Beyond Brokenness with Alicia Reagan

Biblical discipline is not harshness, rage, or control. It is loving discipleship aimed at the heart. This episode helps mothers understand discipline as part of training children in wisdom, obedience, repentance, and self-government. With biblical clarity and practical encouragement, it offers a vision for discipline that is firm, tender, consistent, and rooted in love. P.S. Have you heard about...

What are we really trying to produce in our children? This episode challenges mothers toprioritize godly character over outward achievement. Built around 2 Peter 1:5-8, it explores virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity as part of intentional character formation in the home. P.S. Have you heard about our upcoming Raising Arrows Q&A? We'd love to hear fr...

Many mothers feel alone, even when they are surrounded by people. Some are single mothers, some are divorced, some are widows, and some are married but spiritually lonely. This episode reminds mothers that the God who saw Hagar still sees weary women today. With tenderness and truth, it offers biblical encouragement for mothers carrying the spiritual weight of the home, calling them away from desp...

Discipleship does not only happen in church pews or formal Bible lessons. It happens in kitchens, car rides, bedtime conversations, apologies, correction, questions, and ordinary family rhythms. This episode shows how Deuteronomy 6 gives mothers a vision for everyday discipleship in real life and encourages them to stop despising small moments, seeing ordinary days as sacred opportunities for spir...

What if the child who exhausts you is also the child God is asking you to study, shepherd, and understand? This episode helps mothers move from ownership to stewardship, seeing their children as eternal souls entrusted by God. It explores the sacred assignment of parenting children who are fearfully and wonderfully made and calls mothers to parent with discernment instead of panic, vision instead...

Motherhood can weary the body, but it can also weary the soul. This episode encourages mothers who feel tired from the hidden, repetitive, holy work of raising children. Grounded in Galatians 6:9, it reminds weary moms that hidden obedience is not wasted, slow fruit is notno fruit, and God sees every seed sown in faith.

This opening episode invites mothers into the heart of the Raising Arrows series: a summer conversation about biblical motherhood, faithful discipleship, and the sacred work of shaping children for the Lord. In a world that often pulls mothers toward comparison, fear, distraction, or performance, this episode calls weary mamas back to grace, purpose, Scripture, and the steady truth that God is not...

After all the rebuilding, revival, and renewed commitment—why do the people fall back again? In this final episode of our Nehemiah series, we step back and see the bigger picture: confession, covenant, celebration… and then compromise. Nehemiah shows us that external reform can rebuild walls, but it cannot transform hearts. This episode points us to the deeper need beneath every rebuild—the need f...

This is Week 7 of our Nehemiah series. The wall is finished—but the deeper rebuilding is just beginning. In this episode, we move from construction to covenant as the people gather to hear God’s Word. Conviction comes, identity is restored, and joy becomes their strength. We explore why walls create safety, but Scripture creates holiness—and why revival begins with hunger for the Word. If you’ve r...

This is Week 6 of our Nehemiah series. As the wall nears completion, opposition shifts from open hostility to subtle distraction and manipulation. In this episode, we walk through Nehemiah chapter 6 and examine what it means to stay anchored when pressure escalates. Nehemiah’s steady response—“I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down”—teaches us how to resist compromise, measure invitations...

This is Week 5 of our Nehemiah series. As the wall continues to rise, opposition shifts from external threats to internal fracture. In this episode, we finish Nehemiah chapter 4 and step into chapter 5, where discouragement, fear, and exploitation begin to surface among God’s own people. We explore the difference between hardship and injustice, how power can be misused even inside a rebuilding com...

This is Week 4 of our Nehemiah series. In this episode, we walk through Nehemiah chapter 3 and into chapter 4, where quiet, faithful obedience gives way to visible opposition. What appears to be an ordinary chapter of names and tasks reveals how God rebuilds through shared responsibility, steady faithfulness, and unity among His people. We also examine how opposition arises once the work begins, w...

This is Week 2 of our Nehemiah series. What do you do when God makes you aware of something broken—but does not move you into action right away? In this episode, we slow down between two verses in Nehemiah that span four silent months. From Chislev to Nisan, Scripture invites us into a season of waiting, restraint, grief, and unseen faithfulness. This is not wasted time—it is formative time. We ex...

This is Week 3 of our Nehemiah series. Before Nehemiah leads others to rebuild, he first goes out quietly to see the broken walls for himself. In this episode, we explore discernment, personal responsibility, and the private work God often does before public leadership begins. From Nehemiah 2, this teaching addresses the difference between hearing about brokenness and truly seeing it, the importan...

This is Week 1 of our Nehemiah series. The book of Nehemiah does not begin with rebuilding walls, but with a question that opens the door to sorrow. Before action is taken, Scripture introduces us to a man formed by faithfulness and willing to see what is broken and let it matter. In this opening episode, we step into the story behind the ruins, exploring how internal brokenness leads to external...

Today’s episode is a special ministry update from Voice for the Vulnerable Ministries. We share how God has been at work, offer a glimpse into what is ahead, and say thank you to those who have supported and prayed for this ministry. We are grateful to have you as part of this journey. To learn more or support the ministry, visit our website or donate here: https://www.voiceforthevulnerable.org/do...

Episode 14 — As the Christmas story draws to a close, we step back to see the larger story unfolding beneath every character and every moment. In this final episode of Characters of Christmas, we reflect on a God who keeps His promises—forming a people, extending mercy, and bringing salvation to the world through Christ. From Abraham’s call to Bethlehem’s cradle, grace shaped a family marked not b...

Episode 13 — Bethlehem was not chosen because it was impressive or powerful, but because God chose it. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we explore how God entered the world through a place that was small and easily overlooked. Long before Jesus was born there, Bethlehem had been shaped by quiet faithfulness—from Ruth’s obedience to David’s anointing—revealing God’s pattern of working th...

Episode 12 — Anna’s life shows us that faithful worship can endure long seasons of sorrow. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we meet a widow who spent decades in the temple, devoted to prayer and worship as she waited for the redemption of Israel. When Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the temple, Anna immediately recognized Him. Anna reminds us that waiting is never wasted, th...

Episode 11 — While others hurried through the Christmas story, Simeon waited with patient hope. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we meet a righteous and devout man who lived with God’s promise that he would not die before seeing the Messiah. When Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple, Simeon recognized what others missed and declared that salvation had come—not only for Israel, bu...

Episode 9— Herod was a king who feared losing power more than losing his soul. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we turn our attention to Herod the Great, a ruler who believed the Scriptures enough to fear them, but not enough to obey them. When confronted with the news of a child born King of the Jews, his response was not worship, but resistance and violence. Herod reminds us that the...

Episode 8— The Magi were Gentile seekers who followed a star with conviction, not curiosity. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we explore who the Magi were, why they recognized the sign of Christ’s birth, and how Scripture preserved through exile led them to Bethlehem. Their journey reveals a God who draws the nations to Himself and meets those who faithfully follow the light they are gi...

Episode 7 — On the night Christ was born, God announced the arrival of the Savior not to the powerful or the religious elite, but to shepherds working quietly in the fields outside Bethlehem. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we explore how these overlooked men became the first witnesses and messengers of the gospel. Their story reveals a God who draws near to the humble, speaks into ord...

In Episode 6 —Before shepherds ran to the manger, heaven broke into song. In this episode of Characters of Christmas, we turn our attention to the angels—God’s unseen servants and witnesses to the incarnation. From Gabriel’s announcements to Mary and Joseph to the heavenly host over Bethlehem, we see that Christ’s birth was not only a human moment, but a cosmic one. The angels reveal a God who kee...

Episode 5 — Joseph’s story shows us that some of the deepest faith is lived quietly. A just man, Joseph revealed his righteousness not through words but through costly obedience, choosing mercy over reputation and faithfulness over comfort. His obedience protected Mary, preserved the truth of the incarnation, and reminds us that God honors quiet faith lived in unseen choices.