ANCHOR + WAVES

Follow the unlikely story of a young, widowed woman who leaves behind everything she has known to follow her mother-in-law to an unknown future. Witness how trust in an ever-present God brings hope and healing to women beaten down by life's circumstances. Explore how looking at your own life through new eyes will reveal how God is even now at work in you. Remember your God and Reignite your joy.

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Healing, Hope, + Remembrance:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions and the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

It feels like the topic of sexual identity is more prominent now than ever. People are discussing it, our kids are asking about it and people are struggling now with it more than ever. The question is how do we love each other the way Jesus would want us to love while discussing these questions and choices. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Jeff Baxter, the Next Gen Pastor at Mission Hills Church, as they discuss how to handle these conversations in a healthy way.

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Resources

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Books:

📚 Living in a Gray World: A Christian Teens’ Guide to Understanding Homosexuality | Preston Sprinkle

📚 People To Be Loved: Why Homosexuality is Not Just an Issue | Preston Sprinkle

📚 Embodied: Transgender Identities, The Church and What The Bible Has To Say | Preston Sprinkle

📚 What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? | Kevin DeYoung

📚 Go and Grow: 5 Keys to Moving Your Faith Forward and Adulting in the Real World (Student, Mentor/Parent editions) | Jeff Baxter

Webpages:

📱 | https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

📱 | https://www.beresfordresearch.com/age-range-by-generation/

📱 | https://www.prestonsprinkle.com

📱 | https://www.centerforfaith.com

📱 | https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/topics/lgbt/

📱 | https://www.gotquestions.org/sexual-immorality.html

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Jeff Baxter

🎛️ PRODUCER + MIXING:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

Are we aware of how our actions and words impact others? In this episode, Ken West joins hosts Jacque and Stacy to share about his life, his personal experience with racism, and what he sees in our communities today. They explore how Ken was raised and how that has impacted his outlook and response to racism. The group discusses how to respect each other more so that we see each other as precious creations of God. 

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Ken West

🎛️ PRODUCER + MIXING:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

Are we aware of how our actions and words impact others? God made us to be in community with those that are not like us to help US grow and love others. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guests Jan Junge and Lisa Mundy as they discuss how to encourage single people differently and make sure they feel seen.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Jan Junge, Lisa Mundy

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

If you are looking for a deeper dive into the women and historical context we discussed this season, this is the episode for you. Join Kim and Dr. Craig Blomberg of Denver Seminary as they take a scholarly perspective on questions that were submitted throughout the Audacious Love season.

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 Luke 7:36-50

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Reflection:

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✅ Do you experience joy? Where are you in the order of things?

--) Repentant heart. Is there anything that has been stirred up in you that is causing tension and you need to repent and ask forgiveness?

--) Offer of forgiveness from God. Do you believe that God wants to forgive you in order to save and heal you? Spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally. If not, why? There is nothing you could do that could keep his forgiveness out of reach. He shows us time and time again that he enters into the places where the outcasts live.

--) Are you extending the love of Christ to others by showing acts of love so that it remains flowing rather than stagnant?

Is there someone you need to forgive today?

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Audacious Love:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions and the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

We live in a time in which we are hyper-focused on how we see ourselves and how others see us, we can often then begin to assign worth and value to ourselves based upon those labels. The sad and tragic reality is that underneath a label or classification is a person, a purposeful creation of God, who has been reduced to a cheap descriptor. Join Jacque, Stacy, and special guest Amy Grace as she shares her personal story of battling against labels put on her, she put on herself, and how God redeemed ALL of it.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Amy Grace

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

To show up uninvited to someone’s home, knowing judgmental stares and comments await, took unbelievable courage. But then, to perform such a scandalous act in front of those very same onlookers was shocking - and admirable. What’s a person to do when you’re overcome with adoration for Christ? His unimaginable forgiveness has the power to produce a response of love, even in the face of disdain. Christ wooing us back to himself is cause for joy. So, how do we experience that kind of uncontained joy for ourselves?

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 Luke 7:36-50

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Reflection:

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✅ Do you experience joy? Where are you in the order of things?

--) Repentant heart. Is there anything that has been stirred up in you that is causing tension and you need to repent and ask forgiveness?

--) Offer of forgiveness from God. Do you believe that God wants to forgive you in order to save and heal you? Spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally. If not, why? There is nothing you could do that could keep his forgiveness out of reach. He shows us time and time again that he enters into the places where the outcasts live.

--) Are you extending the love of Christ to others by showing acts of love so that it remains flowing rather than stagnant?

Is there someone you need to forgive today?

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Audacious Love:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

Do you ever find yourself not fully understanding someone? There is much to say about Mary, the mother of Jesus, but what did Mary fully know about her son? Mary repeatedly treasures things up in her heart to ponder about Jesus, seemingly struggling to fully understand him. That’s something I think we can all relate to. I wonder if she knew that if she simply kept believing, even in the midst of confusion, obediently saying YES to her God and moving along, that somewhere along the way, there would be more answers, more clarity. Perhaps that the point for all of us. Not to have all the answers in order for it all to make sense, but to simply have a collection of answers to “Who are you?” so that we can more accurately answer Who am I. 

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 Luke 1-2

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Reflection:

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✅ What do you ponder and treasure in your heart? How do you protect who God is in your memories so that we “get at the right meaning” of who he is? How do you “hold up” your thoughts of him?

✅ When others rush off to share their experience or knowledge, do you stay back, remain still and ponder with God? What would it look like for you to have a holy curiosity?

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Audacious Love:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

The nameless Samaritan woman at the well unsuspectingly shows up one afternoon in hopes of avoiding anyone she knows. She never expected a male stranger to appear and know everything about her past. Like the other women, she has a choice before her. What happens when her truth is exposed? What happens when our truth is exposed? Do we stick around long enough to watch our sin wash away in the stream of living, flowing water or do we remain stuck in the dark and stagnant waters?

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 John 4:4-42

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Reflection:

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✅ What do you believe to be true about Jesus from personal life experiences (i.e. Comforter, Restorer, Loyal, Critical, Distant, etc.) Can you name the parts of his character that have become distorted? (i.e. Critical, Distant)

✅ Is there a place where the guilt, grief, or pain, darkens the forgiveness Jesus is offering? Would you be willing to confess that now? Jesus offers a life of freedom in living water not a life of condemnation.

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Audacious Love:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

The story of Mary and Martha is often presented with the message “Be more like Mary, less like Martha.” Yet, what is the deeper meaning behind Martha’s busyness and Mary’s kneeling? Is Martha doing it wrong and Mary right? Explore how our giftings and personalities are intentionally placed within us - never to be squandered - yet what is the “one thing necessary” that must come before service?

In one audacious act, Jesus sends a clear message that he counts women among his disciples. Socially determined roles are no longer the defining point. In God’s domain, neither gender, race, status, wealth, past behavior, or purity determine one’s position. Women become equals to men as disciples under the teachings of their Master - the son of God. It is here we realize that we all have a Master. After listening to this week’s episode and reflecting on the questions, notice who reigns as Master in your life, and the invitation to discipleship that is extended to everyone and results in reinstating Christ to that title in your life.

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 Luke 10:38-42

📖 John 7:38

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Reflection:

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✅ What consumes most of your time and your thoughts? That has become your priority, and the priority is the Master that guides and directs our lives. What needs to be rearranged in your life in order for Christ to be your Master?

✅ Would you consider yourself a student of Jesus? If not, who or what are you learning from? What would it look like for you to learn from Christ - not to merely gather information - but to put it into action?

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Audacious Love:

A Product of Anchor + Waves

Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew Lepard

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved