In episode 59, Jess interviews her good friend, Chloe Somerfield, who is a wife, mother of two, passionate about theology, motherhood and building community in your 30's.

Chloe and her family moved from Sydney to Tennesse, USA just under a year ago. She shares about the decision to move, what a step of faith like that takes and how God has covered their move with His grace.

We chat about discipleship for kids, theology for mothers, how to create in the margins of motherhood, what social media gets wrong about motherhood and how God's grace is sufficient in every season.

Chloe shares her favourite Christian kids resources here:

The New City Catechism for Kids

Article about Mother's Happiness

Enduring Word App

Every Moment Holy: Daily Litergies

The Apostles' Creed (Fat Cat Series)

The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross

Let There Be Light

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Episode Chapters

00:00:00 Introducing Chloe

00:11:15 Theology for mums

00:19:27 Sharing the gospel with our kids

00:28:15 Don't forget your gifts

00:38:22 Pushing back on parenting trends

00:45:06 Helpful resources

In this episode, we interview Abby from @an.intentional.wife.

Jess found Abby on Instagram over one of her viral reels (listen to find out what it was about).

Abby opens up to us about how to have an intentional marriage, the little things that make a huge difference to support your marriage and the little things that create tension and disconnect in a marriage.

We talk about how to date your spouse again and the importance of dressing up for your husband (you'll love the way she and her husband figured out a spicy way to do this!)

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved chatting with Abby.

Disclaimer: Jess's audio was not working well in this episode - sorry in advance!

Make sure to follow her over at Instagram @an.intentional.wife. See the rest of her links below!

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Abby has some amazing resources for keeping your marriage strong:

Still Dating: A one year marriage journey

Abby's favourite marriage books

Abby's favourite date night ideas

Episode Chapters

00:00:00 A little about Abby

00:12:20 Importance of Weekly date night

00:22:50 Prioritising marriage after kids

00:31:38 How to reconnect with your spouse

00:43:26 Dressing up for your husband

00:49:00 Top tips for low-key date nights

In this episode, we interview Abby from @an.intentional.wife.

Jess found Abby on Instagram over one of her viral reels (listen to find out what it was about).

Abby opens up to us about how to have an intentional marriage, the little things that make a huge difference to support your marriage and the little things that create tension and disconnect in a marriage.

We talk about how to date your spouse again and the importance of dressing up for your husband (you'll love the way she and her husband figured out a spicy way to do this!)

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved chatting with Abby.

Make sure to follow her over at Instagram @an.intentional.wife. See the rest of her links below!

Make sure to subscribe or follow the podcast and if you have a moment, we'd love you to rate and review the podcast if you are loving our content so far. We'd deeply appreciate it!

Make sure to sign up to our monthly newsletter, where we share what God has been teaching both of us, our favourite resources and links. Sign up here.

If you'd like to check out Jess's new program on how to nourish your family, head over to https://thewholesomemamanutrition.com or direct to the program here.

Abby has some amazing resources for keeping your marriage strong:

Still Dating: A one year marriage journey

Abby's favourite marriage books

Abby's favourite date night ideas

Episode Chapters

00:00:00 A little about Abby

00:12:20 Importance of Weekly date night

00:22:50 Prioritising marriage after kids

00:31:38 How to reconnect with your spouse

00:43:26 Dressing up for your husband

00:49:00 Top tips for low-key date nights

In this episode, we talk all about the concept of 'redemptive birth' and how many women who have a traumatic first birth are often encouraged to believe that their next birth will be different and 'redeem' the first one.

However, we want to chat about how that is not always helpful, and doesn't fully align with the Bible.

Bella speaks about her first birth that was deemed traumatic and how she has been wrestling with the idea of praying for a redemptive second birth.

We want to encourage women that it's important to pray for protection and God's presence for their births, while viewing birth in the light of Scripture, in all its pain as a result of sin and glorious beauty as a result of the outcome of a child.

We pray that this episode blesses you and encourages you to seek God whether you are expecting a baby or not.

Links:

The pain of childbirth as a reminder of Christ's suffering

The redemptive suffering of birth

Why I'm not praying for a redemptive birth

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*Trigger warning: in this episode, we talk about sexual abuse.

How do you respond when your daughter has been sexually abused?

How do you move on?

How do you plead with God as her mother?

In episode 56, our final episode of our Parenting Biblically series, we chat with Julie Robertson (a.k.a like our second mum), about her daughter, Jordan's journey in being sexually abused as a child.

Julie shares honestly about what it was like finding out, how she responded, what kind of spiritual warfare she faced and how she and her husband, Brett, decided to choose to live by faith and forgive.

But there's good news at the end. Julie shares how God redeemed Jordan and where she is today.

We share this story because Christian mothers are at war, whether this is your story or another. And we must put on the full armour of God and step in the gap for our children.

Julie is a great example of a warrior mother.

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In our fourth episode of the Parenting Biblically Series, we chat with the lovely Rose-Maree Vegners about how to raise teens God's way.

Rose-Maree shares wisdom on:

• The tension between pulling back and intervening when disciplining teens.
• How to raise teens to love the Lord and develop their own faith (all of her children love and serve God as adults).
• The difference between raising boys and girls.
• How to manage strong opinions and emotions.
• How to cultivate a good work ethic and character in your teen.

And honestly, so much more! Rose-Maree is a wealth of godly wisdom. You really don't want to miss out on this episode. What great advice to hear before even navigating the teen years.

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Welcome to our third episode of the Parenting Biblically series.

In this episode, we chat all about the transition from 'cop' to 'coach' as a parent of the primary age range.

We cover:

• What it means to train kids diligently
• How it's easy to neglect disciplining your kids in this age bracket
• How to cultivate a close-knit relationship with your child
• How these years of parenting set the stage for your parent-child relationship in the teen years
• How to cultivate a family culture of sibling friendships

We hope that this episode is encouraging and helpful for our listeners, whether in this stage of parenting or not yet!

Helpful links:

8 Errors Parents Make (Michael Brock)

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In our part two of our Parenting Biblically series, we are talking about parenting toddlers God's way.

We tackle topics like:

• What the Bible says about discipline
• Do we smack our toddlers?
• How do we handle tantrums?
• How we navigate different discipline scenarios with our toddlers

We hope that this topic of parenting toddlers God's way is hopeful and helpful for you whether you are in this season or not yet in this season.

We are so excited to talk about parenting from a biblical standpoint in the coming weeks and hope you find these episodes enlightening and helpful.

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Welcome to episode 52, our first episode of our Parenting Biblically Series.

In this episode, Bella and Jess kick off the series with an interesting conversation about what they would do and wouldn't do in their parenting that their parents did with them.

We are so excited to talk about parenting from a biblical standpoint in the coming weeks and hope you find these episodes enlightening and helpful.

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Hey friends,

Welcome to episode 51.

In this episode we dive into what performative Christianity is on social media and in some churches today.

Jesus makes it very clear in the Gospels by rebuking the Pharisees (Matthew 6:5-8) for their self-righteous acts, so we want to lovingly call out Christians who need to check their hearts on social media.

We also call out some churches that are very performance-driven and challenge what the true reason for gathering with believers are.

This is a topic that we need to talk about, because we are done with performative Christianity online and in the church.

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