Everyday Faith for Her: Bible Study and Real Life Christianity for Women

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What if you could stop striving to reach God because Christmas is the story of God coming all the way to you?

John begins the Christmas story somewhere unexpected—not in Bethlehem, but at the beginning of everything. Jesus, the eternal Word who created all things, chose to become human and make His home among us. This mystery of the God “from above” coming “below” changes how we understand faith. Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to earn His approval or become good enough to reach Him, Emmanuel invites us to rest in the astonishing reality that God is with us.

•  Marvel at the mystery of Jesus as both the holy Creator of the universe and the accessible Savior who entered ordinary human life. 
•  Recognize how striving, rule-keeping, and trying to earn God’s approval can turn faith into a heavy burden Jesus never intended you to carry. 
•  Discover the freedom of Emmanuel—the God who came near, understands our humanity, walks with us, and invites us into unfailing love and grace. 

Press play and ponder the mystery of Emmanuel as you release the pressure to reach God and rest in the beautiful Christmas truth that He has already come near to you.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

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A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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Has Christmas become something you’re trying to master instead of a mystery you have time to marvel at?

Somewhere between decorating, baking, shopping, wrapping, parties, and trying to make everything special, the wonder of Christmas can become surprisingly heavy. We can even bring that same pressure into our faith, turning following Jesus into another list of things to accomplish. But the first Christmas wasn't something Mary mastered—it was a mystery she was invited to trust.

•  Rediscover the awe surrounding Jesus’ birth through prophecy, angels, a guiding star, supernatural pregnancies, and a Savior arriving as a tiny baby. 
•  Consider how our desire to master Christmas—and even our relationship with God—can quietly steal the rest and wonder Jesus offers. 
•  Explore Jesus’ promise that His yoke is easy and His burden is light, and what Mary’s surrender can teach us about trusting God when we don't understand everything. 

Press play and give yourself a few moments to release the pressure of mastering Christmas, rest in the mystery of Jesus, and rediscover the wonder that can make this season feel light again.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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What if the best response to someone’s sin—especially when their actions have hurt or angered you—isn’t confronting or correcting them, but praying for them?

It can be easy to see what someone else is doing wrong and feel responsible for pointing it out. But as John concludes his first letter, he gives believers another response: intercede. When we confidently bring others before God, we entrust Him with what only He can change. And sometimes, while we’re asking God to work in someone else, He begins transforming our own anger, judgment, and perspective.

In this episode, you’ll:

•  Learn how interceding for someone who has hurt or frustrated you can move your heart from anger toward forgiveness and hope. 
•  Discover how assurance of your salvation gives you greater confidence and boldness when you pray. 
•  Revisit the central truths of 1 John so you can walk away knowing you are loved, held firmly by God, and able to live in His truth. 

Play this episode to discover how confident prayer can replace judgment with grace, release anger, and help you trust God with the people and situations you cannot change.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
https://betsymarvin.com/contact-me/

For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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What if the boundaries you think are limiting your freedom are actually the very things God has given you to help your faith thrive?

Words like commands, boundaries, and obedience can feel restrictive, especially when we’ve learned to associate rules with control. But 1 John 5 offers another perspective: God’s commands aren’t meant to weigh us down. When we understand that His boundaries come from His deep love for us, obedience can move from something we resist to something that gives us freedom, confidence, and room to flourish.

In this episode, you’ll:

•  Discover how seeing God’s commands through the lens of His love can change obedience from a burden into a gift. 
•  Learn why healthy boundaries can actually create greater freedom and help your faith thrive. 
•  Consider whether you’re striving against God’s boundaries or abiding within them—and how that shift can bring greater confidence and freedom. 

 Play this episode to discover how trusting God’s boundaries can lighten the burden of obedience and help you move from striving into a freer, thriving faith.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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Have you ever wondered whether you’re really forgiven, really saved, or whether something you’ve done could cause God to stop loving you?

Fear can quietly shape the way we experience God’s love. We may know in our heads that Jesus loves us while still wondering if we’re forgiven enough, good enough, or secure in our salvation. In 1 John 4, John points us toward a love that existed before we ever loved God—a perfect, complete love that gives us assurance, drives out fear of punishment, and then pours through us into the lives of others.

In this episode, you’ll:

•  Discover why God’s love gives you confidence in your salvation instead of leaving you afraid of judgment. 
•  Learn how receiving and trusting God’s love can help drive fear from your heart. 
•  Understand how loving others completes the cycle of God’s love and allows His love to be expressed through your life. 

Play this episode to deepen your confidence in God’s unfailing love and discover how His perfect love can replace fear with assurance, freedom, and a greater capacity to love others.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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With so many voices telling us what—and who—to believe, how can we discern what is actually true?

From social media and news to teaching, assumptions, and everyday gossip, we constantly encounter information asking for our trust. In 1 John 4, John reminds us not to believe everything we hear but to carefully discern its source. Knowing the truth about Jesus gives us a foundation for recognizing deception and the courage to respond differently when gossip and assumptions threaten our relationships.

Listeners will:

•  Discover biblical ways to discern whether the voices and teaching they encounter are grounded in the truth of Jesus. 
•  Learn how to resist gossip and assumptions and find the courage to seek truth instead. 
•  Grow in confidence that the Spirit within them is greater than the deception and influence of the world around them. 

Play this episode to strengthen your biblical discernment and find the courage to choose truth when gossip, assumptions, and competing voices make it difficult to know what to believe.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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When your own heart reminds you of your failures and tells you that you’re not good enough, whose voice do you believe?

Shame and condemnation can make us pull away from God, but 1 John 3 reminds us that God is greater and more merciful than our own conscience. He fully knows us and fully loves us—and when we trust that truth, we can approach Him with confidence and allow His love to overflow into the way we love others.

• Learn how to recognize feelings of condemnation without allowing shame or past failures to define who they are.
•  Discover how being fully known and fully loved by God can create greater confidence and freedom in prayer. 
•  Understand how trusting Jesus and receiving His love empowers them to put that same self-sacrificing love into action with others.

Play this episode to discover how being fully known and fully loved by God can free your heart from condemnation, deepen your prayers, and help His love flourish through you.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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One of the harder things to wrap our heads around is how loved we are by God and that we are his children.  It is a lavish, abundant love that affects how we see ourselves, others, and how we love.  

Join me as we look at these words from 1 John and take a moment to ponder.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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Have you ever felt like God might be calling you to something, but you don’t feel qualified enough, confident enough, or ready enough to do it?

Insecurity can make us second-guess what God is doing in our lives, especially when other voices seem more knowledgeable, more gifted, or more certain. In 1 John 2, John reminds believers that they have already been anointed by the Holy Spirit. That means your confidence doesn’t have to come from having all the answers—it can come from knowing God’s Spirit is already at work within you.

You’ll discover:

• what biblical anointing really means for everyday believers
• learn how to recognize and reject lies that keep you feeling unqualified
• grow in confidence that God equips you for the work He has given you to do.

Play this episode and discover how trusting the Holy Spirit’s work in you can help you move from self-doubt into greater confidence in your God-given calling.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
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For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.

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Have you ever found yourself measuring your worth by what you accomplish, what you have, or what other people think of you?

The pressure to perform, possess more, and gain others’ approval can quietly shape our identity—even as followers of Jesus. In 1 John 2, John reminds believers at every stage of faith of something the world can easily make us forget: who we are and whose we are.

•  Recognize three common temptations—performance, possessions, and popularity—that can subtly become measures of your identity. 
•  Discover how knowing you are forgiven, loved, and a child of God can free you from constantly trying to prove your worth. 
•  Identify where you are in your faith journey and find encouragement to keep growing in your relationship with Jesus. 

Play this episode and discover how grounding your identity in God’s love can free you from the exhausting pressure to prove that you are enough.

New episodes every Tuesday morning.

To connect with Betsy for speaking, resources, or curriculum head to
https://betsymarvin.com/contact-me/

For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head to
https://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/

A Christian podcast centered on Jesus, the Bible, and God explores faith through the Old Testament and New Testament, sharing Bible stories and Bible explained insights to help women of faith and Jesus followers grow in faith, strengthen their relationship with God, and know God more deeply through Bible study, women Bible study, and practical Christianity, all while encouraging spiritual growth, understanding identity in Christ, and learning to understand Bible teachings to become closer to God.