Called and Unqualified

Hey, Friends! This last week, I actually left my home state of California to move to Texas. Growing up, I was insistent on never leaving California, no matter how bad things got, so you can listen to this episode to see what changed my mind! I also absolutely fell in love with Texas from the first time I visited, so go ahead and listen to see what it's like! (And you should definitely come visit Texas whenever you get the chance!)

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Hey, Friends! There's so many of us recovering from burnout during the season of life while working from home and feeling the pressure to stay busy. I definitely felt hypocritical recording and finishing this episode with everything else I had going on. I wanted to share some of the things that I found really helpful while recovering from burnout my sophomore year of college. Please remember that it is okay to have emotions, and please remember that we are saved by grace through Jesus, not our works. Please also remember that if these suggestions, don't work for you, you're not broken! We all process emotion and heal differently, and these suggestions are some things that personally helped me! 

1. Please Rest- this is incredibly helpful to make sure that you have a time to physically and mentally take a break. This may feel uncomfortable at first, especially if you are used to constantly working, but resting is being a good steward of your time and energy. 

2. Set Boundaries with People and Work and Communicate to Those Around You Realistic Things They Can Do to Help You- If you can, set strict work hours to help you find time to rest, and one of the things that really helped me was signing out of all of my work apps while I was resting. You also may have to set time boundaries with people in your life that are not essential. If this makes you feel guilty, I promise you're not alone. It's okay to set aside time when you just don't reply to people. They will hear back from you eventually. The people around you are also not mind readers, so you may have to communicate to them what they can realistically do to help support you. 

3. In Worst Case Scenarios, Cut Back to Basics Until You Can Just Breathe- If you're feeling really overwhelmed, there may be a temporary season where you have to cut back to as few roles in your life as possible. If you're working and in school, you may have to just pick one to get under control for a while. This is only meant to be temporary, but your health comes first. You can't serve people as an empty shell of a human being. 

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Hi, Friends! Today, we have one of my friends, Andreas Cromack, joining us to talk about actress Gina Carano, the most recent target for Cancel Culture, who was then promptly hired by Ben Shapiro to produce and star in a film for the Daily Wire. Do Conservatives really want to make their own industries? Does Cancel Culture really have power? Should Gina Carano really have lost her job? 

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Hey, Friends! I really didn't want to do a cliche Valentine's Day episode, but I feel like we either see two extremes. One extreme is to feel unhappy unless in a relationship, and the other is to focus on self-love in singleness. Yes, it can be difficult to celebrate singleness in our culture, but it's so important. Relationships aren't for our own benefit or to cure loneliness. Especially for Christian singles, we can forget that God uses every season. During our seasons of singleness, we have more time than in any other season. This time can be used to independently feed our relationship with Jesus, serve, and prepare ourselves for our future relationship (if that's God's will!) 

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Hey, Friends! It's been a crazy couple weeks. I wanted to get a little more political than usual, because we saw some pretty wild things happen. Black Lives Matter was nominated for the Nobel "Peace" Prize for actions that brought everything but peace and unity. AOC refused to work with Ted Cruz by falsely claiming that his party tried to have her killed. Vice President Kamala Harris is being idolized as the face of women empowerment as the first female vice president. Can women only be elected by cheating? What if we can be empowered in moral ways? Can women only be empowered and find worth by being elected into Executive office? How are Christians supposed to react to all of this? We just have to keep loving each other, spreading truth and hope, trusting Jesus, and we have to remember to be in the world while we are still here. 

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Hey, Friends! Our culture has been telling us to prioritize mental health, but we have also been encouraged to glorify exhaustion. Why does our culture do this? The comparison of social media and the increase of those who have plans after college creates the comparison between us to tempt us to over perform. Unless we're sleepless and exhausted, we can't possibly be doing our best, right? This actually is very selfish, because we place our own success, plans, and wants above serving and ministering to others, and in extreme cases, even before our relationship with Jesus. Want to hear from a recovering workaholic? Even though I'm unqualified, I have a few suggestions to share if you too are recovering from idolizing busyness. 

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Hey, Friends! Have you ever felt like you're too broken for God to use you? I'm sharing my testimony today about how God can redeem a life, even through brokenness, depression, anxiety, disease, and abuse. God is gracious and amazing, and what if brokenness actually makes God's power more evident? God is so gracious and so good! 

 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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Hey, Friends! It's been on my heart to share some of my experiences and passion for helping refugees, because we may be in the exact same situation soon. What is a refugee? How can we learn from their experiences? How do we prepare for persecution and displacement??

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Hey, Friends! Today, we have Birjan Crispin as a guest sharing his personal journey through faith and politics. Birjan was born in Bulgaria before being adopted by a family in Chicago, where he was raised with strong Conservative and Christian values. He is a graduate of Hope College and a member of the Heritage Foundation in their Leadership Academy where he is finishing his thesis on Behavioral Poverty in America. He will be releasing his first written book about his upbringing and biography and giving a TedTalk in Holland, Michigan in April.

Birjan also touches on the intersection between environmentalism and the Biblical view of human relationship with Creation by comparing the current environmentalist approach, mostly supported by the political Left and the more Conservative approach to environmentalism supported by the political Right. Conservatives do care about preserving the environment in which we live, and Christians are concerned with being good stewards of God’s creation. Facts and numbers have been twisted into putting our environmental agenda first and leaving our humanitarian issues to take a back seat, and Birjan helps bring clarity to this reality. Instead of worshipping Creation, we should be worshipping the Creator.

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Hey, Friends. It's just me today, and I just wanted to share what I feel like may be obvious to some. The increasing censorship towards Conservatives will quickly spread to true, Jesus-loving Christians. Even with this rise in Cancel Culture, we have lived in a privileged community where we have not really faced violent persecution for loving Jesus and spreading His truth, but that may change in the United States during our lifetime. Now, more than ever, we have to stand firm by trusting that his is exactly what we have been told. 

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