The Best Kept Secret With Liv Dooley

May I say thank you? Thank you for showing up for the podcast for our final conversation on The Best Kept Secret with Liv Dooley. It was a joy to host these conversations, and I pray that you'll join me for the new podcast in September. However, if this is the end of the road, please know that I'm grateful for every single moment we've spent together. Today, we're talking about the...

A Conversation on People Pleasing, Protecting Your Children, and Praying Hard with Victoria Riollano PSALM 139:16-19 ESV MEET VICTORIA Victoria Riollano is the author of Warrior Mother: Equipping Your Heart to Fight for your Family's Faith, as well as the wife of Pastor Joe Riollano, mother to eight children, and a professor to psychology students around the world. RESOURCES Connect with Victo...

A Conversation on Stopping Well, Starting Again, & Seminary with Amy Seiffert Following the Holy Spirit's prompting requires us to slow down, and sometimes He invites us to stop altogether. However, you can be sure, that's not the end of the story. PSALM 23 ESV The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2      He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. [ a...

A Conversation on Loving Your Neighbor, the Wilderness, & Unity with Kristel Acevedo As we slow down, let's consider what it is we're consuming and whether or not it's giving God glory because we have to stop compromising our standards to adopt what the world tells us is good. MATTHEW 22:36-39 CSB 36  “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?” 37  He said to him,  “Love t...

A Conversation on Scandal, Slow Growth, and Christian Content Creation with Christina Patterson As we slow down, let's consider what it is we're consuming and whether or not it's giving God glory because we have to stop compromising our standards to adopt what the world tells us is good. EPHESIANS 4:29 CSB No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building...

A Conversation on Pornography, Parenting, and Opportunity with Greta Eskridge During this episode, we remember that important conversations about pornography and other explicit subjects are not optional. They're necessary. PHILIPPIANS 4:8-9 NLT 8  And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirabl...

A Conversation on Bible Study, Spiritual Highs, and Faithfulness with Trillia Newbell During this episode, we are learning how to invite God to challenge our preconceived notions of who He is and what He's doing. JOSHUA 5:13-15 ESV When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and...

A Conversation on Slowing Down, Holy Silence, and Solitude with Sarah Clarkson During this episode, we are learning how to trust God with the fullness of our emotions. EXODUS 14:13-14 CSB But Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and see the Lord’s salvation that he will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for yo...

A Conversation on Sensitivity to God's Spirit, the Body of Christ, and False Prophets with Liv Dooley During this episode, we discuss the benefits of slowing down to hear from the Lord. As the Scriptures tell us, we serve the God who speaks, the God who leads us into all truth, the God who leads us when we invite Him, too. In a world that is consumed with false prophets (and rightfully so), we...

A Conversation on Grief, Rebuilding, and Renewal when your world ends with Dawn Mann Sanders During this episode, we are learning how to trust God with the fullness of our emotions. ISAIAH 40:28-31 CSB Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding. 29  He gives strength t...

A Conversation on Grief and Honoring Your Emotions with Natasha Smith During this episode, we are learning how to trust God with the fullness of our emotions. ROMANS 12:9-15 ESV Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.  10  Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.  11  Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,[ a ] serve the...

A Conversation on Sexual Sin, Self Control, and Surrender with Liv Dooley During this episode, we will continue our conversation on slowing down right in time for Valentine's Day. I know no one may have ever said this to you before, but it's possible that marriage is NOT the answer.  1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-8 CSB For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immor...

A Conversation on Generational Cycles, Toxicity, and Breaking Patterns with Tori Hope Petersen During this episode, we are learning how to trust God with and in our weaknesses. HEBREWS 11:39-40 NIV These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,   since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. MEET...

Slowing down is often associated with complacency, laziness, insecurity, and failure. It can also be mistaken for backtracking, forfeiting, missing out, and regret. However, none of that is actually Biblical. I’ve found so much more joy and peace in the opportunity to slow down than I ever knew possible, and it has changed my life. So we’re talking about it this season.  James 1:19-25 CSB My dear...

A Conversation on Healing, Marriage, and Hope with Andre and Timberly Gray During this episode, we are learning how to invite the Holy Spirit to help us grow in love and self control. ROMANS 15:13 NIV 13  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. MEET ANDRE AND TIMBERLY André and Timberley Gray do li...

A Conversation on Loneliness, Belonging, and Unity with Prasanta Verma During this episode, we are learning how to invite the Holy Spirit to help us facilitate safe spaces for those who are marginalized. PSALM 34:18 NIV The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. MEET PRASANTA Born under an Asian sun, raised in the Appalachian foothills in the south, and now l...

A Conversation on Gentleness, How to Be Courageously Soft, and Divorce with Charaia Rush During this episode, we are learning how to invite the Holy Spirit to soften our hearts. GALATIANS 5:22-23 NIV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,   gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. MEET CHARAIA Charaia Rush  is a writ...

A Conversation on Bible Study, Motherhood, and the God who Sees with Kathy Tuan-MacLean and Tara Edelschick During this episode, we are learning how to slow down and spend intentional time with God, particularly in Bible study, as He sets our rhythms. GENESIS 16:13 CSB So she named the Lord who spoke to her: “You are El-roi,” for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the one who sees me?”...

A Conversation on Slowing Down, Soul Care, and Lingering with God with Jodi Grubbs During this episode, we are learning how to slow down and spend intentional time with God as He sets our rhythms. PSALM 46:10 NIV He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth.” MEET JODI After assuming the rapid pace and stress of city living in the S...

A Conversation on Discipleship, Bible Study, and Starting Out in Ministry with Kristie Anyabwile During this episode, we are learning how to trust God to increase the little we commit to Him for His glory. 1 PETER 3:15 ESV but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentlen...

A Conversation on Little Things, Celebrating Others, and Trusting God with Rachael K Adams During this episode, we are learning how to trust God to increase the little we commit to Him for His glory. 1 PETER 4:7-11 7  The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.  8  Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.  9  Off...

A Conversation on Platform, Stewardship, and Faithfulness with Yodit Kifle Smith During this episode, we are learning how to open our lives up to others and invite God to do the heavy lifting in the process of discipleship. MATTHEW 18:12 NLT What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one tha...

A Conversation on Transparency, Inconvenience, and Discipleship with Yolanda Solomon The Best Kept Secret exists to help women identify the secret to healing their hearts and connecting with others despite their past. Here, you'll find engaging conversations and important questions that help us connect to the body of Christ despite what the culture believes to be true. During this episode, we...

A Conversation on Idolatry, Grace, and Purpose with Molly Stillman The Best Kept Secret exists to help women identify the secret to healing their hearts and connecting with others despite their past. Here, you'll find engaging conversations and important questions that help us connect to the body of Christ despite what the culture believes to be true. This episode, we are learning how to trust...

A Conversation on Shame, Faith, and Purpose with Mariela Rosario The Best Kept Secret exists to help women identify the secret to healing their hearts and connecting with others despite their past. Here, you'll find engaging conversations and important questions that help us connect to the body of Christ despite what the culture believes to be true. This episode, we are learning how the enemy...