Perspectives Into Practice: How to Walk with God in Real Life: Faith in Practice & Spiritual Growth

What do you do when you know God is leading you, but you still have no idea what comes next?

That messy middle can be hard. You know He's working. You know He's faithful. But you still want the timeline, the details, and maybe even the whole picture before you're willing to relax.

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my new friend Dara to talk about what it looks like to trust God while the story is still ...

What happens when you're tired of persevering?

Not when you've stopped believing in God. Not when you've decided to walk away. But when you've prayed, trusted, kept going, and finally find yourself saying, “Lord, I know You're with me, but I'm weary.”

My new friend Lara knows that kind of weariness deeply.
She has spent the last eight years living with a rare neurological illness that has left her mostly bedridden. D...

Have you ever looked at your circumstances and thought, “I should not have this much peace right now”?

Life can be genuinely hard. We can walk through wilderness seasons where circumstances haven't changed, answers haven't come, and we don't necessarily feel joyful.

But joy doesn't have to depend on life going well.

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my friend Trisha to talk about what God ha...

Have you ever felt God asking you to do something when you had absolutely no idea how it was going to work?
That was Wholeness in the Wilderness for me.

Nine months before seven women gathered together on the Southern Oregon Coast, God gave me the name for this retreat while I was walking through the redwoods and coming out of my own wilderness season.

I was excited. I was ready. And then God asked me to wait. Months later, whe...

What if the thing God wants to change isn't something anyone else can see?
We can be serving, encouraging, praying, helping others, and faithfully showing up. From the outside, everything we're doing may look good.
But God sees beneath the surface.
He knows when part of us wants to be noticed. When we hope someone recognizes what we've done. When we're serving Him, but if we're honest, we're also enjoying the praise that c...

Have you ever reached the end of the day completely exhausted, not just physically, but emotionally too?

Sometimes we carry so much that we don’t even realize how heavy it has become. Expectations, responsibilities, unanswered prayers, our families, our futures, and the pressure to somehow hold everything together.
But what if some of that weight was never ours to carry in the first place?

In this episode of Perspectives I...

Have you ever had your day, your year, or even your life planned out, only to have everything change?

I think most of us would admit that interruptions can be frustrating. We like knowing what’s coming. We like having a plan. And if we’re really honest, sometimes we like being in control.

But what if some of the interruptions we’re trying so hard to avoid are actually invitations from God?

In this episode of Persp...

Have you ever known God was leading you somewhere, but had absolutely no idea how you were going to get there?

I call it the “yes, but not quite” season. You’ve said yes to God. You know He’s stirring something. You can sense that there’s something ahead, but you’re still living in the middle where the details haven’t come together yet.

I first talked about this back in Season 1, Episode 31...

Surrender sounds simple... until God asks us to live it.
How do we let go of our carefully made plans? How do we trust God's timing when it doesn't match our own? And what does it look like to choose surrender every single day instead of just once?

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my new friend, Briana Bass, for an honest conversation about what God taught her through burnout, unexpected life change...

What do you do when God doesn't answer your prayers the way you expected? How do you keep trusting Him when healing is slow, life changes overnight, and every day feels like another step into the unknown?

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my new friend Stephanie for a powerful conversation about trusting God through delayed healing, unexpected suffering, and learning to surrender one day at a time.

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What do you do when life changes in ways you never expected? When grief, loss, health challenges, and major life transitions all seem to happen at once, it's easy to wonder where God is and whether His goodness is still present.

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my friend Angela for a deeply encouraging conversation about trusting God through seasons of grief, uncertainty, and change. After losing both ...

What do you do when life doesn't make sense? When you're waiting for answers, carrying grief, or wondering why God seems to be taking so long?

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my new friend, Hadassah, for a deeply encouraging conversation about trusting God when we don't understand His timing. Through her journey of losing her husband, walking through grief, battling anxiety, and learning to surrender ...

What if the question God is asking you isn't, "How are you doing?" but "Do you want to be well?"

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, my friend Desiree joins me for another honest conversation about physical health, spiritual health, and the quiet ways God invites us into deeper obedience. As she shares her journey through perimenopause, hearing challenges, and learning to care for her body differently, we discover that G...

There are seasons of life that don't fit neatly into one emotion. Sometimes we're celebrating while we're grieving. We're excited about what's ahead while quietly mourning what we're leaving behind.

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my new friend, Andrea, to talk about what it looks like to navigate those beautifully complicated seasons with faith instead of fear.

Andrea shares what life has looked like...

Have you ever felt like you were doing all the right things in your faith, reading your Bible, attending church, completing devotionals, and praying, but still felt like something was missing?

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with friend, Jody for an honest conversation about what happens when God reveals that faith is about more than checking spiritual boxes. Together, we explore the difference between per...

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with my friend Heather for an honest conversation about what it looks like to trust God in the middle of life's uncertain seasons. Heather shares her journey of stepping away from a 25-year career, launching something new, navigating the transition of a child leaving for college, and walking through the recent loss of her father.

Together, we talk about the tension between f...

Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, only to realize God was inviting you to ask a different question?

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Heather for an honest conversation about comfort, peace, obedience, and the deeper work God wants to do in our hearts. What started as a struggle with health goals and consistency became a powerful lesson about hidden patterns, striving, and the subtle ways comfort can...

What do you do when you feel God asking you to move forward, but He doesn’t give you the full roadmap?

In this episode of Perspectives Into Practice, you’ll hear an honest conversation with Sherrika about what it looks like to trust God one step at a time, even when the path feels uncertain. If you’ve ever questioned whether you’re hearing God correctly, struggled with waiting, or wondered why His provision ...

What happens when you obey God, but life still feels confusing, disappointing, or painfully quiet? In this heartfelt episode of Perspectives Into Practice, I sit down with Brenda for an honest conversation about spiritual frustration, unanswered expectations, and learning how to seek God again in difficult seasons.

In this episode, Brenda shares her journey of leaving a job in obedience to God, stepping into writing and ministry, a...