The Mission Driven Mom Podcast

One of my favorite books of all time, I just can't read and discuss this book enough! In this discussion we get into several powerful themes and tie them back to our modern day. I also take time at the end to highlight several principles from the book and how we can apply them to our lives. Join Kim, Lindsey, and I for an insightful look at this amazing classic.

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At the end of a tough Covid-19 year, we have all struggled with things that feel out of our control. Societal issues like quarantines, riots, illness, contentious debates, and even fraud have caused even the best of us frustration and heartache. Often these were compounded by personal challenges such as job loss, struggling children, and lack of community connection. Unfortunately, most of these trials have felt like they were imposed on us by others. We didn't ask for these troubles! It can feel so unfair and overwhelming. 

When we face situations like these, that bring us pain or frustration and seem as though there is nothing we can do about them, is there anything we can do?

Join Audrey this week as she shares what she does when there's nothing she can do. Listen to the daily practices which nourish her hope, courage, and faith. Learn with her those actions you can begin taking now which will empower you to move forward with increased optimism and love as you face your own personal challenges.  

Listener's Guide:

Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast. 

5:07    What the Title Means

9:12    What Doesn't Work

9:55    The Time Required

11:12    Responses Can be a Lesson

13:17    Prayer, Written Prayers, Prayer Journal

22:31   Positive Images in Our Minds

26:52   Watch Your Language

28:01   Truth Statements

28:44   Daily Gratitude

29:18    Scripture Reading

30:19    Listen To/Read Faith building Content

31:23    Remember You Can Only Control You

31:39    Work on Your Way of Being

31:53    Remember It's Not About You

32:44   Focus on your Goals and Dreams

35:27    Visualize

37:33    Voice Memos

38:05   Meet Your Needs

39:00   Success Story 1

45:03    Success Story 2

Quotes from this episode:

“Your expectation must have a clearly defined objective. Lot's of people get nowhere simply because they do not know where they want to go. They have no clear cut, precisely defined purpose. You cannot expect the best if you think aimlessly." ~Norman Vincent Peale

“I believe that if you want to get somewhere, you must decide definitely where you want to be or what you want to accomplish. Be sure it is a right objective, then photograph this objective on your mind and hold it there. Work hard, believe in it, and the thought will become so powerful that it will tend to assure success. There is a deep tendency to become what your mind pictures, provided you hold the mental picture, and if the objective is sound.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

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“I believe that God made me for a purpose - to be a missionary in China. But He also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure! ~Eric Liddell The incredible true story of Eric Liddell is one of overcoming self, obedience to God, and service born of love for others. Best known as an Olympic Gold medalist, many don't realize that Liddell spent most of his life striving to bring others to God. In fact, he didn't just give to others all his life, in the end, he gave his life as well.  His impact his been worldwide and lasting - as a son, a friend, a father, a husband, an athlete, a teacher, an author and a missionary. His work ethic, kindness and devotion to God make him a hero for all of us. His story will inspire and motivate you to follow his example and give just a little more for God.  Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  1:30      Childhood in China 5:36      Becoming an athlete 7:15       College 11:10     Beginning to preach 14:19     Sportsmanship 16:56     1924 Olympics 22:49    Teaching in China & Marriage 25:19     Internment camp 32:43    The Disciplines of the Christian Life Quotes from this episode:  *All Eric Liddell quotes are from his book The Disciplines of the Christian Life “The Christian life should be a life of growth. I believe the secret of growth is to develop the devotional life. This involves setting aside each day a time for prayer and Bible study. The time need not be long but it should be unhurried. We should bring to it in an honest spirit, prepared to face the challenge of God’s Word as it lays down a way of life, and prepared to face any inconsistencies in our lives which make them un-Christlike.” ~Eric Liddell  “The ideal way [to surrender to God] would be to take what you feel should be surrendered and in prayer, on your knees before God, tell him all. Hide nothing; be honest in your attitude towards it and towards God. Wait on your knees till you know you have God’s forgiveness and that your surrender has been accepted. “ ~Eric Liddell “Many of us have found the surrender more satisfactory and complete by first sharing it, that is, talking it over with a friend who understands. This is hard. I know it is hard. It strikes at one of the most deep-rooted sins, namely pride, and that is what makes it so difficult. It seems harder to tell someone else than to tell God. Yet it shouldn’t be. We often take things to God in such a way that it cost us very little, more in the attitude of justifying our failure than confessing out guilt. It is here that a true friend can be so helpful, bringing out the points that need to be surrendered. Together turn in prayer to make your surrender to God. In quiet, wait for God, to know what you should do about it.” ~Eric Liddell “Self-examination which does not result in action is dangerous. What am I going to do about what I see? The action called for is surrender—of ourselves to God." ~Eric Liddell “A disciple is one who knows God personally, and who learns from Jesus Christ, who most perfectly revealed God. One word stands out from all others as the key to knowing God, to having his peace and assurance in your heart; it is obedience.” ~Eric Liddell "Here are four tests of the moral law by which to measure ourselves—and so obey the biblical commands. Am I truthful?  Am I honest?  Am I pure?  Am I selfish?" “Obedience to God’s will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to do (obey) God’s will that brings enlightenment and certainty regarding spiritual truth. ‘If any man will do [obey] his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God,

In our attempts to build principle-centered homes, sometimes we are tempted to think that if we could just find and teach our children true principles, we'd be home free! Unfortunately, that's not how it works.  The life of Oscar Wilde is a perfect tutorial in principles ignored. Even though he was brilliant and funny, even though he was handed everything in life on a silver platter, even though he understand natural laws and principles well enough to write profound moral stories, he never listened to his own conscience. Even at the end, when it was clear his way didn't work and he seemed on the verge of confessing all and changing his ways, his willfulness and pride continued to stand in the way. Join Audrey this week for an in-depth look at what happens when you know the principles but you refuse to let them save you.  Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  1:50  Oscar Wilde's childhood 4:15  Wilde's new worldview and fame 9:45  Wilde marries, has peace and begins rebelling 12:19  The Picture of Dorian Gray 19:42  Wilde spirals downward 27:25  De Profundis 33:40  Lord Alfred's reflections Quotes from this episode: “The artist is the creator of beautiful things...There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all...All art is quite useless.” ~Oscar Wilde from the Introduction of The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray: “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.” “Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.” “I am perfectly happy now. I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don’t sneer at it, Harry, any more—at least, not before me. I want to be good.” “He sought to elaborate some new scheme of life that would have its reasoned philosophy and its ordered principles, and find in the spiritualizing of the senses its highest realization.” Quotes from De Profundis: "She and my father had bequeathed me a name they had made noble and honoured, not merely in literature, art, archaeology, and science, but in the public history of my own country, in its evolution as a nation.  I had disgraced that name eternally.  I had made it a low by-word among low people.  I had dragged it through the very mire.  I had given it to brutes that they might make it brutal, and to fools that they might turn it into a synonym for folly." "I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.  I am quite ready to say so.  I am trying to say so, though they may not think it at the present moment.  This pitiless indictment I bring without pity against myself.  Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still." "The gods had given me almost everything.  But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease.  I amused myself with being a flâneur, a dandy, a man of fashion.  I surrounded myself with the smaller natures and the meaner minds.  I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy.  Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation.  What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion.  Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both.  I grew careless of the lives of others.  I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on.  I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character,

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If we REMOVE the sources of truth from our school systems and institutions, how in the world do we expect to be able to find, live, and be liberated by it?!

But it's WORSE THAN THAT, as you'll see in this video, we are dumbing ourselves down and making ourselves miserable for no reason!

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Born into humble circumstances, the son of a devoted pastor, David Green realized early on that he possessed a knack for retail, yet as with all truly mission driven individuals, those around him questioned the spiritual meaning of this profession.

“Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting.

All of us want the same thing--to be happy. As mothers, we especially want our children to be happy. But how is happiness accomplished? Is happiness something we can control or just something we hope happens to us? According to Aristotle, happiness is not only within our reach but is attainable for ALL of us! The best part is, in striving for happiness, we become a much better person in the process, because, as Aristotle teaches, happiness is simply the result of becoming a virtuous person! Listen to this podcast for an overview of Aristotle's incredible classic Nicomachean Ethics where he defines happiness and virtue and then shows us the path to a virtuous, happy life!

Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  2:10  Happiness and virtue defined 8:00  Courage 15:20  Temperance  17:19  Liberality 21:04  Magnificence  22:25  Proper pride   26:07  Good temper 27:23  Truthfulness  28:17  Justice 30:48  Equity  33:08  Intellectual Virtues  

Quotes from this episode:

“…happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue…”

“Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle, and by that principle by which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

“…it is no easy task to be good.” “Again, wish relates rather to the end, choice to the means; for instance we wish to be healthy but we choose the acts which will make us healthy.”

“…we are masters of our actions from the beginning right to the end…”

“…sudden actions must be in accordance with one’s state of character.”

“Now by ‘wealth’ we mean all the things whose value is measured by money. Further, prodigality and meanness are excesses and defects with regard to wealth…”

“Nor will he neglect his own property, since he wishes by means of this to help others.”

“…the liberal are almost the most loved of all virtuous characters since they are useful; and this depends on their giving.”

“…for the magnificent man spends not on himself but on public objects.”

“For the unduly humble man, being worthy of good things, robs himself of what he deserves, and seems to have something bad about him from the fact that he does not think himself worthy of good things, and seems also not to know himself; else he would have desired the things he was worthy of, since these are good…for each class of people aims at what corresponds to its worthy, and these people stand back even from noble actions and undertakings, deeming themselves unworthy…”

“Vain people, on the other hand, are fools and ignorant of themselves, and manifestly; for, not being worthy of them, they attempt honorable undertakings, and then are found out; and they adorn themselves with clothing and outward show and such things, and wish their strokes of good fortune made public, and speak about them as if they would be honored for them. But undue humility is more opposed to pride than vanity is; for it is both commoner and worse.”

“When the law speaks universally, then, and a case arises on it which is not covered by the universal statement, then it is right, where the legislator fails us and has erred by over-simplicity, to correct the omission—to say what the legislator himself would have said had he been present, and would have put into his law if he had know.”

“If follows that the wise man must not only know what follows from the first principles, but must also possess truth about the first principles.”

“…for virtue makes us aim at the right mark, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.”

“If reason is divine, then, in comparison with man, the life guided by reason is considered to be more divine than a purely human life."

Tired of struggling with the same old problems? Want to get to the bottom of the issues and find answers that will change things permanently?!

Then this podcast is for you!

In this podcast I go over the 5 steps you can take RIGHT NOW to begin discerning and applying truth in any area of your life. If you'll learn and apply these simple steps I can promise you - because I've watched hundreds of students have this experience - that life will improve and you'll see increased health, wholeness, and flourishing in your life.

Get the TRUTH SEEKERS STARTER KIT to begin having the truth make you free! https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Tired of struggling with the same old problems? Want to get to the bottom of the issues and find answers that will change things permanently?!

Then this podcast is for you!

In this podcast I go over the 5 steps you can take RIGHT NOW to begin discerning and applying truth in any area of your life. If you'll learn and apply these simple steps I can promise you - because I've watched hundreds of students have this experience - that life will improve and you'll see increased health, wholeness, and flourishing in your life.

Get the TRUTH SEEKERS STARTER KIT to begin having the truth set you free! https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/