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 | Jul 3, 2024 | Change, Faith, Hope, Podcast 8 Sarah
What if God eavesdropped on your heart? Would he hear you sighing and scoffing about impossible situations? Would he see you rolling your eyes at the idea things could change? In this conversation with Hope Blanton and Chris Gordon on the Live Like It’s True...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 23, 2022 | Enemy, Hope, Legacy, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, Sin, Suffering
Does the pain of loss ever go away? Is there hope for wholeness and healing, after a lifetime of hurt? We experience loss differently when we know the full story. Like when you go the funeral of someone you know and love, rather than a stranger. We have a fuller...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 7, 2022 | Enemy, Faith, God, Hardship, Hope, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, Suffering
Knowing your origin story matters. Understanding Eden’s grand potential (Genesis 1-s), helps you understand the colossal fall in Genesis 3, and helps shape your understanding of the world and where you’ve come from, and where the story is headed. Think...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 23, 2022 | Forgiveness, Gospel, Holidays, Hope, Jesus, Podcast 2, Rescue, Salvation, Sin
If you were invited to a special dinner party, where the honored guests gathering around the table are all friends of Jesus who will be participating in a symbolic reenactment of the most important day in the history of the world, would you go? What I’ve just...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 12, 2016 | Hope
I love this quote from John Piper’s book, Sweet and Bitter Providence, which reflects on both the sweet and bitter providence displayed in the story of Ruth, from the Bible. Ruth, chapter one, is really about Naomi, her Jewish mother-in-law. Naomi had been away...