In this episode, Marnie and Amy Seiffert have a chat (in between a lot of laughing) about the most beautiful truths, beginning with how hearing Jesus changes us. His Word and words change how we think, which then changes: how we show up in all of our places, how we see ourselves, how we live life with others, how we walk through uncertainties, and yes, even how we send off our college kids. And we talk about how our position, as His beloved daughters of the Most High King, cannot change. Ever. When we let that truth take root deep, we walk out all the things differently.

Marnie and Amy discuss: 

• How to hold space to sit with Jesus even on the off-and-running days.  
• A quick and simple spiritual practice we can try to connect with Jesus.
• How and why we can “keep our spiritual receipts” to grow our faith in God.
• How to listen for God in hard places – like dropping off your firstborn at college.
• Why understanding our worth to God matters.
• How to battle the lies we hear by listening for Jesus.
• A powerful story from scripture of how God spoke to and used one of His daughters in a big way.
• A personal story of how God is faithful to lead us and those around us (and how we don’t have to be mini-shepherds).

Amy Seiffert is an author, speaker, and monthly YouVersion teacher. She also serves as the Pastor of Coaching and Content at Soma City Church. Previously was a Team Leader with Cru at BGSU and worked with them for more than fifteen years. Amy is currently a graduate student at Denver Seminary in the Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies program and is working on her next book project with Bethany House Publishers. Weaving biblical wisdom through her presentations, Amy inspires, teaches, and humbly invites any willing spiritual pilgrim to walk alongside her in the pursuit of truth and the knowledge of God. Amy is married to Rob, and they live in Bowling Green, Ohio, with their three kids. You can connect with Amy on Instagram and grab her book and sign up for her newsletter at her website.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Jennifer Dukes Lee kick off a new season with a conversation that’s packed with goodness. We talk about the peace that comes in asking questions of ourselves and God, and how we can listen for and learn from Him inside those questions. And we discuss how our springs and summers and falls and winters all hold purpose and growth, even when we can’t see it. When we unhurry our hearts and open our ears, we can learn and grow in all of them.

Marnie and Jennifer discuss: 

• How (our shared) background in journalism began a practice of asking questions and listening.  
• How looking at the way Jesus asked questions offers evidence that our own questions can move us closer to God.
• How listening for Him can bring peace, even in situations we don’t choose.
• A single sentence that changed Jennifer’s perspective on how she listens for Jesus in the most ordinary places.
• How to come out of “hurry sickness” and how unhurrying our hearts can help to open our ears.
• The importance of all of the different seasons of our lives and how every season holds purpose, growth and opportunities to listen for Jesus.

Jennifer Dukes Lee is the bestselling author of several books, including Growing Slow, It’s All Under Control, and Stuff I’d Only Tell God. She’s a fan of queso, bright lipstick, and singing too loudly to songs with great harmony. She lives on a fifth-generation family farm in Iowa, where she and her husband have made a life of growing crops, pigs, two beautiful humans, and an enduring faith. You can find Jennifer on Instagram and Facebook and sign up for her newsletter at jenniferdukeslee.com.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the final episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

Do you have quiet, unvoiced questions for God? What if asking God our questions can strengthen our faith?

Marnie and Niki discuss all of this as part of her book, God, Can We Chat?  In this episode, we talk about:

• Reimagining our doubts
• How our questions can strengthen our faith.
• Reframing the lies we’re believing
• Replying to Jesus’ invitation to come to Him, even with all of our questions.
• Niki’s four-step C-H-A-T prayer format (and listen to her read an excerpt and walk through the C-H-A-T format).
• How to listen after we ask God our questions.

In addition to God, Can We Chat?, Niki Hardy is also the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Niki has been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.

Grab your copy of God, Can We Chat? here. You can connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram, and check out Wildly Known on Substack.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the second episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

Do you have “What do I do” questions for God?

In this episode, Katie Reid and Marnie talk about these kinds of questions, as they’re the backbone of her new Bible study, God, What Do I Do?  

This study asks the very same questions we ask: God, what do I do when I’m unsure? When I need help? When I’m in a battle? When I want to give up? God will meet us in these questions. If you have questions for God, this episode will help as you seek to hear Him louder.

Marnie and Katie discuss: 

• What we can learn from Judges 4 and Deborah on how to walk through an intimidating battle. 
• Why listening and obedience must go together.
• A personal story of obedience and what Katie learned from trusting and doing what she heard.
• A principle to follow when we’re not sure we’re hearing God.
• How to lean into God in our questions of suffering.

Katie Reid, a Bible teacher and the author of Made Like Martha and, the Bible study we’re talking about today, God, What Do I Do? Trained in education, Katie teaches around her kitchen table, in the classroom, and around the country. She co-hosts The Martha + Mary Show and runs the Martha + Mary Show Sisterhood group on Facebook. Katie is a pastor’s wife and worship leader. Following Jesus, marrying her husband, and being a mom to five are the best decisions she’s made. Connect with Katie at her website or on Instagram. Grab her Bible study here.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder Podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

How would you listen differently if you couldn’t see?

In this episode, Karen Wingate and Marnie talk about Karen’s story of being born legally blind and how she used her ears as her eyes. With her limited vision, listening well to the world around her and for God within her became how she saw.

Karen shares her story of how hearing and seeing in her physical world taught her about spiritual hearing and seeing.

Marnie and Karen discuss: 

• Her journey of leaning into her hearing because of her limited sight. 
• How she learned about God’s character through what she could hear in His creation.
• The truth that noticing what we can hear helps us to hear more.  
• A personal story of how God spoke words of hope to Karen during a difficult medical situation – words she still holds onto today.
• How He speaks to us in so many creative ways, all the time.

Karen is author of With Open Ears: 60 Reflections on the Wonder of Sound from a Woman Born Blind. She has also written the award-winning book, With Fresh Eyes, and Grateful Heart: 60 Reason to Thank God in All Things. You can buy Karen's book and find more about Karen and her resources at her website. 

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams continue with part two of their conversation about loving God and others better and how hearing God’s voice helps us to do that. Sometimes it helps to hear someone else’s stories, to know what it can look like to do a thing we want to do better.

Rachael shares several stories of what trusting those promptings has looked like for her, from conversations in the places she goes to inviting a dear neighbor for some barbecue chicken.

As she goes about her days, she is listening and walking out this call we share to love Him and others — and even ourselves. What a reassurance that yes, we can do this, too.

Marnie and Rachael discuss how: 

• God used everyday circumstances to invite Rachael to love others.
• We can love God but not hear Him – and how to hear Him louder.  
• Hearing and obeying God isn’t about getting a certain reaction or outcome.
• Loving ourselves means something different to God than in our culture.
• To learn to hear God’s voice as the loudest.

Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams discuss how loving God and loving others fits together with hearing God’s voice. Because they go together. When we love God and others, we’re leaning into our journey with Him in ways that open us to hearing Him – and when we hear His voice louder, we can love Him and others better. 

And sometimes we overcomplicate it all, when what God is really asking of us is pretty simple.

Marnie and Rachael discuss how: 

• Circumstances can unfold differently than we expect after hearing God’s direction – but that doesn’t mean we misheard God.  
• Knowing we are loved by God helps us to love Him and others.
• Feeling unlovable can be a barrier to receiving God’s love for us.
• Listening for God’s voice is part of HOW we love others.
• We can love God and others as a natural part of our everyday.
• We often overcomplicate what loving God and others looks like.

Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love. 

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport continue with part two of their conversation by diving into a four-step method, called TEND, for studying and listening for Jesus through scripture.

After she describes each step, she models what using her TEND method looks like with a verse in real time, so we can see it come to life.

As we wind down our busy spring seasons and transition into a new rhythm for summer, this TEND method is a great way to study the Bible this summer.

Marnie and Mariel chat about: 

• How Bible study can be powerful in a slower rhythm – even just a verse a day.
• The four-step TEND method that she developed for studying scripture.
• What it looks like to use the TEND method for one sample verse, in real time. 
• How we listen for Him in each of the four steps.
• The importance of not just reading, but also doing what we read.
• How Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will guide and teach us in all things, including scripture.

As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport discuss how as an atheist, she was perfectly content to believe that God didn’t exist – but God had other plans.

Marnie and Mariel discuss: 

• How the label “atheist” didn’t keep God away.
• God’s heart to pursue us, even when we aren’t aware of Him or His pursuit. 
• How God used the imperfect humans from the stories in Genesis to meet Mariel's own brokenness. 
• How Mariel began to hear God speak to her as she read the Bible.
• When we read His Word every day and listen for Him, He anchors us with those very words.

As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo continue with part two of their conversation by discussing her book, Desperate Prayers. In every desperate circumstance we face, we have the choice of whether to pray or not pray. To walk through it with God or without Him.

Rachel shares what choosing to walk through it with God can look like. And we don’t have to be perfect or say the right words.

Marnie and Rachel chat about how: 

• We can lean into and learn from the desperate prayers of 15 Bible characters – and know that our own heartbreaks look an awful lot like theirs. 
• To pray when we don’t have the words.
• Simple three-word prayers open our communication with Jesus.
• When we open ourselves up to God in prayer, we begin to hear Him in a different way.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.