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Can I Hope Anyway? With Leeana Tankersley [Episode 171]

Hope Anyway Leeana Tankersley

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Hope Anyway by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

After almost fourteen years of marriage, Leeana Tankersley walked into a counseling appointment with her husband, fully prepared to fight for their marriage. But halfway through the appointment, Leeana came to realize that no amount of logic or emotion could stop the inevitable.

Overcome with numbness and disappointment, Leeana entered a new season that would reveal God’s remedy for her darkness: hope.

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Can I Set Boundaries for My Heart? With Dr. Alison Cook [Episode 170]

Set Boundaries Heart Alison Cook

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Boundaries for Your Soul by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Do you control your feelings, or do your feelings control you? Lots of us let guilt, anger, or self-criticism be the boss of us, which makes a total mess of things.

You may say to yourself, “I just need to get over it.” or “I’ve got to stop thinking that way.” But the truth is this tactic rarely works, and in fact, it can make things worse.

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Can I Find Contentment Right Where I Am? With Alyssa Bethke [Episode 169]

Find Contentment Alyssa Bethke

We all face issues that try to rob us of our joy—anxiety, loneliness, and discontent—just to name a few. And with all of its expectations and contradictions, this world can take a major toll on us…

We’re supposed to be fit, but not too skinny. Work and hustle, but stay home and be a good mom. Be wild and free, while remaining tidy and pure. Be a good wife, but be totally independent.

It can be exhausting, can’t it?

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Can I Live a Full Life With an Empty Nest? With Jill Savage [Episode 168]

Live Full Life Empty Nest Jill Savage

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Empty Nest, Full Life by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

There’s just something about an empty nest. Sometimes you can’t decide whether you feel grief or delight. You’re caught between wanting to hold on to the past and letting go to grab your new freedom.

Empty nesting can be a disorienting time, but it can also become the very best season of your life … if you’ll let it.

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God’s Plan A – FGF Highlights, Memphis, TN

FGF Memphis

Thank you to Mary Fry for the beautiful photos. To see the entire Facebook photo album, click here. For those of you who joined the photo booth fun, you can view your photos here.

Our last conference for our Fall 2021 Tour—Fresh Grounded Faith Memphis—is a wrap!

Memphis was one of many conferences rescheduled from 2020, and it was such a huge blessing to finally be with those amazing women!

I told the volunteers at the Meet and Greet that this weekend was God’s Plan A! Even though we may have thought it was Plan B since the event had been postponed, God only has Plan A’s!

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Can I Bury My Ordinary? With Justin Kendrick [Episode 167]

Bury Ordinary Justin Kendrick

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Bury Your Ordinary by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

It’s time to get out your spiritual shovel, because today you get to bury your ordinary!

Christians often get stuck in ordinary routines, but we’re called to live lives that are extraordinary! And by extraordinary, I’m talking about a life that doesn’t look like everyone else—it’s set apart, sanctified. We’re to live intentionally as a disciple of Christ!