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This week we conclude our Faith and Doubt series with our guest, Stephanie Lobdell. Stephanie is a campus pastor, speaker, writer, and a mama of 2. Her first book, Signs of Life: Resurrecting Hope Out of Ordinary Losses, released on October 1. In Signs of Life, Stephanie leads readers into the grand story of God's saving action and resurrection power. Punctuated with stories of biblical figures such as Sarah, Naaman, Saul, and Anna—who faced ordinary deaths and also God's reviving power—Signs of Life claims Jesus' resurrection matters now. In candid and artful prose, Lobdell shares stories of her own depression, loss of confidence, and disillusionment with the church.

In this episode, we discuss doubt and resurrecting faith after periods of church hurt and mental illness. We are so thankful to Stephanie for opening up and sharing her struggles in such a vulnerable way, and for sharing how God has resurrected new faith and hope in the midst of those struggles.

Continuing in our Faith and Doubt series, we talk with author, speaker and musician, Glenna Marshall, about Faith and Doubt as they relate to suffering, unmet expectations and dark nights of the soul. We discuss what it means to feel stripped, for doubt to creep in and how we can fight doubt when we realize that God always promises His presence.

Glenna is a pastor's wife, mom of two boys, musician, and writer. She has a long-term relationship with infertility which resulted in a long-term relationship with adoption. She has some chronic illnesses and is regularly learning to trust the Lord with her life, one day at a time. It's taken more than a decade for her to understand just how desperate she is to know Christ and how much she needs Him in every facet of her life. God has used some long, dark roads to teach her to turn to Him in every circumstance: whether it's the dark nights of the soul that challenge every layer of her faith or the patches of joy that break through periods of waiting and longing with such brightness she can only attribute it to the faithful love of God.

Glenna is the author of two books, The Promise is His Presence: Why God is Always Enough (released August 1, 2019) and Everyday Faithfulness: The Beauty of Ordinary Perseverance in a Demanding World (set to release June 2020).

You can connect with Glenna on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

This week's episode kicks off Season 4!!! We made it to episode 75! In our first series of this season, we explore the journey down the parallel roads of Faith and Doubt in the Christian life. We discuss the fact that the Christian life is not one without the other, and faith only grows stronger when we lean into the fact that we often doubt. God is cool with it, and we need to be cool with it, too. Before we explore this topic with some amazing authors, we share our own journeys through periods of faith and doubt.

Thank you all for your love and support over the last 3 seasons. If you love Woven and have never left a review, please do us a favor and leave one wherever you listen to podcasts. Reviews help others to find us! Thanks a ton!

Before we start our 4th season of Woven with some pretty awesome (and deep) series, we thought we'd shoot the breeze about fall, the books we're reading and just things that our on our minds. Warning: this is a filler episode, but we will be back next week with a strong, new series. Thanks for listening!

Rebecca Peet is 40! This week we celebrate this milestone birthday by discussing not only what it means for Rebecca to turn 40, but also what it looks like to approach the Third Quarter of life. We dispel the myth that turning 40 is scary. Instead, approaching the "second half" can be quite freeing and hopeful. Cheers to 40!

This week we are rounding out our series on marriage, Yoked, with a conversation on mutual submission. To help us define mutual submission and sort through all the misconceptions on the topic, we invited back our friend, Courtney Ellis.

Courtney is an author, speaker and a pastor. She has written two books- Uncluttered and Almost Holy Mama. She's also a mom and a wife. To learn about Courtney and her work visit her at courtneybellis.com.

Courtney's Past Episodes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fun-stuff-uncluttered-with-courtney-ellis-episode-44/id1360643801?i=1000430644649

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-practices-part-1-interview-courtney-ellis/id1360643801?i=1000440579738

Scripture Reference:

Ephesians 5:21-33

Continuing in our marriage series, Yoked, this week we broach the very difficult subject of infidelity in marriage. To help us, we've invited our friend, Sarah Collier, to join us. We discuss all types of infidelity in marriage, not just sexual, how to identify and communicate our needs to our spouses, and building, rebuilding and maintaining trust in a marriage. Sarah is such a wise resource on these topics.

Sarah is a LPC with a Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling. She works out of a private practice in the Atlanta area called Tapestry Associates. Sarah has been on Woven previously to talk about mental health and boundaries. To listen to those episodes, please see the links below.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-more-you-know-part-1/id1360643801?i=1000409732181

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-more-you-know-part-2/id1360643801?i=1000410366287

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boundaries-and-the-holidays/id1360643801?i=1000422844867

Tapestry Associates' Podcast Episodes on Infidelity:

http://tapestryassociates.com/recovering-from-infidelity-part-1

http://tapestryassociates.com/recovering-from-infidelity-part-2

http://tapestryassociates.com/recovering-from-infidelity-part-3

http://tapestryassociates.com/recovering-from-infidelity-part-4

This week we continue in our marriage series, Yoked, by discussing the oh so popular topic- the Enneagram. To help us work through how the Enneagram plays out in our marriages, we invited Beth McCord to join us.

Beth is an enneagram author, speaker, and coach. She is the founder and lead content creator of Your Enneagram Coach, a community designed to be a safe place for individuals to explore the Enneagram. With years of experience and a passion for coming alongside individuals, couples, and groups, Beth is leading the way in simplifying the deep truths of the Enneagram from a Biblical perspective. Her mission is to make personal awareness and growth accessible for everyone, anywhere, so they can experience health and transformation in every area of their lives.

Beth and her husband Jeff are releasing a book on the Enneagram in marriage entitled Becoming Us: Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving Gospel-Centered Marriage on October 1. Pre-order wherever books are sold. They also host live events and provide marriage courses specifically designed for each Enneagram couple paring. To learn more, visit www.becomingus.com.

For more information on the Enneagram in general, visit Beth at Your Enneagram Coach, and follow her on IG and FB at the same name.

We are grateful for Beth's time and wisdom!

This week we begin a 4-part series on marriage entitled Yoked. In this first episode, we introduce the series by discussing our own marriage journeys, ways our views on marriage have evolved and some tools that have encouraged us through the years.

Resources:

Singleness Episode

Kris McDaniel's Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:25-40

The Meaning of Marriage

The 5 Love Languages

Financial Peace University

Crown Financial Ministries

This week we wrap up our "Four" Keeps of Mothering series with a revisiting of the topic of self-care. We discuss self-care versus self-indulgence, how different people need different types of self-care, and potential motivations behind self-care. To listen to our previous episode on self-care click here- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sustaining-grace/id1360643801?i=1000414114472

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