Let Me Ask You This

In this episode of Let Me Ask You This, I have the absolute joy of sitting down with Sarah Yardley, lead pastor of Emmaus Road Church in the UK and author of MORE > Change: Navigating Change with an Unchanging God.

Sarah has one of the most beautiful stories and tender hearts for Jesus. Her life is a stunning testimony of what it looks like to continually surrender, faithfully follow, and choose the narrow way with Christ, even when obedience asks us to leave behind what is familiar.

Together, we unpack her remarkable journey with Jesus, the beauty of a life wholly devoted to Him, and what it means to remain faithful through seasons of change and uncertainty.

There is something deeply compelling about a life that has continually said YES to Jesus. Sarah's loyalty to Him, her love for His presence, and her willingness to follow wherever He leads have left such a deep impression on my heart. And I have a feeling they will leave one on yours, too.

My prayer is that this conversation would stir a fresh hunger in you to know Jesus more deeply, trust Him more fully, and remember that the narrow way is still the most beautiful way when it leads us closer to Him.

Connect with Sarah Yardley:

• Website: https://www.sarahyardley.com

• Book: MORE > Change: Navigating Change with an Unchanging God

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

This week on Let Me Ask You This, I have the joy of sitting down with Ali Parsons, author of the newly released Bible study Moses: Knowing a God Who Knows You, to unpack the life of a man I think every single one of us can find a little bit of ourselves in.

Moses was a man acquainted with uncertainty, insecurity, reluctance, and the wilderness. A man who questioned his own qualifications, wrestled with the weight of his calling, and discovered over and over again that the presence of God was far more important than his own abilities.

Sound familiar?

Together, Ali and I explore the extraordinary invitation woven throughout Moses' very ordinary humanity. We consider what it means to be called by God when we feel wildly unqualified, to trust Him in the wilderness when the way forward is anything but clear, and to move beyond simply knowing about God into the beautiful, lifelong adventure of actually knowing Him.

Because perhaps the most remarkable thing about Moses' story isn't what Moses accomplished, but the God who faithfully walked with him through every bit of it.

Get Ali's new Bible study:

Moses: Knowing a God Who Knows You — 40-Day Bible Study

Connect with Ali:

Instagram: @heyaliparsons

Podcast: Neighbors with Ali Parsons

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

This week on Let Me Ask You This, I'm joined by Mac Bridges and Kenz Durham, the beautiful hearts behind Delight Ministries and authors of their newly released book, This Wasn't the Plan: How to Surrender Your Stuck and Set Your Soul in Motion.

Together, we're unpacking the tender, messy, and often surprisingly beautiful work of navigating life's unexpected twists and turns. We talk about surrendering the timelines we've written for ourselves, learning to trust God's character when we cannot trace His hand, and discovering that feeling stuck doesn't necessarily mean God has stopped moving.

If you're standing in the middle of a story you never would have written for yourself, I pray this conversation reminds you that an unexpected life can still be a deeply meaningful one.

Connect with Mac & Kenz:

Delight Ministries: https://www.delightministries.com

Grab their new book:

This Wasn't the Plan: How to Surrender Your Stuck and Set Your Soul in Motion

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

This week on Let Me Ask You This, I'm joined by the lovely ⁠Kayla Craig⁠, bestselling author, spiritual director, and the heart behind Liturgies for Parents, for a beautiful conversation about her newest book, Our Daily Breath: 365 Prayers and Practices That Whisper Peace in a Shouting World.

Together, Kayla and I unpack the ancient and beautiful practice of breath prayers—short, intentional prayers that invite us to become aware of God's presence in the ordinary moments of our lives. We explore what happens when our bodies are weary, our minds are overwhelmed, and our hearts don't quite know what to say to God.

This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt too exhausted to pray, too distracted to be still, or too overwhelmed to know where to begin. Perhaps the invitation today isn't to try harder or do more. Perhaps it's simply to breathe. And remember Who gave you that breath in the first place.

⁠Kayla's beautiful new book, Our Daily Breath⁠, is available now! 

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

For the third and final episode of our Midnight Hallelujah mini-series, we're turning the tables!

Throughout this series, we've been inviting you behind the pages of Midnight Hallelujah, pulling back the curtain on the stories, prayers, and wrestlings that gave birth to this book. And for this final conversation, I couldn't imagine a more fitting person to take the host's seat than one of my dearest friends, Anjel Murphy.

Anjel is no stranger to the podcast, but this time she's the one asking the questions! She's also someone who has walked closely beside me through so much of the life that fills these pages. She's seen the tears, the wrestling, the waiting, and the quiet ways God has met us in the middle of it all.

In this tender and honest conversation, Anjel interviews me about the parts of Midnight Hallelujah that were the hardest to write, what it meant to put some of our most vulnerable stories into the world, and what I hope readers will carry with them long after they turn the final page.

We talk about the beauty and cost of telling the truth, the courage it takes to hope when life has left you bruised, and why I believe this book is ultimately less about finding our way out of the dark and more about discovering the presence of Jesus within it.

It feels especially meaningful to close this series with someone who hasn't just heard these stories but has helped me live through some of them.

And the sweetest part? Midnight Hallelujah is officially out in the world!

My prayer is that these pages find their way into the hands of those who are weary from waiting, aching from loss, or wondering whether hope is still worth the risk.

Get your copy of Midnight Hallelujah: Why Hope Is Still Worth the Risk at midnighthallelujah.com.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

Welcome to part two of this special three-part Midnight Hallelujah series here on Let Me Ask You This!

In celebration of the release of my very first book, Midnight Hallelujah: Why Hope Is Still Worth the Risk, I wanted to set aside a few conversations to go a little deeper into the heart behind the pages—to talk about the stories, the theology, the wrestling, and the hope that shaped this book.

And in this episode, we’re switching things up a little.

My dear friend Brenna Blain takes the host seat and turns the questions on me. Together, we talk through different pieces of Midnight Hallelujah- the ideas that shaped it, the parts that cost me something to write, the things I discovered along the way, and the places where grief, hope, faith, and disappointment all seem to sit at the same table.

Midnight Hallelujah is officially out in the world now, and you can purchase your copy today wherever books are sold!!

Welcome to a special three-part Midnight Hallelujah series here on Let Me Ask You This.

In celebration of the release of my very first book, Midnight Hallelujah: Why Hope Is Still Worth the Risk, I wanted to set aside a few conversations to take you a little deeper into the heart behind these pages, the stories beneath the stories, the things I discovered while writing them, and the hope I pray you carry with you long after you close the book.

And there was no one I wanted to have one of these conversations with more than my husband, Zac Hepworth.

Zac has had a front-row seat to nearly every story inside Midnight Hallelujah. He has lived beside me through the prayers, the disappointments, the wrestling, the waiting, and the hallelujahs that can still rise up even when the night is long.

In this episode, Zac and I sit down together to unpack what I found in the process of writing this book. We talk about what it was like to revisit some of the hardest seasons of our lives through the writing process, what Zac noticed happening in me as I put words around grief and hope, the ideas that became clearer as the book took shape, and what I hope readers ultimately walk away believing about God, suffering, prayer, and the risk of hoping again.

Midnight Hallelujah releases September 29, 2026.

If you are listening before release day, I would be so grateful if you would take a moment to preorder your copy. And as a thank-you, every preorder comes with access to free gifts I spent a long time creating specifically for you to help you go even deeper into the message of the book.

And if you are listening after September 29, Midnight Hallelujah is officially out in the world and available wherever books are sold. I cannot quite believe I finally get to say that!!!!!

Thank you for listening, for sharing these conversations with me, and for making room for this little book in your life.

In this episode, I sit down with the brilliant Laura Wifler to talk about her newest book and poetry debut, This Side of the Sky. Together, we unpack the tension of faith and being human and how poetry can sometimes give language to the spiritual experiences we struggle to articulate.

Laura is such a gifted wordsmith, and I know this conversation, and this beautiful book, will meet so many of you right where you are!

Be sure to grab your copy of This Side of the Sky wherever books are sold.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

In this episode, we have the remarkable Jake Weidmann. Jake is a world-renowned artist, one of only nine Master Penmen in the world, an author, husband, and father of four. He and his beautiful bride, Hannah, have cultivated such an inspiring life of creativity, family, faith, and craftsmanship, and in this conversation we get to unpack the journey that has shaped the way Jake creates.

In his newest book, The Heart of the Maker, Jake invites us to recover a vision for creativity that is bigger than art itself. He explores what it means to create from a place of identity, devotion, discipline, and wonder, and how our creativity can become an act of worship in the shadow of the ultimate Maker.

And here is what I love so much about this conversation: creativity is not reserved for painters, writers, musicians, or people who would call themselves “artists.” If you are a human being, you are called to create. We bear the image of a Creator, which means there is something deeply woven into us that longs to cultivate, build, imagine, tend, shape, and bring beauty into the world around us.

The Heart of the Maker  gives practical, hands-on steps for cultivating a life of creativity, whether your canvas is a page, a home, a business, a garden, a family, a meal, a ministry, or something entirely your own. Jake reminds us that creativity is not about becoming impressive. It is about becoming attentive to the God who made us and learning to faithfully steward what He has placed in our hands.

This conversation made me want to pay closer attention, make things slowly, resist the pressure to produce for applause, and remember that some of the holiest work we do may simply be creating alongside the One who created us first.

BE SURE TO PURCHASE JAKE'S NEW BOOK. TRUST ME, it's not one you want to miss.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.

In this episode, I had the honor of sitting down with Jacob Coyne, founder of Stay Here, a suicide prevention organization that is quite literally saving lives all around the world.

Jacob carries such a deep burden for the brokenhearted, the weary, the suicidal, and the ones who feel like hope has become too far away to reach. Through Stay Here, he and his team are doing holy, practical, urgent work to help people stay alive, find support, and remember that their story is not over.

In our conversation, we unpack Jacob’s heart behind Stay Here, the sacredness of fighting for people in their darkest moments, and what it means to be a voice of hope in a generation quietly carrying so much pain.

We also talk about his newest book, The Secret Life of Christians, where Jacob invites readers into the beauty of the hidden life with Jesus. In a world so often obsessed with visibility, platforms, noise, and performance, this book is a tender call back to the secret place. Back to prayer. Back to intimacy. Back to the kind of life with God that may never be applauded by the world but is deeply known by Heaven.

Jacob walks the ancient road of the desert fathers and mothers of the faith and beautifully invites us to do the same. Not as a way of escaping the world, but as a way of being formed by Jesus in the quiet places before we ever step back into it.

This conversation is for the one who feels weary from the noise. It is for the one longing for a more intimate life with Jesus. It is for the one who needs to be reminded that hidden does not mean forgotten. Quiet does not mean insignificant. And staying alive, staying tender, staying with Jesus, is holy work.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions shared by guests on Let Me Ask You This are their own. This conversation is offered for reflection, encouragement, and exploration, and is not intended to replace professional, medical, mental health, legal, or therapeutic advice. Please use discernment, seek wise counsel, and reach out to a trusted professional when needed.