MomLife Ministries Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beauty… in Summer! Let’s talk about summer! For moms, the thought of summer can come with a whole range of joy or dread or some uncertain mix of both. One of the messiest parts of being mom is the constant need to transition—from one growth stage of our kid(s) to the next, from work to rest, from season to season. It’s always keeping us on ou...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION. We all need help—in faith, motherhood, marriage… life in general! And yet it can be so hard to ask for it and accept it. Why is that? Join Melanie and Christy as they talk about some steps we can take to inform, strengthen, encourage, and prove our belief in Christ that will build our confident hope in who he is and what...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION. Melanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Tabitha Dowdy. Tabitha serves on the MomLife Ministries Board of Directors and Planning Team and she serves as the Kids Ministry Director at her local church. Listen in as they talk about how both the idea and follow-through of obedience can be challenging. But...

Send us Fan Mail MomLife: Messy. Lovely. Real. Melanie and Christy are joined with some special friends: Tabitha Dowdy, Alicia Mullinix, Megan Evans, and Sydny Simpson. All of these women serve in various ways as leaders of local MomLife groups. Listen in as they talk about the importance of building community among fellow moms and specifically why they felt the nudge to spend time investing the l...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION Melanie and Christy are joined by friend and special guest Stephani Cook. Stephani has had a long career in school psychology and she also loves writing, and speaking; she serves on the Board of Directors of MomLife Ministries as Vice President. She has been married 30 years and has two adult kiddos. She is passionate abo...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION Marriage is hard. It holds great beauty and is also overwhelmingly messy at times. Melanie and Christy share some things that they have learned to be helpful in building and maintaining connection in marriage. Find out more about MomLife Ministries at momlife.org .  Think about starting a local MomLife group for the Septe...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION As we think of all of our relational connections, there’s both beauty and mess. A common messy connection for women can be with our in-laws. Because it’s a common question and struggle we hear from moms, we want to take an extra episode to share some specific encouragement about how to build connection in these special re...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOM Join us for this special Q & A episode! Melanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Jenn Powell. Jenn serves on the MomLife Ministries planning team as the Director of Fun and she works full-time as a physical therapist. Listen in as they respond to questions sent in by moms! Questions like: How do we bat...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOM Melanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Jenn Powell. They have a candid conversation around the hot topic of how to seek the wisdom of Jesus in the hard decision about schooling your child(ren). We get it—it’s hard! It feels weighty and important, and as moms we want to make the very best choice possible....

Send us Fan Mail Hard things happen. It’s uncontrollable and oh so uncomfortable. So when they do, how do we respond? How do we get through ?  Melanie & Christy help to define what perseverance is and how it’s possible. They also share tips for how to build perseverance in our kids. Questions: What have you learned through the experience of hardship? Beautiful Truths: Romans 5:4-5 and Psalm 34...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOM Christy welcomes  special guest Lauren Groves, a mom of two and lover of Jesus. She is thoughtful and kind, and always looks to point women toward the wisdom of the Lord. She is a licensed professional counselor that specializes in trauma and children; she has a heart for helping others walk in the freedom that Christ offers....

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOM Christy talks about Hagar’s story in Genesis and she will guide you through a reflection to get ready for the new year. We need your help to shape our February podcast episodes. We will be talking about How we seek Jesus in the midst of the mess?   Is there a mess you are facing that would like to hear us discuss… Email us at...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSE Melanie and Christy are joined with special guest Starr Cliff. Starr is a speech and language pathologist with her local school system. She has been married for 25 years and has 3 children, ages from 18, 20, and 21. Starr loves people and loves walking with them through seasons of mess and/or beauty. Listen in as Melanie, Ch...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSE Melanie and Christy are joined with special guest Janey Pitts. Janey is an author and speaker with a vivacious spirit and calling to serve the Lord. She is passionate about inspiring others to become the person God has created them to be in their families, relationships, and overall lives. She has a Masters Degree from South...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSE Melanie and Christy are joined with special guest Sara Turnquist. Sara is a writer who desires to speak into the spaces of women’s lives where they are struggling: with momming, with faith, and with life in general. Her presence is kind and full of warmth and grace. She always has a good story to tell and we just know you’ll...

Send us Fan Mail As we seek Jesus we find beautiful faith and also beautiful purpose. Some of the messiest things we face are the questions of: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? If we are seeking Jesus to help us with answering those questions, we will find stability and security in who he has created us to be. He has given us an identity of great value and a calling of great purpose—wh...

Send us Fan Mail Melanie & Christy are joined with special guest Megan Evans. Megan's a wife, mother, & writer, She is passionate about spurring others on to know & walk at the pace of Jesus. She has a beautiful website— unhurrymyheart.com —where she offers encouragement for hurried hearts who want to be still. She’s a beautiful follow on IG @megan.m_evans , offering snippets of p...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITH We encourage you to save this episode to listen to outside as you take a prayerful walk in creation. But even if you can’t, we know Jesus is present wherever we are, whatever we are doing. Melanie describes what it would be like to literally take a walk with Jesus and then guides listeners through some scripture and prompts fo...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITH Melanie and Christy talk about what it looks like to seek Jesus through the practice of reading scripture. We know it can feel daunting and overwhelming, or like you don’t have the time or space to add it into your hectic schedule. Listen in as they share tips and encouragement for why scripture is necessary to building your f...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITH Melanie and Christy talk about the beautiful example our own faith journey can be for our kid(s) as they are navigating their own. Follow us on socials @momlifeministries on Instagram and Facebook ! ... Get some MomLife merch at bonfire.com/store/momlife . ... Build Your Mom Community with a Podcast Club! (1) Invite one or sev...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITH Melanie and Christy talk about how our faith journey can matter in our marriage. They use scripture to talk about the ideal for how God designed us to live in love in marriage, acknowledging that it’s very messy to live out as flawed and imperfect humans. Beautiful faith is what helps to guide us and re-center us on seeking th...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITH Melanie and Christy talk about what faith is and why it matters to them. ... Follow us on socials @momlifeministries on Instagram and Facebook ! ... Build Your Mom Community with a Podcast Club! (1) Invite one or several friends to meet with you a couple of times a month. (2) Listen to the podcast on your own time. (3) Get tog...

Send us Fan Mail Melanie and Christy are two friends who co-founded MomLife Ministries. MomLife started as a group of moms in their home church and has now grown to be a non-profit ministry that serves multiple moms and churches across the United States. Get a brief look into who Melanie and Christy are, how they met, serve in ministry together, and a bit of what they're learning in their cur...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more about MomLife Ministries and what you can expect from the MomLife Ministries Podcast. We're so excited to launch some encouragement into the world to cheer on our fellow mommas. Our hope is that we can spur you on in your faith and remind you that you aren’t alone on your motherhood journey. ... The MomLife Ministries Podcast is brand new, so make sure you are s...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beauty We're getting ready to start the 2023-24 MomLife season and we want you to know what we're going to be talking about. We have a lot of great content, stories, and encouragement coming your way as we learn to navigate the Beautiful Mess of motherhood together. All along the way, we're going to encourage you to seek Jesus...