The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E11 Making Space for the Sacred & My Advent Rhythms
Let’s all take a moment to accept this invitation to make space for the sacred. For me, it’s all about Advent rhythms and lighting a candle. What centers you? Pull up a chair, and let’s talk about it.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E10: A Personal Update & My Word For This Advent/Winter Season
I’ve been traveling a lot for the last month, and now I can finally tell you all about it. Plus, as we crash into Advent and a slower winter season, I’m setting my intentions to prioritize what matters. Let’s talk about it. Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E9: Whole-Person Gratitude 4/4: Gratitude & The Brain (feat. Jenna Zint)
This is the final of four episodes about whole-person gratitude featuring Habit Lab podcast’s Jenna Zint. Today we’re going to dig into brain science and how it relates to gratitude. Want to learn more? Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E8: Whole-Person Gratitude 3/4: Forming Habits That Stick (feat. Jenna Zint)
This is the third of four episodes about whole-person gratitude featuring Habit Lab podcast’s Jenna Zint. Today we’re focusing on Jenna’s sweet spot—forming habits that stick. We all have something to learn from this. Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E7: Whole-Person Gratitude 2/4: Gratitude Habit Inspo (feat. Jenna Zint)
In our second episode about whole-person gratitude featuring Habit Lab’s Jenna Zint, I’m sharing new science about maximizing gratitude benefits, and Jenna is sharing some of her practical gratitude rhythms to inspire you to form your own. Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E6: Whole-Person Gratitude 1/4: Begin With Your Focus (featuring Jenna Zint)
This is our first of four episodes about whole-person gratitude featuring Habit Lab podcast’s Jenna Zint. I’m so excited to share this with you! Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E5: The Opposite of BELIEF (It’s not what you think.)
Isn’t unbelief the opposite of belief? Not according to 1 Peter 2:6-8. Pull up a chair, and let’s talk about it.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E4: Happy Strongholds? Is that a thing?
I’ve always thought of strongholds as a negative thing—we DEMOLISH strongholds, right? But are there strongholds we’re SUPPOSED to build? Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E3: When Circumstances Don’t Get Better
If you find yourself waiting around for circumstances to get better before you take some time to rest, it won’t happen. Your invitation is now. Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E2: Shouldn’t This Be Easier?
Whether you’re just beginning a new spiritual discipline or you’ve tried to start one, but it’s not going well; this episode will empower you. We’ll talk about how to interpret and face the resistance from within yourself and/or from people around you. Pull up a chair.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: S2E1 “Let’s Take a Minute”
While the world feels like it’s on fire all around, we are invited to name where we’re turning for comfort and how we can practice preparing for the next storm.
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BONUS: A Book Review: “I Don’t Even Like Women” by Natalie Runion
I Didn’t Think I Needed This Book; I Was Wrong.
To all my fellow female ministry leaders and teachers:
Confession: I went on a difficult journey with I Don’t Even Like Women: And Other Lies That Get in the Way of Sacred Sisterhood. You see, while I grew up in a very similar landscape as author Natalie Runion—women’s ministry games guessing what’s in my purse, male-dominated leadership teams, and friends who were “good Christian” girls with little desire to push boundaries—the first time I read this book, I read with all sorts of pride thinking, “Oh, that’s too bad that Natalie was hurt so badly, but I’ve already been healed and know all of this.”
But, oh, the humility when God began to peel back the layers of my own identity deeply formed by my upbringing! He showed me that those were callouses speaking, not a truly healed heart. Upon a second read-through of I Don’t Even Like Women, I have come to realize that I completely missed the power of this book’s message because I didn’t want to face the vulnerable truth that I am not operating out of healing but rather hurt. For decades, I have relegated myself to a dimmer version of who God designed me to be as a female teacher because my strength, my leadership, and my gifts were “too much” for my sacred sisters—often driving them away—and I felt they were even “too much” for the godly male leaders on the same ministry teams as I. I never felt that I “fit in” exercising my strengths, so I dumbed down to blend in and dimmed my light just a bit so as not to stick out too much. In doing so, I limited how God could use me, and I felt most comfortable acting as a wallflower in a room full of women, afraid my gifts at full brightness would chase other women away.
But near the end of I Don’t Even Like Women, Natalie writes that we can write our own scripts “of women of faith, who welcome the lonely and marginalized in sacred sanctuaries from the church to the home who will NEVER have to say, ‘I don’t even like women,’ because they have been so loved by those who have come before.” Oh, how my heart longs to be that woman! But until I step into my God-given (not hurt-shaped) identity, I will not change history but rather repeat it. This book was my wake-up call to start living differently as a woman in ministry and as a member of the sacred sisterhood. The message in this book served as an encouraging companion, grabbing my hand, catching my tears, and leading me along in this vulnerable journey to shed my cloak of insecurity and let my light shine in all its brightness.
We followers of Jesus don’t need a room full of women who think, act, and love God in exactly the same ways. We need a Church full of unique female personalities who shine so brightly they make “sticking out” the norm, so that when new women come in, they feel empowered to shine their own unique light, adding to the spectacle of different lights, not in competition with one another but in synergy, creating a dazzling display that gives God glory.
You, too, can shine your brightest as a female ministry leader, but only after you name the lies that Natalie so poignantly names in this book and begin to “rewrite the script” and put Truth into practice instead. This book is your invitation to start your own healing journey so that you can let your light shine the way God designed.
As one of the theme song of our childhood so aptly teases, “Hide it under a bushel? No! I’m gonna let it shine!”
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The Mentor’s Table podcast: Season Two PREVIEW Show
We’ve shined up the pod for Season Two. Here’s what you can look forward to!
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Summer REPLAY E6: Listening Hacks to Hear God in the Silence
It’s our most-listened-to episode of Season One. Enjoy!
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Summer REPLAY E5: How I Began My Sabbath Rhythm
The question I am asked most often is, “How do you sabbath in today’s culture, especially with a family?” Here’s my story.
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Summer REPLAY E4: Reframing Resistance to Sabbath
What do you do when you experience resistance to trying to establish a sabbath rhythm? Sometimes the resistance comes from your own mind or heart, and sometimes it comes from loved ones that you deeply respect. Let’s talk about it.
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Summer Replay *BONUS EPISODE* Introducing “As We Grow” Podcast
I can’t wait for you to meet my friend Gretchen and listen to our conversations about what we’re learning AS WE GROW in our walks with God. Listen now!
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Summer REPLAY E3: How to Start Your Own Sabbath Rhythm
In this replay episode, I’m proposing a brand NEW spiritual discipline I couldn’t find on Google, but I think it’s been in front of us the whole time. Tune in to find out what it is.
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The Mentor’s Table podcast | Summer REPLAY E2: A NEW Spiritual Discipline
In this replay episode, I’m proposing a brand NEW spiritual discipline I couldn’t find on Google, but I think it’s been in front of us the whole time. Tune in to find out what it is.
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Over the summer we'll be re-releasing some of our most popular episodes from season one. Next on the list is "A NEW Spiritual Discipline." This episode originally aired on December 4, 2024. Pull up a chair.
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This is a bold statement, but I think I've discovered a NEW spiritual discipline. What are your thoughts? How does this discipline help develop your surrender muscles? How has this discipline/practice helped you in the past?
Links:
Finish this discussion by listening to PART 2 here.
The Bible Project's Hope video
My favorite book on spiritual disciplines
My favorite resource for spiritual disciplines
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The Mentor’s Table podcast | Summer REPLAY: “Surrendering Even When You ‘Know’ Better”
Summer REPLAY is here featuring some of our most popular episodes from Season One. Whether you’re new here (welcome!) or you’re getting caught up, I’m glad you’re here.
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Over the summer we'll be re-releasing some of our most popular episodes from season one. First on the list is "Surrendering Even When You 'Know' Better." This episode originally aired on November 20, 2024. Enjoy!
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In today’s episode, we’re going to step on some of my fellow recovering-control-freak’s toes. We’ll start with Jesus asking Simon (Peter) to lower his nets in the sea after he’s been fishing all night and caught nothing. As a fisherman by trade, Peter KNOWS BETTER, yet he answers, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets” (Luke 5:5 esv).
When we’re talking about God’s invitation to surrender, there is no caveat that says we can wait until it starts to make sense to us.
How About You?
Which of your past experiences does Peter’s example trigger in your memory?
Do you still find yourself hung up on waiting for the understanding to come before the surrender?
Are there any practices/habits you have implemented that have helped you be able to surrender before you understood the why?
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