Everyday Abundance Podcast

In the second episode of our Series on SELF, we will unpack the problem with the "Self Made" mantra and why self care falls short. How do we keep the balance of healthy self care in our lives? Dare I say that “Self Care” was born out of the need to manage the weight of control + glory that people are experiencing that was never meant for them? Let's talk about it. // SCRIPTURE 33:18-23 // Follow us on Instagram: @everydayabundance.podcast

Welcome to the first episode in our series on SELF. In this episode, we will lay the foundations of what our SELF is why it is at constant odds with our Spirit that God gave us. We will talk about why it's so hard to think the right things, make the right decisions, and live abundantly on this side of Heaven, and why "self made" doesn't work. // Holy Spirit Series by Pastor Chris Hodges:  https://www.churchofthehighlands.com/media/series/holy-spirit  // SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 7:14-25 NLT // Follow us on Instagram: @everydayabundance.podcast

Now is the time to use your voice-- and your voice is never more powerful than in prayer. In this solo episode, join me as I walk you through a guided prayer for the United States. God calls us to pray for the leaders in our lives, and there has never been a better time than NOW to start praying more intentionally. This is the perfect episode to accompany your quiet time with God, and we hope you share it with your friends! The more powerful prayers the better. // SCRIPTURE: 2 Chronicles 7:12-14 // “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land". // Follow us on Instagram: @everydayabundance.podcast

“Every time we pick a side, we divide.” Through racial injustice + political stances, God calls us to what seems to be the hardest place to be-- the middle. In this solo episode, join me in the tough conversation of what it looks like to lead from the middle by looking at the life of Jesus and asking “What would Jesus do if He were me?” // Video referenced: “Stuck In The Middle” by Pastor Micahn Carter on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMe6LMfxpJ0 // Follow us on Instagram! @everydayabundance.podcast

In this episode, I invite 6 high school and college friends to chat about relationships. It’s a fun Q+A style set-up with Matthew and I answering some of their questions about friendships, dating, and marriage. Nothing is off-limits, and this will for sure leave you laughing + encouraged to trust and honor God in all of your relationships. // Guests include: Matthew Hubbard, Patrick Cory, Riley Blair, Chase Cory, Jessica Chong, Madalyn Thompson, and Lillie Cory. // Connect with us on Instagram! @everydayabundance.podcast

The great balance: kids + career, home + work. How do we manage both and do it well? In this episode, join me and my full-time work-from-home mom friend Lauren as we unpack ways she is learning to balance it all. It’s an ever-changing journey as our kids get older and our careers + callings shift and change, but we are confident that these tips will help guide you to greater levels of abundance in this balancing act called life! // Get to know Lauren: Instagram @laurenannhugs + @millyphtog // Books mentioned: “You Are The Girl For The Job” by Jess Connolly, “Grace Not Perfection” by Emily Ley, “Pressing Pause” devotional by Karen Ehman // Follow us on Instagram! @everydayabundance.podcast

“Unstuck: freed or loosened from being fastened or stuck.” Whether it’s mentally or physically, we all know what it’s like to be stuck. In this episode, join me and coach Stephanie Pippin as we talk about how to get “unstuck” in your health + journey with God. Because when we aren’t stuck in toxic mindsets or habits, we can experience God’s abundance for us on a whole new level. /// Contact Coach Stephanie: Email [email protected] or Instagram @stephanie_pippin /// Book Reference: “Get Out of Your Head” by Jennie Allen

From the outside looking in, what makes a marriage attractive? What are some ways we can shape our marriage into a godly marriage that makes following Jesus attractive to other people? In this episode, join me + my husband Matthew as we uncover 5 rarely talked about secrets to an attractive marriage that can be the difference between an okay relationship and an admirable one.

SCRIPTURE:

Ephesians 5:21-33 (NLT)

21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.

31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

How do we help others who are hurting when we are experiencing our own set of hurts and challenges? How do we empathize + encourage? In this episode, we will look at two examples of how Jesus helped hurting people in their moments of greatest need and learn from how He did it.

SCRIPTURES:

LUKE 7:11-15 (ESV)

11 Soon afterward[a] he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus[b] gave him to his mother.

MATTHEW 5:3-5 (MSG)

3 “You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

4 “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

5 “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.

It is hard enough to lead ourselves through global shifts and world pandemics, much less our kids! In this episode, I have invited Rachel Butler to hangout with us and share how her and her husband are leading themselves and parenting their four children through big life shifts. Whether you are leading a household of one or seven, her applicable advice is sure to help you experience more day-to-day abundance even in crazy seasons.

Connect with Rachel on Social Media! Instagram @rachel_butler