How do we practically "remember the reason for the season". We're taking a three-week pause from discussing spiritual discipline to prepare our hearts more than our homes this Advent season with 15-minute episodes that lead us through the practice of listening prayer. The first topic of preparation? HOPE.

In this interview with Krista Hengesh of Live Salted  we dive into what it looks like to cultivate a secret place with God, how we get "violent" in protecting our time with Jesus (even when we don't "feel" anything from God), and how we fight the division the enemy tries to create between brothers and sisters in Christ.

In this episode, we unpack four of the most common lies the dear of being alone tells us and allow the Bible to point us to what solitude really is.

Why does solitude feel so taboo in our never-quiet culture? Why do our lives feel so uncontrollably noisy? Is community becoming an idol in our lives? We address all of these questions and MORE as we start unpacking the spiritual discipline of solitude.

In this episode, we face the scarcity mindset head-on and distinguish between scarcity and simplicity. What do we find? Simplicity leads to generosity because we can die to ourselves and rely on God as our leader and friend.

We’re diving into a new spiritual discipline and taking on the subject of simplicity. Whether we think the “simple life” is the magic bullet for all of our problems or God asking us to settle for “average” — We’re going straight to the words of Jesus and discovering how simplicity is trust in action.

In this episode we sit down with Phylicia Masonheimer and unpack to nitty gritty of study and call out a few lies surrounding the subject of Bible study. If you’re like us, you’ll be refreshed by Phylicia’s view on study and look up to her as a kind of big sis’— As a public theologian, she teaches Christians how to discern what is true and discuss the deep stuff, so don’t be surprised when this powerhouse woman challenges you to press into Jesus more.

We couldn’t talk about the discipline of study without checking our motives behind study and seeing where we are finding out safety— in right answers or in God. Because here is the thing— We are CALLED TO KNOW TRUTH. Studying to know what God says so that we can hold fast to it is not wrong, but when we are unwilling to lay down the idol of being “right” we miss out on God’s abundance and His invitation to be made more like Him.

Let’s talk about ’study’, shall we? Study is the discipline of UNDERSTANDING and it is this intimate knowledge that transforms us and sets us free to be BOLD in Jesus. But study requires us to believe that God actually wants to give us understanding and to be known by us. Ready to dive into our next discipline?

In this episode, Alyssa Steinhouse joins the conversation on Fasting and chats about breaking the stigma around “weird” Christian practices and how fasting actually does have a place in our everyday.