Friends In The Word

In this episode of Friends in The Word Jen and Cyndi discuss emotional stewardship. 
We are living in emotional times and the Word addresses us in the totality of our personhood. So how do our emotions affect the way we live, obey, worship? Jen gives us a little church history in the Big Fat Word of the Week when she tells us about Revival and Revivalism. We break down John 14 when Jesus says if you LOVE me, you will obey me for Do You Understand What You Are Reading and have a discussion about being emotional people that need to steward our emotions. We pray you are encouraged and that as you look at Christ and His great love for you that your emotional response will be to honor and glorify God! 

In this episode of Friends in the Word Jen and Cyndi discuss passages from the Old Testament that had a profound effect on them. The Big Fat Word of the Week is Inspiration of Scripture, we make sure to expose the tricks that false teachers are using to downplay how ALL of scripture is breathed out by God.  In Do You Understand What you are Reading Jen breaks down Hebrews 1 to help frame the conversation for the importance of the progressive revelation of scripture. We discuss inter-textuality of Scripture, a new phrase for me but an old concept that is so important! And then we share some of the more impactful Old Testament passages that we love. We pray it inspires you to get in there and read big swaths so that you might come to appreciate more deeply the beauty of just how merciful our God is!

In this Episode Cyndi and Jen discuss discussions, converse about conversations... you get the idea... The Big Fat Word of the Week is Apologetics... We bring some Proverbs into frame out the discussion about discussing in Do You Understand What You are Reading, and then jump into what we hope is a productive conversation about how as Christians we should approach one another and unbelievers as we seek to understand one another and facilitate relationships. We talk about the apologetics tool kit and give you some phrases that will help you navigate a conversation with grace and kindness. Lord knows in our current crisis we all need encouragement to remember how to address one another. We pray you are encouraged. 

In this episode Cyndi and Jen discuss what it looks like to live in light of your convictions. 
The Big Fat Words of the Week are Conviction and Piety. 
We discuss Hebrews 11 and how conviction and faith go hand in hand. 
We spend some time discussing how you form your convictions and the difference between Biblical convictions and personal ones. We pray this episode strengthens you to live by your convictions. We finish by praying for Afghanistan. 

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You ready to talk about fear of man? In this episode Cyndi and Jen discuss the trap that the fear of man is and how we have a glorious alternative! The Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, but why is it so easy to fear man then? 
We hope this episode will spur you on to behold the awesomeness of our God and why He alone is worthy! 

In this week's episode of Friend's in The Word, Jen and Cyndi discuss some really important concepts when you find yourself just hanging on while the earth is tottering! The Big Fat Word of the Week is - Sovereignty 
For Do You Understand What You're Reading we open up to Isaiah 46 for some Big God encouragement... and our conversation centers around the hope we have in a Mighty God who does as He pleases yet walks with us in our trials. It's such a good episode we ask you to share it with your friends. We all need encouraging right now that we have a great big God who will not falter or fail in the midst of a global pandemic.  We are praying for you!

If you haven't seen the tiny hands SNL skit we apologize for the title, but we don't apologize for the episode in which Cyndi and Jen discuss what you say to yourself when you're all alone or with your "by myself" 
We discuss why preaching the gospel to yourself in your thought life is so incredibly important  especially when the world around you seems to be crumbling. 
The Big Fat Word of the Week is the Formal and Material Principle of the Reformation, we spend some time talking about guarding the good deposit in Do You Understand What You are Reading? And hopefully have an encouraging and helpful conversation in which we hope to fan into flame the good gift of faith God has given you by talking about what preaching the gospel looks like in everyday situations. 

In this episode Jen and Cyndi discuss women of church history and with a little cheek, figure out if women can do that? 
The Big Fat Word of the Week is Perspicuous and we spend a little time discussing the clarity of passages about the roles of women in Do You Understand What You're Reading. 
In our main segment we discuss women in church history that have inspired us and explore some ideas that the culture has influenced even in the church. Its a spicy episode, we hope you're challenged and encouraged to get busy! 

In this episode Cyndi and Jen discuss one of their very favorite topics! Singing! 
The Big Fat Word of the Week is DOXOLOGY. 
We talk about how  there are 50 commands in scripture to SING! And why we believe it is so important to adopt into our everyday practices, God has made us a singing people. 
We finish up with a little fun of singing back and forth to each other some of our very favorite psalms, hymns and spiritual songs! 
This is a fun episode that you won't want to miss! 

In this episode Cyndi and Jen dive into the wonderful gift of the conscience. So many of us as Christians live with guilt and shame that we shouldn't or many of us live with guilt because we haven't taken our sins to the cross. 
Living with a clean conscience is such a gift to us.  The world screams guilty, the cross says you can be forgiven. Or the world says, don't worry about it, but God's holiness says it must be dealt with. 
Can you feel the craziness of it all!? Well we invite you to live with the joy of our conscience being cleansed by the blood! We are praying for you, be encouraged, live free!