Love and the Outcome Jodi and Chris Ep 215
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
09/03/18
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Contemporary Christian musicians Chris Rademaker and Jodi King followed God’s call to pursue a musical adventure as the husband-wife duo Love & The Outcome. They share their experiences of selling their home, walking through grief, newlywed life on the road as musicians and their transition into parenting.
Jodi especially talks through how she leans on the Holy Spirit in her parenting, managing expectations and other people’s reactions.
I’ve had to learn how to just know the Holy Spirit. So in the moments when we’re in public and I’m parenting, I focus on Him. It’s so easy to turn and see everyone else’s reaction to what I just did was or I can just try and do my best to really listen to the Holy Spirit in the moment so that I can feel confident in my decisions.
I love how Chris and Jodi open up about playing shows and bringing their two young sons Milo and Ziggy along for the ride. There’s so much encouragement for moms of littles in this episode, including letting our standards slip a little so we can still experience community even if it’s messy and involves take-out food instead of handcrafted meals.
Maybe it’s just a season. But maybe it’s forever. I don’t really know what the Lord has. But letting go of some of my ideals has been so good. I have to acknowledge that I have a 2.5-year-old and a 1-year-old. Life looks like this right now, and it is the dream if I choose to be present to it and enjoy it.
What we chat about:- When Jodi and Chris met and started a touring band
- Their Enneagram types and how they work together as a couple
- How the Lord directed their path through grief and loss
- Parenting and challenges that come when touring with kids
- Dwelling in the Holy Spirit to make decisions
- Transitions in parenting and learning to lean into the Holy Spirit vs worrying what others think
- The concessions you make to connect with community when you are in a busy season
- Freeing yourself up from pre-conceived plans of what life “should” look like
- A new way to look at living the dream and choosing to be present in what your life is like now
- The God I Know music video
- The King of My Heart music video
- He is With Us music video
- L&TO albums: These Are the Days** & Love & The Outcome**
**Amazon affiliate link to help support the production of this podcast.
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Gay Girl, Good God Jackie Hill Perry Ep 214
August 27, 2018
•62m
It’s an uncomfortable and often controversial subject, especially in the church, but homosexuality and same sex attraction is something we all need to understand from a Biblical perspective. This week’s guest Jackie Hill Perry shares how the power of the gospel in her life rescued her from the sin she was living in as a woman with same sex attractions.
She not only brings us into her amazing story, but absolutely preaches the word of God and brings a lot of clarity to what can feel like a gray area for many Christians.
My conscience would not allow me to shake the truth that Jesus died for sin and that he is not pleased with sin at all. So I tried my best to shake him and I couldn’t...And I felt God speak to my heart and say that my girlfriend or my sin would be the death of me. That the wages of sin equals death. Because I saw it wasn’t my girlfriend or my lesbianism alone. It was that my entire life would be the death of me.
Jackie shares stories and insights from her new book Gay Girl, Good God. She also answers listener questions about how to share God’s love with LGBTQ friends and family by treating them as a whole person and keeping the gospel centered on God’s truth and not culture’s.
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Help Your Children Embrace Differences Dorena Williamson Ep 216
September 10, 2018
•50m
Many of us avoid and struggle with conversations about race or disabilities because it’s uncomfortable. When our children ask innocent questions about someone who is different than they are, it can make us feel tongue tied or embarrassed.
Author Dorena Williamson has created some lovely children’s books to help parents respond and invite their children to join them on the journey of learning to love and speak worth over every person that God created.
And I kept feeling frustrated thinking that’s not the solution to teach your children to be colorblind because that’s minimizing the beauty of God’s handiwork. And as Christians we should be the biggest proponents of celebrating the beauty of our racial diversity and not minimizing it or sort of washing it away and this colorblind land.
She shares powerfully about how to engage with your children about racial and cultural differences and how we can model what it looks like to grow in the area of loving and accepting people who are different than us.
As our children get older, I think that these are valuable conversations to have with them because the beauty of it is that it tells your children you are teachable and that you don’t get it right all the time and that you’re continuing to learn and grow.
What we chat about:- All about Dorena’s family and their multiracial church, Strong Tower Bible Church
- Her book ColorFull and the background behind why she wrote it
- The creativity of God and how he uses color in all that he created
- Looking for opportunities to share the beauty of racial differences with our children
- Language for parents to use to help teach children and avoid shaming
- Reinforcing the idea that “Different is not bad” and calling out the worth of people
- Why equipping kids early is important
- Modeling how we are all growing when it comes to loving and accepting people who are different than us
- Encouraging our children to ask questions even when they are uncomfortable
- Engaging with our kids about other cultures whether we can travel internationally or experience cultures in our own cities
Other books/sites that Dorena recommends:
- Brownicity.com site with helpful resources (created by a Godly woman Dr. Lucretia Berry)
- The Beatitudes by Carole Boston Weatherford
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- Beabridgebuilder.com
- A list of 28 picture books (aren’t about boycotts, buses or basketball) –listed created by ScottWood
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