Our culture loves "random" acts of kindness, but God calls His people to a lifestyle of kindness. Let's talk to those entrusted to us!

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

Do you feel control slipping through your fingers this year? If we ever had any illusions about control, 2020 has proven how little we have. From politics to the pandemic, we feel the angst of a world spinning out of control.

But here's the thing: as this year comes to a difficult landing and the vestiges of what we thought we controlled are going down the drain, Christ-followers absolutely have control over whether or not we’ll live by God’s algorithms for our lives.

Our opinions may or may not go far on social media; our biblical world-view may no longer be considered even viable in the media. Nonetheless, our algorithms can never, ever be shut down when we live by God’s standards and His rules of love and mercy, respect and submission, kindness and compassion. These things are, absolutely, in our control.

And this is what we call "Algorithms with an Amen."

With this, in these days leading up to our country’s election, Family Disciple Me begins a very important new series about this. What algorithms do we live by? Truth is, as we head to the ballot box, we’re not just voting; we’re teaching the next generation our algorithms by word and example.

Discipleship starts with a conversation, and this podcast episode accompanies the first conversation in the series: "Algorithms with an Amen: CHOOSE GOD." This choice affects every single other choice of our lives - and, regardless of all else, we DO have control over this. Let's dive into the conversations!

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

In this season of history, there are plenty of conspiracies going around, about everything from COVID to cabals. The secrecy and unknown of the purposes behind these can incite fear and anxiety. However, our God is very clear  in His Word about HIS purposes. It’s important for us to know what these are are and give this confidence to the next generation.

Tosha Williams shares a couple recent stories about her family's recent grappling with God's unchanging purposes. From a disbelieving professor to COVID tests, when you lean into what God says about His purposes, you find confidence in knowing what He has been working to accomplish His plan since the beginning of this world - a plan that neither began in the first century nor is thwarted by current pandemics.

Discipleship starts with a conversation, and this podcast episode accompanies the final conversation in the Anchors series: "An Anchor for Our Souls: God's Unchanging Purposes." As you and your family talk about what is changing in this world, this is a great moment to talk about what is unchanging.

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

Ah, the Finn Treasure - a modern day treasure hunt completed just a few months ago. This interesting adventure barely fit in news columns, so focussed was the world on everything from pandemics to protests. But, after a decade of searching and thousands on the quest, after multiple people's misadventures and five deaths in the quest (including a Grand Junction pastor), one lucky person found the treasure. (You might say 2020 was a good year for that person!)

Thing is, not just one person but every person has the opportunity to find and claim the treasures of God's promises. And His promises aren't buried in unlikely places; He put these treasures in His Word, hundreds and even thousands of them. God wants us to find His treasures, and His Holy Spirit even helps us claim these for our hearts and lives.

What a great truth to disciple our kids about! In the discipleship conversation that goes along with this podcast, we talk about "God's Unchanging Promises."

Discipleship starts with a conversation - and this week, that conversation can start with a treasure hunt story! Dive in to talking to the next generation about all that God promises for us!

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

How are you holding onto the unchanging anchor of God's Word this year? In this episode, FDM founder Tosha Williams talks about a season when she had an extraordinary experience with God's Word - how God used it to save her as she held onto it through one of the hardest seasons of her life.

Unfortunately, in this difficult year, statistics are showing that Christians are holding on to God's Word less and less. "Americans Engagement of Bible Dramatically Declining in COVID-19" a recent Barna study showed. 

This doesn't have to be true - it shouldn't be true. Believers in Jesus have the amazing opportunity to hold on to God's Word - and teach their kids to do the same.

Remember - discipleship starts with a conversation, so have one about God's Word with those entrusted to you today!

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The Family Disciple Me ministry exists to catalyze devotion driven discipleship in our homes and around the world. We believe that discipleship starts with a conversation, and FDM provides free, easily-accessible, biblical resources to encourage these meaningful conversations  along life's way. Sign up through our website to be "the first to know" about upcoming releases and resources (including the FDM App - coming soon!!!) You can also follow Family Disciple Me on social media. 

Family Disciple Me  is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry, and all donations are tax deductible. More information, blogs, statement of faith and contact info can be found at familydiscipleme.org 

In this episode, Tosha Williams tells about visiting a childhood home her Navy family built - a really special place that eventually became a scene for Hoarders: Buried Alive. All things change - and that house was a prime example.

Everything in us and around us changes - - - everything! Change causes uncertainty, and uncertainty can cause fear and anxiety. However, in our crazy, ever changing world, God does not change. This is a powerful truth we can hold on to like a ship holds on to an anchor.

Our unchanging God is who He says He is does what He says He will do. "I the Lord do not change," He told us in Malachi 3:6.

How does this help and encourage us today? What does this mean? This episode goes along with the discipleship conversation "An Anchor for Our Souls - God's Unchanging Character."

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

What does it mean that "Our God is a Consuming Fire" (Hebrews 12:29)? Should this inspire and encourage us or fill us with fear and dread? In this podcast, Tosha Williams talks about the truths behind Hebrews 12. The fire of God will consume selfishness and sin, but His fire will make our hearts burn within us when we live for His glory in reverence and awe. 

This podcast goes along with the discipleship conversation "Look to Our God".

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

Do you like dessert? The Williams' family sure does! Pass the ice cream please!

However, starting many years ago, we learned a discipline that has affected our family from head to toe. A month-long August "sugar fast" has become one of our annual traditions - - - and this discipline has entirely affected our family's character. This year we completed our fifteenth annual sugar fast, and, in this podcast, I (Tosha Williams) talk about some of the ways it has been so important for us.

Maybe you think you could NEVER go a day, much less a month, without sugar. Maybe you think there is NO WAY your kids could ever go without multiple daily "treats." I would have thought the same thing. But, after 15 years, I want to encourage you that we serve the God of the impossible - - - and we can do all things through God who gives us strength. And as we do all things through His strength, we find we have new strengths we never even knew were possible.

Take a listen and see what God would have to say to you through this podcast today! Then have a conversation with those entrusted to you about what He would have you do!

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The Family Disciple Me ministry exists to catalyze devotion driven discipleship in our homes and around the world. We believe that discipleship starts with a conversation, and FDM provides free, easily-accessible, biblical resources to encourage these meaningful conversations  along life's way. Sign up through our website to be "the first to know" about upcoming releases and resources (including the FDM App - coming soon!!!) You can also follow Family Disciple Me on social media. 

Family Disciple Me  is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry, and all donations are tax deductible. More information, blogs, statement of faith and contact info can be found at familydiscipleme.org 

We don’t like to be shaken, not as people or as a society. These days, our world is shaking with everything from pandemics to politics - - - and then there are our own personal “shakings” in relationships, changes at school, health risks and more. However, God's Word says, “Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken...” Hebrews 12:28a How does this affect us now? How do we hold on to heaven while our feet our planted in a shaky world?

Tosha Williams talks about her experience with the "Total Body Enhancement" machine at her fitness club - and the lessons it has shown her about how to hold on to heaven whil planted on shaky ground of earth.

This episode goes along with the discipleship lesson "Look to God's Kingdom" which is available at familydiscipleme.org

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org

This week’s Family Disciple Me verse and discipleship conversation challenges us to look to Jesus. The question is, HOW do we do that? The internet has 1000s of pictures of Jesus, but obviously Scripture means so much more than that. 

What does it mean to look to somebody our eyes cannot right now see? What does it mean to look to somebody we’ve never personally met, touched or been around? 

Scripture teaches us that looking to Jesus starts with being in His Word.

In this podcast, Tosha Williams talks about this and encourages listeners to lean into God’s Word. Scripture gives us the pictures of Jesus  - - - and then our lives and Jesus stories become the pictures that introduce other people so that they can look to Jesus too.

The discipleship conversation that goes along with this podcast can be found at “20/20 Vision Check: Look to Jesus” - Be encouraged to Look to Jesus and start a discipleship conversation about this today!

Some of the verses referenced in this podcast are: Hebrews 12:1-2; John 1:1,14; 5:46; 17:20,24; Luke 24:16,27,31

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The Family Disciple Me ministry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to encouraging Christ-followers of all ages to "Meet With God and Make Him Known." Discipleship starts with a conversation, and Family Disciple Me provides free, easily-accessible, relevant, Bible-based devotion and discipleship materials to make this doable along life's way. Subscribe for free to receive the weekly FDM text and/or email with the links to the week's content. Check out the ministry website at familydiscipleme.org