Season 3 is LIVE and we're going deep, Gold Diggers! We're taking a look at the concept of Radical Acceptance. What is it? How does it help? What about those impossible-to-accept situations?

We begin in Episode 1 with the story of how my sister's cancer diagnosis thrust me into the journey of Radical Acceptance. Though the story is painful, we'll lean into it because it highlights how radical acceptance accomplishes what seems like the impossible -- reducing suffering and growing love. 

Join me as we learn to dig in the dark this season, bravely looking for that gold that's shining in the most unacceptable circumstances. 

We don't have to live half-lives. Abundance is right here. It's ours for the taking. 

Our identities are restored when we discipline ourselves to filter all that we are, and everything that we experience, through Christ alone. Join us for the final installment of our Real-Life series, where we explore a few principles that will help us live in abundance every day. After all, it's our right. Our default. Our inheritance. 

Whose voice is in your ears?

For many of us, we live as if it's okay with God that we make our own way in the world, defining ourselves however we think best. We pay little attention to the meanings we make of our experiences, relationships and the messages we absorb.

God isn't okay with it. In fact, He went to great lengths to secure our true identities for us. The question is, will we apprehend our true selves? Or will we allow our identities to be destroyed?

Once we've looked into the coffin of our dead God-stories, it's a pretty tall order to resurrect them. Happily, that's not our job! God is at-the-ready to use our powerful stories to connect us to others and to shine His bright light into a dark world. All we must do is cooperate. 

What does cooperation look like? Today's episode focuses on four practical steps of cooperation we can take every day to resurrect our stories and live in the abundance of freedom and connection. 

Justin Timberlake may have brought sexy back; but we, Gold Digger, are bringing back things much more compelling -- confession, repentance and obedience. Let's get to digging! 

How is it possible to kill a God-story? Why would the enemy even care about your story or mine? 

What if telling my story makes me vulnerable to rejection? What if it's useless or worse -- what if it's dangerous? 

Episode 3 explores these questions and more by using scripture to give us the foundation of why our true and integrated stories are not only important -- they're completely necessary. 

Okay! We get it! We've allowed the thief to steal, kill and destroy certain aspects of our abundance. What do we do about it?

The second episode of the series on the abundant life we're offered in Christ focuses on how we take our real lives back. Specifically, we explore practical ways to begin living free and connected. 

We ask hard questions and search for good answers because we're Gold Diggers and that's just what we do! 

There have been many times in my life where I believed there could be some gold buried deeply underground, but I didn’t want to do the work to find it.

Have you ever been there? In that place where you’re too exhausted, hurt, weary, disappointed, angry, disillusioned, bitter or just plain too overwhelmed to care whether or not good can come from your circumstances?

What does a gold digger do when the prospect of working to find God’s gold seems like a hill far too high to climb?

Proverbs 31 is God’s blessing over you. It’s His beautiful way of saying, “I see you.” It’s His glorious blueprint – literally a poem – for how your family can express their gratitude and admiration and love when regular language would probably fall short. And the tradition is that this should be sung over you weekly, a reminder every seven days of who you are and the importance of what you do.

Perhaps one of the most ill-used words in Christianity comes from the phrase ezer kenegdo. This episode focuses on the true meaning of this phrase and its implications for the purpose of woman.

"Resurrecting the true meaning of ezer, therefore, is not about feminism or some silly notion of girl power. It’s not about claiming what’s rightfully ours as women or exalting ourselves as stronger than men. Laying hold of the powerful purpose of womankind is about the Christian mandate to live out the Kingdom of God, as much as possible, here and now – on this earth as it is in heaven."

Does female subordination contribute to the pervasive silence of women in churches which adhere to this doctrine, causing them to stay quiet when they should speak up?

Today's episode focuses on the sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention. We work to discover God's gold in this painful story.