by Shannon Popkin | Feb 12, 2025 | Comparison, Control Girl, Differences, Faith, Gifts, Humility, Marriage, Pain, Pod 10, Podcast 10
What is making you feel lonely? Do you struggle to find an answer to this question and have you ever considered that it might be your need for control? Join us on this episode of Live Like It’s True, where Shannon chats with author, speaker, and podcaster, Becky...
by Shannon Popkin | Feb 5, 2025 | Beliefs, Community, Comparison, Deception, Differences, Enemy, Gifts, Hardship, Hope, Pain, Pod 10, Podcast 10, Suffering
Have you ever considered that your envy of others may be causing you to also feel…lonely? Maybe your time spent on social media is actually causing you to feel more alone and less connected, like you’d hoped. Are you constantly comparing yourself to others...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 25, 2024 | Comparison, Gifts, Hope, Parenting, Podcast 9 Stand Alone
What if that other mom is able to homeschool six kids and raise twenty chickens, plus make her own cheese, but you can barely keep up with the laundry for your one kid, and get him to school on time? On the Live Like It’s True podcast, my guest Lara...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 19, 2014 | Compassion, Family, Gifts, Holidays, Hospitality, Kids' Perspective
Each year, our friends, the Gebhards, put up a ‘Jesus Stocking’ at their house in December. All month, they collect money, and then use the funds to buy a gift for someone in need. All month, they thumb through the Samaritan’s purse catalog, hoping to be able purchase...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 3, 2014 | Gifts, God, Kids' Perspective, Parenting, Serving
Many years ago, we tried an experiment with our older two kids. Our poor kids have endured a lot of experiments, but this was one we thought they would enjoy: We gave them their own spending money for the month.Twenty dollars each! For two elementary school kids who...
by Shannon Popkin | Feb 27, 2014 | Christian Growth, Communication, Gifts, Goals, Leadership, Marriage
Words of blessing, allowed to sift into a soul’s murky depths, often act like yeast. Over time, these yeast-like words have the power to activate and give rise to areas of giftedness which otherwise might have lain dormant. Words can cause people to rise and expand...