Determined to Dance Podcast

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Stay Determined to Dance, encourages everyone to move out on the dance floor of life. Show Notes: Stay Determined to Dance I need to step back for a moment, back to March of 2021. The year when this podcast began. Its creation has invol...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Too Tired to Dance, looks at what to do when we’re exhausted from dancing. Show Notes: Too Tired to Dance Okay. I admit it. I’m too tired to dance. After all, this is episode 31 of the weekly podcast. I’ve edited my novel which will rel...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Is Death a Mystery? looks at what God’s Word has to say about death. Show Notes: Is Death a Mystery? Today’s episode brings us to myth number 3 in Jeff Walling’s book, Daring to Dance with God. He says: “Death is a mystery we can never...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Death and Priorities, looks at another myth associated with death. Show Notes: Death and Priorities Last week, we started looking at myths about death. Myth number two: Thinking about death will spoil your life. Most people, including m...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Dance at Our Funeral? looks at myths associated with death. Show Notes: Dance at Our Funeral? For the next three weeks, we’ll discuss a difficult topic and I want to do it with grace and love. But death is not something we can look at l...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Show Notes: An Interview with Jeff Walling Part 2 Today I’m honored to share part two of my interview with Jeff Walling: author, speaker, and the Director of the Youth Leadership Initiative at Pepperdine University. We’ve spent this season learning from...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Show Notes: An Interview with Jeff Walling Today I’m honored to welcome Jeff Walling: author, speaker, and the Director of the Youth Leadership Initiative at Pepperdine University to the podcast. We’ve spent this season learning from his wonderful book,...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Our Temporary Life, focuses on what’s really important in the world. Show Notes: Our Temporary Life I struggled to open this podcast. I mean, life is temporary? That’s deep, to me anyway. Probably to you also. If you are a Christian and...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Reflect on God’s Goodness, discusses how to fight despair, disappointment, and apathy. Show Notes: Reflect on God’s Goodness The last three years have been difficult, to say the least. A pandemic, masks, businesses failing, a faltering...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Trusting God’s Lead, discusses how to follow God when the path leads away from our own. Show Notes: Trusting God’s Lead Sometimes, I get a tiny bit aggravated at my husband when he is driving. Now I know that none of you ladies out ther...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, God’s Faithfulness, focuses on finding safety in God’s hands. Show Notes: God’s Faithfulness This week’s episode could be considered the second part of the dance of trust. God is faithful and longs for us to trust Him. In Daring to Danc...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, The Dance of Trust, focuses on the secret of dancing in the dark. Show Notes: The Dance of Trust Have you ever struggled to trust people? I have. People are very human and sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, they lie, manipu...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, The Storms of Life, looks at times when our world falls apart. Show Notes: The Storms of Life Life is tough. Bad things do happen to good people. You know it and so do I. And I believe the storms of life are hardest to take when they im...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Choices: Right or Wrong? focuses on how God loves us despite our wrong choices and helps us choose wisely. Show Notes: Choices: Right or Wrong? I am an adult. One of the things I never really considered when I married and moved away fro...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, God’s Forgiveness, focuses on our failures, His forgiveness. Show Notes: God’s Forgiveness Sin. Not my favorite subject for a podcast. That’s probably why I named it God’s forgiveness. I’d much rather focus on His forgiveness than on th...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Tough Times, looks at what we can do when our world is rocked by pain and darkness. Show Notes: Tough Times Tough times. Calamity. Crisis. Trouble. We all long for a world free from suffering and pain, and those who surrender their live...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, The Problem of Pain, focuses on how hurting can move us closer to or farther away from God. Show Notes: The Problem of Pain Pain. It comes in many forms: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. I’ve dealt with it all at one time or...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Don’t Give Up the Dance, focuses on sin and how it can move us off of the dance floor. Show Notes: Don’t Give Up the Dance I am not perfect. In fact, I’m far from it in thought, word, and deed. Yes, Jesus lives in my heart, the Holy Spi...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. On today’s episode, How to Deal With Envy, we’ll focus on being grateful for what God has given us. Show Notes: How to Deal With Envy When I decided to create a podcast episode on envy, I thought I’d better look up exactly what it means. Jealousy, envy,...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. In today’s episode, How to Face the Critics, we’ll focus on how to deal with the people who aren’t pleased with our dance. Show Notes: How to Face the Critics Let’s get one thing straight right now. There will always be critics. I’m not talking about co...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. On today’s episode, Avoid the Routine Rut, we’ll focus on how to keep from getting stuck in a routine while dancing. Show Notes: Avoid the Routine Rut The Oregon Trail. A two-thousand-mile trail from Missouri to Oregon that covered wagons followed for m...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Judge or Dance? looks at how easy it is to judge others who don’t express their faith like we do. Show Notes: Judge or Dance? It’s easy to judge others, especially Christians who act, think, or worship differently than we do. Sometimes,...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, Dance of Stillness, focuses on our need to rest and relax. Show Notes: Dance of Stillness This week’s episode is for me. I hope you enjoy it too, but I so need to learn to rest and relax. To dance the dance of stillness. To be quiet. Ta...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. In today’s episode, Fear of the Unknown, we’ll discuss how to experience boldness when we dare to move forward. Show Notes: Fear of the Unknown I like to have a plan and to be organized and prepared. All the time. Why? I admit that I do like order and f...

Welcome my friends to season 3 of the Determined to Dance podcast. My prayer is that you’ll be encouraged to persevere daily in our chaotic world. Today’s episode, I Can’t Dance, focuses on how fear can keep us from stepping onto the dance floor. Show Notes: I Can’t Dance Jeff Walling shares a story of how he went to the Senior Sock Hop as a teen. He’d grown up in a household that didn’t believe i...