In this solo episode, Phylicia is tackling how to adjust from working full-time to staying at home. She experienced a mix of emotions when she left her job and found she needed to adjust her mentality, attitude, and spirit.
Take everything you learned from your career into motherhood.
It's a question we get a lot. How can I find godly friends? We have developed a Christ-centered friendship over the past three years and we each have these relationships with a few other women as well.
We start with a short list of the benefits of these friendships: encouragement, a sounding board, accountability, and a witness.
Then we dig into some practicals. What can you do to start finding and cultivating these friendships?
-stop avoiding awkwardness
-be the one to reach out/host
-go deeper
-make the time and effort
This week, we take a few minutes at the beginning of the episode to clarify a point from last week and then discuss how to graciously disagree. Because sometimes we disagree and we need a plan for handling that.
Is it a gospel issue?
Are we in a situation where it matters if it's a gospel issue?
Can we filter with discernment?
Then we share a few practical ways we both handle disagreements, online and in real life.
For 2018, we're introducing a few changes! There's new podcast art and a new tagline: inviting women to Biblically challenge the status quo. We're going to dive into some deep subjects where we might have answers or we might be asking questions, but all with the hopes of helping us all better live out our faith.
To kick this off, we're diving into the subject of Eve's curse. Was Eve cursed? We say no. First we discuss what was cursed and how Jesus' sacrifice on the cross took all of the curse for sin from people. We're disturbing some theological truths to claim otherwise. Then we tackle explaining why the added pain in birth wasn't even punishment using the narrative of women and babies in the Bible, the character of God, and the actual conversation in Genesis 3.
We also discuss how having a Biblical perspective on childbirth is necessary for a pro-life stance. It's really hard to convince women that God has blessed them with a child when you're also saying that God is simultaneously cursing them.
Next week, we'll wrap up this topic with some more conversation on curses (you know you're excited) and why women are also commissioned to work.
Welcome to 2018!