This week on Friends in the Word, Jen and Cyndi talk about hospitality and why this often-overlooked Christian duty has eternal significance. What if something as simple as opening your front door could have an impact that lasts for eternity?

When we think of hospitality, we often picture beautifully set tables, delicious meals, and welcoming homes. But biblical hospitality is about so much more than entertaining. It's about opening our hearts and our lives to others for the glory of God.

Our Big Fat Word of the Week is HOSPITALITY! We're taking a closer look at what this word actually means and how the biblical understanding of hospitality goes far beyond our modern ideas of hosting and entertaining.

In Do You Understand What You're Reading?, we're digging into Romans 12:13, where Paul calls believers to contribute to the needs of the saints and pursue hospitality. And when we say pursue, we mean PURSUE! Think the police chasing O.J. Simpson down the freeway. Are we going after opportunities to show hospitality with that kind of intentionality, or are we simply waiting for them to come our way?

Then, in our main segment, we're changing things up with a hospitality Q&A! We're tackling questions about what biblical hospitality looks like in real life, the challenges that can keep us from practicing it, and how we can grow in welcoming others even when life is busy, our homes are messy, and our circumstances are less than ideal.

Join us as we consider how our homes, our tables, and our everyday lives can become opportunities to love the saints, welcome strangers, and point others to Christ in a way that matters for eternity!

Do you realize that every time you unlock your phone, you’re stepping onto a battlefield.

Whether we realize it or not, we’re constantly being shaped by the voices, ideas, and images competing for our attention. This week we’re talking about the unseen battle of influence and why it’s so important for Christians to recognize it.

Our Big Fat Word of the Week isn’t INFLUENCER but it is the Greek word peismonē, a helpful word that helps us understand the power of persuasion surrounding us every day.

In Do You Understand What You’re Reading? we’re continuing through Ephesians 6… putting on the armor of God and learning how to stand firm in the midst of a world that is always trying to shape our thinking.

Then, in our main conversation, we ask some challenging questions…
What is influencing you?
Who or what is shaping your loves, desires, and decisions?
And just as importantly, how are you influencing the people around you for good or for bad?

Join us as we learn how to recognize the battle, guard our hearts, and become faithful influences who point others to Christ rather than the world.

In this Episode Cyndi and Jen return after a long hiatus to discuss how we want to motivate you to GET IN THERE!

We recap what we've been up to and then explore some Greek and an old English Work "Ingather" for the Big Fat Word of the Week.

For "Do you understand what you're reading" Jen gets us discussing the Sacred Secret from Ephesians 3 and then we spend some time discussing the beauty and wisdom of God in giving us the church and all He has to do through us in it!

We finish, as always, with some High Thoughts of God to send you off so you can go on and get in there!