The Call to Women in Faith Podcast

Confession time. I argue with my Lab sometimes. In my defense, she is stubborn. But somewhere between watching her limp and grunt her way toward the pack after being told to stay, and watching myself find every excuse to avoid the God given idea sitting right in front of me, I realized something uncomfortable. He is me. And I am the stubborn, silly dog. In this episode we sit with the humbling tru...

What do a snorkeling trip in Maui, a kayaking adventure in Monterey, and your morning Bible reading have in common? More than you might think. In this episode we follow a journey from warm turquoise waters and sea turtles in Hawaii, to cold kelp forests and sea lions in Monterey, to the deepest, richest waters of all, Scripture itself. Just like the ocean, the Word of God is beautiful at every dep...

It started with a pinch that drew blood, a sound talking to, and a little girl sitting in her room absolutely certain that the whole situation was deeply, profoundly unfair. Sound familiar? In this episode we discover that Israel said the exact same thing to God in Ezekiel 18, and His response was not what they expected. Rather than defending His judgment with a list of their crimes, He turned the...

While reading through the books of the Prophets, one image kept surfacing again and again: God's heart churning within Him over Israel's rebellion, and His relentless call for them to return. In this episode, we trace that ancient grief all the way to a backyard in our own home, where our oldest son once spent a rebellious season digging up dirt as discipline. That same backyard eventually became...

A dear friend, praying for me without even being prompted, received a message with God's fingerprints all over it. The mandate was simple. Let bygones be bygones, and look forward. In this episode we sit with the strange, hard truth that God's commands are not always easy, Ezekiel ate a scroll, slept on his side for 390 days, and Abraham waited twenty five years for a promised son, and then we lan...

"The Christian way is different: harder and easier," C.S. Lewis once wrote, and after a reasonable time of trying to disprove the hard part to myself, I finally understand exactly what he meant. In this episode we walk through why life is hard no matter what you believe, why following Christ makes it both harder and easier at the same time, and why the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of ri...

I prayed. I fasted for three days on liquids only. I told God I was ready to hear from Him loud and clear. And all I got back was crickets, and the unmistakable feeling of being Vizzini from "The Princess Bride," standing there saying "I am waiting" while life moved on without me. Then a Bible verse on waiting showed up. Then a video quoting a different verse on waiting showed up. Then a book chap...

A piano lesson conversation with an employee got me thinking about muscle memory, habits, and my own painfully slow progress on "Amazing Grace," a song I have been "learning" on my keyboard for almost a year, with weeks long gaps and constant restarts. But the real question this raised was not about music. It was about why so many of us expect a once a week Sunday visit, or a few church events a y...

Walk into any bookstore and the imbalance tells its own story. Aisle after aisle of self-help, secular wisdom, and books on leaning in, leaning out, and breaking away from religion altogether. Meanwhile the religious section sits emaciated in the corner. In this episode, we make a passionate case for something simple but world changing: every Christian has a story, a voice, and a mission to share...

Early in His ministry, Jesus already knew exactly who He was dealing with. Deceitful hearts. Wicked hearts. Hearts that would shout Hosanna one day and Crucify Him the next. And He went to the cross anyway. In this episode we sit with one of the most staggering truths in Scripture: He knew what was in us, all of it, and loved us regardless. Then we turn the mirror around and ask the harder questio...

In this episode we take an honest walk through Genesis 2 and discover something that gets lost in the rush to the forbidden tree: God led with abundance, not restriction. Every tree. A river parting into four. Everything pleasant to the sight and good for food. The garden was extravagantly, overwhelmingly full before the serpent ever showed up. And yet Eve zeroed in on the one thing she could not...

It started as a choppy morning. A disrupted Holy Hour, vet visits, work fires demanding immediate attention, and a day pregnant with stress before it even got started. The old version of this story ends with a tall glass of wine. This version ends differently. In this episode we draw unexpected courage from Jeremiah, who rose early, delivered bad news to an entire nation, and nearly got killed for...

If a stubborn, silly, gloriously clueless Lab can bulldoze through shock pads just to be near the people she loves, how much more will the Creator, Preserver, and Protector of the universe do to be near you? In this episode we follow one dog's relentless pursuit of her people, sit with the breathtaking perseverance of God's love in John 14, and ask the uncomfortable question: when you look at some...

At a church carnival, a little girl from kids club earned so many tickets she could not hold them all. She looked around the room, spotted her teacher, and handed over every single one without hesitation. No second guessing. No holding back. Just pure, uninhibited trust. In this episode we ask: when did we last trust God like that? We explore the difference between faith and trust, why a mustard s...

It started with a missed morning appointment, a nagging feeling to write, and a quiet night with a journal. But what unfolded was anything but ordinary. In this episode we open an ancient journal entry, a forgotten desire list written before Jesus knocked on the door, and discover that every single thing on it had already come true. God did not just answer the prayer. He answered it before it was...

It started with a hike, some winding roads through a misty hillside, and the words of a song that stopped everything: "It's Your breath in our lungs." In this episode we sit with one of the most profound and underappreciated truths in all of Scripture: Jesus is not outside of us cheering from a distance. He has made His home in us. The Alpha and the Omega lives inside you right now. So why do we s...

Things have gotten a little chaotic around the house lately. Stress levels up, peace levels down, and an irritability index higher than normal. It reminded me of the time I spotted a cockroach in my parents' house, made a heroic leap onto the dining table, and screamed for my dad. He appeared promptly, handled it like it was nothing, checked the perimeter, and set me safely back on terra firma. In...

A new Christian walks into church in her pretty outfit expecting puppies and rainbows, and gets hit with a sermon titled "You Are Barabbas." What followed was years of quiet arrogance, a corporate strategy to solve the unsolvable, and the slow, humbling, glorious realization that this is not a problem for a little human heart to fix. In this episode, we sit with the uncomfortable truth that we are...

What do a German Shepherd who sleeps with her crate door closed by choice, a resort full of exhausted dogs, and a demon possessed man sitting calmly at the feet of Jesus all have in common? More than you would think. In this episode, we explore what happens when we step outside our sacred routines and find ourselves physically fine but spiritually untethered. The dogs knew exactly what to do when...

This one is personal. As an American not born in America, and a woman who knows firsthand what it means to live under a country that does not value its women, this episode is a passionate and unapologetic tribute to the men and women who gave everything so that the rest of us could have everything. We talk about sheepdogs, Christian values, the true cost of freedom, and why sitting on a comfortabl...

In a world of encrypted messages, private chats, and secure networks, it turns out the most secure channel of all has been available to every one of us all along. In this episode, we explore how God communicates with His children, through Scripture, through prayer, through the gentle nudges of the Holy Spirit, and through a direct line that no one else can access or intercept. We also meet a Germa...

You have seen it on the t-shirts, the coffee mugs, and the car decals. "You Are Enough." It is well intentioned, widely celebrated, and according to years of personal therapy, ineffective. In this episode, we get honest about why the world's most popular affirmation falls short, where it comes from, and what we should have been told instead. Spoiler: it involves a God-sized hole, a healthy dose of...

Not all storms are created equal. Some are correction and some are perfection, but all of them come with a companion you may not have expected. In this episode, we unpack a powerful sermon on Matthew 14:22-33 and land on the one truth that changes everything: God does not just watch from a distance while you navigate the storm. He is right there in it with you, sharing the pint of ice cream, cheer...

What do a set of hand-decorated Christmas stockings and Jeremiah 7:10 have in common? More than you would think. In this episode we explore what it truly means to be called by God's name, marked, owned, and identified as His. We dig into what that ownership means for our safety, our behavior, and our identity as children of the King. If God is for us, who can be against us? And if His name is on u...

What does the American flag have to do with surrendering to God? More than you might think. In this episode, we take an honest and personal journey from struggling to feel any patriotism at all, to discovering a deep and unexpected love for America, and tracing exactly where that love came from. Spoiler: it was not a flag or an anthem. It was surrender. When the Hound of Heaven finally caught up,...