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.

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 Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Natasha Smith is a wife, mom, and NC native. She is a writer, speaker, and podcaster, who shares stories on faith, family, and grief. She has inspired others through her writing for over 12 years. Her work has appeared in Guideposts and Focus on the Family print publications. And Her View From Home, TODAY Parents, Pray with Confidence, and other e-publications. You can find her online at imnatashasmith.com

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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.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body[b] in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. 6 This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness. 8 Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

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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.

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.

Tori Hope Petersen is an author, speaker, Bible teacher, and lover of people. Since coming to faith, she has shared her testimony and life as authentically as she can to help and offer hope to others. Tori is known for her fierce advocacy work for foster care, adoption, and vulnerable children. At home she is a wife and mama who enjoys cooking with her children. With a deep value for family, community, and hospitality, Tori and her family love to make extra food for whoever might stop by. Her new book, Breaking the Patterns that Break You, will be available nationwide February 4, 2025.

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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.

My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.

• What would you get back if you were to slow down?
• What might you be able to step into if you were to slow down?
• Who might you grow closer to If you were to slow down?
• What prayers might the Lord have room to answer or to show you how He is currently answering if you were to slow down?
• How many old patterns might He continue to strip away that you know, that He knows that you know are not healthy if you were to slow down?
• What might He revive?

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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.

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.

André and Timberley Gray do life together as a husband and wife team, raising a family, and helping others find balance in life. Like many, they were frustrated trying to balance their faith, family, and work. That’s when they discovered the priorities of God and purposed to live by them. That decision not only changed their marriage, but it changed their life! Although they were both diagnosed with a chronic illness, they learned to prioritize their health, without neglecting God’s priorities. Now they find great joy in inspiring others to do the same.

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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.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Born under an Asian sun, raised in the Appalachian foothills in the south, and now living in the Upper Midwest, Prasanta is a writer, poet, editor, former debate coach, public health professional, and mom of three fabulous kids.

Prasanta writes about culture, identity, belonging, loneliness, and what it feels like to be an outsider. She is passionate about making the way for diverse voices and believes stories are one of the best ways for us to connect with each other.

She considers herself a life-long learner. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, walking, and exploring the beauty of the natural world.

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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.

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.

Charaia Rush is a writer and speaker who is passionate about telling the story of the gospel and watching how it softens the hardened corners of our hearts and illuminates the dark rooms of our spirits. She has written for outlets such as Christian Parenting and SheReads Truth. She resides in Colorado with her two lovely children.

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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.

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?”

Kathy Tuan-MacLean (PhD, Northwestern) is the national faculty ministry director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where she invites and resources faculty to follow Jesus together. Since joining InterVarsity in 1990, she has led numerous students and faculty in Bible study, spiritual formation, and leadership development. She is also a spiritual director who has led marriage ministry and women's retreats. Kathy is married to Scott, and they have three young adult children and an overanxious mini labradoodle.

Tara Edelschick (EdD, Harvard) is a teacher, a writer, mother of three, and grandmother. For three decades, she has worked as an educator, teaching public high school students in New York, graduate students at Harvard's School of Education, homeschoolers in Massachusetts, and incarcerated men taking college courses through the Emerson Prison Initiative. In her church, you can find her speaking at a women's conference or marriage retreat, teaching Sunday school, gathering mothers for prayer and Bible study, or leading retreats for families.

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