Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly

This is the first interview in the series and it features a conversation with my friend Julie Kline regarding her family's choice to educate their kids in the public school system.    Julie shares about whether this was a difficult decision for their family, what considerations and factors played into the decision as well as how they ultimately made their choice.  She also shares some of the lies or fears she believed and what helped her combat those lies.    Check out the shownotes for more resources on education!

Welcome to the Education Mini-Series!  In this introduction, Haley gives a preface to this 3-part mini-series in which you'll hear from 6 women who, along with their husbands, have all chosen different routes for educating their kids. You'll hear from two who chose public school, two who chose homeschooling and two who chose private school. As believers in Jesus, we have the great privilege and responsibility of teaching our kids about Jesus and praying God uses our instruction to open the eyes of their heart unto salvation. As for academic education, I believe we have a number of faithful options when it comes to how our children are educated. There are any number of models and methods and many, many different ways people have done it over the years. But for the sake of brevity, we're broadly exploring the big three - public, private and homeschool.  The point of these interviews is not to offer a prescription for your situation or tell you WHAT to think but rather help you with HOW to think about this important decision. It's what I have wanted as my own husband and I have had these conversations. To hear some real, boots-on-the-ground experiences, questions and answers and encouragement to do the best with what we have and know today, trusting our great God to bring the harvest as only He can.  I pray it blesses everyone who listens, helping you to put this decision in perspective and put your hope in Jesus alone. I know I need this reminder daily!  You can find the shownotes at www.kindledpodcast.com

If you're anything like me, the new year always presents itself with the desire to clean out, purge and start fresh!  So today I'm chatting with Morgan Tyree, expert home organization consultant, about how we can create systems for each room in our home and maintain them with a realistic, grace-based approach.  If you're feeling the urge to clean out and clear out, today's is an episode you won't want to miss! Shownotes at www.kindledpodcast.com

This is one of my all-time fave episodes! Re-airing right before the holidays of 2019. A reminder of the invitation to radical dependence we all have from God.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Today’s episode is straight FIRE, ya’ll.  This is one of my favorites! In it I'm chatting with Maggie Combs about how God places grace-filled limitations on our lives as He asks us to obey Him so that the fruit of our labor can point to Him and not us. The day I interviewed Maggie I was really struggling with “the Kingdom of Mom” and our conversation was a HUGE grace in my day and week, reminding me of truth in a hard circumstance.

Perhaps you're waking up on an ordinary Monday, in an ordinary week of your ordinary life. Perhaps you feel forgotten, invisible or alone in your own particular monotony. The rhythm of the work week or being home with the kids. Perhaps, though, you've forgotten that the mundane everyday is exactly where Jesus wants to meet you. It's exactly where His love feels the most intimate and caring - in the unseen minutes of every day.  For moms, these moments are often the ones that feel the most overwhelming.

As we enter the long season of Winter, it's the perfect time for this conversation with Sara Hagerty. We discuss how we need deep roots to make it through a long winter. Sara shares what it means to receive your season and that we can ask God what season we are in.  Sara Hagerty is a mom of 7 and she lives here in KC! We also have a funny connection, which I mention in the episode. She is the author of the book Unseen and Every Bitter Thing is Sweet.

In this episode I'm chatting with Alex Kuykendall about her book, Loving My Actual Christmas. You’ll hear us discuss how to fall in love with the season again, reflecting on themes of advent—hope, love, joy and peace—plus, practical advice on common Christmas stressors such as finances, schedules and extended family.  I hope you’ll finish this episode with the encouragement to go easy on yourself, remember what truly matters, and find joy in your own actual, imperfect Christmas.  Sponsor: Pr

What do you call a moralistic, therapeutic version of Christianity that values questions over answers and being “good” over being “right?"  Buckle up, ladies! We're in for an exciting and extremely important episode about Progressive Christianity. You'll appreciate this episode as Phylicia walks us through the actual tenets of Progressive Christianity - what it purports as truth and why it is antithetical to the Gospel. Sponsor: Val Marie Paper Shownotes: www.kindledpodcast.com

WANT MORE JOY IN MOTHERHOOD? THEN YOU NEED AN ESCAPE - NOT FROM MOTHERHOOD BUT FROM THE WORLD’S DEFINITION OF IT. Valerie was just your average mom who was spending way too much time frustrated with short naps, spilled milk and mundane days. She expected refreshment to come behind a locked bathroom door or on a beach somewhere but it started happening in her mind when she was able to identify twenty lies the world tells us about motherhood that were sabotaging her joy.