The Mentor's Table: A Place for Women Desiring a Biblical Spiritual Mentor

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You are invited to join my book development team. Listen in and comment on excerpts and focuses from each part of my book on surrender and spiritual disciplines. Who knows? You may even get a shoutout when the book gets published.

Also, we're changing the pacing of the pod through the end of the summer: From May until September, we'll be dropping episodes every OTHER week. 

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Welcome to the Mentor's Table--a place where you can pull up a chair for deeper discussions about spiritual and emotional health with an uncomfortable focus on surrender.

This episode may be unpopular, but I know the principle to be true. Listen the entire way through to hear not just why but what this word MUST be founded upon. It's counter-cultural, but more importantly, it's an act of obedience. It's a sign of surrender. 

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To schedule an online session with my life coach Jenna Zint, CLICK HERE. Tell her Joy sent you.

The book that is rocking my world and expanding my faith is Redeeming Your Timeline by Troy A. Brewer. Highly recommend!

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How do you teach your children to make Spiritual Disciplines (or as I like to say: Surrender Formation), a regular part of their life rhythm? I tell you what we did, and my prayer is that you take these two principles and use them as inspiration to adjust your own rhythms to raise your children in the way God is leading you to. 

Here's a hint from my mentor and friend, Jim Wideman: "Children learn more from what is caught rather than taught." 

This isn't meant to be prescriptive, rather descriptive of what has played out in our family. I'd love to hear your feedback.

Pull up a chair around the table at joyabad.com. 

To listen to my first two episodes about parenting, check out:

Practical and Spiritual Lessons From Choosing a College For Our Eldest

Reflections on Parenting: The Secret No One Is Talking About

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I haven't heard anyone else teaching this parenting principle, but it's vital. Even if having children is in your DISTANT future, this episode is for you. We're NOT talking about sleep training, discipline, or communication with your children. We're talking about how to ensure you don't have to parent alone (read: how to ensure you will have a community that is invested in your kids). And it all begins with the choices you make about how you spend your time NOW. 

For those who are already in the throes of parenting, it's not too late. The second best time to start is NOW. There is hope!

Do you want to know what the law of sowing and reaping has to do with why my daughters haven't walked away from their faith? Pull up a chair 🪑 

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Today I'm bringing some parenting reflections as the season of choosing a college for our first child begins to wrap up. Even if you think this season is too far off to bother learning now, please learn from me some clear first steps that began in elementary school that you're going to want to hear. Believe it or not, NOW is the time to start preparing (and it's not what you think).

Pull up a chair 🪑 by leaving a comment on joyabad.com. I want to hear from you, veteran parents, what did you learn by trial and error? And you, parents with younger kids, what questions do you have about this season? Let's continue the conversation.

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I wanted to share this conversation with you because it added so many important layers to our discussion about confirmation bias in February. Join me on As We Grow, as I talk with Gretchen, whose PhD program dovetailed so nicely into this topic, while she adds valuable components pulled from her area of expertise. 

And when you're finished listening to As We Grow, FOLLOW our show so you won't miss a future episode!

Since we won't be airing a new episode on The Mentor's Table next week, we highly recommend you go and listen to this podcast that so beautifully demonstrates what we've been talking about for the last two months here at The Mentor's Table: " No.1 Christianity Expert: The Truth About Christianity! The Case for Jesus (Historian's Proof)" on Diary of a CEO.

See you on the other side of spring break!

Joy

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As technology develops, discerning something counterfeit from something real is becoming increasingly more difficult . . . IF your approach is wrong. But there IS a way to discern truth no matter how minuscule the false percentage is. It's all about where your focus is. 

Pull up a chair, and let's talk about it. 🪑 

SHOW NOTES

Blurry Creatures episode with Jamie Walden.

"When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” John 10:4-5 ESV

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 ESV

"One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet." Proverbs 27:7 ESV

"For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray." Matthew 24:5 ESV

In Genesis 27, Jacob tricks his father, Isaac, by pretending to be Esau to get the blessing. 

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We are in a season of unprecedented disclosure, which means we have to have godly discernment to know what to do with all these new voices and pieces of information. For too long, we've elevated giving people "the benefit of the doubt" to a spiritual gift of sorts, but you won't find that in the Bible. Instead, we find a clear biblical standard for knowing when enough is enough. 

It's not showing biblical love to just blindly keep giving people the benefit of the doubt with no end. In Genesis 31, we find our example for discerning how to know when enough is enough. 

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The last four episodes have covered a lot of ground in how to form a God-honoring response to current events, so we thought it would be wise to consolidate a month's worth of information into this one summary. (Click on each WEEK to listen to a more in-depth conversation from each week.)

WEEK 1 we were reminded that our number-one MO is to be people of love. It's what makes us stand apart as followers of Jesus. So if we are to be people of love, our words must be filtered through God's definition of love as explained in 1 Corinthians 13.

WEEK 2 we talked about how to respond, namely SLOWLY. The Bible says, "Be quick to listen, SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO BECOME ANGRY."

WEEK 3 we began to define confirmation bias and how it clouds our ability to discern truth. This is a factor that we ALL need to be aware of and how it's affecting our subconscious. Not to miss!

Finally, in WEEK 4, we talked about how it's important to be able to discern the "facts" we are being given. First that means having our own definition of truth firmly founded on the Word of God; second, that means we are responsible for choosing the source of our information. We are not victims to what information people give us; we are responsible and capable discerners of Truth.

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This week we're expounding on the dangers of confirmation bias and focusing our attention on two key components:

1. You must know you're foundational beliefs to understand where confirmation bias will come into play. If those beliefs don't line up with the Word of God or the character of God, that's more important than spitting out a response.

2. God lives outside of space and time; He is not in a hurry to hear your response. He gave us the spiritual disciplines as a way to develop a rhythm of slow and steady in our lives; our response to current events is no different.

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SHOW NOTES

Part 1 of this conversation.

Part 2 of this conversation.

Part 3 of this conversation (where we begin defining "confirmation bias)

Confirmation Bias on simplypsychology.org

"End Times: Who's Really Influencing You Online" on the Eyes on the Right podcast.

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Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow for fun conversations about what we're currently learning as we grow in our walks with God. You can expect lots of laughs and a little serious each time.

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