Stirring Faith

You know the feeling. The deep depression.  The knowledge that you just did WHATEVER you didn't want to do, again. The sense of defeat can be overwhelming. How can you ever get on the winning side? Is there even a way? To these questions and more, Jesus gives us answers and a hope worth obtaining. In this episode, you will find five ways to fight the enemy Jesus utilized that you can begin using today.

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This is not another seminar on the latest or greatest Just Trust Me gimmicks for how to get ahead in your business or organization. Instead, it's a look at what Jesus taught about how to lead and how he led that demonstrates for us how to lead well. Whether it be the local PTA, the neighborhood gardening club, a church ministry, or a corporation, there are elements to emulate from Jesus available to us in Scripture. Cheri offer...

If someone were to ask you if you were a prayer person, you would likely say, "Yes." But if that same person were to ask you if those prayers were effective, or if you believed God even heard them, there would likely be a very different response. One major reason would be because we don't know if we even know what we are doing. This episode looks at what Jesus had to say about prayer -- what to do and what NOT to do. Ta...

Have you ever doubted your faith? If not, you are in the minority. The truth is, most of us question what we believe and why we believe it more than we would like to admit. So what do we do when we doubt? And how can we be certain after we have doubted? This is where the rubber meets the road and the Bible does not leave us alone to figure it out for ourselves. If you have found yourself doubting your faith, this is an episode you ...

Let's be honest. There are a lot of things Jesus offers to rally around. Unmerited Grace. Mercy. Forgiving everything we have ever done or ever will do, forgetting it, AND taking the punishment for it. But then there are some aspects of being a follower of Christ that feel like hugging a porcupine or are about as smart as enticing a skunk to your porch with a can of cat food. Yet, they are the essence of Christianity.  Today le...

It sounds exclusive. Call it narrow. Anyone holding to a religion that accepts teaching that there can be only one way to God, is definitely small-minded, according to current cultural tides. The problem is, this belief is fundamental to basic Christianity.  Why? How can we know it's true?  And what could be said to express this belief gracefully in your everyday life? It's a worthy conversation today and needed for helping...

One of the most important things Jesus taught was to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. How does a person set out to do this? What does it look like in everyday life? Today this episode looks at seven ways we can learn to love God in our ordinary life.

There is much more on this topic from Cheri in her 8-week Bible study, Life Principles for Living Out the Greatest Commandment.

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We have been talking about desiring more of God for the past several weeks. As the series comes to a close, we need to bring it all together to consider what it looks like in real, everyday life to live like you mean it. What characterizes a person who genuinely savors Jesus day by day in what they do? We've settled on five characteristics that stand out and that we can take steps toward incorporating into our own lives today. 

What about those times when I don't desire God? Where does that leave me? What do I do? And how do I move beyond it? It's a very real place for a lot of people, and we need to know what to do when we feel this way. In today's episode, we answer these questions and more that surface when we don't yearn for God.

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If we know we should yearn for or desire more of God, how exactly does a person do it? What does it look like? And how do we go about it today and tomorrow in our lives? These are the questions we are seeking to answer in our first series of 2021, entitled She Yearns. And don't forget to download the FREE resources to accompany this focus at www.sheyearns.com.
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Welcome to Season #4! Our theme for the month is Desiring God. The first question we should ask is whether or no this is even something a regular Christian should do? And how do you know if you are, or when you are not longing or yearning for more of Jesus in your life? These are the questions we are tackling in this episode. And be sure to check out the FREE resources to accompany this topic found at www.sheyearns.com - Reading Pl...

I know. You are more than ready to say farewell to 2020. The next year promises to be more full of sunshine and hope-filled days. Rather than pulling up the covers and sleeping through the end of the year, let's make our time count and leave 2020 better than we found it. You can do experience a better ending to a not-so-good year by making a spiritual game plan for finishing 2020 strong and working that plan. You can find out m...

I know. You want 2020 to just go away. It's been too much. I get it. Before you pull the covers over your head and pray for January, let's do something that will make an eternal difference. Take a look at these five transformational must-reads Cheri has put together. Use this time when your schedule might allow for being home more with less to do for igniting more desire for God in the stuff of everyday life. 

What? Planks not your fav? The thought of running give you the blues? So maybe you are not going for Best Body 2020, especially with all the quarantine snacking, but have you ever considered maintaining a fit and healthy body as more than selfish ambition, but part of your worship of God? The Bible has a thing or two to say about that to move us away from focusing on ourselves and aim our eyes on what really matters. In this episod...

The end of the summer ushers in a list of too many things to get done in a day or even a month. How do we get it all done or know what to focus upon or leave undone? What is the best thing to pursue? What can go? These are daily quandaries. That is why we have spent the last episode and this one focusing on the essentials. Today we finish five needed for consistently, prayerfully, and biblically prioritizing our time.

How are you going to get it all done? It's that time again. The list-making. The rushing around. The feeling that you are never enough is slowing edging back in. Add a pandemic and it's the perfect making of stress overload. If you could just get control over The List. But how to know what to leave and what is a must? That is what we are talking about today. Five essentials for prioritizing your time. You won't want to ...