Staying Real About Faith & Family

Join our conversation! Not every voice you hear has the right to dictate your actions. Today’s guest offers ways to lower the volume of unnecessary narratives. Welcome to Staying Real About Faith & Family. If you’re looking for a community where you can get real about life without resistance, you’re in the right place. I’m Linda Goldfarb . Each week, my co-host Heather Greer and I, along with...

Join our conversation! How is God’s hand waving over you? Let’s Journey Together and spend a midweek Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here. Every shoreline is changed by the wave of God’s hand, and so, too, are the days of our lives. Sam and I love walking...

Join our conversation! What are you speaking out? Let’s Journey Together and spend a midweek Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. I’m so glad you’re here. “My cares are cast far into the abyss, for I will not worry, I do not fear; My Father, My God, is ever near.” I speak the above statement out loud, and it gives me hope. I'm re...

Join our conversation! Are you experiencing a storm today? Let’s Journey Together and spend a midweek moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  No matter the view from your window, give thanks... for God is at work. Are your skies dark and the future uncertai...

Join our conversation! It's never too early to prepare children's hearts for the truth of Christ. Today’s guest has a very special devotional you can use to invite them on a journey that impacts their eternity. Welcome to Staying Real About Faith & Family. If you’re looking for a community where you can get real about life without resistance, you’re in the right place. I’m Linda Gold...

Join our conversation! Do you have confidence in yourself? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  As one familiar with speaking in front of an audience, I'm often asked, “Do you ever get nervous about being in front...

Join our conversation! Do you feel God's renewing power? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  Tis the season of renewal. In your new season—Hope is at work. A loved one passes, and a child is born. A job is lost, a...

Join our conversation! Are you ready to thirst no more? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  The temporary satisfaction of stream-fed water subsides with physical exertion. To accomplish more, I must replenish my water...

Join our conversation! Do you need a little encouragement? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  Have you experienced the kind of day when life hits from all sides, and you wonder why? That was my feeling not too long ag...

Join our conversation! Who's in your boat? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here. Does Water Refresh You? There's something about being on the water that refreshes me. When I'm cruising along at a leisurely...

Join our conversation! Reading clean fiction can help improve your relationships. Welcome to Staying Real About Faith & Family. If you’re looking for a community where you can get real about life without resistance, you’re in the right place. I’m Linda Goldfarb. Each week, Heather Greer, our guests, and I offer personal insight to encourage transparent living from a biblical viewpoint with pra...

Join our conversation! Do You Long for Perfect Peace? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  We're told that God will keep those who trust Him in perfect peace. “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are s...

Join our conversation! Do your questions need answers? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  There was a time when I thought my questions were too small to call out to God.   I also thought my problems were not as signif...

Join our conversation! Is your God a big G or little g god? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  As I experience the Word of God, I find distinct references between the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Most Holy G...

Join our conversation! How does the phrase, I will be still, make you feel? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  I struggle to be still. Yet, I so need to be still. How about you? Too much noise.  Too many distractions....

Join our conversation! Have you experienced a crushed spirit? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  I’m a fan of the Heartland series. As a former horse owner, I enjoy the interaction between Amy’s character and the hors...

Join our conversation! Where do you choose to sit? Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father. I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  We can be so hungry for a position in life that we become obsessed with having it.  “I wish I was doing what she’s doing.” “I’d be...

Join our conversation! Silence is Our Friend Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  How do you respond to silence? It’s early morning. Silence is inviting me in.  The warm glow from a nearby salt lamp fills the room, and...

Join our conversation! Everyone Needs to Experience God’s Love  Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  How do you experience God's love? I look forward to spending morning moments in the Word before heading into the...

Join our conversation! Eternity Is For Everyone! Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  Ready to experience what’s waiting ahead? What thoughts come to mind about eternity? The lyrics in I Can Only Imagine by MercyMe pie...

Join our conversation! Is our knowing enough? When I work on manuscripts, I desperately want to include everything my reader will need to make wise choices about using their voice or whatever the topic is. And I’m reminded that when we know more about what we ‘know,’ it's difficult to return to how we were before. This is true about so many facets of our lives. Relationships and faith are two...

Join our conversation! Is the fear of rejection ruining your relationships? Linda's interview with Gail Porter was live at the Christian Product Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Today's guest - Gail Porter, is an author and speaker. Her journey of letting go of the fear of rejection and finding the freedom to be authentic led to a desire to help others. Living on the Path of Freedom: Leaving...

Join our conversation! Self Controlled Living Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  Are we living “self” controlled lives? "No worries, I've got this." "I can take care of this myself, thank you.&quo...

Join our conversation! God is Personal Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  Are you asking why, how, or where? We can certainly look on the mountaintops for answers, yet it's the Creator of the mountains who has t...

Join our conversation! Let’s Journey Together and spend a Moment with Father.  I’m Linda Goldfarb, and I want to encourage and inspire your walk with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.  What do you think when you hear the word mercy? On several occasions as a kid, while wrestling, playing thumb wars, or engaging in other physically competitiv...