Conversations of Christ

By Ashley MarchantReligion & Spirituality Christianity Education Self-Improvement

Conversations of Christ episodes

June 02, 2023 Creating Inner Peace with Self-Compassion Meditation
Becoming a peacemaker starts within your own heart and mind. As we experience greater inner peace, we are better able to be patient and create peace in our outer relationships and daily experiences. This episode includes a ~7-minute Christ-centered, self-compassion meditation. It provides a guide to creating a kind and loving personal narrative you can use to help process through difficult thoughts, emotions, and experiences to cultivate greater inner peace. Creating a safe, kind relationship with ourselves allows us to better show up in the other parts of our life aligned with our divine, peacemaking identity.

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15 min
May 19, 2023 Making Peace: Daughter Disciple Deborah (Judges 4-5)
Join me in this episode as we talk about the powerful ability women have to create peace and that we receive the grace to do so from our Maker.

"Charity, or the pure love of Christ, is motherhood in a very practical and real way...My mother-work will come directly through the whispers of the Holy Spirit. And it is no less real for being unrelated by blood and bone." (Sharon Eubank)

This "mother work" as Sharon put it, and as we saw in the example of Deborah, is bearing with others and nurturing them in God. It's being yourself and holding up your unique light with courage, it's being a strengthener and encourager, it's meeting others where they're. It's holding space for another to feel safe being exactly who they are. It's forgiving, it's counseling together, it's going to places that may be uncomfortable to help another not have to walk alone, it's speaking the language of faith and hope, it's wisdom and good judgment, it's turning hearts to God. It's helping restore freedom and faith and God. It's walking with Christ and receiving daily strength to be able to walk with others in difficult circumstances where peace needs to be made. Mother-work is creating peace.

32 min
April 23, 2022 The Shepherd of our Souls
In this part 1 conversation with Amy and Stef, you will feel the tender hearts of these incredible women and how they found Christ seeking them out in their moments of darkness or wandering. Christ goes after the one as the shepherd of our souls. We talk about surrendering our will to God and walking to the edge of the light to receive so much growth, peace, and understanding from all we experience. This conversation is part of the Finding Jesus in Every Step Series.

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30 min
April 08, 2022 Rest and Abide in Christ + Guided Meditation
I take a pause in the series Finding Jesus in Every Step to officially introduce Rest and Abide and a few of the principles that outline the purpose of this platform. It's a place to share practical Christ-centered tools for you to live more often in a place of courage, peace, hope, truth, and refuge. To fill your whole mind and body with His light and love and continue in that unity with God throughout your day, providing you with rest to your soul and peace that passes all understanding. There's a Christ-centered meditation at the end to help you on your journey to rest and abide in Him. To download the free PDF of 25 faith-filled affirmations, visit https://restandabide.mykajabi.com/pl/2147584305
30 min
March 25, 2022 When God Calls You into the Wilderness
In this episode, my husband and I get to share with you some of the tender experiences we've had in our own wilderness times of life. God promises so much to those traveling through these dessert-like places. He gives us treasure here, makes these places beautiful and filled with life, and he goes before us as our shield and is our reward. We share how we have found God in every step, even when those steps are unimaginably hard.
59 min
March 11, 2022 Finding Jesus in Every Step: Series Intro
We're starting a new series! We'll still be learning about daughter disciples (like Mary Magdalene and Hagar today), but with a bit of a twist. We're looking at wilderness experiences in our lives in this series and where Christ shows up in our stories. Wilderness times may be uncomfortable, stretching, or maybe even mundane, but they are times that have the potential to create amazing transformation within us and our lives. They help us see Christ with new eyes and a new heart. I can't wait to be with you here!
41 min
February 25, 2022 Knowing Your Identity: a Conversation about Esther
Join me with three wonderful and wise young women as we explore the story of Esther and the parallels we can find in our modern-day daughter disciple lives! We're talking about courage, eternal identity, receiving the power of God to accomplish the little and big things in life, and creating unity. This is a great episode to share with the young women in your lives!
53 min
February 11, 2022 Courage to Face Your Mountains: Daughter Disciple Esther
This episode explores the Old Testament story of Esther and parallels her story with gospel principles and applications for our day. She went on a "heroine's journey", faced huge obstacles, was guided by a loving mentor, and was faced with a choice to act in courage and accomplish a task that brought her people to their knees in prayer and fasting. We'll explore the idea of how knowing our eternal identity helps us accomplish and conquer all things, both big and small, that God asks of us.
26 min
December 10, 2021 The Light that Shines in Darkness
Learning of Christ and coming to him facilitates peace and healing and allows us to have our minds changed to think more with heaven's view. As we prepare our homes and hearts for the Christmas season, this episode focuses on the roles of Christ as the "light of the world" and "the lamb of God". Two fitting descriptions of Him as we celebrate His birth.

As we draw near to Him and come to know and understand, love, and trust Him, we come to also know, understand and love ourselves more deeply in the process. Thank you for joining me as we celebrate the birth of our Savior!

Resources

Little Lamb by Jenedy Paige: https://www.jenedypaige.com/gallery/little-lamb

Newsletter:

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26 min
November 25, 2021 10. Your Journey to the Well
We are jumping right back into our conversation with Audra and Camille. We'll be talking about what has helped us come to really know Christ personally. That Christ helps to carry us through our trials. He helps make our burdens feel lighter and brings our hearts peace, even when there's a storm going on around us. Christ strengthens us to bear our burdens with ease. Then he calls us to go and do the same for others.

Your Sphere of Influence

Audra Elkington: @audraelkington

Camille Schramm: @choosetobeelect

A Worldwide Sisterhood: @aworldwidesisterhood

A VoiceofGladness: @avoiceofgladness

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Questions or comments? Email Ashley: [email protected]
33 min

About Conversations of Christ

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Our purpose at Conversations of Christ is threefold: first, to get clear on our purpose and identity soul-deep; second, to learn to draw Christ's healing and strengthening power more fully into our lives; and third to practice seeing God, ourselves and others deeply, enabling connection and desired change.