The Strong Women Podcast

Courtney Doctor is the Director of Women’s Initiatives at The Gospel Coalition. She joins us this week to discuss the vital importance of discipleship and the heart-transforming power of God’s Word. She shares the value of “life-on-life" discipleship, where authenticity and humility can grow as we help one another follow Jesus in everyday life. We also talk about how Scripture is vital for cultivating the kind of knowledge of God and love for God that transforms us and motivates us to live for Him.     Horse by Geraldine Brooks  Courtney Doctor’s Books - In View of God’s Mercies by Courtney Doctor  Steadfast: A Devotional Bible Study on the Book of James by Courtney Doctor  Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren  Even Better Than Eden by Nancy Guthrie  Help Me Teach the Bible podcast with Nancy Guthrie  Strong Women Podcast S2 41: Tethered to Christ With Nancy Guthrie  From Beginning to Forever by Elizabeth Woodson  Gospel Coalition free theology courses  Covenant Theological Seminary free online classes  Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds by Jen Wilkin   Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/ 

Cindy Rollins returns for her third interview, this time to talk about the difficult stage of life when your kids grow up and become adults. Cindy, whose nine children are all adults now, shares with us both the goodness and the struggles of this stage of life and parenting. We also talk about honoring our parents in adulthood. Cindy’s wisdom and insight are helpful in thinking through this emotional and sometimes difficult stage of life.        Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins  The New Mason Jar Podcast  Come Back, Barbara: A Father’s Pursuit of a Prodigal Daughter by John Miller and Barbara Miller Juliani  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women  Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/ 

Katie McCoy, the director of Women's Ministry at Texas Baptists, shares with us that many contemporary believers misunderstand the status of women in the Old Testament. God's governance of His people before Christ's coming included a vision of women displaying their God-given dignity. With this fresh look at the women of the Old Testament, the redemptive story of history throughout Scripture comes to life.    To Be A Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond by Katie McCoy  Praying like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton  Set The World On Fire: A 4-Week Personal Retreat with the Female Doctors of the Church by Vinita Hampton Wright    Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/ 

The lockdown of the last few years affected all of us in one way or another. Emily Colson and her son Max, who has autism, were stripped of outside community and the team who helped them. Desperate to find things for Max to do, Emily cleared the dining room table, got out all the paints, and let Max play with the colors. What happened after that has surprised everyone. Join us as we hear Emily and Max’s journey of how God has loved and led them through this all.    Heart by Max with The Colson Center  Heart by Max website  Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free by Emily Colson and Chuck Colson  Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeline L’Engle  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women  Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/   

Description: Is it OK to doubt? Is there a difference between healthy and unhealthy doubt? Our guest today, Stacie Johnson, knows what it’s like to wrestle with doubts and develop a stronger faith along the way. She walks us through her seasons of doubt and shows us how God used these seasons to “thicken” her faith and reveal areas where she needed to grow. She also talks about the important distinction between knowing about God and truly knowing and living a life shaped by God.      Stacie’s Website - Cultural Discipleship   Josephine Bahkita BreakPoint Commentary   Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All by Peter Kreeft   Bully Pulpit by Michael Krueger  Jesus Through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord by Rebecca McLaughlin  Anna Karenina  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia  Robin Hood by Howard Pyle   If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven, which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center, which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/ 

Monique Duson and Krista Bontrager were already friends when they realized their different beliefs about race and culture. They had many long, heated conversations over the course of months and years—but then something changed. Join us as they share what they learned and help us to think about topics like race and justice.    If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!  The Center for Biblical Unity   Theology Mom  Strong Women Episode 33. One Race, One People, One Savior with Monique Duson  Critical Theory and Intersectionality: What Every Christian Needs to Know — With Neil Shenvi —The Alisa Childers Podcast #41  Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth by Thaddeus Williams  “Which BIPOC People Should I Follow?” Article by Krista Bontrager   Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/   

How has dating changed? How should we view it? Lisa Anderson runs Boundless at Focus on The Family, a ministry that helps young adults to thrive in adulthood. Lisa shares insights and wisdom on the topic of dating that help us as well as the people in our lives who are in dating relationships.     If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!    Boundless.org  Focus on the Family  The Dating Manifesto: A Drama-Free Plan for Pursuing Marriage with Purpose by Lisa Anderson   “Thanks for Nothing” article on Boundless.org    “What Not to Say to Single Women in the Church” article on todayschristianwoman.com   The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer and John Ortberg  The Shop Girls: A True Story of Hard Work, Friendship and Fashion in an Exclusive 1950s Department Store by Ellee Seymour  Gentle and Lowly by Dana Ortlund  If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven, which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center, which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/     

Singleness is something that the Bible calls good, but do we really believe that? Is singleness just the stage of life before we “settle down”? Lisa Anderson is a Christian single woman who runs Boundless at Focus on The Family, a ministry that helps young adults to thrive in adulthood. Lisa shares her story and then helps us to think about singleness in the way the Bible describes it, not the way the culture around us—or even possibly how our local church culture—has influenced us to see it.     Boundless.org  Focus on the Family  Lay It Down: Living in the Freedom of the Gospel by Bill Tell   The Navigators  If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven, which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center, which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/ 

India is ranked 10th on the World Watch List of countries where Christians face the most persecution—but there is a strong woman living faithfully in the midst of it all. Do you ever wonder what you would do in the face of the toughest persecution? Tehmina Arora has asked herself the same question and seen first-hand what people of faith do: They stand. Today, she shares her journey to God and how He invited her to view the suffering around her with His heart, compassion, and justice. During this conversation, we learn from Tehmina about what our brothers and sisters in India face. As a lawyer focused on religious rights in India, she sees story after story of God’s faithfulness in the toughest of situations.   Show Notes  ADF India Website  ADF International Website  World Watch List  Vanishing Girls Campaign  Morning Star News covers persecution across the globe  Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Christophe Jaffrelot; Angana P. Chatterji; Thomas Blom Hansen   Series of Essays C.S. Lewis audiobook C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Audio CD – Unabridged, January 15, 2014 by C. S. Lewis  (Author)  Shackled: One Woman’s Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence by Mariam Ibraheem and Eugene Bach.    Savitribai Phule - article on the first female Indian teacher   If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women  Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/     

India is ranked 10th on the World Watch List of countries where Christians face the most persecution—but there is a strong woman living faithfully in the midst of it all. Do you ever wonder what you would do in the face of the toughest persecution? Tehmina Arora has asked herself the same question and seen first-hand what people of faith do: They stand. Today, she shares her journey to God and how He invited her to view the suffering around her with His heart, compassion, and justice. During this conversation, we learn from Tehmina about what our brothers and sisters in India face. As a lawyer focused on religious rights in India, she sees story after story of God’s faithfulness in the toughest of situations.   ADF India Website  ADF International Website  World Watch List  Vanishing Girls Campaign  Morning Star News covers persecution across the globe  Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Christophe Jaffrelot; Angana P. Chatterji; Thomas Blom Hansen   Series of Essays C.S. Lewis audiobook C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Audio CD – Unabridged, January 15, 2014 by C. S. Lewis Shackled: One Woman’s Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence by Mariam Ibraheem and Eugene Bach   Savitribai Phule - article on the first female Indian teacher     If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you!    Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/