As Christians, we know that serving is part of the gig. Loving our neighbor means helping our neighbor. But are we just as willing to ask for help or even accept help when it’s offered to us? We’re guessing the answer to that question is no. Far too often, we lean away from help because it feels too vulnerable or because we don’t want to admit that we need it. The truth is we all need support—that’s why God gave us each other. Tune is this week as Lisa and Ali chat about their own struggles with asking for help, why it’s important to be a receiver, and what scripture says happens when we try to do it all on our own.

Everyone loves to be encouraged. I mean, who doesn’t want someone speaking goodness over their life? But what is true encouragement? Is it all about compliments, agreement, and empowerment, or is there more to it than that? Is there a way to cheer each other on and sharpen each other at the same time? This week on the pod, Ali and Lisa unpack what the Bible teaches us about encouragement—what it is, what it isn’t, why we need it, and ways we can live it out.

Link:

Why is encouragement so important according to the Bible?

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-encouragement.html

Drumroll please…. Welcome to Episode 50 of the Her Solid Ground Podcast! To celebrate this milestone, we decided to veer from our typical format and have a little fun. Tune in as Ali and Lisa interview each other about all the things—the early days of the pod, their favorite scriptures, and how they feel about some of life’s most pressing issues: Does fruit belong in dessert? Is an air-conditioner necessary for survival? Can Lisa ever answer a question without overthinking it? This light-hearted Q&A-style episode aims to give you an unfiltered peek behind the curtain while still pointing us all back to the One who deserves all the glory. Thank you, Lord. Here’s to 50 more!

We talk a lot on the pod about the importance of having relationships that not only encourage and support us, but that help sharpen and grow us as women of God. One way we can bring this type of accountability into our lives is to have a mentor. Although mentorship isn’t a new concept, we would bet that most of us aren’t really clear on how we get a mentor and what that relationship would even look like. Listen in this week as Lisa and Ali talk about their own experience with mentorship, why having a mentor matters, and practical steps we can take to find a mentor, become a mentor, or both!

Links:

Titus 2 Ministry:

https://hickorycreekchurch.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/286/responses/new

After talking about anger for two weeks, it felt fitting to do an episode on forgiveness. If we truly want to experience freedom from feelings like anger and bitterness, we need to heed the words of Jesus—to not only pray for our enemies, but to forgive them as He has forgiven us. Listen in this week as Ali and Lisa talk about why forgiveness is hard and usually feels unnatural, but how it is absolutely necessary for the health of our hearts. Even in the hurt, we can choose to forgive out of obedience to Christ, trusting that He will heal us.

Links:

Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen

https://www.amazon.com/Untangle-Emotions-Bible-Study-Streaming/dp/0310171458/ref=asc_df_0310171458/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693674918115&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=808088877810583510&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021612&hvtargid=pla-2273568150160&psc=1&mcid=e34645a19dbd3581a9d94220d77e2403

Forgiving What You Can’t Forget by Lysa TerKeurst https://www.amazon.com/Forgiving-What-You-Cant-Forget/dp/0718039874/ref=asc_df_0718039874?mcid=8e47343663da399fbd3edc6f79fd3693&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693310578148&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9138372596136607700&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021612&hvtargid=pla-995503471197&psc=1

Another episode on anger? Yep—and with good reason. We are banking on the fact that at some level, we all have anger issues. Last week, we learned that the feeling of anger isn’t a sin in and of itself. Even Jesus got angry. The tipping point is understanding the motive behind our anger and even more so, how we choose to deal with it. This week on the pod, Lisa and Ali give some healthy ways we can deal with our anger in the heat of the moment, or what Ali describes as “drive-by anger.” Lisa also shares a personal story about the verbal lashing she received from a total stranger and the surprising lessons God taught her through that experience.

Links:

Got Questions article

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-anger.html

Anger is a tricky emotion. As Christians, we typically don’t want to admit that it is something that we struggle with and feel. After all, isn’t peace the goal? But the truth is that we all get angry, and let’s be honest, most of us tend to excuse and justify it. Plenty of us have heard others—maybe even ourselves—claim “righteous anger,” but is that something we are even capable of as sinful humans, or is righteous anger something only Jesus can claim? In Part 1 of this two-part series, Ali and Lisa get real about anger—what is often behind it, whether or not it is a sin, and what the Bible teaches us about Jesus and why He really flipped those tables in the temple. 

Links:

Wiersbe Bible Commentary

https://www.amazon.com/Wiersbe-Bible-Commentary-Vol-Commentaries/dp/0781445418

Untangle Your Emotions

https://www.amazon.com/Untangle-Emotions-Bible-Study-Streaming/dp/0310171458/ref=asc_df_0310171458?mcid=a32ae9a2daeb3424ac9ae99253652f78&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693674918115&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10300517288326280181&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021612&hvtargid=pla-2273568150160&psc=1

How often do we as women find ourselves feeling like a “red hot mess,” trying our hardest to do all the things while never quite feeling like we are getting it right? In fact, Lisa and Ali often joke that this would be their band name (if they had any musical skills or aspirations). For most of us, this frazzled state of mind is more than a little relatable. But is this really where God wants us to stay? Are we all just red hot messes after all? In this episode, Lisa and Ali discuss their personal struggles with chaos and then look to scripture to find Biblical responses that can help us find peace and stability, even in the middle of our most hectic days.

Links:

Prayer Journal for Women

https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Journal-Women-Scripture-Devotional/dp/1941325823/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=L94CHXJSFA1Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TngcSha4T0ry7yXZvCTW6FK8jjjsiT-TgdClhd08NazEyrCmr8g5fLf4k_kz7yfr5-2S4lr0gg6znhABb_oIn5a-YLCiOGe60vJl1z6xh_fgYzCSJQgnsWa9ANk5g_-AWcwSh3EY3WCFTmwx0TyOVh0RYXa4iyoI6V8Jo3qZ3B0vFTvTahNm0U8bp0-i-xlAA6ZBiLEoZKfbcYXP9zrmn9eceGvSLh1p5RJz0flu5kRbnt5UxBH820AOIWN2qMoEPI7qQOrcnELr-ST75yQ-wCs3P9rT9ArE-ntdU8zuJEE.q6_qO8SoPq22hvUcBeQnEwbyTYzqsyXVCFdjc4Np-Co&dib_tag=se&keywords=prayer+journal&qid=1737578936&sprefix=prayer+journal%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

We’ve all heard about the power of prayer, but is that our reason for praying? Do we only pray so that we get what we want? Should there be more to our prayers than simply stating our needs? This week, Ali and Lisa are tackling these questions and more in order to get to the heart of what God intends our prayer life to be. Instead of making prayer something we “should do” or “have to do,” let’s see what Jesus teaches us and how we can start looking at prayer as something we “get to do.”

Links:

When You Pray

https://www.lifeway.com/en/product/when-you-pray-bible-study-book-with-video-access-P005837641?mcid=Adwords-sb-PLA-005837641&cmpid=pm:ggl:220725|oth|shopping|women|women|17853994734|womens_pmax:pla:na&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAst67BhCEARIsAKKdWOnoEiFwAog2IpgKk9gNO0nfOKI-f5K8kmxaveKmx3GUKQkCMeKWohcaAs5WEALw_wcB

As we head into a new year, a lot of us are planning, setting goals, and maybe even making some resolutions. This is all good, good stuff. We are big fans of intentionality here on the pod. However, as believers, we need to make sure our plans are grounded in the larger truth that God is the One in control and that it is His plan, not ours, that will prevail. This week on the pod, we are unpacking the concept of God’s sovereignty—what that means and why it is good news for us. We may not always fully comprehend or even agree with the ways of God, but what a comfort to love and serve a God who is bigger than our own limited understanding. If God is good, then His plan is not only good, it is better than anything we could ever come up with on our own. 

Links:

“So Will I”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2U7ffUM5Ec