In today’s podcast, I meet fellow author Lynn Cowell to talk about her new Bible study on confidence. We chat about confidence and why that’s a topic she wanted to tackle.

In this podcast, I host pastor, professor, and writer John Van Sloten in the studio. Together we discuss his new book Every Job a Parable which, by the way, was a heart and mind-expanding read.

Choosing to forgive someone doesn’t mean that what happened to you is okay. It means you are evicting an unwelcome tenant (pain) from your life.

Forgiveness is so terribly hard because we have a strong sense of right and wrong. We want wrongs to be righted. Learning to let someone off our hook means we need to understand that God holds justice in His hands, and He is always just.

We all have choices to make when we get hurt and while forgiveness isn’t the most intuitive choice, it is the only when that helps us reclaim our power and dignity.

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Hanging on to money just isn’t good for us. Kevann and I look at the “curse of the lottery” and how giving, not getting is the recipe for joy. We also dig into the extravagance of God and how, when we really grasp it, it inspires joy and generosity in us.

Resources Mentioned

* Based on some teaching from my book 10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life

* Charles Colson's book The Body

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This Grow on the Go podcast finds Kevann and me discussing both the obvious and not so obvious upside and downside to giving. Our conversation finds us admitting our times of stinginess and what we’ve learned about the joy of giving when we took the risk to be generous. We also unpack what the Bible says about the profound link between joy and giving.

Resources Mentioned

* “10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life” by Donna Carter (Book)

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When life takes a bad turn we often ask God, why? But if we know what kind of a God He is, that He is compassionate, committed and in control, we don’t really need to know why. Having acknowledged that, Kevann and I talk about who Jesus revealed God to be, and that he can handle all our questions.

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* “10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life” by Donna Carter (Book)

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This podcast finds Kevann and me discussing how we first learned we are natural control freaks and how learning to surrender that desire to God makes life so much easier. Our meandering conversation takes us from breastfeeding to atomic physics and lands on Colossians 1:16-17. We also unpack what Romans 8:28 really means when it says, "All things work together for good"

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There are really only three or four ways we can manage our emotions and most of them are destructive. Kevann and I look these and talk about their consequences. Then we talk about the outrageous way David dumped his overcharged on emotions on God and why that works.

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* “10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life” by Donna Carter (Book)

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