ANCHOR + WAVES

Finding the key to making your marriage flourish just as God designed can be tricky. The longer you are married often the more elusive the concept feels. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guests Deb Mitchell and Tracy Hall as they delve into the highs and lows of their real-life marriages. The ladies offer practical advice to help you build a more satisfying and fulfilling marriage. They discuss the importance of showing grace to each other, protecting your thought life, and fighting together for a better marriage. Stick around for an inspirational segment at the end where the guys will share what their ideal date night looks like.

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Resources: Verses

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 📖 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

 📖 2 Corinthians 10:5

 📖 Ephesians 4:2-3

 📖 Colossians 3:13

 📖 1 Thessalonians 5:11

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Deb Mitchell, Tracy Hall

🎛️ 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 the nameless hemorrhaging woman is a picture of someone likely feeling hopeless, desperate, and rejected - physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially empty. Yet, she has enough faith to show up when Jesus arrives to her small town, despite her lingering doubt and questions, even though she has absolutely nothing to offer him. Shockingly, we watch Jesus’ audacious response. But will she hear him call out to her for restoration, or will she quietly retreat through the crowd back to her isolated life?

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Scripture/Book Reading:

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📖 Mark 5:21-34 (Hemorrhaging Woman); also in Luke 8:40-56, Matthew 9:18-26

📖 Ephesians 3: 17b-19 (Power of Christ)

📖 A Week in the Life of Book Series (to explore first-century culture)

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Reflection:

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✅ Do you feel you have to show up as the perfect person, having done something or putting on a mask to get God’s attention and listen to your whole truth?

✅ If so, explore what is holding you back. Notice anything that gets stirred up in your soul. What keeps you from lingering in the presence of God when he calls your name? If you show up with doubt, and a broken/repentant heart, do you believe that is enough faith? Challenge yourself to dig deeper than your initial response (i.e. If your immediate response is busyness, what’s behind that? Is it a way to escape? Do those other things bring affirmation and acceptance? Is your identity in your title at work rather than as a daughter/son of God?)

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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

Welcome back to another exciting episode here on Anchor + Waves! We love bringing you stories, ideas, and tools to help you through the tough and joyful moments in your life. And pressing on our hearts has been the topic of "marriage" over this last year. So what do we do if we struggle in our marriage? How do we honor God as things seem tough? Today we have Coletta Smith back on to talk about guarding your marriage from sudden catastrophe and the slow drift. 

Also, stick around for another "I'm Diggin' It" with Kelly McSparran as she and Stacy go through some really cool aspects of life they're enjoying.

Deb Mitchel, director of Re engage, and Eileen and Mike Sienkiewicz, are sharing with us how they took their marriages to the next level and how you can too. Re|engage is a ministry here at Mission Hills (created by WaterMark) that offers hope to marriages by helping couples move toward oneness through stories of grace and teaching, focusing on things like humility, confession, forgiveness, and commitment. Don’t you want to be fulfilled in your most intimate relationship? Whether your marriage is a solid “8” and you want to get to a “9” or you’re stuck on “2” and wondering if you’re going to make it through another year . . . settle in and listen to this.

Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Kim Fearing as they discuss the “Importance of an Invitation”. Kim’s calling is guiding women towards rediscovering the joy, laughter, and purpose in their everyday lives. As a speaker and writer, she delivers a vulnerability and humor while connecting God’s fundamental truths about who He uniquely designed each of us to be. She will challenge each woman to consider God’s calling on her life and to boldly live it out as an adventurer. In this podcast, the ladies discuss the Bible as a collection of invitations, that we are called to follow this example and invite others into God-ordained moments that grow us as well as them.

Join Stacy and Jacque as they introduce Audacious Love, a seasonal addition to the Anchor and Waves podcast. This new Audacious Love series is designed to study women in the Bible, with teaching written explicitly for women, and taught by women. It will look at five women in the gospels who boldly took risks to linger in the presence of Jesus. Kim Fearing, the host of Audacious Love, will join Jacque and chat about the new series, its goals, and God's plan for it.

Every day we make hundreds of decisions, probably thousands. When God sets BIG decisions in front of us it is important to make sure we are following a healthy matrix to evaluate which choice is best. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Lynne Schlottman as they talk through how to make healthy decisions in light of God’s will. Stick around for a special segment at the end to hear Kim Hanson share special insights on how to prepare your kids to make difficult decisions on their own.

Traditions are repeated rituals that provide a sense of identity and help tell the story of your family. Over time you will find yourself in new phases of life and the traditions you have had for many years may need to change as life changes. Join Stacy, Jacque, and a gaggle of special guests as they share their favorite family traditions as well as fun ways to give back during the Christmas season.

The holidays can be tricky, often they are filled with laughter and fun until that one topic comes up, and the mood changes. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Brooke Gage as they discuss the complications that arise when family gets together. The ladies discuss how to prepare, plan and handle conflict between family members. They share great ideas and tools to help you as you head into the holiday season with family.

Join us for a personal story of testimony on the importance of memorizing scripture. Randa Avance shares with us how the precious gift of memorized scriptures carried her through difficult times of illness and diagnosis’ in her life. You will be encouraged to prioritize this and hear about resources to help make the journey easier.