Sisters Strengthening Sisters

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories
2)    See God’s hand in everything and
3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In the Season 1 finale, Chandra and Sarah recap some of their favorite parts of the previous 10 episodes. They talk about the stories of Hagar and Lazarus and how they differ from other topical episodes. They also discuss plans and desires for season 2 (send us your topic requests!). Most importantly, they emphasize their hope that this podcast focuses on God's glory and how He can help you rewrite your story for His glory!

Resources:
Grief Share
Facebook: Chandra Denise Jarrett and Sarah Andersen Oxley
IG: official_chandrajarrett and soxley1227
*We will announce Season 2 dates on social media*

Scriptures: 
2 Cor 1:3-5 (MSG)
James 1:2-5

Tune in next week for our final episode of this season. As always, thanks for joining us!

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories
2)    See God’s hand in everything and 
3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In today's episode, Chandra and Sarah discuss part 2 of miracles, signs, and wonders by taking a deep dive into the story of Lazarus in John 11. 

The begin with a recap of last weeks episode and how discussing personal miracles impacted them throughout the week (1:00). Chandra again references Unger's Bible dictionary and includes some definitions of miracles that help provide context (7:00). 

Sarah gives an overview of John 11 ( (12:57). She and Sarah discuss highlights from verses 1-44. There are good thoughts and questions to ponder that Sarah and Chandra discuss such as:

• Is the miracle the one we want, or does God have something bigger?
• Do you become discouraged when you know God has the power to do something but He doesn't?
• Sometimes the people closest to us don't understand the miracle God is performing. Listen with caution and trust God.
• A delay may be to increase our faith or the faith of others.
• When we try to control God's timing, we risk eliminating a miracle and taking away glory given to God.

Resources:
Unger's Bible Dictionary

Scriptures: Hebrews 11:6

Tune in next week for our final episode of this season. As always, thanks for joining us!

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In today's episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about miracles, signs, and wonders. They start with a discussion about whether miracles happen today or if they're a "Bible thing". The episode continues with talk about "you must believe to receive" and whether or not they believe in miracles (5:00). Chandra references Unger's Bible dictionary and includes some definitions of miracles that help provide context (7:00). Next there is a conversation about miracles being a help or a hindrance (16:45) and the different types of miracles (22:00). Chandra and Sarah each share a personal story about a miracle in their lives (30:00 and 37:00) and the episode concludes with a sneak peek of the next episode - diving into the miracle of Lazarus!

Resources:
Unger's Bible Dictionary
Miracles All Around Us - True-Life Stories of Heaven Touching Earth (compiled by John van Diest)
Link to Chandra's book - What I Wish I Knew About Abortion

Scriptures: Hebrews 11:6, Acts 2:22, Exodus 15:11, John 2, John 9, Mark 5, Psalm 147:3, James 5:16, 1 John 1:7

Tune in next week for a more in-depth look at the story of Lazarus.

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In part 2 of Grief and Loss, Chandra and Sarah discuss suffering and how it accompanies grief and loss. 

Chandra talks about suffering and how it relates to the grief and loss she experienced in the passing of her father one year ago. (9:00)

Sarah talks about suffering and how it relates to the grief and loss she experienced through her divorce. (12:00)

Chandra and Sarah talk through the intensity of suffering and if it has been more or less intense than they expected in certain situations. (15:45)

Sarah shares a friend's story about suffering and where God was in the moment. She took it to God and His response was, "I upgraded your relationships." We don't always see the results or benefits of suffering but if we ask God, He may reveal them to us in a way that gives Him glory. (20:05) Chandra adds, "What we may see as suffering, God sees as an upgrade."

Chandra and Sarah discuss things that give them comfort in times of suffering. (29:00 and 32:00)

Tip or takeway - choose one thing that you can control today (35:00)

The episode is closed with Chandra and Sarah talking about how God can get the glory in our suffering (39:30)

Scriptures: Psalm 34:17, Psalm 34:14, Romans 5:3-4, James 1:12, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (MSG), Psalm 62:8

Tune in next week for an uplifting episode about miracles, signs, and wonders that Chandra and Sarah have personally experienced!

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In this episode, Chandra and Sarah discuss grief and loss. Jesus promises that we will be comforted (6:00). Chandra explains a grief ambush as surprise triggers, such as songs, sights, sounds, smells and places that cause our emotions to take over (9:38).

Sarah shares that we each experience loss in many ways. Divorce is a deep loss with grief associated with it (22:30). 

Tune in next week for Grief and Loss pt. 2.

Scriptures: Matthew 5:4; Psalm 34:14; Revelation 21:4; 1 Corinthians 1:3-4; John 16:22; Ecclesiastes 3:4

Resources: 
Griefshare - https://www.griefshare.org

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Our Recap and Reflection are shorter episodes that cover current events, hot topics, and other things that come to mind in our day to day lives.

In this episode, Sarah reflects on how she felt missing church while attending the Daytona 500 with Faith. She shares how she and Faith had God moments on the trip. Here’s a few highlights. 

6:30 – Sarah sees a gorgeous sunset and immediately said, “Faith looked what God gave us.” She pointed out God’s beauty to Faith. Such a beautiful gift. 
8:00 – Faith asks to listen to worship music, specifically worship music on Spotify from their church. 
9:00 – Faith recognizes a song about Resurrection Sunday and both Sarah and Faith talk about how they love the Resurrection of Christ. 
10:30 – Faith hears a song that causes Faith to question if the lyrics align with scripture. Faith reads her Bible to assure the lyrics of the song are correct.  
13:45 – They skipped church, but church didn’t skip them. 

Do you feel guilty when you miss church? Are you serving the Lord on autopilot religiously or in relationship with Him? Is it possible to experience God outside of Sunday church while enjoying a vacation or time with family? Stay tuned for the Religion vs Relationship episode as we go deeper.  

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

Special Guest: Corina Kojack

Scriptures: Proverbs 11:14; James 5:16 

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In this episode, Chandra and Sarah continue their discussion about Jesus + Therapy along with a special guest, Corina Kojack. Corina gives her perspective as a therapist who loves Jesus and welcomes Him into her counseling sessions. 

The discussion begins with Corina introducing herself (3:30) and explaining why Jesus plus therapy is important to her (6:15). Don’t miss how Corina “cheats” in her sessions! They continue with Corina addressing challenges and myths about therapy that can make it difficult for Christians to seek professional counseling (8:20). 

They also talk about how Christian counseling can be a joint process with believers and the Holy Spirit – leaving room for Jesus to work and heal alongside an equipped counselor (11:00). Corina continues the discussion by giving examples of why a pastor cannot always be the “go to” (12:35) and Chandra shares a healing experience in her own life (16:15). Corina then shares details about the training she has gone through and describes different types of therapy (17:45) which leads Sarah to ask how one might know when to seek out therapy that they are not currently engaged in (21:45). 

The episode wraps up with a discussion about “trauma dumping” on friends and family (31:00), how God can take pain and hard places to rewrite our stories to give Him glory (39:30), and Corina addresses using insurance (or not) in mental health care (40:00).

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real-life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about Jesus “plus” Therapy. 

• They cover personal experiences with therapy (9:00 and 17:30), 
• how they balance prayer and therapy (16:15), 
• whether to pray or talk to a counselor (24:15), 
• the difference between a counselor and a friend (27:15), 
• what counseling has done for each of them (37:30), and 
• some fears that prevent people from seeking therapy (39:45). 

Scripture: Proverbs 11:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Resources: 
- 3:15 – Sarah shared how her family prioritizes experiences over “stuff”. Instead of spending a lot of money on Christmas or birthday gifts, they choose something they want, something they need, something to wear,  something to read, and one family experience 
- 13:00 – Chandra recommended the book - “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel A van der Kolk 
- The book of Job – Job’s friends being too close to the situation to provide wise counsel; God’s perspective vs human perspective 
- Dr. Anita Phillips, trauma therapist and author of "The Garden Within" says – “emotions don’t last forever but they’ll wait forever” 

Make sure to tune in for the next episode – Jesus + Therapy – Part II – where we have a special guest help us dive deeper.  

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about the story of Hagar and how we can all relate to struggles in life.  They discuss letting children have a voice in decision making (6:30) and then dive into Genesis and Hagar’s story (10:00). They start by exchanging what comes to mind when they think of Hagar (11:45) and what happens when they try to “help God” (13:30). Chandra talks about when intention turns to tension (14:45) and they both discuss what has kept them anchored in hard places (22:00). Sometimes God’s answer is to “stop - and wait” (27:10) and while the desert was isolating for Hagar, it also gave her purpose and identity. Next, they visit the meaning of “Ishmael” - God heard (31:30) - and talk about how God gives us peace as we walk in obedience. In closing, they discuss takeaways for someone in a difficult situation.

Scriptures: Psalm 86:15, Numbers 6:24-26, Psalm 46:10, Proverbs 3:5-6, Genesis 16:9-14, 1 Peter 5:7 (AMP)

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Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:

1)    Share real life stories

2)    See God’s hand in everything and 

3)    Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory

In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about parenting styles, how our mothers impact our lives and the value of talking to your parents as adults. 

Sarah shared one of the ways she helps her daughter describe her feelings by asking, “What feels funky, your head, your heart, or your stomach?”

Learning to love every stage of your child’s life is a gift. Give yourself grace as a parent. You’re doing great mom and dad!

Scriptures: Psalm 127:1-5; Psalm 139:14-16; Ecclesiastes 3:1

Please share us with a friend and tune in each week for a new episode of Rewrite your Story for God’s Glory.

Please send comments, questions, or topics to [email protected]. Thanks!