Kindled - Motherhood, Work & The Grace We Need For Both

This is the first interview in the series and it features a conversation with my friend Julie Kline regarding her family's choice to educate their kids in the public school system.    Julie shares about whether this was a difficult decision for their family, what considerations and factors played into the decision as well as how they ultimately made their choice.  She also shares some of the lies or fears she believed and what helped her combat those lies.    Check out the shownotes for more resources on education! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

If you're anything like me, the new year always presents itself with the desire to clean out, purge and start fresh!  So today I'm chatting with Morgan Tyree, expert home organization consultant, about how we can create systems for each room in our home and maintain them with a realistic, grace-based approach.  If you're feeling the urge to clean out and clear out, today's is an episode you won't want to miss! Shownotes at www.kindledpodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

This is one of my all-time fave episodes! Re-airing right before the holidays of 2019. A reminder of the invitation to radical dependence we all have from God.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Today’s episode is straight FIRE, ya’ll.  This is one of my favorites! In it I'm chatting with Maggie Combs about how God places grace-filled limitations on our lives as He asks us to obey Him so that the fruit of our labor can point to Him and not us. The day I interviewed Maggie I was really struggling with “the Kingdom of Mom” and our conversation was a HUGE grace in my day and week, reminding me of truth in a hard circumstance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Perhaps you're waking up on an ordinary Monday, in an ordinary week of your ordinary life. Perhaps you feel forgotten, invisible or alone in your own particular monotony. The rhythm of the work week or being home with the kids. Perhaps, though, you've forgotten that the mundane everyday is exactly where Jesus wants to meet you. It's exactly where His love feels the most intimate and caring - in the unseen minutes of every day.  For moms, these moments are often the ones that feel the most overwhelming. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

As we enter the long season of Winter, it's the perfect time for this conversation with Sara Hagerty. We discuss how we need deep roots to make it through a long winter. Sara shares what it means to receive your season and that we can ask God what season we are in.  Sara Hagerty is a mom of 7 and she lives here in KC! We also have a funny connection, which I mention in the episode. She is the author of the book Unseen and Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

In this episode I'm chatting with Alex Kuykendall about her book, Loving My Actual Christmas. You’ll hear us discuss how to fall in love with the season again, reflecting on themes of advent—hope, love, joy and peace—plus, practical advice on common Christmas stressors such as finances, schedules and extended family.  I hope you’ll finish this episode with the encouragement to go easy on yourself, remember what truly matters, and find joy in your own actual, imperfect Christmas.  Sponsor: Pr --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

What do you call a moralistic, therapeutic version of Christianity that values questions over answers and being “good” over being “right?"  Buckle up, ladies! We're in for an exciting and extremely important episode about Progressive Christianity. You'll appreciate this episode as Phylicia walks us through the actual tenets of Progressive Christianity - what it purports as truth and why it is antithetical to the Gospel. Sponsor: Val Marie Paper Shownotes: www.kindledpodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

WANT MORE JOY IN MOTHERHOOD? THEN YOU NEED AN ESCAPE - NOT FROM MOTHERHOOD BUT FROM THE WORLD’S DEFINITION OF IT. Valerie was just your average mom who was spending way too much time frustrated with short naps, spilled milk and mundane days. She expected refreshment to come behind a locked bathroom door or on a beach somewhere but it started happening in her mind when she was able to identify twenty lies the world tells us about motherhood that were sabotaging her joy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

I cannot pretend I am a minimalist - or that I even WANT to be. But what I CAN tell you is I long for the simplicity of that lifestyle and the ease of LESS. So when I discovered there was someone out there for people like me who might just be minimal-ish, I was ecstatic.  Desirae's goal is to give women the tools they need to dive into the version of realistic minimalism that fits their family best so they can focus on what matters to them. www.kindledpodcast.com Sponsor: H. Williams Creative --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Jennifer Edewaard is no stranger to difficulty. After struggling through many years of unexplained infertility, she gave birth to her first child when he was just 23 weeks old.  After a traumatic birth and countless surgeries and challenges, she's continuing to learn what it looks like to trust God with the unknown and the uncertainty of every day. She's leaning into the imperfections of everyday life and seeing God's perfect purposes working in and through them.  Show Notes www.kindledpodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

If you haven't heard of "critical theory," you've likely heard ideas floating around that come from this ideology. In this episode, Haley chats with Neil Shenvi about Critical Theory and why it is antithetical to the gospel. According to Shenvi, it is an "ideology based on the analysis of power dynamics between the oppressed and their oppressors," and it's becoming more and more influential in our culture.  Shownotes available at kindledpodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Where do you go when you've broken trust, relationships and faith with those you love most? For Andrea Burke, the answer was away from her home, family and the Christian music career she had just begun.  This story begins with affairs and infidelity but it does not end there. Through the vehicle of church discipline and an abundance of God's grace, you'll hear of the beautiful and redemptive power of Jesus' forgiveness and the transformation it can bring to a life.  Shownotes at KindledPodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

What do you think when you hear the word "homemaker?" If you're like me, it hasn't historically been your favorite word in the world. But have you considered that might be because you have the wrong definition? Lacey Rabalais and I discuss holy homemaking in today's episode. We reject culture's degrading definition that provides us a definition that is something akin to the Stepford Wives. We examine how God and the Bible actually views our roles (men, women & children!) in the making of our homes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Just what is it about this message of You-First theology and Hustle-harder self-helpism that is hitting so opportunely in this cultural moment? What is compelling women to devour and double-tap this worldview and fueling its presence in bible studies and book clubs across the country? In this episode, I chat with Anne Kennedy about the theology of Rachel Hollis. We examine Rachel’s theology (the nature of her religious and spiritual beliefs) based on her prolific writing and speaking. KindledPodcast.c --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

From realizing persistent stomach aches Scarlet had as a young child were actually anxiety, she’s had a long road with fear and panic. Scarlet shares how she learned to hold the gospel up to her fears and realized that though she can’t fix herself or protect herself, Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue, love, and cast out her—and your—fear. We talk about how Jesus doesn’t offer us a life with nothing to be afraid of – he offers us HIMSELF. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

It seems like every other day, there is a new cultural lie knocking at our doorstep. Our kids now have access to more information than ever before, including objections to Christianity and the existence of God. Hillary Morgan Ferrer is the founder and Mama-Bear-in-Chief of Mama Bear Apologetics, She feels a burden for providing accessible apologetics resources for busy moms. Shownotes at www.kindledpodcast.com Sponsor: H. Williams Creative --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

In this episode with Jeanette Tapley, we're talking friendship and solopreneurship and where they intersect. We discuss: How our family members are not always our biggest fans, and that's ok. How we often can feel misunderstood or unseen in our work because we don't have a typical corporate job. How working at home as a mom can be one of the loneliest jobs in the world. How we can have honest, DTR conversations with our closest friends How we can "be the friend we wish we had" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Emily Jensen and Laura Wifler are everyone's favorite sister-in-law duo that redirect our hearts and minds to the truth of the gospel hope we have in our everyday moments of motherhood.  Many are hard, most are mundane. But there is no shortage of hope and beauty to be found when we apply the truth of scripture to these ordinary days and moments. Today Emily and Laura are sharing their own everyday reality as moms and how the gospel gives them hope. Sponsor: Jeanette Tapley www.KindledPodcast.Com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support

Feelings can be complicated, and often we as adults have a harder time identifying what we're feeling than our kids do.  Christi and I chat about how we can provide our children with emotional safety, which the research says is the most important element for children to develop emotionally in a healthy environment.  Emotional safety is not woo-woo or abstract. It simply means that your emotions are allowed and you are safe to bring them to someone, but they don't get to be the boss of you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindledpodcast/support