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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Justin Kendrick joins Amber to discuss creating habits for spiritual growth, moving beyond ordinary faith, and loving Jesus more.
Habits of Spiritual Growth Questions Justin and Amber Discuss:
- (4:14) Share a little of your faith journey with us. When did you come to know Jesus?
- (7:07) Part of becoming a disciple of Jesus is believing "God is deeply satisfied with who you are." Expound on that a bit.
- (12:59) You wrote, "If you ask a mature Christian at your church to 'disciple,' you he or she will usually meet you for coffee, listen to your problems, and encourage you to read the Bible. Those are all really good things. But is that all there is to discipleship?" So I ask you, Is that all there is to discipleship?
- (19:00) What are some crucial habits for spiritual growth?
- (31:01) What role does "burying your ordinary" play in adopting these habits and experiencing spiritual growth?
- (34:20) You discuss the idea of trusting more instead of trying more. What are some ways you encourage followers of Jesus to practice trusting vs. trying?
- (39:29) What do you think churches are getting wrong when it comes to helping people develop habits for spiritual growth?
Quotes to Remember:
"In our culture, we often think, I'm important because I accomplished this or because I make this money or because all these different status symbols we have. But God says, you're important, because I love you, period."
"When you receive grace through Christ. You stand blameless before God on the merits of Jesus. Now, if that's true, it should become the bedrock of my confidence."
"How do we intentionally grow in a process of discipleship? What we found was everything begins with habits, whatever you do consistently, that's what gets momentum and health and growth and stability in your life."
"Do you have a plan to grow your soul and your spirit in your faith?"
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Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Brittany and Natasha join Amber to discuss humanizing abortion, partnering with your local pregnancy center, and how to extend compassion to those making a difficult choice.
Questions Brittany, Natasha, and Amber Discuss:
- (4:58) The two of you work with Save the Storks which largely informed the book you co-wrote, Unplanned Grace . Will you share a little of the story behind Save the Storks and what their mission is today?
- (7:57) Statistically speaking, what is the most common reason women get an abortion?
- (8:41) What are some of the circumstances that abortion-vulnerable women often face?
- (10:57) How can a woman, a man, Christians stop acting so angry about abortion and start to see it from the person who's facing this decision?
- (15:15) What are some things crisis pregnancy centers offer?
- (21:57) You wrote, “Women would rather go to God with an abortion than face their church with an unplannedpregnancy. It’s time for us to do better when it comes to loving and caring for these women.” How can we, the church, love and care for these women better?
- (29:13) The pro-life movement has become so politicized that it can be hard to see the women and men who are pro-life because they truly believe every life has value, including the mother and father of the unborn child. How does one go about focusing their attention on the impact abortion has on all involved when the world is screaming, "This is all a political move!"?
- (33:01) What is something you discovered in the writing of Unplanned Grace that blew you away?
- (39:48) What is your hope for Unplanned Grace?
Quotes to Remember:
"Seventy-three percent of women, so the majority of women, choose abortion due to economic stress and factors."
"...humanizing the people involved, because our culture has done a great job politicizing the issue."
"I think this is why pregnancy centers are so important. Because no matter who's in office, what the politics are of your particular state, what the laws are, women are still going to be facing these difficult circumstances, they're still going to be feeling like abortion might be their only option."
"There's over 300,000 churches in America, there's 3000, roughly, pregnancy centers in America, we can do so much together. It's a tremendous opportunity to revolutionize and transform the country, not through top down politics, but by serving people, which is what the church is called to do anyways."
Related Episodes:
- 27: Robin Fuller | Hope and Healing After Abortion
- 48: Tori Hope Petersen | Hope For The Foster Child
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Greg Koukl and Amber discuss questions to ask when discussing your Christian convictions, adopting a gardener versus harvester mentality, and engaging in friendly faith conversations.
Questions Greg and Amber Discuss:
- (6:53) Share a little of your faith journey with us. When did you come to know Jesus?
- (11:35) Time and time again I have heard, how do I discuss my Christian beliefs without sounding like a jerk or arrogant or close minded? You published the book, "Tactics" that serves to help answer this very question, but I want to hear your reason for writing the book.
- I want listeners to get a taste for using The Columbo Tactic when communicating their Christian convictions. Will you give us an overview and the benefits of taking the time to practice it?
- (42:47) Tina Wilson asked, "How would you recommend we speak to the statement, you do you and let me do me?"
- (49:15) Lee Ann Mancini asked, "More than ever, moral ethics is determined by what one believes to be true, even if the facts prove otherwise. What can we do to prepare our children to face the anti-Christian humanistic culture we live in?"
- (58:58) After all your years of teaching Christians how to engage in friendly conversations about Jesus, what are the most important things you've learned?
Related Episodes:
- 123: Rebecca Pippert | Share the Faith You Live
- 96: Alisa Childers | Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity
- 90: Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Empowering Kids To Challenge Cultural Lies
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Joshua Broome joins Amber to discuss how his dream to be an actor led to becoming a porn star and how that career left him filled with shame and emptiness. He walked away and encountered the grace and love of Jesus Christ, where His true identity lies.
Questions Joshua and Amber Discuss:
- (3:40) Take us back and share a bit about your childhood, teen years, and your aspirations of becoming a famous model/actor.
- (8:22) What led you to move to Hollywood?
- (11:36) What led to you signing a contract to work as an actor in porn films?
- (21:40) You worked in the industry for a little over 5 years and were one of the top 5 male porn stars. Will you share a bit of your emotional journey during those 5 years?
- (29:45) You were questioning why you felt so empty when a bank teller asked you, “Joshua, is there anything I can do for you? … Joshua, can I help you?” Share what those questions led you to do.
- (43:35) For two years, you worked to rebuild your life before eventually meeting a girl who asked you another 2 questions: “Do you know who God is?” and “Do you have a relationship with him?” What happened next?
- (50:17) What were those first few years like learning to walk with Jesus?
- (1:00:35) If you stood in a room with young women and men who were longing to “make it” as a model/actor, what advice would you share with them?
Quotes to Remember:
“That’s just who I am. Whatever I do, I want to be the best at it. Whatever I’m doing, for good or bad, I’m going to give it everything I got.”
The Beginning of Working as A Porn Actor
“In walked four girls…I went over [to] them and within five minutes they said, ‘Hey, have you ever considered acting?’ I said, ‘Well, actually, I am an actor.’… But I didn’t see the curveball saying, ‘Oh, we’re talking about porn’.”
Emotional Toll of Working in the Porn Industry
“The deeper I got in, the more fame I got, the more detached from reality I became, because I hated what I did….but it was so close to what I wanted to be doing.”
Called by Name
“It’s like I created this plausible reality that I was living in and when she [bank teller] said Joshua, it shattered….I had felt guilty and ashamed, but I never felt convicted. I went home. I remember looking at myself in the mirror, and I had no idea who the person was looking back at me.”
Meeting Jesus
“[Hope asked], Do you know God?….Do you have a relationship with Him?’…She started by asking me all these questions, but not in the most gentle, sincere way…Then we walk for three hours.”
“I walked in those doors, and I walked out a very different person. I heard the gospel.”
“He looks up at the soldier, and he believes that he deserved death. But instead, he offers him his hand and a place at the table. Not for a day, now for a week, but forever, and not the worst place the table, the best place the table. [Summary of the story of Mephibosheth]”
Walking With Jesus
“Salvation is instantaneous and sanctification is a process. We had to walk through a lot of really difficult stuff, because the mental and emotional trauma I had was real. Absolutely, Jesus changed my life. Second Corinthians 5:17 is real, that old person was dead and gone. I’m this new creation. But now that I’m no longer wounded, I still had a few scars and I wanted to deal with those.”
“He wants to set boundaries in our lives to protect us…and obedience flows from us trusting God. If you can switch your mindset from I need to do what He says, so I don’t get in trouble to I want to do what He says, because I believe that He loves me enough that I truly believe that His way is best.”
“Your identity is not what you do, or what you’ve done, your identity is in the person of Jesus.”
Related Episodes:
- 54: Nick Stumbo | Discovering Freedom From Pornography
- 50: Rebecca Bender | Freedom From Human Trafficking
- 102: Christopher Yuan | Transformation & Holy Sexuality
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Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Sue Donaldson joins Amber to discuss why she practices hospitality, why hospitality is more than simply entertaining and how extending an invitation is an opportunity to show people Jesus.
Questions Sue and Amber Discuss:
- (2:48) Share a little of your faith journey with us. When did you come to know Jesus?
- (6:18) Did you grow up in a home where hospitality was modeled consistently? What was that like?
- (10:45) Have you always enjoyed hosting people in your home?
- (15:20) How can someone who was not raised in a hospitable home begin to break that chain of “un-grace”?
- (28:52) What are some of the most common fears or misunderstandings you hear people share when it comes to welcoming people into their home?
- (43:57) How can God use our questions more than our answers?
- (46:12) What are some crucial differences between hospitality and entertaining?
Quotes to Remember:
“You’re there to serve…We focus on the guests.”
“You do hospitality to serve Jesus, but you also make friends and build your own community.”
“Pray for a hospitable heart.”
“If we feel like we’re being dragged along by the Holy Spirit we need to ask for a heart of willingness.”
“Start small, you just invite one person.”
“God’s job is to save people. Our job is to invite people to our tables, and perhaps for the first time they will meet Jesus.”
“It’s God’s motivation that gets me to do all sorts of hard things.”
“I do conversation starters at almost every gathering…It’s almost like you don’t have to be responsible for being everybody’s best friend.”
“I love to be a networker, but for God’s sake not to make me popular.”
“I can’t save anybody, but I can introduce them to the One who sees them and that’s what hospitality is. It’s not showing off my matching napkins or placemats or fresh flowers.”
“The biblical definition of hospitality is welcoming strangers.”
Related Episodes:
- 41: Susan Alexander Yates | Thriving in Transition
- 76: Rosaria Butterfield | Radical Hospitality
- 1o7: Stephanie Rousselle | When An Atheist Encounters God
- 123: Rebecca Pippert | Share the Faith You Live
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Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Senator Brian Birdwell joins Amber to discuss his experience at the Pentagon on 9/11, surviving 60% total body burns, and how his 9-11 experience and his Christian faith impact his role as Senator.
Questions Senator Birdwell and Amber Discuss:
- (6:58) When did you begin walking with Jesus?
- (11:04) The morning of September 11, 2001, you were in an office with two colleagues watching live footage of the twin towers burning. Will you share your experience that morning?
- (22:17) How did you get to a place where you were no longer burning?
- (44:06) What were some thoughts that raced through your mind as you laid in the hospital?
- (55:14) More than 60% of your body was severely burned, you spent 26 days in intensive care, you underwent 39 surgeries over 4 years, what was your mobility like now?
- (59:35) In 2010, you were elected to the Texas senate. As we close out, how would you say your experience on 9/11, your healing journey and your faith impact your job as Senator?
Quotes to Remember:
“I told Sandy and Cheryl, I was going to step out to the men’s restroom, and that I’d be back momentarily and those are the last words that I would speak to my two co workers.”
“I’m 15 to 20 yards from an 80 ton jet making penetration into the [Pentagon] at 530 miles an hour with about 3000 gallons of jet fuel still remaining when it makes impact.”
“I’m set ablaze…[M]y total body external injury was a 60% total body burn with about 40% being third degree burns. But my most immediate life threatening injury was my inhalation injury.”
“I gave up. Screamed out, ‘Jesus, I’m coming to see You’ in a very loud voice, collapsed to the floor and accepted that I was going to die that day. I went from the calamity of trying to survive to the peace and quiet of knowing where I would spend eternity.”
“The most emotional thing from September 11 is when they put that face mask over me….I’m either stepping into eternity or I’m going to wake up here, but the Lord’s in charge.”
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Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher join Amber to discuss the worth and value of women displayed in the Scripture and how the evangelical church has often missed the mark in how it views men and women and their partnership in God’s work.
Questions Elyse, Eric and Amber Discuss:
- (5:00) Eric: As we begin, will you share how your approach to shepherding women in the local church has been shaped over the years and how male ministry leaders can view women in their church as partners in the gospel?
- (12:34) Elyse: You have authored 25 books on daily living and the Christian life, why Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women?
- (16:37) Both: Something I appreciate is the way you pointed out the way women were celebrated beginning in Creation, the Fall and all the way through the early Church. What are a few texts you wrote about that Christians often read and miss the value and worth God placed on women?
- (26:43) Both: The OT has many verses that can be deemed as devaluing women. How do you address these verses in addition to the women of the Bible you wrote about in Worthy?
- (34:40) Both: Let’s talk about the apostle Paul. It is easy to feel like Paul was a suppressor of women, due to controversial passages like 1 Tim. 2 and 1 Cor. 11, but you write about Paul, Lydia and the women who were there at the beginning of the Philippian church. Talk about the way Paul placed value on women.
- (46:46) Both: What was your greatest hope for the reader of Worthy?
Show Notes CONT.
Related Episodes:
- 99: Jen Wilkin | Women of The Word
- 32: Heather Dixon | Equipping Women for Courageous Living
- 73: Bethany Allen | Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Leadership Development
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Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Andrew & Rachel Wilson join Amber to discuss the emotional, spiritual and familial hardships and joys that come along with parenting special needs children.
Questions Andrew, Rachel and Amber Discuss:
- (3:02) Take us back to when you first became parents. What did life look like for you at the time?
- (5:04) As your children became toddlers you found yourself parenting 2 special needs children. As you think about those first few years, how would you describe the physical, spiritual, and emotional challenges you faced?
- (13:01) Rachel: Early after your children were diagnosed you said you read a Charles Spurgeon quote, “I’ve learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages” and thinking I will never learn to kiss that wave. Expound on that a bit and where are you now when it comes to kissing that wave?
- (15:34) Andrew: Lament is more than crying and longer than a few days. You write extensively about lament in The Life We Never Expected. What were some things you have lamented when it comes to loving and serving your special needs children and how do you encourage others to lament who are walking through similar family dynamics?
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Quotes to Remember:
Rachel: “Our testimony in recent years, is that we’ve seen the goodness of God in the land of the living like Psalm 27.”
Rachel: “Not only do they [children] have wonderful gifts and qualities in themselves, they draw out the gifts and qualities in other people in ways I never could have expected.”
Andrew: “Lament….is the act of bringing those emotions to God in prayer.“
Rachel: “It can be really hard as Christians in those moments with friends and family to sit back, and to go, ‘No, God’s a good narrator. Let’s trust Him, that over time, in the course of history, in the course of life…He will be faithful, He will be good.’ It’s not on me to narrate this experience and to have a testimony ready for Sunday morning.”
Andrew: “I don’t know what God is doing. And I don’t know whether or not it will ever turn out good and I don’t know whether it will get better, but I’m going to hang in there. And I’ll still be here tomorrow is often what’s needed of us as friends and in my case, pastors.”
Related Episodes:
- 64: Natalie Maxwell | A Story of Special Needs Adoption
- 110: Caroline Bailey | From Barren to Blessed
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Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Kimm Carr joins Amber to discuss the value of studying the Bible in community, why studying the Bible over and over again matters, and how the scriptures changed her life.
Questions Kimm and I Discuss:
- (1:48) How did you come to know Jesus as Savior?
- (6:43) What prompted you to first begin attending CBS?
- (8:31) What changes did you experience in your walk with Jesus those first few years of studying God’s Word through CBS?
- (11:36) You are the current Executive Director of CBS, which back in 2012 was a radical shift for your family. Will you share a bit of that journey with us and how your husband Steve supported and continues to support your calling as Executive Director?
- (19:30) How do you explain CBS to new people who may have never been a part of a Bible study group?
- (21:08) What do you love about CBS? What makes it unique to you?
- (23:59) Why do you think it matters to keep studying the Bible?
- (27:24) How can one join CBS?
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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Meghan Newkirk joins Amber to discuss living with and treating OCD as a follower of Jesus, a wife, and a mom.
Questions Stephanie and Amber Discuss:
- (2:04) Share what life was like for you growing up and what symptoms you experienced that lead to being diagnosed with OCD?
- (8:05) OCD is quite different from being overly organized or desiring tasks to be done a certain way. Will you lay a foundation for us? What is OCD and how is it different than previously described?
- (16:00) In the christian community there can be discomfort with all things mental health. OCD comes with pretty irrational and outlandish fears that often make Christian sufferers even more anxious given the disapproval they fear from the church and from God. Share with our listeners how God views our struggles in these areas and the truth that comes from His word about being free in Christ.
- (25:00) How did you shift your mindset to the sufficiency of Christ and His grace in our struggles?
- (33:30) You wrote Loving Naomi, a Christian fiction book whose character lives with OCD. What was your purpose in writing the book?
- (38:45) You are a wife and mother of 3, what are some challenges a family may face when someone in their family lives with OCD?
- (43:00) What are some of the challenges your husband faces?
- (47:30) What are some of the danger in constantly reassuring someone with OCD?
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