by Misty Phillip | Jun 15, 2020 | Podcast
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Belle and Sparrows: Lynde Griggs & Tiffany Savage
BELLE IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN | SPARROWS ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY GOD
This is a by women for women non-profit that reaches women both locally and globally. They stand in the gap for marginalized women around the world. We talk about the blessings of stepping out in obedience answer God’s call and the blessings that follow.
The Belle & Sparrows non-profit serves marginalized women. Those coming out of domestic violence, in emergency shelters, those who’ve been incarcerated, addiction recovery, and women coming out of sex trafficking, and the sex industry. Lynde and Tiffany take teams of women to go on mission trips to serve under-marginalized women. Most of the work they do do is at the table with women eating and doing crafts.
Serving women in Guatemala, Haiti, and New Mexico. They take a small business kit with them and teach them a trade as well as providing a women’s conference. Teaching the women how to o artisan handmade crafts including where the can buy and sell products.
By His Grace Podcast with Belle & Sparrow
We discuss the various projects they do with the women. Lynde shares how life-changing this experience has been with the Lord, how her faith has increased as well as her love God and His people. Tiffany shares how much it has changed her in the process.
Bible Verses that have inspired.
Tiffany – James 1:2-4 “Consider it pure joy my brothers and sisters when you face trials of many kinds whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
1 John 3:1 – See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Lynde Griggs and Tiffany Savage are the co-founders of Belle & Sparrows. they are both wives, mom, and lovers of Jesus. They are women changed by Jesus, on a mission to bring the message of the gospel, and instill worthiness to all women around the world.
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by Misty Phillip | Jun 11, 2020 | Podcast
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This week on the By His Grace podcast, Misty Phillip welcomes Ronne Rock back to the show for a far-reaching conversation on the value, worth, and role of women. Ronne recounts stories of women changing the world by living out their purpose and calling.
One Woman Can Change the World
The heartbeat behind her book is contained in the subtitle, “Learn the story of women from around the globe like Ena from Honduras.She founded NICO to help tutor needy children. A story of a woman who did what she could with what she had. Ronne also shares her personal testimony of stepping into a children’s home in Guatemala, and how it shifted her perspective.
One Woman Can Change the World
Key Take-Aways:
- In Genesis 1 God created humanity, and it was good. He beautifully designed and created woman.
- We are the apple of his eye. He calls us beloved.
- “His purpose is you! It has always been you!”
- Rest in His love and walk with him.
- Deep your toe in the water, and if you see the water part, then you did your toe again.
- God created us to be leaders.
- If you feel a burden or a passion begin to step in faith and continue to step.
- Historically women have been strong leaders as judges, prophets, and priests.
- Women are strong helpers Ezer Kenegdo in the Hebrew standing face to face, side by side our male counterparts to be an advocate for justice, a mouth-piece for redemption, and reflect God’s character in all we do.
- Created in the image of God we are glorious.
- Let God speak over you, and fuel the fire within you.
- Changing the world doesn’t mean fixing it all. Impacting the world around us doesn’t mean we have to solve all the problems.
- Just love Jesus. Just trust Jesus.
My favorites quotes for this episode:
- “His purpose is you. It has always been you.”
- “Serve with grace in a culture that teaches me to hoard it all for myself.”
- “Not be afraid to use my voice.”
- “The most powerful thing I have still to this day are the heartfelt on your face before God cries in prayer that, that shatters the principalities and that shatters darkness.”
Bio:
Ronne Rock finds joy in telling stories that change stories. She weaves themes of transformative hope and grace-filled leadership into everything she shares on page and stage. An award-winning marketing and communications executive in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, she now shares her more than 30 years of expertise in creative leadership with faith-based organizations.
Ronne also travels around the world to gather words and images that inspire others to action with Orphan Outreach, a global nonprofit dedicated to serving the orphaned and vulnerable. She’s a writer, blogger, and speaker–sharing battle-tested wisdom about leadership, advocacy marketing, and finding God in the most beautiful and painful of circumstances.
You can make a difference:
Your purchase of One Woman Can Change the World transforms the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children through the ministry of Orphan Outreach. Ronne is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the books to Orphan Outreach. Dar-Ul-Fazl in India is the first recipient of this gift, thanks to you!
One Woman Can Change the World
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by Misty Phillip | Jun 2, 2020 | Podcast
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This week on the By His Grace podcast Misty Phillip is joined by Dr. Michelle Bengston to discuss how we can have peace in these difficult days. Michelle shares that worry, fear, and anxiety are not are portion. Michelle addresses this from her clinical experience as well as her own struggle with anxiety.
This is a power-packed episode and Michelle shares some incredible wisdom and practical tips.
Key takeaways:
- We have to be intentional about addressing anxiety.
- Worry seeps and anxiety creeps, and we need to deal with our feelings and thoughts or when a crisis happens it explodes.
- We can choose God’s peace over our anxious thoughts.
- The misappropriation of our thoughts drive a physiological response.
- We need to slow down and pay attention to our thoughts and then take them captive.
- Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help us identify where we are not believing God.
- Aligning your thoughts with God’s truth, and preaching to ourselves.
- We are either listening to the voice of the enemy or the voice of truth.
- Rebuke the lies and replace them with the truth.
- Our feelings are the outward manifestation of what we believe.
- We don’t have a spirit of fear, and we can break the cycle of fear in our lives.
- Breaking anxiety with the acronym T.R.U.S.T.
Dr. Michelle Bengston is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with more than 20 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of medical and mental disorders in children, adults, and seniors. She has been in private practice for more than a decade of that time. Speaker, author, and doctor, Michelle is also a woman—a wife, mother, and friend. She has experienced her share of trouble and trials and knows the pain of losing someone she loves as well as the despair that can follow trauma or illness.
Combining her professional expertise and personal experience with her faith, Dr. Bengtson is on a mission to instill hope in the hearts of others. Everyone goes through hard times, but you are not alone. Michelle knows hope is the key to the survival of your soul. Dr. Michelle Bengtson provides sound practical tools, affirms worth, and encourages faith. She instills hope to unlock joy and relief—even in the middle of the storm.
Books: Breaking Anxiety’s Grip
Hope Prevails: Hope Prevails
Blog: Michelle’s Blog
Facebook: Dr Michelle Bengtson Facebook
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by Misty Phillip | May 26, 2020 | Podcast
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This week I have a fantastic conversation with Jessica Hottle host of What’s the Truth podcast. We talk about the lies we believe and how we overcome by replacing the lies with truth. Common lies include: I am not qualified, not good enough, or not worthy enough.
Key Takeaways:
- Lies cause destruction, overwhelm, and chaos
- Truth brings peace, life, healing, and restoration
- Lies = Destruction, Truth = Restoration
- What is the fruit being produced in my life
5 Step process to Restoration
- Acknowledge Feelings
- Identify the Emotion
- Acceptance of your feelings
- What is the Emotion telling you?
- Creating the Conversation with God to create truth in our situation
Jessica Hottle Bio:
Jessica Hottle’s passion for helping others “weigh” less emotionally, physically, and spiritually. She inspires and encourages thousands by sharing her own personal struggles, victories, and journey through life. Jessica is a successful online entrepreneur, speaker, podcaster for What’s The Truth, and author of two best-selling books, Know Your Worth and A Worthy Wife. Along with a third book, Own Your Worth.
Her passions are being a wife to her husband, Jon, being a momma to their three cats, and spending her free time outside whenever she can (playing golf, hiking, reading, or writing in her journal). Jessica has a heart that runs hard after Jesus and credits everything she has done to her Savior.
by Misty Phillip | May 21, 2020 | Featured
Beauty in the Broken
By Jodi Rosser
Each broken piece showed me. Each crack and sliver revealed to me. I was completely broken and crushed just like this clay pot.
There is something powerful about doing something physically for how you feel emotionally.
As I purposefully smashed this piece of pottery with a hammer, I remember my heart being shattered into a million pieces just months before. My entire world had been turned upside down by one word: divorce.
Maybe your one word is different. Maybe it is cancer or miscarriage. Perhaps it is infertility or addiction. As I looked at the pile of pieces on the floor, I did not think this clay pot could be salvaged. It was broken beyond repair.
Have you ever felt like that? As you look at the broken pieces of your life, you just cannot see how anything good can come from it. You honestly have lost all hope.
Hope is an important ingredient as you look at your broken pieces.
Maybe you don’t see hope as you stare at another negative pregnancy test. Maybe you don’t see hope as you are raising your kids as a single parent. Maybe you don’t see hope as you drive to another chemo appointment.
I know I did not see hope as I stared at the shattered pieces in my hands. As I began to glue the broken pieces back together and place a candle inside of the clay pot, I was surprised by what I saw. The light captivated me. It was shining brilliantly through the slivers and cracks in my clay pot.
What if God’s light shined the brightest through our cracks and broken places?
You see, a pot with no cracks, chips, or broken places does not allow much light through it. However, if a pot has many cracks and broken places but still shines brightly for Jesus despite those circumstances, then that is a beautiful thing.
Could our brokenness actually help us to be a stronger light?
Friends, what if we changed our view on brokenness? I want to encourage you today to see the beauty in the broken!
- I see beauty in a woman who perseveres in the middle of her brokenness.
- I see beauty when God is faithful to guide and comfort a broken heart.
- I see beauty when a broken story is shared with another hurting heart and it unleashes hope.
Just like this piece of pottery, your cracks and broken pieces are beautiful when placed in the hands of Jesus.
Jesus is the one who gives us Hope.
If you feel like your brokenness has disqualified you, let me encourage you today with this truth: your brokenness qualifies you even more. Your broken story is the very ingredient God can use to help another heart.
Who better to help someone through an addiction then someone who has experienced freedom from addiction? Who better to comfort someone grieving the loss of a loved one then someone who has experienced comfort during their loss? Who better to offer hope to someone who is walking through a divorce then someone who has walked that same path?
We spread hope when we honestly share our broken stories! As we come along side others and walk through the pain, we can encourage and offer support to those grieving and hurting.
As we share God’s faithfulness in our broken story, it will unleash hope into their broken story.
I don’t know about you, but I want to unleash hope! Hope that our brokenness has a purpose. Hope that God can use our broken story to encourage another hurting heart. Hope that God can turn my tears into my testimony!
Can you see it? The brilliant light shining through your cracks and slivers. The reminder of God’s faithfulness. The hope spreading through your broken story.
Friends, I pray we can remember the beauty in the broken.
Jodi Rosser is a writer and speaks to a steadily growing audience through her podcast, Depth, and her blog, Heartbreak to Strength. Having walked through multiple heartbreaks (divorce, miscarriage, and cancer), Jodi now inspires women to find hope, joy, and purpose through their unexpected storms. She lights up the most when she shares her testimony using her cracked clay pot, a visual reminder that God shines brightest through our broken places. She lives with her two teenage boys and a giant black lab in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
You can connect with Jodi on her website: https://jodirosser.com
Facebook and Instagram @jodi.rosser. To listen to her Depth Podcast, please click on the following link: https://link.chtbl.com/vZzTid7o
by Misty Phillip | May 19, 2020 | Podcast
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Jodi Rosser shares her heartbreaking journey from divorce to the challenge of being a single mom to teenagers.
Key Takeaways:
- Our greatest heartbreaks become our greatest ministry
- Only through God can we go from heartbreak to strength
- God takes your broken heart and turns it into something beautiful
- There is a stigmatism of shame that comes with divorce, but it doesn’t disqualify you from ministry
- God can use your heartbreak for good
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18 ESV
Jodi Rosser Bio:
Jodi Rosser is a writer and speaks to a steadily growing audience through her podcast, Depth, and her blog, Heartbreak to Strength. For the past ten years she has served in children’s ministry and women’s leadership at Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA.
Having walked through multiple heartbreaks (divorce, miscarriage, and cancer), Jodi now inspires women who face unexpected difficulties to find hope, joy, and purpose. She lights up the most when she shares her testimony using her cracked clay pot, a visual reminder that God shines brightest through our broken places. She teaches science to elementary students in the STEM LAB and lives with her two boys and giant black lab in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
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by Misty Phillip | May 14, 2020 | Featured
Losing Us: When Motherhood Becomes an Idol
by September McCarthy
No one told me that I could have such lonely, silent times in my marriage. What happened to the days that seemed so bright and beautiful and filled with such promise?
My loneliness, the disagreements, and even the love we had shared together seemed to slowly fade into busy lives caring for children. Lives filled with exhaustion, short fuses, and a weariness that would cause us both to ignore the problem or give up altogether. After we said “I do,” life happened, and children took up residence in the cracks of every inch of our life.
I had become the mother.
He had become the father.
And we had lost us.
Were we falling “out of love and living off the leftovers or crumbs at the end of long work and parenting days?
We were a mess. The routine had become a steady rhythm of care for our family, with less and less focus on our first love. We moved into comfortable places of doing our jobs, avoiding the tough places and giving our first-fruits to the children before us. I wish someone had come alongside us to lovingly tell us that parenting is not a priority over marriage.
You cannot really “fall out of love.” You just need to figure out when you began loving something else more.
We had let go of the cord of love that held us together. We watched it uncoil to the ground in a loose pile. The pull and strain of life, babies, financial stress, and marriage can shear away at the strands of love you have with your spouse until there seems to be nothing left to hold onto.
It happens slowly.
When our focus is only on motherhood, you can and will sideline your spouse.
So, how do we find our way back to our first love?
Remember, you were created to “do this,” together.
When my husband and I changed our perspective and focus, we became a team. If there is one word to clearly define the instrument of this change together, our restart, it is this: humility.
True love apologizes.
True love shares the wins, and mourns the losses together,
True love saves the best for the other.
True love puts the other first.
True love listens and learns.
True love remembers that parenting is a season.
True love fights for the other, not against.
True love sees the needs.
True love is available.
True love never stops talking.
True love knows change can be good.
True love learns to love the new you.
True love wins.
Seeing the pattern of our parenting priority over our marriage is the first step closer to that truest of love we can show our spouses.
Knowing there is a way to overcome the patterns of sidelining our spouses is the second cord of hope you can hold onto.
Living the truth of scripture and its promises for a life full of love will bring the unity God promises.
Perhaps this is you. Are you seeing the slow-moving patterns you are becoming comfortable with that leave you feeling distant, discouraged, and disheartened with motherhood or marriage? I encourage you to hold onto your first love. Re-discover the new you together. Ask the Lord for humility and remembrance as you slowly practice new life-giving habits of love investment into your spouse that you perhaps had let go of.
Your spouse is worth it.
September McCarthy
Bio:
September is a wife, mom to 10, author, and speaker. September co-hosts the Mom to Mom generational podcast with Kate Battistelli and Jamie Erickson. September is also the author of {Why} Motherhood Matters and the founder of September & Co., an Etsy shop for whole-family Biblically based and hands-on learning for every family. September lives a rural life, with her growing family, chickens, gardening, shelves overflowing with books, and a project always on the horizon. Her family is her #1 priority and her heart is always at home. She believes in new mercies every day and fresh grace on everyone she meets.
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by Misty Phillip | May 12, 2020 | Podcast
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What happens when your marriage looks more like a business transaction than a sacred relationship? Listen in today as September McCarthy shares a portion of her motherhood journey, and how it affected her marriage relationship. She is a wife and busy mom of 10, author, and podcaster.
We discuss:
- Loving your husband more than your kids.
- Not allowing motherhood to take a priority over your marriage.
- Motherhood as an idol comes as a thief in the night.
- Practical ways to focus on our marriage
- and more
September McCarthy is a wife, mom to 10, author, and speaker. September co-hosts the Mom to Mom generational podcast with Kate Battistelli and Jamie Erickson. September is also the author of {Why} Motherhood Matters and the founder of September & Co., an Etsy shop for whole-family Biblically based and hands-on learning for every family. September lives a rural life, with her growing family, chickens, gardening, shelves overflowing with books, and a project always on the horizon. Her family is her #1 priority and her heart is always at home. She believes in new mercies every day and fresh grace on everyone she meets.
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by Misty Phillip | May 5, 2020 | Podcast
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Can you outrun the fears that have robbed you of peace and convinced you that your children can’t be safe in this broken world?
This week on By His Grace, Amanda Florczykowski shares the story of when her toddler was taken from her arms in a thwarted sex trafficking abduction, the near-drowning of their son, a house fire, and the grief of losing a child to miscarriage and how God used all of these events to unravel her.
Key Takeaways:
- Surrendering your fears to the Lord to live a life of faith.
- We don’t live in what if, we live in what is.
- God is good even when we don’t understand our circumstances.
- It is okay to bring our questions to God.
- Wrestling with God is a good thing.
Amanda Florczykowski is the author UNRAVELED: Mothering Fiercely in a World Full of Fears. For more about Amanda visit her website at Amanda Florczykowski.
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by Misty Phillip | Apr 28, 2020 | Podcast
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This week on By His Grace, Lauren Casper and I talk about loving our neighbors in a broken messed up world. . Lauren believes by having empathy we can truly love others.
Some key takeaways:
- Hurt people hurt people.
- People act unloving because they feel they have been unloved.
- Loving your enemies doesn’t mean we have to keep those people close to us.
- Healthy boundaries are key.
- Running toward forgiveness when you’ve been hurt.
- How do we love our neighbors?
- Empathy shows us how to love others.
- Loneliness and isolation.
Lauren Casper is the author of Loving Well in a Broken World: Discover the Hidden Power of Empathy. She is a wife, mom, writer, speaker, and advocate. For more information about Lauren visit Lauren Casper.
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by Misty Phillip | Apr 21, 2020 | Podcast
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This week on By His Grace, I share what is helping me during these difficult days of being quarantined while working and homeschooling. and announce my latest venture Rocket Podcast Community. If you or someone you know wants to start or launch a podcast or give their existing podcast a boost, then check out Rocket Podcast.
My guest this week Stefanie Gass shares her journey from corporate America to becoming an entrepreneur. Some highlights from our conversation include:
- Pivoting in tough times
- When work becomes an idol
- Trusting God through the transition of finding her worth
- Taking a Self Inventory
- Following Joy
- Moving Forward
- Mom Guilt
We conclude our conversation with these helpful practical tips.
- Pray don’t panic
- Trust don’t fear
- Be willing to work
- Start with what you know
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by Misty Phillip | Apr 7, 2020 | Podcast
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This week on By His Grace, Merritt Onsa and I discuss God’s faithfulness in Job loss. With 10 million people currently unemployed in the United States and those numbers rising today in this global pandemic, Merritt offers us home our provider and rescuer, Jesus.
After losing their main source of income, Merritt opens up to share what God has taught her through the struggle of financial hardship and job loss.
“In month one had I known that month 13 was going to come I might not of been pulling myself up by my bootstraps so much. I might have been on my knees a little more.” – Merritt Onsa
For more about Merritt Onsa.
Website: MerrittOnsa.com
I love Merritt’s heart for the Lord and how she encourages others to follow their God-given dreams as the host of the Devoted Dreamers Podcast.
Podcast: Devoted Dreams
Instagram: @MerrittJo
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