We just entered Hebrew year 5787 — and while some are calling it the "Year of the Sword," this episode isn't about the trend. It's about a truth scripture has always taught: God's word is a sword, and we're called to speak it over our lives. In this solo teaching, we break down the difference between manifestation and speaking God's word, why your tongue carries the power of life and death, and five practical ways to guard your mouth from speaking defeat. If this episode blesses you, share it with someone who needs it.

Zorah means "hornet" and it's the town where a barren woman received God's promise, where a deliverer was born, and where the Spirit of the Lord first began to stir him. In this episode, we unpack Judges 13 and the announcement of Samson's birth, and discover why fruitfulness was never meant to be about us, it's about His glory, and the assignment attached to what He's given us. If you're in a season that feels barren, this episode will teach you how to speak the promise instead of rehearsing what went wrong.

After her husband asked for a divorce and she later discovered infidelity in her marriage, Janice heard God speak with a clarity she’d never experienced before: though the permissible will of Scripture said she could leave, God’s perfect will was for her to stay. This is the story of that obedience — the wrestling, the surrender, and the reconciliation that followed.

Janice shares the golden nuggets that carried her through, the difference between striving and abiding, and how sowing forgiveness instead of bitterness changed the trajectory of her marriage and her walk with God. Her forthcoming book, Are You Kidding Me, God?: When God Calls You to Stay After Infidelity, chronicles the full journey.

If you’re standing at your own crossroads between what’s permissible and what’s perfect, this episode is for you.

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The Israelites had already watched the Red Sea split and still grumbled their way through the wilderness. Why? Because knowing God is good and living like it are two different battles, fought in two different places: the heart, and the mind.

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Catherine Mueller-Bell, LPC — a Christian counseling professor with over 40 years of clinical mental health counseling experience and 24 years as a professor of counseling. Dr. Mueller-Bell specializes in trauma-informed and intercultural counseling, serves as an Ambassador of Counselor Education in Zambia, Peru, and India, and teaches counseling from a Christian worldview at Grand Canyon University.

Together we unpack:

• What’s actually happening psychologically when our heart’s posture shifts

• Why our default in hard seasons leans toward grumbling and striving instead of trust

• The fight, flight, fawn, freeze response and what it means for our faith

• How Romans 12:2’s call to “renew your mind” lines up with what psychology says about reshaping thought patterns

• Practical, research-backed tools for shifting a fearful posture into a trusting one

• What to do when you know the truth but still feel stuck

This is a conversation for anyone who has ever wondered why trust feels harder than it should and wants to understand both the science and the Scripture behind it.

Rooted in John 15:5. Part of the Why Our Heart’s Posture Matters series.

Quin Arrington joins Why Our Heart’s Posture Matters to talk about the seasons of motherhood where doubt, comparison, and exhaustion crept into her heart’s posture. From a sleepless first night home with her newborn to the nightly grind of bath time and bedtime, Quin shares how she learned the difference between striving in her own strength and abiding in God’s. Rooted in John 15:5, this episode is an honest look at inviting God into the mundane.

We’re kicking off a brand new series, “Why Our Heart’s Posture Matters,” rooted in John 15:5. Just like the Israelites in the wilderness, our heart’s posture can either carry us into everything God has for us — or keep us circling in grumbling and doubt.

In this first episode, Pastor Amy joins us to share her own posture shift: the 7-year journey of waiting on God to bring her husband, a confirmation she received before they’d even spoken, and the seasons of silence, insecurity, and heartbreak that tested her faith along the way. She opens up about the moment she prayed for “heart surgery” from God, and what it looked like to finally surrender striving for abiding.

If you’re in a season of waiting and wondering if God still sees you — this episode is for you.

Before David was king, he was in the field with his father's sheep faithful in the unseen, ordinary moments. When Samuel came to anoint the next king, God reminded him that He doesn't look at outward appearance, but at the heart.

In this episode, we sit with a hard question: do you still believe God can fulfill what He promised you? What is your heart posture for the remainder of this year — are you walking in obedience, still waiting in faith, still believing?

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1–13

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Maybe you’re in a waiting season, walking through grief, or in the middle of a transition. In this episode, we talk about the difference between being honest with God and throwing a pity party, the place where we stop listening to what He has to say.

We dig into Job chapter 41 and the Leviathan, a picture of pride hardened like a rock, and how easily we can make our pain bigger than God without realizing it. Rooted in John 15, we’re reminded that even in our grief and hardest seasons, God’s desire for us is to abide — not pull away.

We also look at the woman with the issue of blood in Luke 8, whose twelve years of disappointment didn’t harden her heart, but made her reach for Jesus

Wherever you are today, this is an invitation to let God into the hard place and receive the refreshment and breakthrough waiting on the other side.

Do you know the voice of the Holy Spirit? In this episode, we open Acts 1 to talk about what it means to be a true disciple , a learner and why that's impossible without the Spirit. We look at Elijah's encounter with God in the still, small voice (1 Kings 19), and unpack two practical ways to learn to recognize when God is speaking: prayer and time in the Word. If you've ever second-guessed whether what you're hearing is really God, this one's for you.

Your fruit determines your maturity, not your intentions. In this episode, Sherly unpacks the fruit of the Spirit, what it means to move from milk to maturity, and why God won’t let us stay lukewarm. Then she shares a vision of a person sitting in a pew, gifted, called, and still not moving and what it looks like to be faithful with what God has already entrusted to us. Because much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48).