In Motion Podcast

Welcome to Day 12 of Watch & Pray – a short, guided prayer podcast for the 12 days leading up to Easter.    Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 7:24-29   If you'd like to read along as you liste...

Welcome to Day 11 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 7:12   If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://church...

Welcome to Day 10 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.     Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 7:7-11   If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://ch...

Welcome to Day 9 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 6:25-33   If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://chur...

Welcome to Day 8 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 6:16-23   If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://chur...

Welcome to Day 7 of our 12-Day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 6:9-13    If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript : https://chu...

Welcome to Day 6 of our 12-Day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 5:43-48    If you'd like to read along as you listen,  check out this episode's transcript:   https://...

Welcome to Day 5 of our 12-Day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 5:13-16 .    If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://c...

Welcome to Day 4 of our 12-Day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 5:1-11.    If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://chu...

Welcome to Day 3 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast .    Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 4:18-22.   If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript : https://...

We all need community to truly grow from dysfunction and unhealthy patterns. Healthy correction can't happen without authentic community, because true friends will point out the dysfunction we've become blind to.  In the last episode of season six, Heather and Jamie talk about growth in community, giving and receiving correction, and finding joy in unexpected places.  Shownotes: In this episode, t...

Welcome to Day 2 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 4:1-11 .    If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://ch...

Welcome to Day 1 of our 12-day guided prayer podcast.   Take a moment to prepare yourself by putting away distractions, setting aside mental to-do lists, and finding a place where for the next 10 minutes or so you can give yourself entirely to the task of prayer.      Today's Scripture is Matthew 3:13-17 .  If you'd like to read along as you listen, check out this episode's transcript: https://chu...

Do you ever feel like you ride the emotional highs of life only to come crashing down to the emotional lows of the mundane and trivial? We have good news: you don't have to live a life of super highs followed by unhealthy lows.        Jamie came to the realization that she might actually be addicted to the stress hormones released in times of stress and busyness, but she's ready to focus on findin...

Do you find yourself often regretting your reactions to conflict, inconveniences, or problems in your life (big or small)?  • "I should be more mature by now!"  • "Why do I let these things get to me?" • "Wow, I really overreacted..."   Although it doesn't always feel like it, you can change the way you respond to life's ups and downs. In this week's episode, Heather learns a helpful analogy for u...

"I want you to be successful, so I'm going to do this for you." How many times have you found yourself doing for others what they can and should do for themselves? Often, we do this so that we don't have to take on the emotional weight of someone else's failure, but then we inevitably end up carrying burdens that aren't ours to carry. Instead, they're ours to manage, navigate, and equip others to...

Let's be honest, life can be messy! There's constantly a tension of feeling joy and carrying heaviness at the same time. In this episode, Jamie and Heather talk about how they naturally respond to hard things — spoiler alert: they're very different — and how they rebound back to joy. Looking back on their lives, they see how their responses have changed over the years and how they want to continue...

Jamie and Heather are back! It's been awhile since they've recorded an episode, so to warm up their podcast-hosting skills, they play the game We're Not Really Strangers. They ask each other questions like,  What was your first impression of me?, What would your younger self not believe about your life today?, and What title would you give this season of your life? They talk about sending kids to...

We can so quickly judge and reject people we don't understand. This week, Jamie completed her homework assignment (well, mostly), so Jamie and Heather talk about the book Everything Sad is Untrue. The book opened their eyes to consider how many times we overlook people and revealed a universal truth: We all just want to be seen and heard. Plus, Jamie gives us a big update on her journey with depre...

When a school year ends there is always transition, and with transition there is always some loss. So how do we make space for feelings of loss and sadness while teaching our kids to embrace life open-handedly? In this episode, Jamie and Heather talk about learning to walk their kids through change, but they come to realization that maybe they still have a long way to go in learning how to deal wi...

Raising teens can sometimes feel like a battle of wills. In this episode, Jamie seeks parenting advice from Heather after a blowup with her son over dirty dishes. For our kids, summer doesn't have a strict schedule, resulting in a lot of aimless time. Left to their own devices, they would probably watch TV and eat candy all day. Since they don't understand the full perspective, we often have to ma...

Summer isn't always smooth sailing. In this episode, Jamie and Heather talk about some of the biggest challenges they've had this summer. Jamie talks about getting a notification that her husband had been in an accident, Heather talks about walking children through conflict in friendship, and together they ask hard-hitting questions like why is "in sickness and in health" the hardest vow to keep,...

This is episode 2 of our mini-series called Surviving Summer. Jamie and Heather went on vacation together! Family vacations are where lifetime memories are made, but with the mixing of two families and lots of personalities, they are not without their challenges. In this episode, Jamie and Heather recap their big family trip where they almost didn't have a place to stay and became expert hikers. J...

This is the first episode of our mini-series called Surviving Summer. Jamie and Heather needed an excuse to get out the house, so they decided to start this series! But really, their summers have been quite eventful so far, and they have a lot to share. In this episode, Heather recaps her incredible trip to the Holy Lands where she saw ancient ruins and a synagogue where Jesus might have performed...

We all have different experiences with the Psalms; sometimes we read them and think, "huh?" You may love the depth of emotion and vulnerability, or maybe you avoid them altogether. So, what do we do with them? How do we read and understand 150 chapters compiled over 1,000 years? In this episode, our Spiritual Formation Pastors, Angela Ekstrum, Casey Shirley, and Blake Zimmerman, explain the struct...