Deconstruction and Doubts
What do you do when you doubt? What happens when people or churches who have lead you to faith have betrayed you? What is deconstruction anyway?
Contributors
Gretchen Ronnevik
Gretchen loves writing about rich theology rooted in real life. She is a mom to six kids that range in age from preschooler to teenager. She works as a homeschool mom, writer, and speaker. She’s the author of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted. She is also the co-host of the weekly podcast, "Freely Given." She enjoys knitting, reading many books at the same time, and embarrassing her teenagers in public. She and her husband, Knut, live in Minnesota on the family farm.
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Repentance According to the Scriptures: 1 John 1:8-9
Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is at the core of repentance.
Weary Without Fellowship
The heaviness of being lonely and weary has fallen on the church collectively in the last year. But for many people, this isn't anything new.
Bible Study or Social Hour
Gretchen and Katie talk through what can sometimes feel like opposing needs: studying the Bible deeply, and fellowshipping with one another.
Bible Study Dynamics
Gretchen and Katie continue talking through leading or being a part of Bible studies.
Man, Woman, and the First Sin
Yes, Adam and Eve both participated in sin. This was a joint effort of the two genders of mankind. They are both sinners. But the first sin wasn't letting the serpent in the garden.
Leading Bible Studies
Whether you lead Bible studies, attend Bible studies, or are thinking about joining a Bible study, you will find something helpful in this episode.
Truth, Connection, and Growth with Bible Studies
In this episode, Gretchen and Katie talk about how we learn, and what to do when people in a Bible study are all in different places of Biblical knowledge.
Let's Talk About Bible Studies
One of the last questions given to Gretchen and Katie was about Bible study recommendations. This was a perfect transition episode into our next series as we go deep into the topic of Bible studies.
Q and A - Books and Theology
In this episode as Gretchen and Katie pause to answer a few questions from listeners.
Goal Planning
Should we set goals like reading our Bible in a year, or working on our sanctification? It's that time of year when we all think about new year, new us, new goals.
Unconditional Forgiveness
In this 2nd episode in the 2-part discussion on marriage, Katie and Gretchen discuss forgiveness in marriage. Where does it come from? What does it mean? What doesn't it mean? While both comforting and painful, forgiveness in marriage comes from…
The Secret to Growing Your Faith
In our transactional view of our faith - “If I don’t… then God won’t.” “I need to, so God can” - we are seriously underestimating who we are dealing with.
Husbands and Wives
In this episode, we bring on Katie's husband, Dallas, and Gretchen's husband, Knut, as we start talk about marriage and how poor theology can lead to unhealthy expectations.
Relationship Status and Righteousness
Gretchen and Katie, two women who are married with kids, sit around and talk about singleness. hey unpack the false idea that it is in marriage that we find our sanctification and fulfilled Christian life.
Freely Given
n this episode, Katie and Gretchen talk about how law and gospel distinctions affect relationships we have at church and in ministry.
Friendship Part 3: Bearing One Another's Burdens
In the final episode on the 3 parts of friendship, Gretchen and Katie talk about what it means to bear one another burdens.
Healthy Friendships Part 2
This episode focuses on healthy expectations of people, as well as our own insecurities going into friendships.
Healthy Friendships Part 1
Gretchen and Katie are starting a new series on how law and gospel theology effects relationships.
Simple Discipleship
Discipleship as a spiritual discipline can be a means of hearing the gospel repeated like a wave washing over you, bringing to mind the reality of God's faithfulness consistently.
Meditation: The Freedom to Wrestle with God
Meditation is part of what C.S. Lewis calls the "baptism of the imagination." In Christ, we belong to him, all the parts of us--even our brain.
From Guilt to Confession
Sometimes the guilt in us manifests itself in different ways. Whether it's a weight or sadness, anger or venting, blame or defensiveness, we see it in ourselves and we see it in our relationships.
Hope for When Bible Reading is Burdensome
When we approach the Bible from a hyper-individualistic viewpoint, the burden to be in it daily is on our individual shoulders, the burden to interpret and understand it is all on our individual shoulders, and we can end up sitting…
Prayer-The Spirit Interceding
Whether it is the awkwardness of praying aloud in a group, starting a prayer journal and then forgetting about it, using prewritten prayers, or having notecards, we often feel like we aren't that good or consistent in prayer.
Freedom in the Hands of Our Protector
As God in his mercy enacted his plan to redeem his loved ones, he took them step by step. In the process of redeeming every part of us, he sent us prophets like Moses.
Upcoming Events
The Life Lived In Christ: A Conference on Christ and the Christian
A one day conference exploring what it means to be alive and free in Christ.
Gretchen Ronnevik - Frisco, TX
Living in Hope: Removing shame and Finding Endurance in Christ
Here We Still Stand 2021
Consciences Captive to the Word of God