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Today on MercyTalk we have a very special treat! Who better to hear from when discussing the topic of “vision” than Mercy Multiplied’s Founder and President, Nancy Alcorn?! Join Nancy for a recent message that she shared on “vision,” where she specifically discusses: Pursuing the dream that God has placed in your heart. The importance of obedience. How to faithfully follow God’s promptings and whe...

Looking Ahead to 2018 With the start of a New Year comes the opportunity to look ahead, set some goals and enter the year connected to the heart of the Lord. Join MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, as they discuss the importance of intentionally taking […]

The end of the year can bring some excitement for many, but also some disappointment and even regret as you look back over the last 12 months. Join MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, as they discuss the importance of intentionally looking back at the year that has passed in preparation for the year to come! They will also talk through: The importance of celebrating the good things and mourning and...

In preparation for MercyTalk in the month of December, our team decided to share some shows from years past on the very topics that we wanted to discuss this year during the holiday season. Join MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, and special guest Mickenzie as they discuss boundaries and how they can help during the holidays. They will also discuss: How boundaries can help with some of the interper...

This month we are pulling out some of our MercyTalk podcasts from last year in preparation for the holidays. Join Melanie and Jen, our MercyTalk hosts, as they discuss how to walk in and experience rest during the holiday season. They will also chat through How true rest is a posture of the heart and soul. Rest can come in a variety of different forms and looks different for everyone as an individ...

As our MercyTalk team was preparing shows for December, we realized that everything we wanted to discuss was already recorded last year on MercyTalk! So we decided to do some December throwbacks for you to enjoy! This week, join MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, as they discuss how choosing joy can posture your heart for the holidays! They will also discuss: The strength that can be found as we ch...

When you google “overcoming depression and suicide” there are a variety of articles and websites that will come up with many helpful steps to take that address these struggles, but those steps typically focus on the behavior and not the true root. Today on MercyTalk, join hosts, Jen and Melanie, with guest, Brooke as they spend some time discussing some of the biblical keys to overcoming depressio...

Happy Thanksgiving from our MercyTalk team! We hope that you are enjoying the holiday and that you will join us as we listen in with MercyTalk host, Melanie, and two of our home staff members, Erin and Janelle, as they share a sneak peek into the Thanksgiving holiday for our residents and staff. They will discuss: What holiday food prep for a Thanksgiving meal for 40 residents entails! How the Tha...

It can be easy to get into the excitement and preparation of the holidays and forget that, while we may enjoy this time of year, it is not always enjoyable for everyone. Some individuals have not experienced joyful holidays in the past, so what we may experience as fun and full of tradition is not what they may experience. When this is the case, depression, and at times, struggles with suicide, ca...

Welcome back to MercyTalk this week as we enjoy another Throwback Thursday! Enjoy this second show with MercyTalk host, Melanie, as she discusses how little steps overcome big mountains with one of our UK staff in 2015. Melanie connects with Laura Ryder as she shares from her personal experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the lessons she learned about journeying with the Lord and tr...

Welcome to Throwback Thursday on MercyTalk! We hope you will enjoy this show from 2015 with some of our United Kingdom Mercy staff, as they discuss what it means to love people back to life. Laura Ryder and Pam Grimshaw share their love for Mercy and the power that comes from loving people well. Join MercyTalk host, Melanie, as she and our UK staff discuss: Their “Mercy story” and how they connect...

Join us on MercyTalk today as we discuss an addiction to people pleasing and how people pleasing can attempt to meet our need for approval. People pleasing is an area that MANY people struggle with, but are not always aware that it’s happening and that it can have serious repercussions. MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for healthy approval and how...

We are made for intimacy and healthy connection. Sex is an area that our world has perverted and drawn away from God’s original design. This week on MercyTalk we continue our discussion on the roots of addiction and the many ways that we meet healthy needs with unhealthy addictions. Today our hosts, Jen and Melanie, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for healthy connection and how we...

Join us this week on MercyTalk as we discuss another area of addiction and one of the roots to this addiction—the addiction of social media and gaming. Today our hosts, Melanie and Jen, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for significance and how we often try to meet that need with an addiction to social media, the internet, and, at times, gaming. Join them as they talk through: What...

This week on MercyTalk we continue our discussion on the roots of addiction and the many ways that we meet healthy needs with unhealthy addictions. Today our hosts, Melanie and Jen, with special guest, Brooke, will discuss the need for comfort and how we can try to meet that need with an addiction to food. Food addiction is a serious issue in our culture and has impacted obesity rates as well as o...

We all have a need to feel valued, but sometimes that drive for value and purpose can lead to an addiction to work. Join MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, along with special guest, Brooke, as they discuss workaholism and the need for value that it attempts to meet. An addiction to work can create many issues in someone’s life, relationships and relationship with God. We hope you will join us as we...

Experiencing a sense of control over our lives is a normal and healthy need. When we do not have healthy control, we can attempt to gain control in unhealthy and destructive ways. This week on MercyTalk our hosts, Melanie and Jen, with special guest, Brooke, will discuss the need to have healthy control and how that can manifest through an addiction to self-harm and/or an eating disorder. We see t...

Join us on MercyTalk this week as we add another layer to our discussion on the roots of addiction. Addiction does not just manifest through substances – such as drugs and alcohol – but through other things – such as sex, social media, work, food, and even, approval. Join hosts, Jen and Melanie, and special guest, Brooke, as the discussion continues to unfold on addiction, how it works and how it...

Join us this week as we begin a new discussion on the topic of addiction…but not addiction as we would typically think. We will discuss other areas of addiction, such as food, social media, shopping, work, sex – areas that meet a “need” but can actually become an addiction in our lives, much like substances can. Today we will focus on setting a foundation for what addiction is and how it operates...

Join us this week as we wrap up our ongoing discussion on the topic of spiritual gifts with MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen. This week they discuss the link between spiritual gifts and the fruit of the spirit. How does the fruit of the spirit impact our ability to walk out our spiritual gifts from a solid and pure place? We hope you will join us as they discuss the very important role that the fr...

piritual gifts are given for the common good, yet many times, individuals may not know how to fully connect and put their spiritual gifts to work. Join MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, as they discuss their own spiritual gift assessments, some of the things they have learned along their personal and ministry journeys, and some practical ways to put your spiritual gifts to work in your own life an...

We continue our discussion on Spiritual Gifts this week on MercyTalk! Join MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, as they unpack many of the pitfalls and lies that exist when walking out our spiritual gifts. Comparison, pride, and ignorance are just a few of the areas that can create hindrances in our ability to fully assess and purely experience the fullness of our spiritual gifts. They also discuss s...

Unpacking Your Spiritual Gifts: Part 1 Our discussion on spiritual gifts continues as MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, begin to unpack why we need to know what our spiritual gifts are and some additional ways to identify the spiritual gifts that God h...

This week on MercyTalk we will begin a new series on the topic of spiritual gifts! Join MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, as they discuss what spiritual gifts are and what the Word says about these specific gifts. Melanie and Jen will dig into the different reasons that God gives the gifts that He does to each of us as sons and daughters of God. Different means of spiritual gifts assessment, from...

Pornography impacts many areas of our culture – on an individual and familial basis – and has woven its way into many children’s lives through internet use. Therefore, pornography is an important topic for parents as they seek to protect and support their children – those who have never viewed pornographic material and those whohave. Join MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie as they welcome Parent’s W...