Tammy Helfrich is a coach, speaker, writer, and podcaster who shares her growing trust in God. Her podcast called Right Where You Are is an encouraging listen that should be added to your podcast rotation. Just jump over there and subscribe right now. Tammy shares stories that all seem to have one theme: trusting God with it all including her career, her family, and her current ministry.

If you enjoyed Tammy’s story, you can connect to her on Twitter or Facebook, or her website.

Stories Tammy shared:

• The feeling of God’s love she had from a very young age

• Group of women

Great quotes from Tammy:

I think that God would want me to be happy and dance.

Everybody experiences God in different ways.

I had been coaching my entire life but just never called it that.

We don’t ask ourselves, “What do I want?”

Embrace your unique story with God.

Books mentioned by Tammy:

• Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job

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Billy Hallowell is a journalist who has appeared in places like the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Fox News, and worked at TheBlaze.com for several years. Now, he is the senior editor at Faithwire.com. His most recent book Fault Line is about the cultural forces that shape our thinking and how to respond to them. Today he shares how Christians can build bridges to culture using a little kindness and some good stories.

Stories Billy shared:

• What he has learned about navigating differences with people who disagree with you

Great quotes from Billy:

We talk about our faith and needing to evangelize and spread our faith, well, we are not present in any of the three areas that have the most ability to do that.

Not every story is going to be pretty…but there is a place for those stories.

What matters is faith and culture and everything else streams from that.

There’s nothing else I’ve seen change somebody instantly, like the way Jesus does. That evidence is overwhelming and we see it in people’s stories.

Books mentioned by Billy (affiliate links):

• Fault Line: How a Seismic Shift in Culture Is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation

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Today’s guest is Michael T. Cooper, president and CEO of International Needs, an organization whose vision is to “transform lives and change communities by helping Christians serve both God and neighbor within their own countries.” He shares the story of how he came to Christ at a student event, the ministry that God led him into ministry planting churches in Eastern Europe, and people who invested in him.

Stories Michael shared:

• Growing up in a nominally Christian family.

• Why haven’t we reached the world yet? 1 Corinthians 2:9

Great quotes from Michael:

• Jesus is for everybody.

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Rebecca Lemke is a 21 year-old housewife, mom, and author about her experiences in what’s known as “Purity Culture.” We talk about how the strict legalism of some people around her almost overshadowed the grace preached at her own church, how God brought the right people into her life to give her a better understanding, and why she wrote a book about the experience.

You can get her book The Scarlet Virgins: When Sex Replaces Salvation at Amazon (affiliate link).

Stories Rebecca shared:

• How Purity Culture came about

Great Quotes from Rebecca:

Isolation is really intense. It’s a driving force for a lot of mental instability and spiritual pain.

If men and women are to have successful relationship, the foundation is laid in youth.

Get Rebecca’s book The Scarlet Virgins: When Sex Replaces Salvation.

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In today’s short episode, I share my review of a book that changed how I think about engaging the culture. The book was A Free People’s Suicide by Os Guinness.

Have fun celebrating independence and freedom! And think about how you can promote each in the coming year.

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