162: Cultivating Peace in Your Home with Victoria Duerstock
Release Date: 04/30/2022
172: Boundaries are a Thing (Solo Episode 33) with Rebekah Hargraves (Friendship Matters Series #7)
The Home and Hearth Podcast
A few months ago, we kicked off a brand new solo podcast series based on a book I co-authored with my dear friend, Amber Durgan, entitled "Friendship Matters: Cultivating Meaningful Connections in an Isolated World". Today we are focusing on chapter 7, a chapter that is all about boundaries and forgiveness and how to deal with friends who are guilty of the five red flags we talked about last time. For Amber's perspective on this chapter, head on over to her podcast episode tomorrow! What I Chat about in Today’s Episode: ~The "good little Christian girl syndrome" (as Sally...
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171: Expecting Beauty in Motherhood with Laura Booz
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is a wife, mom, gardener and chicken keeper, and author of the book, . She joins me on the podcast today to encourage you with the joy that can be found in God's good design for motherhood. May you be encouraged and find yourself better equipped to fight back against today's toxic mommy culture. What we Chat about in This Episode ~Laura's book, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect ~The gifts of God's goodness, His character, and His sanctifying power that we find in motherhood ~God's perfect timing in the writing and release of this book ~Negative mommy...
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Re-Release: 85: Navigating Difficult Friendships with Rebekah Hargraves (Friendship Matters Series #6)
The Home and Hearth Podcast
Rebekah Hargraves is the host of the Home and Hearth Podcast, which, up until this point, has always been an interview-style podcast. Now, however, she is branching out into recording the first of (what will hopefully be many – that’s up to the feedback she gets from you!) her solo podcasts to talk on the topic of “Navigating Difficult Friendships”. What She Chats about in Today’s Episode: ~A bit of Rebekah’s own experience with difficult friendships ~How friendship is messy as a result of our living in a fallen world; why this should not come as a surprise ~5 red flag warning...
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169: Cultivating a Restful Prayer Life with Asheritah
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Asheritah CiuCiu is a wife, mom, podcaster, writer, and author of the new book "Prayers of Rest: Daily Prompts to Slow Down and Hear God's Voice." She joins me on the podcast today to inspire us with the understanding that prayer is not a drudgery, it is not a task to check off the list, it is not a burden that we "have" to do, but rather is a peaceful, restful, life-giving gift to our souls. May you walk away from this episode encouraged and built up to grow in your own prayer life with the Lord! What we Chat about in This Episode ~Asheritah's newest book, Prayers of Rest, what led...
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168: Answering the Call of Online Friendships (Solo Episode 32) with Rebekah Hargraves (Friendship Matters Series #5)
The Home and Hearth Podcast
About two months ago, we kicked off a brand new solo podcast series based on a book I co-authored with my dear friend, Amber Durgan, entitled "Friendship Matters: Cultivating Meaningful Connections in an Isolated World". Today we are focusing on chapter 5, a chapter that is all about online friendships. For Amber's perspective on this chapter, head on over to her podcast episode tomorrow! What I Chat about in Today’s Episode: ~The blessings that online friendships can be; the folly of believing them to be "less-than" ~Technology and the advent of online friendships ~How...
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RE-RELEASE: 026: The LGBTQ and the Church with Dr. Rosaria Butterfield
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In light of this being "pride month", I wanted to be sure to do a re-release of an episode which first aired over 4 years ago. I pray you walk away from it built up, edified, inspired, and encouraged. Dr. Rosaria Butterfield joins me on the podcast today and provides us with just the wisdom and insight we so desperately need in the church today for how to address issues of a LGBTQ nature with both truth and love. Rosaria has an amazing testimony of having been in that community herself when the Lord drew her unto Himself and changed the course of her life forever. It was an honor...
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167: Deepening Your Friendships by Jesus' Example (Solo Episode 31) with Rebekah Hargraves (Friendship Matters Series #4)
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About a month and a half ago we kicked off a brand new solo podcast series based on a book I co-authored with my dear friend, Amber Durgan, entitled "Friendship Matters: Cultivating Meaningful Connections in an Isolated World". Today we are focusing on chapter 4, a chapter that is all about deepening our friendships according to Jesus' own example. For Amber's perspective on this chapter, head on over to her podcast episode tomorrow! What I Chat about in Today’s Episode: ~The 3 reasons Christian friendship is so crucial (and how Jesus Himself emulated this fact): 1....
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RE-RELEASE: 139: God's Word and Our Hard Seasons with Bethany Beal
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Today on the podcast I wanted to do a special re-release of an episode I recorded with Bethany Beal last year. With so many people facing hard trials of different kinds around the world right now, I believe the wisdom and encouragement offered to us by Bethany in this episode is just what we need to hear right about now! May you walk away encouraged. Bethany Beal is a wife, mom, author, speaker, YouTuber, and podcaster, with a passion to reach out to women with truth and encouragement for their walk with Christ. She runs the ministry Girl Defined with her sister, Kristen Clark,...
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166: Cultivating Life-Giving Friendships (Solo Episode 30) with Rebekah Hargraves (Friendship Matters Series #3)
The Home and Hearth Podcast
A month ago we kicked off a brand new solo podcast series based on a book I co-authored with my dear friend, Amber Durgan, entitled "Friendship Matters: Cultivating Meaningful Connections in an Isolated World". In the first episode we covered the introduction and first chapter of the book, and in episode 2 we zeroed in on chapter 2. Today we are focusing on chapter 3, a chapter that is all about cultivating friendships - the how-tos, as well as the things which tend to stand in our way. For Amber's perspective on this chapter, head on over to her podcast episode tomorrow! What I...
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RE-RELEASE: 001: Chronic Illness and The Christian Walk with Angela Parsley
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I am delighted today to re-release the very first episode of the podcast, an episode that first released 5 years ago last month! In this first episode of the show I had a chat with my dear friend from church, . Angela is an absolute gem. Though she has struggled with an oftentimes debilitating chronic illness for nearly half her life, she nevertheless is always seeking to serve those around her and to minister to them with the love of Christ. She truly inspires me! I know you will walk away from this conversation built up and encouraged! What We Chat About in This Episode: ~What...
info_outlineVictoria Duerstock is a wife, mom, speaker, and author who is passionate about home design, hospitality, and God's Word. She comes on the show today to share her passion for inspiring women to understand how they can partner with God to cultivate peace in their homes.
What We Chat about in Today's Episode:
~Victoria's new book, , what led her to write it, and what readers can expect
~Using our homes missionally
~Marriage and motherhood as huge sanctifiers for us
~The opportunity godly homes have right now to shine forth the difference Christ makes in a world that is in disarray and in desperate need of peace
~Starting points for cultivating peace in our homes
~Prayer as the most important starting point, even when it doesn't make us feel like we're accomplishing anything
~Why merely decluttering won't bring the peace to our homes that we hope or think it will; it has to all start with heart-change and the Lord bringing peace to our hearts
~Peace as a fruit of the Spirit; making the choice to walk by the Spirit in peace
~The problem with trying to appear perfect in our homes
~Refusing to allow our stuff to become more important than my people
~How the idol of instant gratification steals our peace
~The spiritual side of home decorating
~Practical tips for home decorating in a peaceful way
~Changing up how a room is used
~How to be able to declutter and yet also be able to honor items we are sentimental about
~And more!
For full shownotes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast