Regular Girl

These days, you can't go far without seeing the advice and guidance from self-help gurus. There’s certainly no lack of experts to help a person become all that they can be. But when it comes down to it, who should we listen to more than anyone else and are we only simply deluding ourselves into believing that life will ever be without struggle?

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, everything falls apart and when we arrive there, it can feel a lot like "what’s the point?" The bigger question though...what if all of it is meant to develop a deeper trust and reliance of Him? What if every valley we crawled through was meant to cultivate a character that separates us as a people set apart?

Man has a tendency to get confused. Culture is partially to blame, but it’s our own insecurities that fill in the rest. We get confused as spouses, parents, children, siblings, friends, employees, and community servants. We continue to place ourselves in spaces we were never meant to be. If you aren’t you who is achieving or doing the thing you feel is important to your identity, who are you then?...

Often, when we pray for something, we make up our minds as we pray what the answer should be. We must be careful to understand that God’s plan and man’s plan are not the same. We lack comprehension for what it truly means for God’s will to be done. We speak it and say it, but do we truly believe it?

In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite Bible verses because it tickles me every time I read it. Once getting over those giggles, I ask some questions that might point us in a different direction...one that perhaps leads us a little closer to Jesus. 

I can’t speak for everyone, but I can certainly tell you from my own life that I didn’t begin to see the tangible effects of the Holy Spirit in my life until I was confronted with that big scary Jordan River moment. You will never fully know God’s word is true unless you allow Him to show you it is. You’ll only ever be standing on the edge wondering if you should put your toe in the Jordan River,...

Our time is not God's time and when we try to place ourselves over and above God, we'll always get frustrated things aren't moving as fast as we think they should. Listen as I give you some homework on how to fix this part if you're feeling impatient and overwhelmed. 

What is fair? What is right? What is just? How we answer those questions can be telling of where our heart is. When the Lord is in charge, we have little to fear. Listen in as I remind you that the security of your salvation rests in what He alone has done. 

Family relationships can be very complicated. There are many who don't have a great or any relationship with their earthly Father and that can sometimes create a false projection of who God is. Listen in to this encouragement about who God is and why we should never feel shy about coming home again. 

We are constantly confronted with becoming better versions of ourselves, evolving, and setting and crushing goals. But where on our list does transforming into the people we were called to be as Believers? Listen in as I discuss. 

"David was a man. He was flesh and bone and even though he tried his very best, we later read in Scripture how David messes up pretty badly. It was not a flawless life that made him a man after God’s own heart. Rather, it was his knee-jerk reaction to go to the Lord first in every situation. It was a clear understanding that the qualities he needed to not just thrive, but simply survive, could onl...

"This is love though. It’s redirecting someone and taking the hits because the outcome is greater than the suffered blow to the ego that will cause the wounded to speak from hurt..."

My relationship with food and my body had always somehow struck me as something I couldn't ask God for help with. However, something happened when I decided to take this part of me to God that I'd always kept to myself. Something seemed to soften the edges of what I'd always felt was so black and white. Tune in as I share the epiphanies that came to be over some peanut butter one morning. 

In one sentence, Saul summarizes the crushing reality that far too many of us know all too well. “...Because I was afraid of the people, I obeyed them.” (1 Samuel 15:24) If only we lived our lives in a way that boldly proclaimed we fear no one or thing more than the Lord. Or what’s more, we love no one or thing more than the Lord. Does our life, our actions, our words, line up with what we've been...

There’s this attitude Christians carry that we like some of the Bible, but not all of it. We like that God saves. We like that He’ll never leave us or forsake us, that He’ll fight our battles and He loves us the very most. We are so focused on what we get out of the relationship that we forget that’s not what this is about. We are all about the good parts, but we take a hard pass on the bits that...

Rejection stings, doesn't it? Sometimes, we mistakenly project how our fellow man feels about us onto God. God hasn't rejected you and maybe today's reminder is right on time for how you're feeling. Tune in! 

Today's episode brings such an encouraging reminder of where we stand with God. Declared. Saved. Proclaimed. Listen in to be reminded of how God feels about you.

We're all a bunch of control freaks, but how we can convince ourselves that God needs our input or control is a fascinating thing. Tune in if you need this reminder today. 

Isn't it interesting how we've been promised that we will go through troubles in this life and yet, when those troubles arise, it's almost like we're offended and caught off-guard that anything bad would ever happen to us. Listen in to today's episode as we discuss the furnace of affliction and how that can give us hope in times of trial.

Many of us view success through the lens of what we're able to obtain or achieve. What happens when we choose to look at success through a different lens? Listen today! 

When I submitted myself to truly understanding what the words in the Bible meant, everything changed. I'd been a Christian for a long time before this, but this one act fundamentally changed everything about how I moved through the world. John 13:35 is a fairly short verse, but it's one that we should all spend time reflecting upon. How might we change our behavior with that one co-worker that cha...

Today, we're celebrating 100 episodes! Thank you so much for joining me on this ever evolving project and today's episode is digging into one of the more complex and painful aspects of our faith. BUT, I pray that this perspective will help you put your heart into right posture.

We need to be in tune with daily conviction and repentance for the things we do that are directly out of line with God. Tune in to today's episode as we dive into some questions we should all be asking ourselves about the faith activities we participate in and the motivation behind them.

I believe the second half of our life begins when we release the need to sit in the judgement seat for everyone else's behavior. Listen in to today's episode to find out why. 

If we knew someone had a lengthy reputation of lying and destroying every good thing put into practice, do you think we should trust them now? Surely not, lest we want history to repeat itself. In today's episode, I'm making some comparisons and I'm hopeful this might just be the thing that helps you defeat the enemy's grip on your life.