Anchored by the Sword

Today's guest, Sarah E. Frazer talks about how the adoption of two children from China changed her family's lives for the good and also left her saying at times, I Didn't Sign Up For This, which is the title of the book she released this year. She goes into the story of discovering the special needs of her daughter were much more severe than they had realized. She knew God has orchestr...

Today's conversation is with JT Jester. We actually recorded this over 1 1/2 years ago and I still found it just as encouraging today as the day we recorded it! His story about working through and living with the physical and learning issues he has to become an author, speaker and also to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro is an inspiration to all of us to keep on going and look to each day as a gift from...

Today's episode is with my friend, Doris Swint. We were friends online for years and got to meet IRL at the Spark/NRB Conference in Nashville in March of 2022. This conversation is a great reminder about how your past does not dictate your calling. Once you give your life to God, He no longer judges you on your past, but leads you out of guilt and shame and into your fierce calling. Doris talk...

This conversation with my friend, Heather Creekmore was one I know I really needed to hear! We talk about the struggles we both have had over the years with weight up and downs, dieting and trying to obtain the world's version of perfection and healthy. She talks about how exhausting and unnecessary that struggle really is. She also brings comparison into the discussion and how that can encourage...

I love every part of this discussion with my new friend, Courtney Burg! She talks about how her struggles with co-dependency and people pleasing led to the creation of her forming her online membership community, Discover Your Worth and her book, Loyal to a Fault, which comes out on Tuesday. I found myself nodding my head profusely because I related to her so much, since I too, am a recovering peo...

Today's conversation with Mary DeMuth is a testament to the power of prayer and the Word of God. She talks about the trauma she went through as a child and how many people did not believe her. When she entered a Young Life group at 15, eventually people did believe her and she started a 4 year intensive time of prayer. It helped so much that when she went into counseling later in life, the counsel...

This episode is 100% pure fire! I love getting to do what I do by sharing freedom stories with you, but when my IRL best friend asked me to be the place where she shares her testimony for the first time, I can't even begin to tell you what that means! Lacy is one of the women I thank God everyday that she is in my life and let me force myself into her friend group many years ago at church! Her sto...

I am so excited for you to hear today's episode with my friend, Tina Yeager. We talk about her journey through an eating disorder and how becoming pregnant saved her life. We also talk about how to walk out each part of our journey through life and the times that threaten to break us. She talks about how we can struggle with God as we walk through things and how that is okay and how we can be ther...

This episode is one I have been waiting to release! I met Wendy Blight many years ago through Proverbs 31 ministries and absolutely love her heart for reminding people they are not alone and that God will use every part of their stories, even the hardest parts, to not only grow us, but to help others who are going through the same thing. She demonstrates this during today's episode when she talks...

Today's conversation with my new friend, Brandi Wilson is an honest and vulnerable conversation about what it is like to lose everything you thought you knew by going through a public divorce, becoming a single mom to 3 boys, and losing the church family she knew and loved. We discuss the role therapy had on both her and her sons's lives to help walk through this process and heal. She wants to enc...

Today's conversation is with Michele Cushatt, whom I met online years ago during the release of her third book, Relentless. I love our conversation so much because she talks about how she has and continues to walk through the dichotomy of gratitude and grief. She is a three time cancer survivor and has had to live with daily chronic pain ever since. She asked a question I believe many of us have h...

This is the second conversation I have had with someone about how the nameless women in the Bible have impacted how we can see ourselves today. Today's guest, Paige Allen, wrote a book that comes out today about seven of them. We talk about how these women were not looking to have their name in lights, they were just looking for and wanting to be with Jesus and be known and acknowledged by Him. I...

I am so grateful to my guest today, Julie Thomas for her vulnerability and willingness to share about a topic that many women do not want to talk about. She talks about the years she silently battled postpartum depression after her second son was born. She talks about the day she felt released by God to start sharing her story and the fear, trepidation and attacks she experienced in both the physi...

My guest today, Naghmeh Panahi has an amazing story to tell! She starts by talking about her Muslim upbringing in Iran to her conversion to Christianity after her brother had a vision of Jesus. She talks about how they had to hide their relationship with Jesus until her parents conversion years later after moving to Idaho. She talks about moving back to Iran in her 20s and being able to see full b...

Today's conversation with my friend, Kathryn May is so good!!! I needed to hear this conversation, both while we were recording and while I was editing. She starts by talking about abuse that she endured as a child into her adulthood and how she used unhealthy coping mechanisms because she didn't have a healthy understanding of who she truly was. That came through God using people, whom she calls...

Today's episode was recorded when my friend, Laura Lindahl was 8 months pregnant with her son. Her son, Boaz was born in July and is now 3 1/2 old! This episode was so helpful to me when I was recording it and again while I was editing it to remind me of how God truly loves His creation, by the way that is all of us. She talks about her journey with being dissatisfied with her body after someone h...

On today's episode, Jillian Benfield talks about her life and the unexpected twists and turns it has taken. She talks about her childhood experiences with church and how there was a lot of "rule following" and not as much grace. She said she became agnostic for about 12 years until she began dating her husband. That is when she began to ask the difficult questions and met the real Je...

Today's episode is with Benjamin Windle is a discussion that is definitely needed. We talk about some of the reasons why people are leaving the church and one of the main reasons is because people have a difficult time understanding why bad things happen to good people. I know I am not the only one who has struggled with this as well. That is why Benjamin wrote his book, Good Catastrophe . He...

Today's guest, John Chisum, was such a joy to meet and hang out with! Getting to hear his story of following God after his radical conversion to see how He opened up doors for John when he least expected it. He also talks about a very dark time during his career when he felt so depressed and hopeless that he considered taking his own life. When he was at his lowest, God presented him with a new op...

I have been looking forward to sharing this interview with my new friend, Jennifer Marie. We spoke back in June just after her new EP, You Can Whisper was released. She talks about how from a young age, she knew music was her path and gifting. She was involved in church worship from the time she was in middle school and then stepped away for after she started her family. In 2020, she felt as thoug...

Today's episode with my new friend, Rachelle Starr. Rachelle talks about how her journey of working with women in the adult entertainment industry started when she was 23 years old, starting with a daily prayer session for 18 months with the people who decided to walk this path with her. When God told her it was time to start going in, the soil was ready for planting. She emphasizes the importance...

Today's episode with Tracy Taris covers so many different topics! She talks about how before she went through years of therapy and healing, the only way she would describe her past was with a victim mentality. She used to be only be able to see the hurt and trauma that her mom caused her in her childhood, to now being able to see that her mom was coming from a place of pain and hurt on her own and...

I love this conversation with Amy Debrucque! She talks about how she struggled with severe anxiety for many years and how a cancer diagnosis 11 years ago started her down a path where she learned how to lean more into God and trust Him more. Amy's first book Embolden, co-written with her college-age daughter Blair, helps women discover the next brave steps and actions to conquer their fears and in...

Today, ABTS goes global! Today's episode is with Christy Osborne, who is originally from California and has been living in the UK for 15 years. We talk about her journey across the pond and how she came face to face with a decision that ultimately changed her life just as the world was coming to its own crossroads. I loved our discussion and pray that it will help anyone who is struggling with any...

I really enjoyed getting to meet and talk with Tarah-Lynn! She has already done so much in her short life and it has all started with her saying "yes" to God. She talks about how she first learned how to separate her mom's testimony from her own and how it helped her lean more into what God wanted to teach her. She talks about her journey from not wanting to wear the school uniform because it wasn...