Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
INSIDE: How can you get a grip on teenagers’ screen time without becoming hypervigilant and obsessive? What does it look like to monitor screen time with grace? Read on. When I think about my teenage girls being on devices, the picture that comes to mind isn’t good. I imagine my girls playing on the beach […]
INSIDE: How to connect with your teenage daughter is a question many moms ask. How can you connect with your daughter when you’re mostly experiencing eye rolls? Read on! The time we have left with our girls before they graduate high school is dwindling like sands through the hour glass (Can you name the soap […]
INSIDE: You’ll learn five big-picture ways for screen time management + three ultra-practical ways to handle your screen time with grace. I spent four days last week at our church’s our church’s annual Student Staff Retreat with 48 teenagers who didn’t have their phones. No distractions. No posting on Instagram or checking likes. No interrupted […]
INSIDE: Receiving grace starts by being in community, by belonging, and connecting. How does grace show up when producing a podcast? Take a listen for this behind-the-scenes look. Author Daniel James Brown wrote, “Few things offer so much opportunity for common effort as the making of a book.” This was not how I viewed writing […]
INSIDE: Being who you are, being who God created you to be, is the most free way to live. So how do we live in the wide open space God offers? Listen in. Living in God’s wide open spaces means there is no condemnation in Christ. God certainly convicts and corrects, but He never assaults […]
INSIDE: It all counts. Every act the Lord asks you to do is valuable. He sees it all. It all matters. All the work given to you by God and done in love is meaningful. I’m really good at discounting or downplaying the good ways God wired me, how He’s forming me through trials, and […]
INSIDE: Our God is a God of grace and truth. He is infinite and supreme. But what does this mean for us in our busy and full lives? Listen to what it means for our God to be a God of AND. If you’ve been around the Grace In Real Life podcast long enough, you’ve […]
INSIDE: What is disciple making? How do we do it? What does it look like to make disciples when your schedule is full? And how can you possibly disciple your teenagers? When I really stop and think about it, going and making disciples sounds intimidating. How do I do it? What does it even look […]
INSIDE: What is the power of questions? How do you cultivate spiritual health by asking questions of God and others? Listen to Mandy Pallock. When we were in college, Ryan gave me the nickname “The Interrogator” because I love asking questions. People are truly fascinating to me, and God gave us such an incredible world […]
INSIDE: What are the benefits of studying theology? Isn’t theology for those in seminary or pastors? How does theology impact your spiritual health? You are a theologian. Listen to Jen Wilkin. If you’re like me, you’re like, “Am I a theologian? I’m pretty sure theologians went to seminary and read ancient texts and write papers […]
