146 - How to Face Risk When You Want to Run Away
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Release Date: 04/23/2024
147 - What Happens When Light Illuminates and Nourishes
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Jesus and the God-breathed words I’m holding in my hands aren’t just for my mind, but my heart. It’s light and it’s food. Because we’re not robots replicating Him but dearly loved children. He satisfies us with His abundance—for us and so we can tell those around us what we’ve experienced. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional. Read...
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146 - How to Face Risk When You Want to Run Away
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
There' a risk I’ve feared but not dug into the why. God wants to talk about it. Show me where my assumptions are flawed and reactionary. Maybe you’ve been here too. Fearing the no because you don’t want to be misunderstood or rejected again. Fearing the yes because you’d assume it was sympathy or special consideration, and you want neither. You’d rather erase both possibilities, not risk hoping or caring. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on...
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145 - How to Embrace the Unexpected When You Get What You Pray For
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Then God interrupts, as I’ve known Him to do. Corporate restructuring, says my husband when he calls me. Effective immediately. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional. Read the written version of this episode .
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144 - How to Pray Scripture When Your Heart is Heavy
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I wasn’t prepared to read the Psalm drenched in tears and pleading prayers. In the Bible I held close this time last year, it’s barely legible through pen marks and smudges. But in The Voice, which I read for Mary Demuth’s 90-day Bible reading challenge, the page was untouched. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the (affiliate link), and join us Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab...
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143 - Four Habits That Will Make Your Desire for God Grow
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
We want to get it, don’t we? Faith that’s not safe but real. Conversation with Jesus that is constant yet effortless. Honesty we know is welcome. A passion to know God intense enough to wake us in the middle of the night. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the (affiliate link), and join us Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the (free with a purchase) to get the...
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142 - One Surprising Way to Clean Up Your Speech
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
You know now how hard it is to not say what your peers have normalized. Also, that what we say seeps into our thoughts and grows roots. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the (affiliate link), and join us Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional. Read the written version of this episode .
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141 - Discipleship: How to Best Pass On a Way of Life
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
We’re not Paul. Don’t have years of experience preaching. Wisdom to write epistles that will be handed down for many generations. We haven’t had shipwrecks and imprisonments chisel away our selfish impulses. But you know what we do have? Shoes that walk our neighborhoods. Cars that drive familiar streets. Tables where meals are eaten. Parks where we play. Carpool lines, bleachers, classrooms, and pews with the same people we see every week. We underestimate it because that’s just the stuff of everyday life. It is, but it’s more. It’s opportunity in a...
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140 - Better Yourself vs. Be Nourished So You Overflow
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Jesus loves busy people. Yes, you read that right. No matter how up-tight or snippy you’ve been today. How not-present you were yesterday. How defeated you feel. Jesus never stops loving you. We think our behavior comes first. He says come anyway. We think it’s up to us. The Finisher says, “Dear child, all’s been done.” Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the (affiliate link), and join us Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99...
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139 - How to NOT Walk Away From Your Faith (3 Tips)
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
You and I are not passive acceptors of whatever happens. We go to battle with songs of praise and wisdom from tattered Bible pages and ruthless, trusting obedience. We lock arms with our people and hold each other up when we can’t stand on our own. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the (affiliate link), and join us Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, . If you want the it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the (free with a...
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138 - How to Trade Your Not-Enough for God’s Abundantly-Able
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I want to be enough. Get it all the way right. Finish it on my own. But hold my not-enough in open hands. Release. Surrender. Dig deeper and discover more to let go. That’s hard. And it’s holy. Gift dripping with grace. God here in this . I’d tell you I know God’s good, but then I met Him on my knees and through many tears and with worship music loud and on repeat and I know Him differently now. When praise is easy, you trust what you see. Take prayers answered how you expect as evidence that God hears, cares, redeems. But when you’re in the middle a long time and don’t know...
info_outlineThere' a risk I’ve feared but not dug into the why. God wants to talk about it. Show me where my assumptions are flawed and reactionary.
Maybe you’ve been here too. Fearing the no because you don’t want to be misunderstood or rejected again. Fearing the yes because you’d assume it was sympathy or special consideration, and you want neither. You’d rather erase both possibilities, not risk hoping or caring.
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Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
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Read the written version of this episode HERE.
- Find Jennifer Dukes Lee's guided journal, Stuff I'd Only Tell God HERE. Highly recommend!