Living With Less Podcast

This week's episode with Wendy Blight is one that teaches us why we need to have God's word tucked in our hearts and know His word for ourselves. She shares her story of overcoming the darkest of times by learning God's word and His deep love for her. **Trigger Warning: Wendy's story involves sexual assault happening to her. If you'd like to skip that part it is at the end of the ninth minute, 9:4...

This week kicks off the first bi-weekly devotional episodes for the Living With Less Podcast. These will be shorter episodes that dive into a main point and scripture from the previous week's topic to help you go deeper with The Lord in your relationship with Him.    Does This Honor God or Me: Does my word or theme for the year honor God or does it honor me and what I want?  When when sit with our...

This week's episode is exactly what you'd think, it's getting back to the basics of the podcast. Why we need to rid our lives of the things getting in the way of who Christ is calling us to be. As a new year begins Chelsey points us to the truth that what God did in us in 2019 and what He will do in 2020 are things that He wants to shape our whole life with. It's so much more than a "year" to Him,...

In this short 18 min. episode Chelsey shares on that portion of Luke 2 that stood out to her most this year. The Shepherds response when the angles left them, "LET US GO". They had no hesitation in the truth they heard. They wanted to see Jesus and share the good news, and great joy with ALL people. Which is exactly who Jesus came for you. You, me, and everyone else. Let us do just this as we head...

Episode 51 makes us take a closer look at all God has entrusted to us. Everything from the day to day little things to the big life moments. 1 Timothy is a book that has made Chelsey realize that every moment matters to the Kingdom. There isn't one second of our day or one relationship in our life that isn't important to The Lord. Join Chelsey as she walks through 1 Timothy and ends with the sacre...

Episode 50 is a sit down with Sharon Hodde Miller, author of Nice. She shares her season of wrestling with "niceness". It keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well. It looks a lot like following Jesus, but it takes all the power and freedom out of our lives. Sharon shares her own battle with this false faith, confesses some of the bad fruits it produced in her...

Episode 49 is a sweet sit down with Rachael Adams. She is the host of The Love Offering podcast. In this interview we dive deep into what it really means to love like Jesus and what our individual love offering looks like. God created us all differently with unique giftings Rachael challenges us to use that unique call God has put on your life to show His love to others.  1)Tell us about you and s...

The Tug Of Persistent Distractions dives into the story of Nehemiah and how he stood firm against the distractions the enemy was trying to scheme. Not only did he stand firm against the but he called on God to give him strength. Because his trust was in the faithfulness of God, not in himself. This week will challenge you to ask God to reveal to you the things that are persistently distracting you...

In episode 47 Chelsey sits down to talk singleness with Brice Mitchell, Student Director at 514 Church in Columbus, OH and Kendra Schwarz, OBS Manager for Proverbs 31 Ministries in Charlotte, NC. Brice and Kendra give a refreshing perspective on how this season of life is not a curse, maybe not desired in their hearts, but that God is preparing them for what He has prepared for them. We all have s...

Episode 46 is one for the books. Chelsey got to sit down and talk with Kasey Van Norman as she shared the heart behind her book, Nothing Wasted. Kasey shares how God used the hardest parts of her story to show that a holy, sovereign God lovingly works, not in spite of our past, but through it.  We Serve A God Of Redemption God wants to redeem the worst parts of who we are. God uses the back door....

Episode 45 is all about why life is not about us. At the end of the day it is all about Jesus, how we cling to Him, and how represent Him to others. That not everything God shares with us needs to be immediately shared on a platform or with another person, but tucked in our hearts. How we have to spend time within Him before we can properly handle anything that comes our way in this world.   What...

Episode 44 is all about the seasons of wrestling with go through in our walks with The Lord. It digs into why they are nessacary for our growth as they bring our fleshy desires, pride filled hearts, questions, worries, doubts, and fears all to the surface. These seasons give us the ability to let God truly work in the places that we can find oursleves hiding away.    Why We Wrestle We are fallen p...

Keep Your Eyes On Jesus is all about why we need to do so and how we can get off track. Chelsey shares some of the things The Lord has shown her during her 4 weeks off podcasting. How she needed to be knowing Him just as much as she was serving Him.    John 15:4-7 Clarity On Why We Need To Be Fixed On Jesus.  4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides...

1) Tell us about the wonderful you! I am a wife to one, and momma to 4. My husband is in the Air Force, we currently we are stationed in San Antonio. Texas is seriously awesome, we love living here and our church is great! We've really grown in the Lord and have people around us that help us, help our marriage, help our family and have truly been great encouragers in the Lord. 2) This topic is one...

This week Amanda Bacon is joining the Living With Less podcast as a special guest. She works for Proverbs 31 Ministries, is co-author of Shiny Things, co-host of All The Mom Things podcast, a wife and superwoman to 8 kiddos..yes, you read that correctly I said 8! Today we’re going to be talking all things Jesus, book writing, mothering, and choosing lasting things over lesser things. 1) Tell us ab...

Tell us about you! (Family, home, church, job, ministry, etc.) Grew up in the PNW, went to college in Oregon … met a boy from Alaska Have 2 kiddos, ages 14 & 15 (both learning to drive … prayers appreciate) Worship at our church here in Alaska Amanda and I met 14 years ago through MOPS; co-coordinated group Love writing and doing ministry w/ Amanda We joke we’re the Mom Opposites (8/2 … public sch...

1) Tell us about the wonderful you! My husband, Dale and I pastor a church an hour south of Washington DC - in Fredericksburg VA. I serve as a pastor on staff with a focus on women and leadership. We have 2 young adults - Gabrielle, who just graduated from JMU with a musical theatre degree, and is home for a little bit performing regionally, and a son, Christian, who is attending college at VOUS U...

This episode is diving into an open heart surgery season God is doing in Chelsey. No matter where we're at in our walks with The Lord there are always things of our flesh that need wrestled out of us. This episode will encourage you to sit with Jesus, get in His Word, and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what's going on inside.    Seen and Unseen Sin There are sins we are blind to in ourselves but Go...

Episode 37 digs into the hard things that our world tells us it's fine to overlook and walk away from, but God calls us to more. There is freedom found in working through the hard seasons, the hard sin issues, and the hard parts of God's word. The Lord took Chelsey to Proverbs 2 and showed the gift of wisdom and discernment He has for us. BUT, to get there we have to seek, ask, and dig. Proverbs 2...

Learning to love and learning to lead takes a look into Chelsey and Corey's marriage. They continued to find themselves in hard seasons of marriage due to both of these things. If Corey didn't lead Chelsey, she didn't want to love him. If Chelsey didn't love Corey he wrestled with the desire to lead her. Over the last 6 months of being challenged and convicted by the spirit this episode takes you...

Pride isn't something anyone likes to admit or talk about. Which is why this episode is here, God revealed the beginnings of pride invading Chelsey's heart. He stopped her and met her with the truth from Galatians 1:10. This episode will give you a self-inventory of knowing that you're in step with the spirit or have you asking if you're trying to sprint ahead. How To Detect Pride's Invading Your...

This weeks episode is all things encouraging, sweet, and a true testament to following God's call on your life. I got to talk with Shaina Kidd before she and her husband leave for a 2 year long mission trip to Cambodia. Shaina's heart for The Lord shines through every word she speaks, may this episode bless your heart to do the things God is calling you too. Near or far. About Shiana: I have been...

This episode focuses on keeping our eyes on the eternal perspective. "Kingdom Eyes" is the term God put on Chelsey's heart in regards to how she is supposed to view people in the world, other believers, and how to use this mindset to stand firm against the enemy. How do we address the people of the world and lukewarm Christians with Kingdom Eyes? View them as the unsaved version of yours...

This weeks episode was birthed from Acts 4. In this chapter of the Bible it talks about the boldness we're called to have in our faith. The Lord took me back to a conversation I had four years ago with a friend that was without a doubt the boldness of the Holy Spirit. What God showed me in this is the difference between me desiring to be bold in my flesh and me being obediently bold with the spiri...

Episode 31 is all about God asking me to go back to a place that once left me feeling insecure and inadequate. I know I'm not the only that's felt like this. You leave a place wondering why God ever brought you there to begin with, then comes the hesitation when He's clearly calling you to go back. This week is all about the truth of Isaiah 30:21 in my life. How over the last 7 years God has used...