Hear Him Louder Podcast

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes, all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder. How would you live differently if you really knew that you don’t have to hold it all together? In this episode, Nichole Suvar and I talk about what we’re holding, why we’re trying to hold it and why we don’t...

Today’s conversation with Jennifer Dukes Lee is all about our mornings. Do you think of yourself as a morning person? Do you even like mornings? What if we could not just love our mornings, but also hear God louder in them? Jennifer tells us that God is most definitely a morning person. And if we are made in His image, then we, too, are morning people…which means maybe we’ve been thinking about ou...

Today’s episode with Erica Wiggenhorn is about how to learn how to recognize what God is speaking to us. To know His language. Do you sometimes get confused when you read your Bible? Does it feel muddy sometimes? Erica shares with us that God did a whole work making her a Bible study teacher after years of not understanding the Bible.  Her story of praying big, audacious prayers and seeing God spe...

Today’s conversation with Wendy Speake is about how we can hear Jesus louder when we quiet the noisy places in our lives – and we talk specifically about the noise that food and social media introduce into our everyday. How often do we think about food? How often do we reach for our phones? Wendy shares how she accidentally discovered the spiritual benefits of a sugar fast, which grew into a journ...

Have you ever wondered how people walk through back-to-back-to-back hard things and still stay standing? Have you wondered how God meets and sustains them? Today’s episode with Evelyn Sherwood will give you a glimpse of how. We talk about her story of stacked-up-high hardships and how her practice of listening for Jesus sustained her through it all.  Evelyn shares with us the behind-the-scenes con...

In today’s episode, Marnie and Jodi Snowdon talk about how we walk through the hard parts of our stories. We each have stories that hold difficult and painful things that we didn’t and wouldn’t choose. When we face those hard things, we can choose to run to God or run from Him.  Jodi shares with us today about how to navigate our pain and cautions us that running from God means facing our grief al...

We all have emotional stuff and the “stuff” we hold onto can not only impact us, it can impact our relationships and our connection with Jesus. Today, Laurie Davies and I talk about all of it – what weighs us down, how heavy it is, and how to lay it down. Because, as Laurie shares, if we miss addressing our emotional baggage, it can become more. It can become emotional hoarding. What if giving Jes...

Today’s conversation with Janet McHenry is the second episode in our “real talk about prayer” series. Today, we’re examining how we pray differently based on our personalities, and how understanding our praying personality can change how we talk to and how we listen for Jesus.  What if we can hear Him louder when we’re connecting with Him in ways that feel natural to us – in ways that line up with...

Today's conversation with Barb Roose will change your prayer life. Have you ever had these thoughts: Is prayer worth it? Am I doing it right? Why don’t I feel closer to God? Why isn’t God answering? If you’re feeling stuck in how you pray and your soul is longing for connection with God, this conversation is for you. Today we talk about the ways we tend to relate to God (and all the grace, friends...

In today’s episode, we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Hear Him Louder Podcast! And today, the tables are turned! Becky Keife steps into the host role to ask Marnie all the questions. They discuss Marnie’s own story of how she discovered that Jesus speaks to us, the backstory of this podcast, and how listening for Jesus can help guide us through all of the January things. If your heart i...

In today’s episode, Marnie and Becky Keife talk about how the start of a new year can feel like a loud mix of hope and pressure. Maybe your calendar is already crammed, your mind is racing with goals you “should” accomplish, or anxiety has followed you right into January.  If your soul is craving calm and clarity, this conversation is for you, as we cover how to establish simple, soul-anchoring rh...

In this special Christmas episode, we talk about what we can learn about listening from the shepherds in the Christmas story. Then we walk through four simple steps we can follow, just as the shepherds did, to listen for Jesus. Those four steps form a listening practice we can use during Advent and beyond.  What if we can learn how to see and hear God in new ways this Christmas? What if we can lea...

In this episode, Marnie and Cynthia Ruchti discuss a different way to enter into the holiday season this year. Could we see and hear Him differently this season? This conversation centers around our longing to know God’s presence in all of our days – even the busiest, hustly-bustly holiday ones and the good news that part of hearing God louder is noticing the ways He is already here.  Today’s conv...

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Groll discuss what we can learn about how God speaks to His daughters from the stories in our Bibles. God has always spoken to and through women. We discuss Rachael's book, Knowing God's Voice , which highlights women like Miriam and Hulda and Deborah and Anna, who heard and boldly obeyed God’s voice. When we study how God speaks to others, we are also learning...

In this episode, Marnie and Asheritah Ciuciu discuss practical ways to calm our hearts and minds to hear God louder. We discuss how we can find space to listen for Him EVEN in the fullness of our days, and how there isn’t a one size fits all way of listening for God’s voice. She walks us through a prayer practice that will help us when we’re distracted in our prayer time. And get ready to take not...

In this episode, Marnie and Beth Guckenberger discuss how listening for Jesus can bring questions. God promises that He will speak to us, but sometimes we feel unsure of what we’re hearing. After discussing Beth's journey of learning to hear God’s voice, we walk through a handful of “listening scenarios” – questions that can come up when we’re seeking to hear Jesus, like what do we do when we don’...

In this episode, Marnie and Judy Dunagan discuss our battles with fear and anxiety. During a time when things feel so loud and heavy in our world, this conversation offers peace for your heart by pointing you to God’s truth and practical steps to hear His Word and His voice louder. A mere whisper from Jesus can quiet the enemy’s lies. Judy’s wisdom and personal stories will make you feel like you’...

In this episode, Marnie and Amy Seiffert have a chat (in between a lot of laughing) about the most beautiful truths, beginning with how hearing Jesus changes us. His Word and words change how we think, which then changes: how we show up in all of our places, how we see ourselves, how we live life with others, how we walk through uncertainties, and yes, even how we send off our college kids. And we...

In this episode, Marnie and Jennifer Dukes Lee kick off a new season with a conversation that’s packed with goodness. We talk about the peace that comes in asking questions of ourselves and God, and how we can listen for and learn from Him inside those questions. And we discuss how our springs and summers and falls and winters all hold purpose and growth, even when we can’t see it. When we unhurry...

Welcome to the final episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder. Do you have quiet, unvoiced questions for God? What if asking God our questions can strengthen our faith? Marnie and Niki discuss all of this as part of her book, God, Can We Chat?   In...

Welcome to the second episode of the Summer Book Club , a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder. Do you have “What do I do” questions for God? In this episode, Katie Reid and Marnie talk about these kinds of questions, as they’re the backbone of her new Bible study, God, What Do...

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder Podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder. How would you listen differently if you couldn’t see? In this episode, Karen Wingate and Marnie talk about Karen’s story of being born legally blind and how she used her ears as her eyes. With her limited v...

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams continue with part two of their conversation about loving God and others better and how hearing God’s voice helps us to do that. Sometimes it helps to hear someone else’s stories, to know what it can look like to do a thing we want to do better. Rachael shares several stories of what trusting those promptings has looked like for her, from conversations in...

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams discuss how loving God and loving others fits together with hearing God’s voice. Because they go together. When we love God and others, we’re leaning into our journey with Him in ways that open us to hearing Him – and when we hear His voice louder, we can love Him and others better.  And sometimes we overcomplicate it all, when what God is really asking of...

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport continue with part two of their conversation by diving into a four-step method, called TEND, for studying and listening for Jesus through scripture. After she describes each step, she models what using her TEND method looks like with a verse in real time, so we can see it come to life. As we wind down our busy spring seasons and transition into a new rh...