Have you ever feared your doubts, especially if they relate to your faith? How about a reassuring reminder that you aren’t alone. What if your doubt holds potential to create the faith you’re worried may be slipping away? Niki Hardy invites you to experience rest in the middle of your fear, doubt, anger, or confusion.

Resource referenced: God, Can We Chat? A Daringly Honest Guide to Growing Closer to God, One Doubt at a Time

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonates with you most in this episode?
2. When have you had a time when you have struggled with questions that were building up in a challenging time you were experiencing?
3. Have you ever been ashamed of your doubts? Why?
4. How do you personally know if you are hearing God’s voice?
5. Have you ever wallowed in doubt? Describe how it felt, if you have.
6. When you think about bringing your doubts to God, what anxiety or fears do you struggle with?
7. What is what action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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Sometimes, when we look at our world, it seems as if evil is winning. Such thinking has the potential to sideline us and leave us feeling defeated. Scripture, however, assures us of three unshakable truths: All the forces of darkness combined will not and cannot extinguish God's light, His children bring His light with them into every encounter, and He will empower the willing heart to dramatically impact our world for generations to come. In this episode, join host Jennifer Slattery as she talks with Dr. Romney Ruder, president of Lifeline Global Ministries, who God is using, along with his ministry, to radically transform some of the "hardest" hearts in the United States while breaking generational patterns of trauma and incarceration that leave wounded children at significant risk for future incarceration. What if the next revival breaks out in our prisons? How might this change at risk families and youth, our communities, and our nation?

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Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonated with you most in this episode?
2. How familiar are you with prison ministries?
   1. Did anything Dr. Ruder shared surprise you, and if so, how?
3. What does the impact the gospel is having in United States' prisons reveal regarding God's heart?
4. How can engaging in ministry to the broken help increase one's sense of hope in today's challenging climate?
5. How can engaging in ministry in such places increase one's intimacy with Christ?
6. How might God be inviting you, your family, and/or your faith community to join Him in what He is doing to transform families broken by generational sin, dysfunction, and incarceration?
7. What is one action step He might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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When we experience trauma, our world can feel shaky and our future uncertain. We might fear we'll never again experience joy and peace. But Jesus promised all of His followers thriving life, and has the power to heal the most wounded places in our soul. In this episode, join Jennifer Slattery as she speaks with guest, therapist, and sexual trauma survivor Lisa Saruga on how trauma effects the brain and steps survivors can take to not just survive their trauma, but experience more of the thriving life for which they were created.

Resource referenced: The Trauma Tree by Lisa Saruga

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonated with you most in this episode?
2. Why might it be challenging to recognize and acknowledge when we've experienced trauma?
3. How might it be helpful to recognize our emotional triggers as the result of trauma suffered?
4. How has, or might, journaling help you process through challenging emotions and experiences?
5. Why might it be helpful to journal your emotions AND biblical truth?
6. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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Have you ever felt fearful of the judgments of others? Maybe when growing up, you may have been labeled by others as shy, awkward, or just plain different. What if we stopped judging and began to look at others for who they truly are?

Resource referenced: The Wallflower That Bloomed: Finding Your Place at the Lunch Table of Life

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonates with you most in this episode?
2. When have you had a time when you have felt fully known, accepted, and appreciated for the unique qualities that make you who you are?
3. When have you experienced a time you didn’t want to feel? Why?
4. Describe a person that displays authenticity to you.
5. What does people-pleasing mean to you?
6. What message of hope could you take away regarding your relationship with God, even if you aren’t completely “fixed”?
7. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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When our world feels chaotic and uncertain, it's easy to become overwhelmed with our circumstances or fears. In that place, we might temporarily forget the love, power, and presence of our God. Scripture tells us our enemy, the devil, roams about like a roaring lion, but as today's guest reminds us, our God has the loudest roar. He reigns victorious in ever situation, including those that leave us anxious and afraid.

Resources referenced: The Loudest Roar: Living in the Unshakable Victory of Christ by Judy Dunagan

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonated with you most in this episode?
2. What situations most provoke your anxiety or fear?
3. How does knowing that Jesus overcame the world, including death and the grave, help bring you comfort?
4. How has, or how might, memorizing Scripture help you gain increased peace during times of fear?
5. What most encouraged you when Judy read Psalm 91?
6. What is one step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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Scripture assures us, God does not want us to live enslaved to fear, weighed down by stress, and overpowered by personal weakness. Christ promised us joy, peace, and inexpressible freedom. He also promised to give us the power to experience each of those supernatural gifts. In this episode, prolific speaker Max Lucado shares a time when, attempting to carry his ministry in his own strength, the burden became nearly crippling and how he found fresh hope and strength through the Holy Spirit.

Resource referenced: Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonated with you most in today’s episode?
2. What first comes to mind when you think of the Holy Spirit?
3. When have you experienced increased exhaustion and/or anxiety from relying on yourself rather than surrendering to and relying on the Holy Spirit?
4. How would you describe a Spirit-led life?
5. How does/can living Spirit-led decrease our anxiety?
6. How might God be calling you to share His “living water” with weary and burdened souls you encounter this week?
7. What is one truth you can reflect on this week to more fully experience the Holy Spirit’s power and peace?
   
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Have you ever felt like life has passed you by? When you look back on your pivotal moments, do you feel unseen and overlooked? You are not alone. This universal feeling is normal, but it doesn’t have to stick to you.

Resource referenced: The Most Overlooked Women of the Bible: What Their Stories Teach Us about Being Seen and Heard (The Women of the Bible) by Mary DeMuth

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonates with you most in this episode?
2. How has a time when you have felt overlooked motivated you into action?
3. When have you experienced a time when community has reminded you that you are not alone in your first response of grumbling and complaining?
4. How has someone motivated you to act when they maintained their faith in the middle of adversity?
5. What does it mean when you hear age is not a limitation in the Kingdom of God–in fact, it’s a benefit?
6. What message of hope could you take away regarding your own worth and visibility, especially if you feel overlooked in your community?

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There is little more painful than when an adult child decides they no longer want to have a relationship with a parent. Sometimes, we sense the fracture coming but aren't sure how to stop the destruction. For others, their son or daughter's desire to cut contact feels unexpected and without provocation. Things may feel so tense, we fear there's no hope for reconciliation. But no situation, relationship, or individual is beyond God's transformative, healing grace. In this episode, mental health professional, speaker and author Gina Berkemeier returns to talk with host Jennifer Slattery on signs a fracture might be coming, how we can avoid adding to our child's pain and the distance developing between us, how to respond when they accuse us of something we don't remember doing, and more.

Resource referenced: Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite Our Stories Through Faith and Therapy

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What resonated with you most in this episode?
2. Where would you currently place your relationship(s) with your adult child(ren)––becoming steadily healthier, tense and potentially on the verse of fracture, or nonexistent?
3. How do you tend to react when your adult child tells you something you did hurt them?
   1. If you've become defensive, what unhealed wounds and/or insecurities might have impacted your reaction?
4. In what ways might estrangement or relational dysfunction be generational in your family?
5. What are some ways you are actively working on (or have you worked on) becoming your healthiest self?
6. When you become aware or think of parenting mistakes, what are some ways you resist falling into shame?
7. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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