It's good news to know that we have a place to turn for ultimate solutions! Scripture holds the answers for our big questions and our everyday life. It's the source for both comfort and challenge.
Amy 'n' Cheri discuss how their understanding of scripture has grown over the years and how Truth has become increasingly valued in their lives over their own opinions. <Gasp! Smile.>
It's a tough goal, but Cheri and Amy long to BE the kind of friend that they want to have. Keeping confidences and taking care of their own needs are just a couple of ways they're working to be better friends. Join us to think through how you can be a safe harbor for your friends too!
How's the strength of your personal community? Cheri and Amy discuss their goal to continue to build a strong friend network, pursue tight-knit relationships and turn away from isolation. Let's make 2018 the year that we draw close!
There is power in a Personal Manifesto! Cheri and Amy discuss how they created their own and share an invaluable, free resource for you to write yours.
This week they share the point in their manifestos that determine identity, the foundation of a richer life, and the steps they'll take in 2018 to live on those firm footings.
Want to learn from 2017 & get the most out of 2018? Examine your life with our new Retrospect series! Join Amy and Cheri in celebrating imperfect progress and committing to continued growth.
Cheri and Amy are both in the stage of parenting adults, and it's a sticky blessing. They process the right questions to ask, some scripts to perfect and healthy ways to examine the past when all the wheels have fallen off.
If you're a new mom, this will help you plan ahead while moms in the adult-parenting phase will feel the comeraderie of dwelling together in the trenches!
What's a mom to do when her adult son or daughter runs off the rails? Lori Wildenburg, author of Messy Journey: How Grace and Truth Offer the Prodigal a Way Home, gives us a key question and tools that lead to helpful solutions.
Arm yourself with the wise strategies Lori offers as you walk into difficult situations with your kids.
n our funks, in the midst of criticism, and in the battle with sin, we have choices. Sometimes the best choice is the hardest choice, and we need strength to make it.
Where can we find that strength? Cheri and Amy talk about seeking the strength and support we need that lead to the changes that make our lives better.
Lisa Whittle, author of Put On Your Warrior Boots, talks about how to tell ourselves the truth and be truth-tellers in ways that changes lives-- both our own and others'. She helps us activate our faith to walk through life Jesus strong, facing our battles with strength.
Listen to this one and charge out to face your world!
Even when we have a true desire to serve others, it can be complicated. Everything from mixed motives to schedules to lack of information can be obstacles to generous service.
Cheri and Amy talk through how to serve others well with great joy and provide practical tools for responding to the "heartdrops" of others.
In our very divided world, people are craving love. Karen Ehman, author of Listen. Love. Repeat., shares inventive ways to create meaningful acts of love in our everyday world, sharing the heart of Jesus everywhere we are.
Karen helps us to develop the gift of paying attention and acting.
In Tricia Lott Williford's interview (episode 65), she talked about who she'd invite to her dinner party. In this follow-up episode, Cheri and Amy create the dream team that would surround their dining room tables.
Listen and create your own list of people who would be invited to your soiree! It's a revealing list of shared respect.
With the power and vulnerability of personal stories, Tricia Lott Williford shares the secrets of finding confidence, trashing "trolls", and living with joy.
Listen in to find out her dinner-party tool for finding the confidence-builders you let into your life!
In this sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious (the word naked might be mentioned... just sayin') episode, Cheri & Amy discuss what it takes to create real change in our lives.
They also reveal the little girl inside that they'd like to recapture, and Cheri tells a story that will leave you doubled-over. Don't miss this one!
Who is the girl you wanted to be and where did she go?
Chrystal Evans Hurst leads us on a rescue mission to find and recapture the best part of ourselves. She encourages us to move toward change but also shares the mechanics of forward movement.
What could be better than a well-behaved child? A child who has learned to love Jesus! Cheri and Amy process their successes and failures in parenting and think about how they'd do it differently with a do-over.
If you need to leverage both grit and grace in your parenting, this one's for you!
Erin MacPherson, author of Put the Disciple Into Discipline: Parenting with Love & Limits, clarifies the purpose of discipline in a child's life. As parents, we want to create Jesus-followers, not just good citizens.
Creating an atmosphere of grace and mercy along with consequences is just one key that Erin shares in this highly practical interview as she teaches us to shape our child's heart not just influence their behavior.
It's so much easier to be "normal", but Cheri & Amy process the adventure inserted into life when we make the unexpected choice... the Jesus choice.
With their usual humor and transparency, they unpack the uncommon ways we can enhance our relationships and decisions every day. You can find out Amy's super hero status in this episode too. Be assured that it's NOT Wonder Woman!
We live in a world that wants us to be ordinary-- be like everyone else, look like everyone else, act like everyone else. Carey Scott, author of Uncommon, calls us higher to live an extraordinary, God-honoring life.
In this inspiring interview, It's a challenge that will stir your heart and move you forward!
Cheri & Amy discuss the painful truth that perfection and performance actually strip the life from our relationships rather than nurturing them. That's hard for reforming perfectionists, who try to do it all right in an attempt to connect with others, to grasp!
Tune in today to hear their freeing conclusions and some funny thoughts about hairy legs.
Mary DeMuth, author of Worth Living: How God's Wild Love for You Makes You Worthy, talks about re-writing your story to live beyond perfection.
Instead of shooting for the perfect performance, she encourages us to live in the freedom of being loved and the joy of our current success. Mary also shares the secret to security. Don't miss this one!
For perfectionists and people-pleasers, reaching out to "those other people" can feel awkward and even wrong. How do we get past our self-made obstacles to reach out to our neighbors with true love?
Cheri and Amy share the lessons they're learning as they let go of perfectionism and follow the ways of Jesus as He loved others.
Amy Lively, author of How to Love Your Neighbor Without Being Weird, shares winsome ways to reach out to those next door and in our natural paths.
She helps us live the important command to "Love your neighbor as yourself" through intentional but natural means. It doesn't have to be scary, either. Amy Lively makes it fun!
Motherhood is truly a tangle of emotions, motives, and outcomes. How do we live above the muddle and clear the obstacles of pride, protection, and judgment?
Cheri & Amy vulnerably share some of their mothering failures and the ways they're learning to become free to give grace to themselves and other moms.
In their conversation with Lynn Cowell, author of Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants, Cheri & Amy discover the beauty of living beyond the social networking highlight reels and the pressure of parenting perfectly.
Instead, Lynn shares about how to engage our children's hearts with our own struggles and build up our friends with understanding.