Grace Over Perfection with Alison Simmons

Just another classic love story...

Boy meets girl. Boy and girl get married. Girl tells boy to have a baby with another girl. Boy agrees. Girl gets SUPER MAD about it!

Well, classic if you were watching a reality show on TV, right? Believe it or not, this is the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar.

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Abraham, the man through which God blesses the nations.

Abraham, the man who pimped out his wife...twice.

Abraham, the man who had a baby with his wife's servant.

But before you get too judgy about our guy Abraham, ask yourself this...

How many times have you taken matters into your own hands and acted without faith?

Abraham, the man who God counted as righteous, not because of his actions, but because of his belief.

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 I mean...who wouldn't stare? God tells Noah that He is going to flood the entire earth and kill everything on land and in the air... and Noah believes Him and builds a ginormous boat that is no where near water. Weird, right? The reality of this biblical count is NOTHING like the murals we see painted on nursery walls. What kind of physical and emotional exhaustion did Noah experience while obeying God? 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝗚𝗼𝗱'𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗺, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗺.

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You likely know this story already. God tells Adam that he is allowed to eat the fruit off any tree in the garden EXCEPT the fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

Adam tells Eve. And they live happily ever after in total, perfect obedience.

Oh wait - that's not how it goes, is it? Enter the serpent, stage left. What can you possibly take away from this MAJOR FAIL? In this episode, I am sharing 2 Truths that you are going to want to hear about.

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Do you really believe that?

If not, today is the day you ask God to grow your faith in this area because, friend, the Bible is either true or it's not.

And if it's not, then there is no point in believing the rest.

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earn TONS about Creation and all the evidence that supports it!

Are you the kind of person that is always saying "yes" when you don't really want to?

Do you ever say "yes" with the intention of backing out later?

In today's episode, we dig into scripture to see what Jesus has to say about making promises we don't intend on keeping.

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You know reading your Bible matters but, you have plenty of excuses as to why you don't read it.

No time, can't focus, it doesn't apply to your daily life...

In this episode, we tackle the 5 main excuses women use to not read their Bibles on daily basis AND talk about easy, actionable ways to move past them.

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In Ep 19 - What's the point of prayer, anyway? I shared the 3 most frustrating questions we have about prayer and 3 things convictions about prayer that don't necessarily answer them but do help us understand what the point of prayer really is.

And all that is well and good in theory, but my goal isn't to help women look Godly women just theoretically, it is to help them live like Godly women practically.

So this bonus episode is meant to help you establish practical prayer practices that you can actually use.

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What's the deal with prayer? Seriously, what's the point? 

1. Does prayer really make a difference?
2. How do you discern God's answer?
3. What do you do when you don't like the answer He gives you?

I'm don't intend to mislead you by suggesting that I have tidy answers to these questions that make you feel warm and fuzzy. Because those don't exist.

But today I share 3 things I have learned about prayer just in this last year that have helped me reconcile these questions in my head and heart.

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Mom guilt is REAL and after nearly 2 decades of being a mom to both girls and boys, spanning 5 unique personalities, parenting through a divorce, and through a marriage saved from divorce, I have come to understand that, while I am no expert, I have some wisdom to impart on this subject. 

Today we are going to talk about the 3 different ways Mom Guilt manifests itself and how to find freedom from it before it drives you crazy!

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