How do we talk with our kids about salvation without overwhelming them or avoiding the hard stuff? In today’s conversation, I’m joined by Champ Thornton, author of 10 Questions About Salvation. We’re talking about how to help kids understand faith, repentance,...
When your heart is breaking, what does it look like to notice God’s goodness? Can gratitude grow in the soil of deep grief? In this episode of the Live Like It’s True podcast, I’m talking with Allison Brost—who lost a child—about how grief and...
When giant-sized problems pop up in your life, your feelings can’t be trusted to guide you. Donna Amidon joins Shannon on the Live Like It’s True podcast to talk about the story of Joshua and Caleb in Numbers 13 and 14. Learn how to choose worship to gain...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...