The Grace & Cherish Podcast

The Grace & Cherish Podcast

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  • 6. Negative Space: Spiritual Formation in Interior Design

    There are many ways our homes can participate in the spiritual formation process. What does spiritual formation have to do with hospitality? Well everything. In order to be hospitable, to serve and welcome other people motivated by love and care requires we know true Love and true Welcome from, as the Word says, the One who loved us first. There isn’t enough grit or hustle in the world to help us strive our way toward being hospitable people. That strength comes from the Holy Spirit alone.

    In this episode we explore:

    • Negative space in interior design and how to incorporate it in your home
    • Importance of practicing silence and solitude
    • Showing hospitality from a place of “being” before doing
      • 29 min
    • 5. Focal Points: Spiritual Formation in Interior Design

      Our homes are places full of opportunity for relationship, for love, for teaching and growing and so much more. I believe our homes can also be vessels for our spiritual formation, but do we view them that way?

      This episode is all about spiritual formation and interior design - specifically how focal points can help us learn to abide. I am passionate about interior design, and I believe beauty points to hope, so join me as we consider how something like interior design can help us become people of Love and show hospitality in a world that desperately needs it.

      In this episode we explore:

      • The connection between spiritual formation and interior design through “focal points”
      • What is a focal point in interior design? Why is it necessary?
      • Receiving hospitality from God
      • The importance of abiding


        • Visit the website for a specific example of using focal point sin your home as a reminder to abide: Ep. 5 Bringing it Home exercise

        20 min
      • 4. Hospitality in Your Community: An Invitation Out

        Isaiah 58, a passage known to be about fasting and God’s definition of true fasting, has also significantly influenced my understanding of hospitality as being something done both in one’s home and out of it.

        In this episode we explore:

        • How Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25 can expand our understanding of showing hospitality and becoming people of Love
        • Examples of opportunities to show hospitality during our ordinary days
          • 27 min
        • 3. Hospitality at Home: An Invitation In

          This episode is part one of a two part series where we explore hospitality as something we can offer both in our homes and outside of them. In part one, we’re considering what it looks like to show hospitality at home for the guests you invite in and for the people you live with. I’ll share three common barriers to showing hospitality in our homes along with a few questions to get you thinking deeply and creatively.

          In this episode we explore:

          • Becoming people of welcome
          • Preparing for guests through prayer
          • 3 common barriers to showing hospitality
          • Creating a hospitable home for those living in it (see questions in the reflection section of the show notes: www.graceandcherish.com)
            • 32 min
          • 2. Hospitality: A Heart Posture

            When we hear the word hospitality we often think about action. And we should. Hospitality is an action, it is something we do, that we offer, that we show to others. It is also something we receive. Both are important when engaging hospitality. But before both of these things, we must consider our heart posture.

            In this episode we explore:

            • Our heart posture toward God and others when showing hospitality
            • The importance of receiving and giving in hospitality
            • How Jesus showed hospitality to others
            • Encouragement (and challenge) to consider how we receive God’s hospitality
              • 23 min
            • 1. Start Here: Hospitality and Formation

              What is hospitality really about? And, how does it impact who you are  becoming? Today’s episode explores the unique relationship between hospitality and our personal formation - making a case for why hospitality is necessary in all of our lives.

              23 min
            • Ep. 24 Hospitality in Training for a Half Marathon
              Today on the podcast I am sharing about lessons learned through training for a half marathon, and how they taught me to be more hospitable-- to myself. Listen in and consider how you too may need to start practicing a bit more personal hospitality.
              9 min

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            Welcome to the Grace and Cherish podcast, where we explore the role of hospitality in our homes...and our lives. This is a podcast about hospitality, and, it’s about formation. Let's explore the role…