A new monthly series, A Sermonette: A Short Sermon for Your Long Day.

Do I believe that the Lord is good? 

Do I believe that He is for me?

Do I believe the Lord is in me/with me?

“Out of my distress, I called to the Lord and answered me,” Psalm 118:5

What about the parts of myself that do not align with these truths? If I am not aligned with the truths that God says about me, I am allowing my humanness and my sinful nature to get in the way of the Lord’s full authority over my life. If I am not aligned with these truths then I am deceived and am not stepping into the true freedom found in Christ. 

We don’t just memorize scripture to memorize it. When we know it intimately, we can call on it as a tool when we have a weak moment in our faith. His character and his word are found scattered amongst these holy pages. 

We will be held accountable at the gates and ignorance is not an excuse. This might seem harsh, and please hear my heart in this. His love is so much greater than we realize. His word is a tool in our armor and he asks us to use it to protect, to shield, to stand on in these moments. (Ephesians 6:10-20)

Today’s challenge to you is, “Am I being the ultimate authority over my life or is he?”

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To him be the glory, SB. <3 

A new monthly series, A Sermonette: A Short Sermon for Your Long Day.

What is the gospel? This is a word that is often thrown around but do we really know what it means?

The gospel, which translates to “the good news” as told in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are the stories of Jesus and his time here on earth. They share many of the stories and teachings of his ministry, “the Way.” 

Many of the people that Jesus met had very differing opinions and theology, he pushed and stretched the status quo and their ideas. Our question today is, where are we boxing God in?

It is good news is that God already had a plan for reconciliation. He knew of our shortcomings before they even happened and he writes a better story! 

I pray this would leave you bold, and emboldened to spread the good news, to share the gospel, and tell people about a man named Jesus who was already predestined to die on a cross for the reconciliation and redemption of God’s holy people. AMEN. 

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Seeking a greater relationship with Jesus but don't know where to start? The Flourishing Faith Tool Kit is a practical resource that will help you develop intentional practices and skills to grow your faith through application and seeking him in all that you do. Join our growing community. 

Love the podcast and want to support the mission of strengthening the hearts of sons and daughters? ⁠Consider supporting the show monthly and sowing a seed.⁠ Your love, encouragement, seeds, and prayer are a blessing to me, I pray the Lord would use your faithfulness to bless you 30, 60, and 100 fold. 

To him be the glory, SB. <3 

A new monthly series, A Sermonette: A Short Sermon for Your Long Day.

Who is Jesus and why did he come? Maybe you've had deep questions that have always kept you wondering. We take a look at John 3:16-18, one of the most well-known verses in all of scripture. It reveals a greater story when we include verses 17-18 into the conversation.

Jesus was a man who brought reconciliation back into a fallen world. What are we going to do about it?

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Seeking a greater relationship with Jesus but don't know where to start? The Flourishing Faith Tool Kit is a practical resource that will help you develop intentional practices and skills to grow your faith through application and seeking him in all that you do. Join our growing community.

Love the podcast and want to support the mission of strengthening the hearts of sons and daughters? Consider supporting the show monthly and sowing a seed. Your love, encouragement, seeds, and prayer are a blessing to me, I pray the Lord would use your faithfulness to bless you 30, 60, and 100 fold.

To him be the glory, SB. <3

Join us for part three and the final clip from my interview with Hannah James, a strong woman of the faith, with beautiful wisdom, insight, and revelations that will help us all find comfort and accountability in walking closely with the Lord. 

“The corporate church is a little ill and wounded right now, and we are praying for her to heal.”

Doesn’t the Lord promise that he will come back for a spotless bride? What exactly does this mean? In this final clip, we talk about how both of us in different seasons walked away as we believed that we were written off, “I was already worthless, so what was the point??”

We don’t always hear the toxic nature of beliefs and thoughts like this, that are so counterintuitive to who scriptures tell us that he is and the way that he loves us, so. 

“He loves us because he loves us” - Shauna recalls a pastor praying this over her. We can’t do anything to not get it. We can’t earn his love, he already gave it to us. His love for us never changes. 

We must learn to invite Jesus into our everyday moments, because he knows our exact heart in each of them, When we do, we have clearer and more consistent opportunities for obedience, not just in the big things but in the seemingly minuscule things. 

He is the same, we are different and we change, but he doesn’t so we can continue to trust him in each moment. 

We also discuss the power of healing that starts on the individual level, and if we continue to seek the gifting more than we seek him then our identity is found in what we can do for HIM, and not what he wants to do IN US. Our gifting is a responsibility to edify the church. 

If you think you have done things that have counted you completely out, “I’m not deserving, I am not worth it.”

In the name of Jesus, our Savior and our Lord, who came in the flesh and resurrected us, we break that off of you NOW. 

We proclaim that we are the children of God that creation has been waiting for.

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

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Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Take a listen to part 2 of my interview with my friend and sister in the faith, Hannah James.

In this week’s episode, we talked about how the Lord promises, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” John 4:23

This episode was jam-packed with many different viewpoints and perspectives. We talked about the power of a name, the deep ways that Jesus loves us, the staying power of grace, and how the giftings are not always received by the world. 

We asked questions like, 

“Jesus, do you love me?” 

“When do we enter into resurrected life?” 

“How do we put our phone down?”

“What will the fullness of love be like?”

and laughed, talked about the challenges of social media, and continued to give glory, honor, and praise to our king!

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Starting from scratch with Hannah James

My friend and sister in the faith, Hannah James, joins us for this week’s episode (part 1 of 3). A beautiful woman of God, full of love, knowledge, and experience of walking with Jesus in various stages of her faith. She shares with us about her early stages and how he helped her start over from scratch. Through continued obedience, Jesus gave her a gift and she shares about the first time she used the gift at the capital here in Wisconsin. 

The Lord said to her, “You don’t like your life right now,”

She said, “You are right Lord, I don’t.”

He smiled, “You should give it to me.”

Take a listen to part 1 of three, and stay tuned for more of this incredible story! 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

"Teen Talks" is a testament to the inspiring faith and courage of the Gen-Z generation. Guided and fueled by the Holy Spirit, these young adults are walking boldly and living out their faith with great conviction. Their hearts, minds, and spirits are moved by the Holy Spirit, empowering them to achieve amazing things without looking to the ways of the world. It's truly inspiring to witness their unwavering faith and steadfast commitment to living a life that glorifies God.

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12

Meet my friend Alyssa who has such a soft and gentle spirit, she challenged us with a few questions during this weeks episode that I believe are very useful for many of us, no matter where we are on our faith walk. She asks, “Is there a difference between your life getting easier and your life getting better?” As I interviewed Alyssa she talks about how walking with Jesus isn’t necessarily easier, but its better because we have tools to cope with the fact that it is not easier. “The journey is not better than the destination.”

Alyssa shares one of her favorite verses from John 15:18, “if the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.” 

“The worlds hatred,” she says, “is about knowing that you do not live for the world, you live for God. You are just passing through to get to something eternal.”

This is not just a podcast for teens, it’s for adults who are wanting to better understand the hearts, minds, and challenges of today’s youth. I pray this episode move you.

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Oh, How He Loves Us So.

A few days ago, the Lord told me while we journaled together that my “peace and joy are of the utmost importance to him.” He wanted me to experience these gifts and the fruits of his spirit. 

I felt so loved in that moment. It was important to him that I was able to experience both peace and joy in my life. 

On this week’s episode, we take a look at a few verses from the message translation in Isaiah 44 and 45. There was a line that stopped me in my tracks. 

“Come back to me, come back. I’ve redeemed you.”

Would we turn back from our ways? Would we learn to seek him? Would we be brave enough to stop going at it in our own way??

I see the Lord simply calling his children home to him. He doesn’t need us but he wants us. 

His love for us is so deep, pure, life-changing and transformational. 

It is already yours, would you grab hold of it and seek him fully?

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

The Lord is inviting us all into a deeper and more meaningful relationship with him. Over the last few weeks, I have been asked to put things aside while I seek him in the secret place.

This time together with him is sacred, as he shares his heart and heals deep seated wounds that were still gushing (unbeknown to me). The secret place is a place of complete surrender in the quiet of your heart, learning to hear his voice with clarity and distinction and putting down the things that keep getting in the way of that relationship.

He is inviting you into something deeper, richer, and more fulfilling than this world will ever be, but it comes with a cost. Jesus warns us about being lukewarm for his kingdom.

I don’t want you to be lukewarm or cold, I want you to know the deep riches of the love of our Father who waits for us patiently with long-suffering.

Are you willing to pay the cost to step into full redemption on the other side?

If we do not devote ourselves to him then everything else is “meaningless, meaningless, meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 1), we must learn to seek him above ALL else. 

I hear many people ask questions like, “What is my purpose? What should I do? Where do I go?”

You have a divine calling within you to love the Lord your God with ALL of your heart, all of your might, and all of your strength.

Our purpose is to worship him and to seek him, to give him the glory in all that we do. I pray that this episode invite you into something that changes your heart for the Lord in a deeply transformative way. I know it will not come without difficulty and pain, but his tender love will heal even the deepest of wounds and it is worth it, HE is worth it. 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

In Christ, we are overcomers.

But with Jesus, we can find gratitude for even these small moments that do not define us, but refine us for his kingdom purposes. I cannot help but laugh at this moment in time. 

I have always been my own worst enemy, listening to the lies that have kept me debilitated by feelings of lack and self-deprication. It has been a long journey of learning that my thoughts do not always align with how God sees me. Someone said to once to me like this, “you might be wrong about you.”

I have to look really hard sometimes to see the truth behind the lies of condemnation that i’ve believed about myself. Lies that believe I am not good enough, or that my body is broken, or that I don’t belong.

Condemnation is not our sentence. 

I can choose for the chains to hold me back, which I have done before, OR I can choose Him. 

I can choose Him, fully. 

I can move past the lie with the truth, that he loves me because he loves me because he loves me and that my circumstance do not define me, but only HE can. 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs