The Mission Driven Mom Podcast

I like to call scripture a "standard for truth." This is the book we go to in order to check our decisions and behaviors against the proper standard, God's standard. This is a key reason why regular scripture reading is vital to successful living--it can give us life instructions!

As a source of truth, we would do well to be intentional about looking for principles within its pages that we can practice in our own lives. In this podcast, I give you some specific tools for doing just that! My hope is that after listening to this episode, you'll have some NEW ways to look at scripture, engage with it, and have it guide your life. :)

As mothers in a modern Information Age, we are inundated with information from every direction. Yet, very little of this "information" is truly valuable to us and our families. As mission driven moms, our job becomes to filter through this information ...

February Book Club pick is The Giver! This novel is rich with themes that are incredibly relevant today:

• sameness vs equality
• safety vs freedom
• wisdom and suffering
• moral law vs civil law
• constrained vs unconstrained visions

Join us as we discuss these and other themes that help us make sense of the cultural unraveling we are watching right before our eyes!

Discuss The Giver with us! Join the Audrey Rindlisbacher Library for a discussion community, resource guide and more: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Follow my Audrey Rindlisbacher Author FB page for articles, videos, my thoughts, and other resources I discover as I study and prepare these podcasts and my books: https://www.facebook.com/audreyrindlisbacherauthor/

“It always comes back to the family.” ~Gayle Ruzicka As a young girl, Gayle's parents forced her to go to church, even though they didn't attend themselves. This caused her to look inward--to forge her own relationship with God and determine the belief system that would guide her through life. She clung to Christianity, and its moral principles became the foundation upon which she built her life and her home.  A mother of 12, devoted homeschooler and political activist, Gayle took her children EVERYWHERE with her! They sat countless times in the state capital, learning about what government is, why it matters and how it works. These experiences proved to deepen her family's faith in, and understanding of, eternal principles that govern all areas of life--including government.  Listen this week to her experiences in the 7 Laws of Life Mission--learning to love God, herself, truth and humanity. And hear about the amazing difference her mission driven life has made in her home, her community, her state and her country! Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  1:47         Gayle Ruzicka's  Childhood 3:00       Parents & Politics 6:43        Religion 8:58        Choosing a Relationship with God 11:42       Education 14:47       Women Have Choices 16:25       Life Long Learning/Books 20:58      Political Involvement 24:23      Eagle Forum 31:19       President of Eagle forum 33:25      Homeschool, Activism, & Governmental Principles 38:00     Your Stand Out Experience 41:19       It Comes Back to the Family 45:15       What Are You Reading Now 47:59       Principles & the Proper Role of Government 51:52       The Emergency Powers of Government 58:59       Were You Ever Afraid? 1:00:24   What's One Thing Can We Do Now? 1:02:02   How Can We Get Involved? Quotes from this episode: “Never put politics before people.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “Women have more choices than men. Have you ever noticed that?” ~Gayle Ruzicka “I learned everything I learned [about government involvement] by being an easel.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “OK, I can die. My kids are there for each other.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “It always comes back to the family.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “With liberty comes responsibility.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “We had founders who gave up their lives to give us liberty. Now we are afraid of dying so we are giving up our liberty.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “If people are governing themselves you won't have to send the police to see if they are sneaking out the back door or standing too close to a neighbor.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “We have got to replace fear with faith. That's what it's all about.” ~Gayle Ruzicka    “Those people who gave us this freedom did the hard work. We only have to keep it.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “It's not that fear is wrong but you need to deal with it and replace it with faith.” ~Gayle Ruzicka  “Fear drives you to your knees so you can exercise faith and remain humble.” ~Gayle Ruzicka “I don't love politics but I do love freedom.” ~Gayle Ruzicka  “The beating down of faith has repercussions on liberty.” ~Audrey Rindlisbacher Books from this episode:       Links from this episode:

“I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strengt...

What do Benjamin Franklin, Louis L'Amour, and Mortimer Adler have in common?! Along with thousands of other great influencers throughout history, they saw the power of reading, writing, and discussing classics as the KEY personal development. This is something YOU can do right now to kickstart your own personal growth!

Join My Book Club and discuss the classics with me in My Library: https://audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Get the "TRUTH SEEKERS Starter Kit" for FREE: https://audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Learn about and buy my book "The Mission Driven Life": https://audreyrindlisbacher.com/

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audreyrindlisbacher/

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audreyrindlisbacherauthor/

"Our talents are given us in order that we may serve ourselves and our fellowmen." ~Calvin Coolidge From a small town boy in Vermont to President of the U.S., Calvin Coolidge remained the same stalwart, honest, clear-thinking man he was trained to be at home. He clung to the values and principles instilled in him through his parents, grandparents and devoted professors, all his life. He never flinched in his beliefs that God is at the helm, that He directs His children through natural laws and principles, that hard work is the backbone of success and progress and that liberty must be earned. He brought order and increased freedom at every level of government in which he served. Best of all, he loudly exclaimed--through his words and through the life he lived--that we are here to serve God by serving our fellowmen and that if we'll prepare ourselves, God will call us to His work.  In this podcast, you'll hear Coolidge's own words about all aspects of life. You'll see his spiritual training, his educational preparation and his commitment to giving of himself to create better communities. In his life, you'll watch the fruits of the 7 Laws of Life Mission bless a nation, and hopefully, you'll be inspired to follow in his footsteps.  Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  6:18        Birth and early life     14:13      Education 19:14      A deeper introduction to Natural Law and Truth 27:42     Professor Garman 30:09    Law 33:01     Family 35:45     Public Office 39:27     The real role of government 42:51     National Attention and Staying the Course 45:24    The hand of God 48:36    Mr. President 51:46     Two sad events Quotes from this episode: “By reason of what I saw and heard in my early life, I came to have a good working knowledge of the practical side of government. I understood that it consisted of restraints which the people had imposed upon themselves in order to promote the common welfare.” ~Calvin Coolidge “[My parents] drew no class distinctions except towards those who assumed superior airs. Those they held in contempt. They held strongly to the doctrine of equality. Whenever the hired man or the hired girl wanted to go anywhere they were always understood to be entitled to my place in the wagon, in which case, I remained at home. This gave me a very early training in democratic ideas and impressed upon me very forcibly the dignity and power, if not the superiority, of labor.” ~Calvin Coolidge “While I can think of many pleasures we did not have, and many niceties of culture with which we were unfamiliar, yet if I had the power to order my life anew I would not dare to change that period of it. If it did not afford me the best that there was, it abundantly provided the best that there was for me.” ~Calvin Coolidge “I discovered that our ideas of democracy came from the agora of Greece, and our ideas of liberty came from the forum of Rome. Something of the sequence of history was revealed to me so that I began to understand the significance of our own times and our own country.” ~Calvin Coolidge “If attendance on these religious services ever harmed any of the men of my time I have never been informed of it. The good it did I believe was infinite. Not the least of it was the discipline that resulted from having constantly to give some thought to things that young men would often prefer not to consider. If we did not have the privilege of doing what we wanted to do we had the much greater benefit of doing what we ought to do. It broke down our selfishness, it conquered our resistance, it supplanted impulse, and finally, it enthroned reason.” ~Calvin Coolidge “Above all, we were taught to follow the truth whithersoever it might...

As mothers, we are often faced with difficult decisions.  We want to move forward with clarity and confidence. But sometimes it feels as though all we DO is make decisions - who is washing the dishes; which schools should we choose; how can we inspire ...

Awakened one morning with quotes in my mind, I spent the day researching and making connections until I saw the central problem we face--what comes before the natural law. If we want to present God's laws and principles as the solution to today's problems, we need to first show others that there actually is a problem to solve. With beginning insights into where to go from here, in this podcast I introduce you to the quotes I found, the connections I made, and how we'll begin to unravel the problem and the solution of the natural moral law.

Find out more about the natural law and true principles in the Audrey Rindlisbacher library here: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Join my monthly book club and get your Reading and Discussion Guide, study skill and more: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/

Listen to my podcast on Albert Schweitzer: https://blubrry.com/the_mission_driven_mom/41957108/mission-driven-stories-albert-schweitzer/

As mission driven moms, we need all the help we can get! Sometimes, though, it can feel as if we are limping along and barely making it. How do we get the help we need? In this podcast, Audrey shares the TRUE story of Christy Huddleston, a middle-class young woman struggling to find herself and her purpose. As she turned to her mentor for answers, Christy was shown the amazing power that was already hers to claim the blessings she so desperately needed.  If you are striving to find and fulfill your mission as a mother and a woman, Christy's story will have unique value for you in claiming God's help to fulfill His work! Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  1:07  Introduction to the book Christy by Catherine Marshall 6:05  Christy thinks more deeply about her why 11:01  Christy learns to claim her blessings and is empowered to fulfill her mission 19:19  Mothers and fathers are called by God and have a right to claim blessings 22:40  Christy chooses to claim her blessings Quotes from this episode: “Give and it shall be given you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over shall men give into your bosom.” ~Luke 6:37, Holy Bible “[God] can’t use ivory-tower followers. They’re plaster of paris, they crumble and fall apart in life’s press.  So you’ve got to see life the way it really is before you can do anything about it.” ~Miss Alice “You see, Christy, evil is real-and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way.  So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we’re going to live our lives.  We can try to persuade ourselves that evil doesn’t exist; live for ourselves and wink at evil.  We can say that it isn’t so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets.  We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it and say it’s none of our business.  Or we can work on God’s side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.” ~Miss Alice “If you don’t do the work that’s been given you to do, that work may never be done.” ~Miss Alice “Dear God, when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure.  But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come.  Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am.”  ~Christy “Lord, Miss Alice said that ‘if we give, it shall be given unto us.’  Well, she is giving, Lord. And so are Dr. Ferrand and David.  And even I’m trying to give, though I don’t yet see what I have that You can use.  I don’t have the faith that Miss Alice has, Lord, in You, in this Book, in anything.  Can you help me with my faith?” ~ Christy Book from this episode: