Staying Real About Faith & Family

Join our conversation! Live from CPE in Fort Wayne, Indiana - this interview is slightly different. 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 our guests, offer personal insight to encourage transparent l...

Join our conversation! Trusting God Has a Cost 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 does trusting God look like? Noah was asked to do the impossible. Build an ark to hold multiples of every creature. Is this what...

Join our conversation! God Is Listening 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.  Can you sense God listening? On more occasions than I can count, I’ll be conversing with a friend or my hubby, asking them to pray about a si...

Join our conversation! Walking Fearless 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.  Fearful or fearless? Fear is the destroyer of dreams.  Father says, “Fear not.” Fear casts doubt on our abilities.  Father says, “Be not dism...

Join our conversation! Inconvenient 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.  Several Sundays back, my pastor shared on the topic of loving others inconveniently from Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV. “Therefore be imitators of Go...

Join our conversation! What’s crashing in on your joy? 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 remember one morning waking up early as usual. I’d just settled in with my frothed cup-a-joe, Bible in hand, when I heard an o...

Join our conversation! There's no place like home. 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.  Where do you call home? I traveled a lot as a child. Raised in a military home, packing and unpacking were normal routines. O...

Join our conversation! Love and Self-Control 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. Walking in love and self-control is not easy.   God’s word says we are—not to be afraid.  Not to walk in doubt.  Not to disrespect others...

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. Do we get who God is? His eye is on the sparrow.  How much more is His eye on us?  He has counted every hair on our heads.  He knows our comings and goings.  H...

Join our conversation! A gift is a gift—right? 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 content with your gifting? I’ve mentioned before—at least I believe I’ve discussed my issue with my voice here—for the longest...

Join our conversation! Are you in need of refreshing? 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. While traveling in Uruguay, I was mesmerized by the clarity of the Atlantic Ocean crashing on the rocks—it was crystal clear righ...

Join our conversation! The Wind is Blowing 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 stable are you when the wind blows?  Are you knocked off your feet by the slightest breeze? What about your family? How are you at endu...

Join our conversation! Are you ready to laugh? Bloopers happen to everyone, and podcast hosts are not immune—neither are their guests! 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 our guests, offer personal...

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. There’s a wave of resistance weaving its way through the world, stealing God’s ultimate freedom from under us.   Consider what independence means—freedom. Do y...

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.  Can you feel the change? It's happening right now.    Unlike Moses in 2 Corinthians 3:13, we do not need to fear the fading of God's glory on our fa...

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.  Are you in need of restoration? Many people today are driven by the restoration of old furniture, antique heirlooms, and historic homes, and they love to see...

Join our conversation! Does your life have a purpose? What self-care strategies do you have in place? Today’s guest shares ways to live a balanced life and age gracefully. 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,...

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.  Where do your commitments live?  Over the course of my lifetime, I could have written “easily overcommitted” on numerous resumes. Praise the LORD, it wasn’t a...

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.   How are you facing your giants? Do you turn and give up or attack with a renewed vigor?   Right after Jesus talked about being The Vine and that we are the b...

Join our conversation! A quick devotional about our ability to love others by Linda Goldfarb to encourage your day and inspire your walk with 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. What decision have you made abo...

Join our conversation! Crimes of passion. Toxic Relations. Find out why friendships go south and ways to prevent it. 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 and I, along with our guests, offer personal insight to encourage transpa...

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. I can see clearly now. I recall my last visit to Colorado Springs, Colorado. The first day I arrived, I had a partially clear view of Pike’s Peak. The rest of 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.  My grandmother Wiles loved to bake. On Friday mornings, the aroma of fresh-baked bread filled every room of the house. Each time I stepped into the kitchen, h...

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.    There are days when life becomes too much. Days when my endurance begins to give out. Days when encouragement doesn’t come forth as easily. On those days, m...

Join our conversation! Are you living your life at a pace that feels out of control? Today’s guest offers practical ways, based on Scripture, to improve your relationships and increase your rest. 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...