The Mentor's Table

Send us Fan Mail Links from this episode (may contain affiliate links) : My favorite book on spiritual disciplines  Pete Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast “ The Power of a Hidden Life ” Rule of Life podcast: “ Solitude 03: Encountering Our Self with Bethany Allen ” Habit Lab podcast with Jenna Zint: “ Habits to Help With Info Overload ” Places where we can continue this conversation: I...

Send us Fan Mail I couldn’t wait to add more to our discussion about remembering being a new spiritual discipline. One of the points we focus on is how important it is to remember God’s provision in the GOOD times. I also give some practical ideas for how to incorporate remembering in your life rhythm. Take a moment to listen, and then share your responses below. A few prompts to help add your voi...

Send us Fan Mail This is a bold statement, but I think I've discovered a NEW spiritual discipline. What are your thoughts? How does this discipline help develop your surrender muscles? How has this discipline/practice helped you in the past?  Links: The Bible Project's Hope video My favorite book on spiritual disciplines (my new one is not included, hehe ;-). My favorite resource for spi...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’re going to step on some of my fellow recovering-control-freak’s toes. We’ll start with Jesus asking Simon (Peter) to lower his nets in the sea after he’s been fishing all night and caught nothing. As a fisherman by trade, Peter KNOWS BETTER, yet he answers, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets” (Luke 5:5 e...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we begin to dig in to all of our favorite word . . . the s-word—surrender.  Surrender is a whole-body; whole-life action verb that too often gets glossed over with sweeping generalizations. In this episode we’ll begin to talk about some of the nuances to the word and why I’m choosing to focus on it for this season.  Conversation starters: * Which subtitle resonate...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome! I’m Joy your host here at this virtual table. I’m a teacher, writer, spiritual director, girl mom, married for 19 years, recovering control freak. In this episode we’ll talk about the power of a table, who is invited to this table, the focus of our conversations in season one, and I’ll extend to you a bit of an unorthodox invitation as well as a HUGE disclaimer. The first...