack them at a...

In this episode Heather and Jackie sit down to have a conversation about how we are to live our lives after we have accepted Jesus as our savior. Are we to keep on living as we were before we gave our hearts to Jesus? Are we to do whatever we want and His grace has got us covered? The question is if Jesus calls us to live differently-then what does that look like? If He died for us on the cross an...

Have you ever thought to invite God into your sexual life? Have you been wondering what the Bible actually says about sex? It’s easy to get caught up in our own experiences and what the world around us says is normal. If we stop there and don’t dig into what the Bible actually teaches us then we will fall short of what God actually wanted for us when it comes to our sexual relationships. It may se...

On today’s episode of Leaving The Shallows, Heather and Jackie have a conversation about what love is. Most of us have some sort of idea of what love is but where is our idea of love being formed? How do we get our definition of love? Should we trust what we believe or what the world says?  In today's episode we talk about going to the source of love, the One who is love (1 John 4:8), in orde...

Join Heather and Jackie this week as we continue on with our conversation about the fear of the Lord. In order to fear the Lord we must love and hate what God loves and hates. The fear of the Lord is missing from our culture and sadly a lot of times from our churches. We can love God all day and not fear Him at all.  God always loves the person. He wishes none to perish. However, there are things...

Join Heather and Jackie this week as we sit down with Pastor Wayne Boersma from One Life Church in Lethbridge, Canada, who also happens to be Jackie’s Dad. In this episode we dive into a conversation about what the fear of the Lord is. Pastor Wayne has been doing a series at his church currently on the fear of the Lord. If you aren’t sure what the fear of the Lord is, this podcast is for you. If y...

We are so excited this week to sit down with Nicole Fitzpatrick, founder of an organization called The Village Global located in Mexico. They are in partnership with Mountain Gateway-a missionary organization. We are so honored to have her as a guest today and hear her story of how God called her and her husband to rescue and fight for children that are sex traffic victims. We know many people hav...

Join us this week on Leaving The Shallows Podcast with Heather Bradley and Jackie Skanderup. We sit down with our friend Tabatha as she shares with us about her experience while living in Israel and what God taught her about sabbath. God knew exactly what we needed when He created sabbath rest for us. We talk about the healing aspect of sabbath, as well as how it is a part of our identity and a gi...

Join Jackie Skanderup and Heather Bradley this week On Leaving The Shallows- as we talk about, “Getting Egypt Out of Us.” In 1 John 2:15 the Bible tells us not to love the world or the things of the world. If we do then the love of the Father is not in us. This can sound harsh but it’s who God has called us to be. Getting Egypt out of us means getting the ways of the world out of us. This can be h...

Join Heather Bradley and Jackie Skanderup this week on Leaving The Shallows, as we sit down with our good friend Kim Swafford. Kim is one of our dearest friends. She has been a Pastor, mentor, and friend to both of us. One thing we love about Kim is her amazing teaching ability of the scriptures. We were both fortunate to have her as our bible studies teacher in Bible College. We are talking about...

Welcome to Leaving the Shallows Podcast. On this week’s episode Jackie and Heather have the privilege of hearing from Christina Campos. Christina is a Pastor, alongside her husband. She is a mom of three grown children and two granddaughters. Join us as she shares her amazing testimony of God’s grace and redemption through dealing with depression, suicide attempts and an abortion.  Her passion for...

Welcome to the Leaving the Shallows podcast with Heather Bradley and Jackie Skanderup. Join us today as we have a conversation about growing as a believer in Christ and what that can look like. We are all called to continually grow and become more Christ-like over time. This isn’t about changing our outward appearance. It has everything to do with who we are on the inside-of course we will see thi...

On today’s episode we sit down with our beautiful friend, Cari McDonnell. She shares what Jesus has been teaching her in this new season of her life. In our conversation we discuss how Christ emptied Himself and how we are also emptied in order to be filled. We talk about what it looked like when Christ was emptied and what are some things that get emptied from our lives. We have to ask ourselves...

Join Heather Bradley and Jackie Skanderup on today’s episode titled, “When You See Jesus As Lord of Your Life You See Life Differently.” As we have a conversation about how Jesus is not only our savior, but also our Lord we learn there is a difference. Jesus is either Lord of all or not at all. You might be wondering what the difference is between Jesus as our Savior and Jesus as our Lord. They ar...

Today on Leaving the Shallows,  we sit down with Kristen Hallinan, a wife, mother, speaker and author. She loves helping women redeem their stories and creating  hope for their families. Heather and Jackie join her for an insightful conversation about boundaries.  Boundaries often get a bad reputation amongst Christians because they may seem unkind or unbiblical. If we study the scriptures, we lea...

In today’s episode, we have a conversation about struggling to hear God’s voice. God speaks to all of us, even if it doesn’t seem like it.  The truth is He doesn’t have “selective speaking,” but we, on the other hand, often have “selective hearing.”  As mentioned in other episodes, it comes down to our relationship with Him.  God speaks to each of us in different ways, one of the main ways being t...

Rest. That's a word we almost laugh at in this culture! Does one even have time for that? Living a life of hustling and going from thing to thing has almost become an idol. If your schedule isn't jam packed then you must be lazy or you're missing out on what you are supposed to be doing. Despite the fact that most of us are running around filled with anxiety, depression, fear, exhau...

How do you know if you’re on God’s path or a counterfeit path? The word “counterfeit” means to be made in the exact imitation of something with the intention to deceive!  2 Corinthians 11:14 warns that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.   So how can we spot the counterfeit?  Join Jackie and Heather today as they discuss what it means to be on a “counterfeit path” with the world. We know...

Welcome to the first episode of Leaving the Shallows Podcast with Heather Bradley and Jackie Skanderup. Join us as we discuss the meaning behind the new name of our podcast:  our desire to see God’s people grow deeper in Him, to dig deep roots, and to flourish in the things of God. We want to help you get out of the shallow end of your walk with Christ and develop a deep relationship with Jesus. ...

In Honor of Mother’s Day we sat down and had a conversation about all things motherhood. If you're a young mama- in the trenches of the daily grind-this episode is for you! Trust us when we say we have been in the mundane of motherhood. Those days can feel the same and look the same-it can make you stop and question if what your doing even matters. After all do these kids ever even listen? Ph...

In a world where everyone posts everything about their lives, we may often find ourselves longing for big "post worthy" moments in life. Exciting moments in life. However, there is something that God is leading us to that is not "front page news" worthy.  It's obedience. It's living a life of submission to His will, even when no one is looking. In today’s episode we a...

Join Jackie and Heather today on the Truth:Freedom Conversation’s Podcast as we sit down  and have a conversation about spending time with God. How often do you find yourself trying  to fit God in your schedule? You have good intentions but you find yourself trying to find a  moment of quiet with Him? You feel distant and off and don’t know why? Maybe you have  heard how important it is to spend t...

In today’s episode we are continuing on with our series about the Holy Spirit. Have you ever wondered what the Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit is all about? If you have always felt like something is missing-or there must be something more in your walk as a christian-than you do not want to miss this conversation. If you want to live in the power of Jesus then do not miss this episode. Join us toda...

Hey Truth:Freedom Conversation Listener’s -we are so excited to drop another episode today! If you have been enjoying our series on the Holy Spirit we think you will love this episode. We had a conversation that we feel will bridge our last two episodes together nicely. Have you ever wondered how important your character development is in Christ? It’s more important than how often you are operatin...