Staying Real About Faith & Family

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.   When I read the Psalms this morning, my heart hesitated. David, a man after God’s own heart, was crying out in desperation. Oh, how he longed for Abba to col...

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't imagine a safer place than snuggling in the love of God. His love, coupled with the mercy of Christ and the Holy Spirit’s guidance, is eternally...

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.    Seeking peace today, but you're not quite there?    Current circumstances threaten to disperse the promise of peace. There’s a rumbling in the streets...

Join our conversation!  Marriage. Is it all you expected it to be? Life happens to all of us. How we respond to the unexpected is the difference between surviving and thriving. 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, I, and our g...

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 often do you open your umbrella? I carry a small just-in-case umbrella in the car. Sam and I love getting on the road for our next adventure. As I’m remi...

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.    Emotions can be sticky. In fact, emotions can shut us down and hold us back from experiencing God’s next best step for our lives, personally and profession...

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.  If you were to write out one promise of Father’s every day, you would be listing promises for more than ten years.   I love these five promises found in Isaia...

Join our conversation! How do you respond when someone you love doesn’t think like you? God calls us to love others as ourselves, especially when it’s not easy. 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, I, and our guests offer pers...

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.  When does your character make a difference? As brothers and sisters in Christ, we have the power of the Holy Spirit in us. His character in us impacts the wo...

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 ready to give up doing everything in your own strength? Ready to stop comparing your weaknesses to another person’s strengths?   I have been so guilt...

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 participate in a beautiful FB group where we read through the Bible yearly. We are challenged to dig deeper into Scripture on our own to discover more about...

Join our conversation! Are the little things in life getting lost? Listen in to a story that will encourage you to take advantage of every moment. 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, and our guests offer personal insigh...

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.    A couple of years ago, I had cataract surgery in my left eye. The difference between my right and left sight was phenomenal, and the clarity of colors and 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.  If you’ve known and followed Christ for very long, you know the pain of spiritual growth.  Spiritual growth occurs when we’re obedient and open to the discipl...

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’ve been stuck. When writing a book proposal, there are portions that don’t draw from my natural abilities.  I started speaking professionally three decade...

Join our conversation! Stress can be reduced. 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 offer personal insight to encourage transparent living from a biblical viewpoint with practical applications. Staying Real with the Holy S...

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 I struggle to be still.  To let certain situations go or to quiet my striving. The world speaks a false narrative that tells me, if I’m still 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 time with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here. As Christ-followers, our choices will be questioned.  “I don’t get it, Susan. Everyone’s going to the party, it’s no big deal. Why do you always say no? Yare...

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 time with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.   Some mornings, I’m like, “There’s so much to get done. Will I make it through the day? Ugh! I’m just not feeling it.”   Are you laughing at me or nodding y...

Join our conversation! Do you beat yourself up over being disorganized? Have you read the Scriptures that help us be more organized? 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. The mustering of hope is needed in a mighty way. We witness the decline of hope in the happenings around the world. Anger. Chaos. Destruction.   Families fall...

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 time with the Lord. For more encouragement, please visit LindaGoldfarb.com. I’m so glad you’re here.   Sam and I enjoy hiking in Texas State Parks . One of our must-haves is a burnt orange backpack with multiple pockets. The exterior straps secure two water...

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 not lose hope, my brothers and sisters. Look to the horizon and witness the light—it is the mercy and grace of God All Mighty!   We all feel struck down...

Join our conversation! Liberty requires our participation. Let's find out how our faith plays a part in today's politics  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 en...

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 is God increasing your faith?   Does He increase your faith in moments of isolation?  Perhaps when you feel unworthy or during turbulent times?   When I s...