by Shannon Popkin | Nov 20, 2024 | Luke, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, Podcast 9 Stand Alone
What if we lifted our eyes more? What if we looked up from our screens and phones and took in the simple landscape? What if we made eye contact and actually noticed the people around us? Technology has given us ways to connect, but it’s also complicated our...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 25, 2024 | Comparison, Gifts, Hope, Matthew, Parenting, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, 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 | Jun 12, 2024 | Luke, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, Podcast 7 Comparison
Why does she have more? Why do I have less? And what does Jesus say, when I want what’s fair? In this episode of the Live Like It’s True Podcast, we’re looking at a story Jesus told in response to these very questions—the parable about the bigger...
by Shannon Popkin | Apr 24, 2024 | Comparison, Disgust, Forgiveness, Hospitality, Humility, Luke, Podcast - Jesus Stories, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, Podcast 7 Comparison, Salvation, Shame, Sin
What if Jesus could read your thoughts about other people’s sins? And what about your own sins? Do you have shameful secrets that seem too awful to even confess? In this episode, we’re going to consider a story Jesus told at a dinner party where someone...
by Shannon Popkin | Apr 17, 2024 | Christian Growth, Comparison, Differences, Humility, Matthew, Podcast - Jesus Stories, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, Podcast 7 Comparison, Problems
What would Jesus say about your efforts to get healthy? When you wake up in the morning, is your first thought about what you ate the night before? Has your lifelong obsession been to finally like what you see in the mirror? With the launch of Comparison Girl for...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 24, 2024 | Luke, Podcast - Parables and Metaphors, Podcast 6 J Term
Refugees. Trafficking victims. Addicts. Adoption. Homeless. When faced with opportunities to show extravagant mercy, we think, But what if I go into debt? This could be a trap. If I bring her into my home, will we be safe? What if there’s corruption? Yet what...