With all the Bible studies you can use, why choose Coming Home to Jesus: A Study of the Gospel of Luke?

Co-editor of this resource, Irish Kinney, shares her answers to this question. If spending nine weeks immersing yourself in the life of Jesus sounds intriguing, listen to this short podcast and consider its pluses.

Kay Daigle, Founder of Beyond Ordinary Women, wrote this study for women to use in small groups and church-wide women's Bible studies.

Elizabeth Woodson shares some practical suggestions for thriving as a leader. She learned these truths the hard way--through her own leadership experience in the church.

Thriving as a leader applies to you whether you are a volunteer or in a paid role! Don't miss this conversation with Kay Daigle.

A video version of this podcast is also available.

Browse other leadership lessons from various leaders with lots of experience on our website.

Kingdom Living by Kay Daigle

What is BOW's Bible study Kingdom Living, a study of the Sermon on the Mount about? Why choose to study it for yourself, your small group or churchwide women's Bible study? Co-editor Irish Kinney shares her experience working through this this Bible study Kingdom Living. She encourages others to study Kingdom Living because of it was so meaningful to her.

Kingdom Living was written by Dr. Kay Daigle, Founder of Beyond Ordinary Women, who has been writing Bible studies longer than she cares to admit!

You may wonder what it's like. If so, you can preview it.

If you prefer, you can watch the video version of this podcast episode.

Kay Daigle

Learning to love our neighbors means that we follow the commands of Scripture. In this episode Kay Daigle shares with Kelley Mathews of BOW what her recent educational trip to the U.S.Mexican border was like. Kay traveled with Women of Welcome in conjunction with World Relief. Kay shares how the Bible informs our responses to immigrants.

After you listen, you may wonder how you can help. We have compiled a short list of resources that will give you a good start.

This episode is available to watch on video.

The One Story

Why study The ONE Story? BOW Board Member Irish Kinney, co-editor of BOW's Bible study, The ONE Story, shares how it was meaningful in her own life as she worked through it.

The author of The ONE Story is Dr. Kay Daigle, Founder of Beyond Ordinary Women Ministries. She believes that delving into the mega-narrative of the Bible is essential to understanding its parts.

Irish's comments are also available on video.

If you choose a study for a church-wide group, small group or simply for your own study, consider using this 8-lesson study of the Bible's grand narrative. Look over a preview of it also.

Dr. Sue Edwards

In this third episode in the series on organic mentoring, Dr. Edwards talks about mentoring matches that click." What are matches that click? They include that "something" that makes mentoring between generations work. Don't miss this helpful conversation between Dr. Edwards and Dr. Kay Daigle.

Don't miss the previous two episodes on organic mentoring: 1-The Challenge and 2-The Solutions.

Connect to all three episodes on video if you prefer.

Dr. Sue Edwards

What are the solutions for organic mentoring? In the second episode of this series, we move from the challenge to the solutions. Based on her book Organic Mentoring: A Mentor's Guide to Relationships with Next Generation Women, Dr. Sue Edwards discusses solutions for organic mentoring problems with Dr. Kay Daigle.

In the first episode, their conversation defined the challenge of organic mentoring, one that you may have encountered in your own mentoring program. Don't miss the final episode in the series: Matches that Click. The entire series is available on video.

BOW has other resources on mentoring: a series with Dr. Joye Baker of DTS on Finding a Mentor and a post by Dr. Sue Edwards, How to Sabotage Mentoring by Being a Good Role Model.

Dr. Sue Edwards

Dr. Sue Edwards of Dallas Seminary talks about the challenge of organic mentoring from her book Organic Mentoring: A Mentor's Guide to Relationships with Next Generation Women with Dr. Kay Daigle of Beyond Ordinary Women. In this first episode, Sue helps us understand what it looks like for a mentoring relationship to be organic and what the challenge of organic mentoring is.

If you prefer, you can link to the video.

Don't miss the rest of the episodes on organic mentoring: 2- the solutions and 3-matches that click.

You can link to all three videos of this series on mentoring. Connect to our other mentoring resources: Series on Finding a Mentor and a post How to Sabotage Mentoring by Being a Good Role Model.

To embrace God's pace is hard because culture pushes against it. Jodie Niznik provides some easy but life-giving suggestions as she talks with Kelly Arabie, BOW Ministry Team Member, about her own life experience.

The video version of this episode is also available.

To download the resources mentioned, go to our Podcast/Video Extras page.

Don't miss BOW's other podcast episodes dealing with a leader's personal walk with God.

Nika Spaulding

What's up with Millennials and fame? They seem to all be seeking high profile positions, big ministries and notoriety. Nika Spaulding, a Millennial herself, discusses the issue with Kay Daigle.

Don't miss our previous conversations in this podcast series, "Millennials--the Good, the Bad and the Ministry:"  Identifying Millennials, Ministering WITH Millennials and Ministering TO Millennials.

You can access this episode or the entire series on video if you prefer.