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A Conversation on Surrender, Healing, and the Holy Spirit with Vivian Mabuni 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 season, we are learning how...

A Conversation on Church Girls, Witchcraft, Rebellion, and Restoration with  Dr. Sarita Lyons 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 season, we...

Welcome to season 7! Unlike previous seasons that we've shared together, I will not have a specific theme for each of the seasons moving forward. Instead, it is my hope that we will learn to really listen to those who have different experiences from our own. Listening to their experiences and how the Lord has moved in their lives will give us greater empathy for one another and a deeper opport...

A Conversation on Releasing Old Assignments and Walking Away with  Dr. Quantrilla Ard THE CONTENTMENT TO WALK AWAY We are finally at the end of our series on contentment and we have covered everything from how contentment is influenced by prayer, the culture, our spiritual disciplines, sorrow, and now release. Have you ever questioned if your inability to experience contentment is connected to you...

A Conversation on Suffering and Contentment with Kristen LaValley THE STRUGGLE WITH CONTENTMENT AND SORROW I do know that this month can introduce a variety of emotions and lots of different women, especially as we prepare for Mother's Day. And for years, it was pretty hard to start the month for me because although I wanted to be a mama, I didn't have the opportunity. It always felt a lit...

A conversation about spiritual disciplines (like scripture reading, gratitude, and prayer) that strengthen our contentment with Shante Grossett O'Neal THE BENEFITS OF THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES Y'alllll, the spiritual disciplines have supported my relationship with Christ in the best ways, and I am grateful for them. They consistently remind us that us our God is a relational God, that He h...

A conversation about the culture and the pursuit of contentment with Becky Beresford THE PURSUIT OF CONTENTMENT Welcome back to our miniseries on contentment. When I first found out I was expecting a little one, I had so many emotions they surprised me. I had planned to feel nothing but pure joy and ecstacy. However, I also felt some grief about the things I knew I would have to walk away from for...

A conversation about burnout, resentment, and wholeness with Lisa V. Fields , founder of the Jude 3 Project . THE PURSUIT OF CONTENTMENT Welcome to our miniseries on contentment. Over the next five months, we are going to explore what it means to pursue contentment. We'll talk about how it changes the way we live, love, and lead, and I hope you're here for it. Now, before we get started, l...

Can you believe we are at episode 100?! When I first launched The Best Kept Secret, I couldn't see past episode 3, but our God is so kind. Thank you for joining me here week after week. In honor of our 100th episode, I'd like you to grab your Bible and listen in as we wrap up this series on worship with a message I shared at Avenue Church this past September. If you have your copy of Selah...

A conversation about pain, disappointment, and friendship with God with Faith Eury Cho WORSHIPING IN THE WILDERNESS It wasn't until late in 2022 that one little story in David's narrative stuck out to me. I was going through my own wilderness season, and had been for about a year and a half when I read it. When King David was returning to the wilderness in 2 Samuel 15 on his way into exile...

A conversation about rebellion, grace, and presence with Pamela Henkelman OFFERING PRESENCE I am so grateful for those mamas who model how to keep worshiping when your children rebel because they display the heart of our Great God and the love He has for each of us. In fact, my mama has modeled this up close and personally for me. One of the most interesting relationships in all of 1 and 2 Samuel...

A conversation about grief, acceptance, and healing with  Natasha Smith YAHWEH One thing that King David was familiar with was grief. In fact, many Biblical figures we look up to were. Out of all of the Psalms that were written, over a third of them were written as lament, and today, we can read them to help us gain a deeper perspective of who our God is in the middle of pain. Sometimes, it feels...

Have you met our cohost for season 6?  Ty Scott King  is currently being considered for a Grammy and we are praying and celebrating with her! You can find her newest album  here . TODAY WE'RE REFLECTING ON 2 SAMUEL 5:22-25 CSB   The Philistines came up again and spread out in Rephaim Valley.  23  So David inquired of the Lord, and he answered, “Do not attack directly, but circle around behind...

A conversation about sexual abuse and restorative justice with Mary E. Demuth PRESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES VS DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES We read about three important, yet difficult stories, throughout the books of 1 and 2 Samuel: Mychal, Bathsheba, and Tamar. And the one thing we realize when we read them is that these women's stories mattered to the Holy Spirit. The passages surrounding these passages ar...

A conversation about disability, restoration, and honor with Jennifer Ji-Hye Ko THE WORK WE HAVE YET TO DO Mephibosheth shows up in one of the sweetest scriptures in all of 1 and 2 Samuel, and yet the way he is treated over time also reminds us that we have much work to do in the body of Christ concerning our loved ones who are disabled. This is one of THE most important conversations we have ever...

A conversation about identity, belonging, and generational legacy with Tasha Jun OUR IDENTITY CAN HELP OR HINDER OUR ABILITY TO WORSHIP THE LORD I have found that one of the most secure men in all of Scripture is Jonathan. It is through his life that we begin to understand that when we yield our identity to the Lord it leads us to serve Him more effectively-even when it comes at the expense of wha...

A conversation about expectation, immediate gratification, and disappointment with Elizabeth Woodson WORSHIP INVITES US TO BRING OUR DISAPPOINTMENTS TO GOD It saddens me to think about how much we talk about Michal, David's first wife, without ever addressing the trauma that she endured throughout her life. As the youngest daughter of King Saul, she was often used as the pawn he chose to manip...

Have you met our cohost for season 6?  Ty Scott King is currently being considered for a Grammy and we are praying and celebrating with her! You can find her newest album here . TODAY WE'RE REFLECTING ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:6-8 6  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  7  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.  8  He who plants and...

A Conversation on the strength, the willpower, and the consistent surrender it takes to wait with Oghosa Iyamu WORSHIP INVITES US TO WAIT 1 Samuel 13 is a sobering picture of what happens when we fail to wait on the Lord, and it is one we need to take seriously. Saul, set on obtaining favor with people chose to deny the Lord's command when the Israelite soldiers began to desert him and it cost...

A Conversation on Pressure, Profit, and the Pursuit of God's Presence with Nailah Tee WORSHIP INVITES US TO REPENTANCE I feel for King Saul. As the first king of Israel, he made a lot of mistakes that were unprecedented at the point he became king, and he experienced a lot of pressure from the very beginning, pressure that we don't always understand. We live in an innocence-guilt culture,...

A Conversation on Remembrance with Katie Westenberg If we are going to worship the Lord, we have to remember who He is in the middle of everything that attempts to steal our attention and make us forget about how faithful He has been from generation to generation. Biblical writers instruct us to remember from the Old to the New Testament, so let's take it to heart today. Moses first reminds th...

A Conversation with  Jennifer Lucy Tyler Skeptics usually deny the truth in the Word of God because they claim that there are two Gods in the Bible: The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. However, a closer look will reveal that God’s mercy, lovingkindness, and grace have followed us all the days of our lives-from the very beginning. Nowhere is that more evident than through...

A Conversation with Kobe Campbell Today, we're talking about the many ways we have the opportunity to remove the limitations off of God. He is our limitless God, and He can heal at the altar, just like He can heal in the therapist's office.  Let's talk about worship as we look at how David and others worshiped beyond their pain, without dismissing their pain. Selah: A Study of 1 and 2...

Can I introduce you to our guest cohost for Season 6? Ty Scott King is an award-winning artist, and I am so grateful that she will be joining us this season. You can hear our Live Podcast Recording where she started our time off with a beautiful poem here, and you can order her newest album on iTunes or her website here . TODAY WE'RE REFLECTING ON GENESIS 22:5 ESV Then Abraham said to his youn...

THE BIBLE STUDY IS OFFICIALLY OUT IN 1 WEEK! Selah: A Study of 1 and 2 Samuel is still available for preorder and it is my prayer that, together, we can fall even more deeply in love with the Scriptures. You can purchase it here on Amazon . The study includes:  6 video sessions (all between 9 and 14 minutes because you have your own questions to pray about and answer), 30 guided prayers (all aroun...