Men of Honor– Mark Moore

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Special Guests:  Mark Moore

LIVE at 12pm EST on Toginet Radio 

Podcast will be available after show time on iTunes or check here at Girlfriendit Radio.

Don’t you just love to glean from other girlfriends?  God uses our interactions often to benefit us and propel us onward towards the goals He has for us. 

This week glean from the conversation Lisa and Patty have with Ozark Christian College professor Mark Moore!

Mark received his PhD from the University of Wales for his work on the politics of Jesus and in 2012 he accepted the role of Teaching Pastor of Christ’s Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona.  He has authored a number of books and continues to live his life goal of making Jesus famous. 

Listen and be inspired to live the life God has for—man or woman, let us honor Jesus with our lives. 

It Gets Better!– Christopher Yuan and his mother, Angela Yuan

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Special Guests: Christopher Yuan and his mother, Angela Yuan

LIVE at 12pm EST on Toginet Radio 

Podcast will be available after show time on iTunes or check here at Girlfriendit Radio. 

Parenting – What Are You Passing On?– Angelique LaFon-Cox and Maile Weigele

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Special Guests: Angelique LaFon-Cox and Maile Weigele

LIVE at 12pm EST on Toginet Radio

Podcast will be available after show time on iTunes or check here at Girlfriendit Radio.

Who are we listening to?

What are we assuming?

How are we parenting?

What are we passing on?

Do we allow our children to read Twilight, Harry Potter and Hunger Games? Do we let our society and the school system alone teach our kids values?

Intrigued? Random questions perhaps, intentional dialogue in store on Girlfriendit Radio as Patty and Lisa chat with special guests, – Angelique LaFon-Cox and Maile Weigele. 

Angelique LaFon-Cox will be sharing news about the The Huggabear Children’s Project, and Maile Weigele with a son of her own and her experience working at Fellowship of Christian Athletes will be stirring up some great questions and dialogue. Listen in with us!

It is amazing to me how God works in my life. Lisa and Patty started out the show talking about something that ties right in with what I’ve been writing about on the unique, funny, curious ways God is calling me to prayer for people in the past  few months.  They were talking about how Muslims have a call to prayer. If you ever visit a Muslim city, you will hear this call to prayer several times a day over speakers that loudly penetrate into every home or building in the city. And no matter where they are, the faithful followers of that religion kneel and pray.

I challenge you to look for ways that God is calling you to prayer in your daily life. He’s gotten my attention lately. I have tried to explain it in a few blog posts, but I wonder if people get how meaningful it is to have God snag your attention with something, show you what it means and then give you a unique, just for you way to keep connected with His heart, to see the people He is seeing and preparing and longing for.

Something Lisa said today really summed it up for me, “God does miraculous things in ordinary moments.” And what is more ordinary for a busy mom to be driving all over town? Not only does God want to do miraculous things through our prayers for people we encounter during our day, but He’s really done something very miraculous in my life…. getting me to listen to His leading, recognize His plan and that He uses me in this process. All it takes an attentive mind and a willingness to pray for those miraculous things.

Here is my journey

It’s 4:44
Crazy or cool?
Game On

I hope it inspires you to pay attention more closely to what God is showing you each day…..because He is showing you.

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You’ve heard it a lot of the years; being a virgin is no longer “uncool”. Purity rings were hot a couple years ago. The Jonas Brothers innovated being cool virgins. The fad seemed to fade, however, as the Disney kids started to grow up and the popularity waned as most crazes do. I don’t think the attention to the matter should fade, too.

I was raised by a young mom who was born to a teenage mother. My extended family has a lot of instances of teenage pregnancy. While I was never deprived of anything as a child, my mother sacrificed her early twenties and a potential career to rear my sister and me. Being always encouraged to pursue an education, I at a young age decided to focus on becoming “me” before pursuing a relationship. Also being raised Christian, I was taught to wait until marriage to engage in the physical act of love.

Virginity has become a stigma. Especially for men, it is deemed “uncool” by society and can be perceived as being behind in your social development. I would like to provide a big contradiction to that notion; although nearly 22 years old I must say I am a proud, cool virgin. I encourage my younger sister and younger cousins that it’s okay to wait.

Every single major television show out today is showing children and teenagers that having premarital sex is not only okay but it’s normal. There seems to be no cultural emphasis on the alternative; to wait until marriage. There is a lot of emphasis on “safe sex” at least, however there’s no encouragement to protect your emotions or, as Christians see it, your soul.

Here is my plea for you that read this, even if you are no longer a virgin. Let’s voice this life path as normal and not abnormal! Let’s say it’s hip to be aware of yourself and your limits, both spiritually and emotionally! Encourage a young woman that it’s not crazy or weird to be a virgin; it’s actually awesome to know what you believe and stick to it.

 -Jacci

Call To Relationship – Sheila Jones and Allen McCray

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Special Guests: Sheila Jones and Allen McCray

LIVE at 12pm EST on Toginet Radio

Podcast will be available after show time on iTunes or check here at Girlfriendit Radio.

Is your phone near by?  How often have you used it today? 

What if that last call or text you received was from God himself?  How would you respond?

Listen to the show today and be challenged to pick up!  Take the call-answer the text; quit screening and fight the contagious complacency germs that linger and accept His call.  (Matt 4:19). 

Patty and Lisa chat with special guests Sheila Jones and Allen McCray today and each of these guests have received the call and are acting on their call! 

Sheila Jones is a pastor’s wife, mother, teacher, and author.  She became a disciple of Jesus as a child but later experienced the Lord in a life-transforming encounter.  After this revival, God called her into a teaching and writing ministry where she passionately shares her testimony and the truths learned from daily hours in prayer.

Allen McCray is the founder of Life Impact, and holds graduate degrees in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling as well as many certifications for LIFE coaching through TTI in Scottsdale, AZ.  He is a husband, father, grandfather, Business owner, and former pastor who helps people hear and follow their own call.

Listen with us and let’s take the call—the call to relationship and get involved in something bigger than ourselves. 

I was distracting my little boy from his desire to be out of the confines of his stroller; and as my little guy smiled with delight from my great distraction technique. I got the message.  Keep going.  Stay focused on the joy I have for you.

I too have moments like my little boy that I want to cry out with frustration of where I am at any given moment.  And just like I encouragingly distracted my boy with a, “One-two-threeeeeeeee!” and a zip of a push –my God is doing the same and taking me on a wild ride—distracting me from the things I could so easily become frustrated and crying about—when I let Him. 

Stay focused on what’s ahead—“One, Two, Threeeee!”  I sensed God smiling and zipping me around on our walk showing me the birds, chirping in the trees and the wind wrestling through the trees and even the occasional car zooming down the road. 

My sis using another distraction technique on my boy while he was sitting in his stroller another time–that brought both of them joy!

As my boy smiled more and more, I saw he was content to sit in his stroller and enjoy the ride.  Oh, how I want to enjoy this ride..don’t you?

What helps you stay focused on joy and enjoy the ride of life? 

How about trying this the next time you sense irritations beginning to rob you of joy and the peace of  His loving presence in this ride of life. Write down this three-letter word on a piece of paper, “JOY!”  Post it wherever you will see it often during the day to remind you what God wants to give you for yourself and for you to share on this ride.  Then with your biggest kid-like voice, zip on into the day exclaiming, “One, Two, Threeeeee!”

“You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and  the pleasures of living with you forever.“ (Psalm 16:11 NLT)

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 I had this conversation the other day with a friend and we were chatting about someone I was frustrated with because they ask for advice and then don’t use it and then they keep following the same patterns and living the same life. They complain about the same things over and over. Here’s what she said that hit me, I know it’s simple but if you identify with this personality then you have to ask yourself this, “They are just NOT teachable”  Yep those were her words. Teachable! Such a simple thing. Are you teachable, do you take constructive criticism well? Do you look at your situations and ask, is there something I need to change here in order for things to change or move on? Examples could be, Do you need to apologize to that friend even though you didn’t do anything or could I respond in a nicer way or be a better listener?  Do I need a new set of friends? Should I stop drinking or doing drugs? Maybe I should get a job and carry my work load?

 I don’t know where you are in life and what changes need to happen to brighten your future but I do know one thing and that is you have to ask yourself “Am I teachable?” Are you seeking counseling, reading books to improve relationships, making adult decisions, taking responsibility? I believe it’s one of the best things you can do in life is to be teachable and work for a better life and at improving relationships. I would encourage you to take a step into the right direction and take a foot off the merry go round and ask yourself, “Am I teachable?” I’d ask you to jump off the merry go round but something tells me if this article is for you it might be best to take one step at a time! Here’s to a better YOU this time next year! Adieu.

I don’t normally crave bread—I just don’t—don’t hate me.  But I have found myself thinking about it often these past few days and remembering this one deli I visited often with some former co-workers years ago…oh they served up a yummyPanini! 

While driving home from a retreat, my girlfriend and I were talking about a story we had heard recently and how the characters in the story reflected our lives in a way.  Panini was the name that just kept coming out when we couldn’t remember the antagonist’s name, Peninnah in the story of 1Samuel. 

You see Panini had it and Hannah didn’t—but Panini wasn’t satisfied with what she had, and her blessing of many children surely didn’t keep her busy enough that she had extra energy to taunt Hannah.  Maybe Panini’s heart was squashed much like a real Panini sandwich when she saw the favor her husband, Elkanah showed Hannah.  Maybe seeing this favor reigning from the Lord on Hannah, turned up the heat in Panini’s heart stirring up all kinds of evil and jealousy; causing Panini to ooze out all kinds of messy emotions and words. 

Is there a Panini in your life?  Are you acting like Panini?  (We are capable of both)

Can you handle seeing another granted favor and be truly happy for them—even encourage them and help them?

I know at times Panini’s hot, messy, squashed heart may resemble mine especially when I am focused on comparing my life with someone else’s, and not fully believing and living out who I am in Christ. 

I also have experienced a Panini or two squishing and oozing their mess a little too close to my heart.   It is not pretty and just so unexpected.

What do we then do with that?

Have you, like Hannah found yourself praying out of great anguish and grief?  Journal pages and hard pavement have been good places for me to pound out the Panini pain.

It hurts to be squished by or like a Panini.   A Panini can squash with harsh words, looks of disdain or maybe there are no words at all to communicate disapproval—sometimes the absence of our encouraging words hurt the most.  Or maybe, it is the ‘un-friend’ action on Facebook, or the absence of that ‘like’ or comment on your Facebook post, right??  (Seriously, we need to live beyond Facebook, but it’s there isn’t it?) 

In the midst of  Hannah’s hurt, it says she stoodup—and, “…wept much and prayed to the LORD.”  (1 Sam 1:10) Don’t you just love that—she had the courage to stand and talk with her God in the midst of it all!  Sometimes all I want is a good cry in my pillow. 

This reminds me of what I heard singer/songwriter Beckah Shae say on Girlfriendit Radio a few weeks back, “To see yourself the way that God sees you is the beginning to freedom.”  (You can listen to the podcast of the “Put Your Love Glasses On,” show here).

The words stood up and stand is rising up above the page for me both in my Bible and in my head as I think about the truth in Beckah Shae’s comment.  Freedom to stand…YES!

Stand firm, then…(Galations 5:1)

Stand at the crossroads…(Jer 6:16)

Stand firm and you will see the deliverance of the LORD…(Exodus 14:13)

I can’t help but giggle a little as I picture this truth of standing up and believing we are who God says we are, not what some squashed sandwich may express to us…really?!? 

I’m not sure why the word Panini has stuck with me these last couple of weeks, but I’m giggling and I think this is good because like Patty and Lisa also talk about on their radio show, laughter is needed to diffuse the pain and it helps us not water the seed of pain allowing anger and bitterness to grow.  If you wanna get your teary-eyes off the pillow and laugh some more, keep listening to this particular show, for Patty and Lisa chat with comedian Kerri Pomarolli next…she is a hoot and literally stands up for truth!  

It’s time to stand up girls—seek our God who loves us and has great things for us and take that Panini sandwich and feed it to the birds!  

(Or like me, the ducks I saw on my walk this morning—God loves me this I know, for He reminded me this morning to quit giving the Paninis in my life any volume and feed the Panini to the ducks!  And God loves me no less or no more than He loves you—no joke!)

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What Do You Value?– Dale and Jonalyn Fincher 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Special Guests: Dale and Jonalyn Fincher

LIVE at 12pm EST on Toginet Radio

Podcast will be available after show time on iTunes or check here at Girlfriendit Radio.

What do you value?  What is the motto for running your home…your life? 

We all have both declared and undeclared values of operation for our lives and homes.  As mothers…and quirky ones at that…we each have a “saying” or soul talk that we have felt led to share with our children and those in our circles. Listen and hear Patty and Lisa’s quirky phrases or soul talk that they have passed down along the way.

Also, hear the soul talk that Patty and Lisa have with creative communicators and out of the box thinkers, Dale and Jonalyn Fincher.  Dale and Jonalyn Fincher are authors, speakers and founders of Soulation.   

Dale and Jonalyn Fincher travel the country talking with audiences about the God who loves broken, questioning men and women.  Listen and be challenged to see the truth in your everyday life and talk about the God who loves us, sharing Him with those around you.