Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly

The world is changing - and so is the world of secular therapy and what that means for Christians practicing as counselors with licensure by the state. Today I have Stephanie Risinger, LMFT, who specializes in women's mental health and perinatal counseling, on to discuss changes she has seen in the field over her 15+ years of experience and challenges she faces today as a Christian continuing to practice. SPONSORS: Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above! Bubble Pop Club- Use Code HALEY15 for 15% off!

What is Biblical Counseling? What’s the difference between that and secular or even christian counseling? Who should govern what counselors can and cannot say in the counseling room? Why “biblical counseling” when there’s a whole field of licensed professional counselors who seemingly want to help people?  What standard do we use for helping people seek and find peace?  All this and more in my conversation with Ursla McCarthy, an ACBC certified counselor who attends the same church as I do. Ursla has a Masters in Biblical Counseling and a Bachelors degree in Psychology. She changed directions with her psychology degree after beginning to practice counseling in the prison system and realizing it was not effective for helping people truly change. SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) Simplisafe: get 40% off a new system plus a FREE SimpliSafe Indoor Camera. Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above!

This episode is JAM PACKED with so many topics! How the social justice movement of 2020 is similar to the LGBTQ state-sanctioned religion of 2023 Pronoun hospitality and why Christians should not change definitions in order to love people The irony of how the left is actually the ones trapped in a superficial and incorrect gender binary And the leftward drift of many organizations, including Christian ones like Young Life. You won't want to miss it! SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) Simplisafe: get 40% off a new system plus a FREE SimpliSafe Indoor Camera. Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above!

As conservatives prepare to go Target-free for June, it begs the question: how long will this go on? How long can it? Are people being inconsistent by refusing to shop at Target but continuing to shop at Walmart or Amazon? Or can we simply do the best we can with what we have to steward our money and resources? I see both sides of the argument and have been/am on both sides, so I want to examine both sides of the discussion and see how we can all avoid error on both extremes of leaning too hard into "boycott or you're in sin" or "we don't have to do anything different ever" regardless of how corporations behave. I think this is a valuable and important conversation for Christians to have, and it surely isn't the last time a corporation will serve a demonic agenda in this ever-present spiritual battle that wages on. SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) Simplisafe: get 40% off a new system plus a FREE SimpliSafe Indoor Camera. Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above!

With Pride Month right around the corner, it's important for Christian parents to be prepared to engage with their kids on this topic. Many parents avoid this conversation altogether or hope their kids won't notice - but is that really the approach we should take as we equip our children to live as salt and light in Babylon? They need more than our hopes that they will go one more year without asking hard questions about all the rainbows they are seeing. In this episode, I share the structure for the conversation and break it down in a way that will help you not dread this conversation with your kids, and dare I say even enjoy it as you get to share the beauty of God's design and truth with them. I break this down for ages 3-18 and will share tips that help you adapt it to your children. KEY SCRIPTURES Genesis 1:27 tells us God made humans male and female. Prov. 14:12 tells us that a way seems right to man but the end is death. Romans 1:18-38 gives a vivid picture of humankind refusing to acknowledge God and giving him proper glory.  Throughout the Old Testament in places like Leviticus 18, Leviticus 20, Genesis, and later on in Judges, but also in the New Testament in Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, and 1 Timothy 1, it is made very clear that homosexual activity is sinful. In 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Timothy 1, Paul lists homosexual activity along with numerous other sins: revelry, drunkenness, and all sorts of other sins, some of which are minor, some major; some less significant, some more significant; some even heinous sins. In Romans 1, however, Paul identifies homosexual sin as a more heinous sin, being that it is contrary to nature.  SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) DIY Family Films Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at this link!

A big conversation has exploded online around the question of, "Should women teach theology to other women?" Titus 2:3-5 is interpreted to mean women should ONLY teach women the list of items in those verses (loving husbands, raising children, etc.). Join my husband and I as we discuss what scripture says and means by what it says. We'll look at some of the arguments for and against and examine the risks of this thinking as well as the goodness of God's design for the family led by male headship. Sponsors SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) Simplisafe: get 40% off a new system plus a FREE SimpliSafe Indoor Camera. Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above!

Jesus has gone woke. Not the *real* Jesus - but the one everyone is talking about. Listen in as Lucas Miles and I discuss woke Jesus and more broadly, woke Christianity which has become the justification and backing for everything from abortion to transgenderism and more. This is an episode you won't want to miss. SPONSORS: Learning Well Journal: Use code KINDLED for $10 off an annual subscription (available in US and Canada) Simplisafe: get 40% off a new system plus a FREE SimpliSafe Indoor Camera. Annie's Kit Clubs Get half off your first shipment at the link above!

Sharing my thoughts on what is happening at Asbury. How do we discern and quantify a "revival"? Should this be called one? How many times has this happened before - and why has every time been in February or March? All this and more. 

From the occult into Christianity - Jac Marino Chen shares her testimony of how Jesus saved her from an occult order called The Golden Dawn into a relationship with Him. After a life marred by sexual abuse, addiction to psychadelic drugs and alcohol, Jac found herself unable to wake herself up from the nightmare that had become her life. She went deeper into the new age and ended up in the occult, studying ancient mysticism, egyptian magic and interacting with demonic entities in the spirit realm. Though she followed this path and was initiated into a magical occult order that practiced sorcery in a freemason lodge, God had other plans for how her life would turn out. You won't want to miss this conversation.  Sponsor: Alongside Them Instagram: @alongsidethem Coupon code: KINDLED5

In this episode, Marcia and I dig deeper into the key movers and shakers in this movement as well as explore some of the specific teachings of these individuals.  Sponsors ALONGSIDE THEM: Get $5 off with code KINDLED5 Follow them: @alongsidethem