The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year we’re focussing on the theme of holiness. In this episode of the series we focus on holiness and wholeness. Alison Mezger is joined by Amanda Brown (St. John) and Angela Suh (North) to discuss how the oneness of God impacts our pursuit of holiness as whole, fully integrated disciples.

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The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year we’re focussing on the theme of holiness. In this episode of the series we focus on holiness and loss. Loss can feel like a big topic, and sometimes it’s easy to believe a good God wouldn’t take us through a life full of loss. Join Misti Echols and returned goer, Jen C. in a conversation around how loss has led the two of them to not only know Jesus better, but to see others know him too.

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The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year we’re focussing on the theme of holiness. In this episode of the series we focus on holiness and freedom. In this episode, Julie Kotulek (St. John Connections Director) sits down with two Downtown partners, Amy Hester and Lauren King for a conversation about the freedom that we have in Christ and how it's crucial in our pursuit of holiness. 

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Resources Mentioned In Episode:

• Life Transformation Group (LTG) Guide
• The Austin Stone Recovery Program
• The Austin Stone Rhythms of Recovery
• Gentle and Lowly, by Dane Ortlund

The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year, we’re focusing on the theme of holiness. In this episode of the series, we focus on holiness and community. 

Community plays a significant role in our pursuit of holiness and ongoing sanctification, endurance, and joy. We all want to be known and flourish in friendships, but how do we practically extend trust and take steps of vulnerability with others as we step into holiness? Join the conversation to find out! 

Kate Terry, the Equipping and Women’s Ministry Director at our Downtown congregation, leads the conversation with two women from Downtown—Aly Denson and Cameron Crake.

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The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year, we’re focusing on the theme of holiness. In this episode of the series, we focus on holiness and repentance.

Repentance is an essential response for a believer who desires to grow in holiness. But what exactly is repentance? How do we identify our idols and blind spots? How do we know if we’ve genuinely repented? And how do we reject shame over things from our past we’ve repented of? We’ll discuss all this and more! 

Christine Hoover, the Women’s Ministry Associate at our Northwest congregation, leads the conversation with two women from Northwest—Jennifer Wu and Bailey Garrido. 

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Resources mentioned:

• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzaro
• Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson
• Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
• Tool: Idols of the Heart

The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women's Ministry at The Austin Stone. Dr. Katie McCoy recently joined us for the Women's Workshop as we studied Old Testament Laws that specifically relate to women. With her help, we better understood God's value of protection over women and, ultimately, His heart for all His children.

So, in this episode, we're taking a side-step from our series on holiness to recap the workshop and discuss how we can apply what we learned. Alison Mezger is joined by two friends—Kristin Stockfisch from West Congregation and Monica Moser from Downtown Congregation—to hear what they learned, what they're processing, and how it's changing them.

Key texts referenced: Leviticus 12, Leviticus 15:19-24, Numbers 5:10-31, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:13-29, Matthew 9:20-22

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The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women's Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year, we're focusing on the theme of holiness. This episode, featuring the entire Women's Ministry staff team, is the first in a short series exploring different facets of our understanding and pursuit of holiness.

A life united with Jesus is a life in pursuit of holiness. At first, this may not sound like good news - to be set apart and morally pure. Indeed, our culture and, likely, our flesh warn us against such restrictions. We've all experienced the rebellion-producing effects of the law, even if only in our hearts. We are tempted to believe that we are our best and most authentic selves when we define our path and when we bestow our own identity. But we are fickle - transient in our affections, wavering in our convictions - and the weight of creating our happiness is crushing. So what if the call to a holy life offered freedom, peace, beauty, wholeness, and joy? What if we are most ourselves when we shed the shackles of sin and orient everything we have towards looking and loving like Jesus, who looked and loved like His Father? Because a holy God has created us, saved by a sinless Savior, and invited into safety, fellowship, and purpose - when our flesh dies, we live. May we be women who trust Him to be Himself, who run out of darkness into His light, and who beckon others to follow with our lives.

We hope you'll join us for future episodes exploring various aspects of our understanding and pursuit of holiness!

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The Women's Cast is the podcast of the Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone. This year, we’re focusing on the theme of joy.

In this episode, our host Alison Mezger (Central Women's Ministry Director) chats with Barbara Sleet of our West Congregation. Barbara was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was in hospice care at the time of recording and publishing. Barbara is a hope-filled example of what pursuing Jesus and joy can look like, even—and perhaps, especially—when death is near.

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Welcome back to The Women’s Cast! That’s short for podcast, forecast, our cast of characters, and all the casts in between. This year, our Women’s Ministry at The Austin Stone is focusing on JOY.

In this episode, our entire Women’s Staff Team (all seven of us!) sit down to reflect on our most recent Women’s Retreat, Presence of Joy, which took place at the beginning of March. In Psalm 107:2, the psalmist says, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,” and that’s exactly what we do in this episode.

God was so faithful to move at Women’s Retreat this year! And whether or not you attended the retreat, we hope this episode is an encouragement to you—that God is always faithfully moving on behalf of His kids. Enjoy!

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Welcome back to The Women's Cast. That's short for podcast, forecast, our cast of characters, and all the casts in between. This year, we're focusing on joy as a ministry, which has led us to our Women's Retreat theme: Presence of Joy.

In this episode, our entire Women's Team sits down for a conversation on God's presence and our joy through the lens of loneliness. What if our joylessness and loneliness have more in common than we realize? How does God's presence help us in both? We'll dive into these questions and more! We hope this honest conversation encourages you as much as it encourages us.

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