Life Builders By Julie Hamilton

I've missed you all!!!! So glad to be back with you! Today is just straight preaching from me! Here is Part 2 of four beautiful gifts that we can find in the darkest seasons of our lives. 

Today is just straight preaching from me! Here are four beautiful gifts that we can find in the darkest seasons of our lives. 

Kelly King knows a thing or two about waiting well! She's been in women's ministry for decades, and that's brought her to her current position as the Women's Resource Specialist for Lifeway Christian Resources. Hear her encouragement for wading through unmet expectations, being faithful to take the next steps when the promise seems far away, how women's ministry has changed over the decades, and finally finding yourself in just the right place and the right season! 

Dutch Bros Coffee isn't just loud music, chatty teenagers and crazy drinks.  It's a grace incubator and leadership laboratory. These passionate leaders are impacting our community one cup at a time by teaching their employees how to thrive in face to face relationships, grow healthy minds and hearts, and develop into their best self. Let's talk about maintaining vision, growing an env't of grace, what they love about the public and nerd out on what books are in their own mini-library!

Therapist and author Jay Stringer explores the world of unwanted sexual behavior with such grace and gentleness, showing us that these behaviors are actually invitations to finding healing and wholeness. We talk about how these unwanted behaviors are not random, they have specific root causes, about how the church and secular "treatments" haven't been effective and why, what to do when you find out a spouse is using pornography and how our cultural language perpetuates violence against women.

How does a girl from South Carolina grow up to work in the White House & Congress and then find her heart's passion serving Syrian refugees & working in the world of fashion in the Middle East? In this interview with Ally Portee, learn how her childhood influenced her heart for the nations, what she treasures about the Middle East, the realities of Syrian refugee camps, what it takes to become a writer, why you should "let it go," and tips to navigate the twists and turns of your own path! 

Terra Mattson, a Therapist, combined all her clinical knowledge, ministry knowledge, and life experience to create dialogue and support for raising AND being daughters rooted in grace! Her free curriculum has been used to create mom/daughter groups all around the world. She's bringing women together to create honest and beautiful conversations and bring healing. Today we talked about sin vs. survival behaviors, her biggest awakening, raising daughters in grace, and the biggest obstacles facing women today.

Terra Matson, combined all her clinical knowledge, ministry knowledge, and life experience to create dialogue and support for raising AND being daughters rooted in grace! Her free curriculum has been used to create groups all around the world and is now expanding into a conference called InCourage 2020. Today we talked about sin vs. survival behaviors, her biggest awakening, raising daughters in grace, and the biggest obstacles facing women today...you'll be surprised about her insight on that one!

"You’re not going to see what's next fully until you let go of everything else." Former "churchy girl" Marni Ausenbaugh shares vulnerably about her journey of self discovery and walking by faith through a season where nothing seems stable.  "Be authentic and live a life of purpose on purpose." Follow Marni's journey at www.marniausenbaugh.com and her name on Youtube, IG and FB! (and look out for her new podcasting "Reformed Churchy Girl" coming soon.)

It's a big topic from a big man with a big heart! Stan Johnson leads us on a gracious journey to explore the topic of racism in light of the Bible and what it says about how we should treat our fellow man. 

Brian Dixon has helped literally thousands of messengers & authors grow in their craft through Hopewriters and his clarity coaching. Today he joined us to share practical ways we can be cultural architects, build the life we want by focusing on the people closest to us first and also a few fantastic tips for want-to-be authors! I just ordered his brand new book "Start With Your People" today and I hope you will too! You also do not want to miss his "kitchen fail" story -- I am still laughing about it! 

We're back and starting off Season 2! So happy to be back here with you again! Today's episode is just about catching up. Just little old me talking all about immense grace (and the float spa). 

In today's chat we tackle one of the most controversial issues in the church -- women in leadership! Pastor Tom Stonecipher dares to jump in to bring some biblical clarity to how and why we should support leaders regardless of their gender. He shares about Jesus's view of women, why women make better pastors, practical advice for husbands to support their wives, why timing matters and why we can trust God! If you only have a few minutes, skip to minute 32:00 where the absolute gold unfolds!

Global evangelist and anti human trafficking advocate Christine Caine stops by to stir our faith and share her thoughts on why we need to live an "Undaunted" life, how to find the appointment on the other side of disappointment, what our generations are in desperate need of right now, why "overnight success" takes 20 - 30 years, the state of the global church and how fear wants to derail us from our destiny and in her case, almost succeeded. 

Janet Newberry shows us how growing up in a performance based culture harms our children, ourselves and our relationships. Thankfully, we have a choice to live free by design and not stay stuck in the default.  In this episode, we chat about the differences between design vs default, how to know whether we're performing for others or being our true selves, and why parenting should not be transactional (striving to earn our next privilege), but transformational (built on a trust relationship & help).