Purposeful Women of God

In today’s episode we are speaking with the founder of Hope for Hall, Caroline Filchak. Caroline is a Hall County native and has such an inspiring story. She speaks of living a very charmed life with her family as she grew up and she would eventually go on to marry her high school sweetheart. Caroline and her husband welcomed their first child into the world a healthy baby boy but it wasn’t until...

In Today’s episode we welcomed in a very special guest to the podcast, Four time Emmy winning journalist and broadcast news anchor for the NBC affiliate WCNC Charlotte, Sarah French. We enjoyed hearing Sarah’s testimony as well as how she’s living out the purpose God has for her life. She discusses a heart-breaking interview she had to cover and how she used the heart break during that time to mak...

This month is pastor appreciation month and we thought what better way to celebrate than to interview a seasoned pastor and his wife.  We were so honored to have the opportunity to interview Dr. John Dell and his wife Debbie on this week's episode.  They gave us a behind the scenes look at what it means to be a pastor and some of the challenges and joys they’ve faced in their ministry.&n...

In today’s episode we are bringing you into the live podcast we did at Talmo Baptist Church over the weekend. We want to thank all the ladies of Talmo for making the night extra special, the singers for being with us, everyone that helped with food, all the vendors that setup to make the shopping experience possible, all the men of Talmo that ensured the night ran smoothly and a big thanks to our...

Today we are wrapping up our Fruit of the Spirit series discussing temperance or self control.  We discuss what it means to be out of control and list some ways you may be out of control.  It could be your emotions that are out of control or it could be an addiction you have to alcohol or drugs that’s controlling your life, or an addiction to pornography, you may even find yourself out o...

We are nearing the end of our time in Galatians 5:22, 23 studying the Fruit of the Spirit. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, against such there is now law.” The definition of meekness defined by Regent University, “Meekness is essentially an attitude of quality of heart whereby a person is willing to accept and su...

As we continue the Fruit of the Spirit series today, we are looking at the fruit of Faith.  Faith can be very complex to understand but our desire is to give you a foundational understanding of what faith is, examples of faith in the Bible and practical ways we can live by faith. What is faith?  The definition of faith can be found in Hebrews 11:1. Tony Evans’ gives a great definition in...

In today’s episode we are moving onto another Fruit of the Spirit talking all things patience with our special guest Lesia Carroll. We open up discussing the difference between fruits & gifts as they can often be confused. We discuss how patience must be exercised just as our bodies do.  We don’t get in shape by just sitting on the couch, we must be intentional to exercise and it’s the sa...

In today’s episode our special guest was not able to be with us so we are jumping ahead in the fruit of the spirit series to talk about gentleness and goodness. Since these two fruits are very similar we thought we would cover them together to showcase the similarities but also the differences between the two. We take a dive into the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37.  We discuss h...

If we’re ever asked “what is one thing that we would wish for,” what would it be? Most everyone would say world peace.  So why haven’t we achieved it?  Why are there still wars?  Why is there still fighting among people?  Is peace something that can ever be obtained? If God is truly a good God then why is there still famine, wars and crime?  We are addressing this and more...

Today we are continuing our Fruit of the Spirit series talking about Joy. We would like to point out something that is often overlooked in regards to the Fruit of the Spirit and that’s the fact the word fruit is not in plural form in this passage.  It can seem strange from a grammatical standpoint but this is because ALL of these attributes are given to us when we are saved and when the Holy...

This week we are kicking off our Fruit of the Spirit study with the first fruit mentioned in Galatians…Love. We read Galatians 5:22-28 Discuss the 4 types of love: 1 - Eros: Romantic Love 2 - Storge: Family Love 3- Philia: Brotherly Love 4- Agape: God’s divine love; unconditional love We discuss what love isn’t and what love is and also debunk some of the world's most quoted sayings about love tod...

Interview with Kaley Shawley: Join us today as we wrap up our mind, body and soul series with an interview with our dear friend, Kaley Shawley. Kaley is a young wife and mother who is currently living with cancer. Since her cancer diagnosis over a year ago, Kaley has faced extensive surgeries as well as an intense form of radiation that put her in isolation away from her family for 21 days. She sh...

We hope this series has helped equip you with some practical tools & biblical wisdom to encourage you to live a healthier life.  Remember that it’s never too late to start implementing healthier choices for your life. We have already discussed having a healthy mind and a healthy body so today we are discussing what it means to have a healthy soul, which we feel is the most important. We d...

In today’s episode in our series of healthy living, we are tackling the topic of healthy bodies.  We have both acknowledged that this is a struggle for each of us and according to our Instagram poll, most of you feel the same way!  Our poll indicated that 75% of you felt like the health of your body was your greatest weakness when compared to mind and soul. Here’s what we need to underst...

While last week’s episode was an introduction,  we want to begin diving deeper into each area of health: Mind, Body and Soul. Today, we are going to tackle the difficult subject of mental health.  But we have to acknowledge and preface this topic by saying, we are not mental health professionals so if you are under the care of a doctor, please consult your doctor with any changes or ques...

In this episode, we are introducing our new series on healthy living: mind, body and soul. As we enter the month of July, we want to encourage all of you that it is only halftime! As we reflect back on January of this year, what goals did you set and how are you doing with them? Last week we talked about the proverbs 31 woman and this week we are continuing, looking at that same scripture, but fro...

Hello and Welcome to this Bonus Episode of Purposeful Women of God. We wanted to take some time to talk to our listeners about the Future of PWG but also to rejoice over what God has been doing through this ministry. Statistics show that most podcasts do not even make it past 10 episodes and thanks to you, we have released 14 episodes and we’re still going strong.  We are continuing to grow a...

When we finished up with the episodes on being a wife and mother, we mentioned that the Lord had impressed on our hearts to dive into the Proverbs 31 woman.  There’s so much wisdom offered in this passage of scripture to women so we thought that it would benefit us all to look more into the characteristics of a godly woman. The passage is attributed to King Lemuel (who many scholars believe w...

In Today’s episode the husbands are back and are discussing fatherhood and what it means to be the spiritual leaders of their households.  They talk about the difficulties and joys they’ve faced in fatherhood and also how important it is to be the Godly role model in the home for their children. Scripture Read: Ephesians 6: 1-4 Proverbs 22:6 What’s the Purpose? To bring awareness that broken...

Today we have a special episode for you in our family series and have brought in a couple guest speakers…Our HUSBANDS! They discuss the importance of being a Godly husband and the roles they play in the home.  Yes we will discuss the ever so controversial topic of submission but will also talk about what love looks like in your home.  We hope you enjoy this episode and get a blessing out...

In today’s episode we will be discussing motherhood.  While we recognize many of you are much further in your motherhood journey than we are we want to help you with 2 main focus points that came from our listeners in a recent poll which are: #1: How to manage your time as a mom #2: How to Train Up Godly Children With time management we discuss the importance of schedules and doing what is mo...

If we’re being honest, this Family Series is evolving as we go along. Last week we looked at the role of the wife in the home and while we were studying and researching the family and the home, we were struck with the amount of marriages that are struggling right now or may experience a time that is difficult and there is so much that we wanted to discuss, so we felt that we needed to give this to...

Our topic this week is on our roles and God’s design for our lives as wives. We want you to know that fulfilling your God-given role as wife and submission to your husband does not exemplify weakness, but strength. But before we dive in, we want to acknowledge that as we talk about marriage and submission, so often it’s misunderstood - If you are in physical danger through a toxic relationship see...

As we enter a series on the Family, we want to first begin by speaking to all the single ladies.  Unfortunately, this demographic is often overlooked in the church,  inadvertently but that’s why we want to begin here as we talk about the family.  Your role is very important whether you are a woman who has been called to singleness in order to devote your lives to the Lord, through d...