Women Encouraged

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Love For The Lonely Sisters - with Lydia Brownback Sep 21, 2018

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Our chat today with Lydia Brownback touches on so many different angles of loneliness, contentment, and singleness. Lydia is the author of several books, including a book on the psalms called Sing a New Song and the excellent book Finding God in My Loneliness where she takes on the different kinds of loneliness we face.
After the episode, WE vision team member Katie Morin joins Bethany to talk about the way Bible literacy impacts our view of our circumstances, and some practical ways we can come alongside our single sisters or women in our lives who may be lonely in their circumstances.

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Sharing Big Ideas With Little Ones - with Danielle Hitchen Sep 14, 2018

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Danielle Hitchen, creator of Catechesis Books and the Baby Believer board books, joins us today to talk about the books she’s designed and created, but more about the heart behind them, and the importance of not being afraid to introduce deep ideas to our little ones.
Every Christian parent wants their child to grow up to fully embrace the Gospel and walk with Christ, but it can be difficult to know how to start giving them a good foundation. After the interview with Danielle, Bethany and Alyssa chat about the importance of regular family devotional time, training our children to give attention to God’s word, and the challenges and joys we moms encounter as we work to impart the truth of Scripture and the hope of the gospel to our children.

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Loving the Bible's Big Story - with Caroline Cobb Sep 07, 2018

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Today, we talk with singer and songwriter Caroline Cobb about the Bible's big story and how we never outgrow the gospel. In 2011, Caroline gave herself a goal to write a song for every book of the Bible in a year. That year of writing set in motion a new passion to tell the stories of scripture through music, faithfully and creatively. Caroline shares about the way knowing the Bible's big story informs the way we see the world, and how it transforms the way we approach God.

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Contentment in Christ - with Melissa Kruger Aug 31, 2018

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In this episode, we talk with author and speaker Melissa Kruger about envy and contentment in Christ. Melissa is wife to Mike, mom to three kids, as well as an author, speaker, and an editor at The Gospel Coalition.
After the interview with Melissa, Bethany and Alyssa Donovan talk more about how we can answer our contentment struggles with the gospel, and how Bible literacy aids us in walking out contentment more and more in our lives.

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Bonus Summer Episode: What We Learned in Season 1 - with Alyssa Donovan Jul 16, 2018

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Bethany and Brittany sat down with the WE blog submissions editor Alyssa Donovan and talked about what we loved and learned through the women who have joined us and taught us in these beginning steps of expanding Women Encouraged to include the podcast and blog. We discuss: how the podcast got started; how the different women have encouraged us in our Bible study; the CC Ladies Bible Reading Challenge; how God has connected women around the world through WE these last few months; embracing the different giftings and desires God created us with; and how enjoying beauty isn’t un-spiritual. We are looking forward to connecting with you all again at the end of August when we release Season 2!

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Discipleship In The Local Church - with Matthew Kruse and Patti Rosell May 19, 2018

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This week, we are wrapping up the mini series with a Pastor Perspectives episode, where we talk with Pastor Matthew Kruse and women's ministry leader Patti Rosell from Seven Mile Road Church near Boston, MA. Pastor Matt reached out a few months ago to share with the Women Encouraged community about how their church is practicing shepherding and training women in their church. Pastor Matt and Patti have a podcast called Kalos Conversations which is geared towards "helping churches create discipleship communities where women can be helped to believe the gospel, understand and embrace their femininity, and get mobilized to partner fully in gospel ministry through the local church." After the interview with Pastor Matt and Patti, Brittany and Bethany discuss the importance of involvement and connection with the local church.

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Discipling Women - with Katie Roberts and Taylor Turkington (TGC) May 07, 2018

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Women's Discipleship mini-series: we talk with Katie Roberts and Taylor Turkington from The Gospel Coalition's Women's Training Network. Katie and Taylor share with us how they started The Verity Fellowship in Portland, OR to help disciple women by training them to handle Scripture. We talk about why training women and discipling them is so vital for the Church. However, part of this discussion is some of the practical nature of starting a women's conference. So much prayer and work and planning goes into something like this, and we are so grateful for the heart behind these ladies' efforts to minister to the women who have attended Verity events and assist them in their various ministries and callings.

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Let's Talk About Mentoring - with Gretchen Ronnevik Apr 30, 2018

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Women's Discipleship mini-series: today, we start a women's discipleship mini-series on the podcast with this conversation with Gretchen Ronnevik about myths surrounding the topic of mentoring. Gretchen joins us to discuss common misconceptions of what it means to mentor women, or to be mentored, and we walk through her article, "7 Myths About Biblical Mentoring" which you can find here.
Gretchen shares from her experience as a mentor, and as someone who has been mentored by older women. She's developed a self-paced course for women who want to learn about how to mentor other women, which you can find at www.gospelmentoring.com.

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When Your Friend is Suffering - with Marissa Henley Apr 21, 2018

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We know we are supposed to be ministering to those who are suffering but what does that look like practically? Our friend, author and cancer-survivor Marissa Henley joins us to talk about principles and practical ways of ministering to those in the body who are struggling and suffering. Marissa's book "Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving from 'I'm Sorry' to Meaningful Support" released May 31, 2018.

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Ambassadors on Mission - with Gloria Furman Apr 16, 2018

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What does it mean to live our lives "on mission"? In this episode, author Gloria Furman explains how God has given us the ministry of reconciliation, and how our whole life is to be lived on mission for Christ, offering the hope of his Gospel to the world around us.
Gloria also discusses how being on mission impacts our motherhood, avoiding the dangerous trap of comparison, and living with a resurrection mindset.

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