236 - Koinonia: What Happens When You Need Greek to Unlock Your Word of the Year
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Release Date: 01/13/2026
259 - How to Deflate Your Pride: Five Lies That Keep You From Being Your Best
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
We can be incredibly artful about disguising our pride–me included. I’d rather you see diligence and dependability, and not dig deep enough to trace them back to pride. I would prefer to convince you that I’m always capable and composed, so you don’t question why I reach for this consistency. I want you to see me as selfless and sweet-natured–never stubborn or snappy or overly sensitive–and assume pride never drives me to curate your impression of me. But the truth is, pride can slide into our best of intentions, subvert our peace, and sandwich itself between us and other people....
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258 - How to Best Reclaim the Ground Self-Pity Has Stolen
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Self-pity is not neutral. All the while we maintain composure and let self-pity subside at its own pace, it’s wreaking havoc on our mental health. It’s time to go on the offensive and reclaim the ground self-pity has stolen. Links mentioned: Get a Turn Your Loneliness into Ripple-Effect Faith in 5 Days. Read the written version of this episode . Recite Scripture verses to actively oppose self-pity:
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257 - How to NOT Compare Your Life to Everyone Else’s
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Where do you feel the pressure to be on par with someone else? To prove yourself worthy? To pretend your way into confidence? Links mentioned: Get a Turn Your Loneliness into Ripple-Effect Faith in 5 Days. Read the written version of this episode . Find two summer’s worth of Enneagram blog series .
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256 - How to Dethrone Your Inner Control Freak the Easy Way
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
I’ve got a thing with control. I like to paint it as a virtue because self-control sounds less harsh. Like less of a problem. But it actually isn’t. Your need to feel in control might come out in different ways than mine. Perhaps you vocalize more than internalize. Perhaps you extend your controlling efforts externally rather than internally. But it’s the same thieving trio–fear, pride, and shame–eroding your peace, dimming your light, and keeping you in a rut. Links mentioned: Get a Turn Your Loneliness into Ripple-Effect Faith in 5 Days Read the...
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256 - Three Sure Fire Ways to Reframe Your Self-Talk
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Can we go there–to the root of our unruly inner dialogues–so we can find peace and strength and mental relief? That’s my invitation to you today. Our inner thoughts have had too much say for too long. They keep us in the shadows, thinking small. They sabotage our friendships and our focus. Cloud out the voice of God so we think we’re on our own. Where do we start? Here, with five easy-to-implement practices to keep our self-talk in check. Links mentioned: Get a Turn Your Loneliness into Ripple-Effect Faith in 5 Days Read the written version of this...
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255 - Five Life Hacks That Will Make Your Perfectionism Valuable
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Maybe there’s a similarly pesky voice of perfectionism following you around inside your head, telling you that you should be able to get incrementally better. Every. Single. Day. It’s relentless. You’re worn out from all your undue try-hard. But also, maybe you carry a bit of shame around with your perfectionism. You’re told you worry too much. Focus on the wrong things. Care too much about your work. Can we talk about you? How you can be a perfectionist and have peace of mind? How you don’t have to turn off your desire to do your best? How your perfectionism can be an...
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254 - It’s Time to Oust Your Self-Doubt and Reclaim the Truth About You
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Self-doubt surfaces quickly when it’s thinly veiled behind borrowed confidence and temperamental self-esteem. Maybe this is your story. To others, you appear secure, but you feel deeply insufficient inside. You can take the lead, finish the work, maintain a high standard of excellence, and pass as having it together. But you can’t outrun the voice that whispers, If only they knew how little you know, how long you’ve been in this role, or how lost you feel . . . If only they knew how un-brave and undeserving you actually are . . . If only they knew how meticulously you mask the...
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253 - How to Be a Better Neighbor: Five Summertime Tips
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
To you, Googling “how to be a better person.” You, longing to be the sort of neighbor who effortlessly welcomes others into your home, leans into conversations with sincerity and delight, and spills over with hopefulness. You, with your burgeoning summer calendar and dwindling blank space. You, feeling squeezed between ideals and actual life. You don’t need an out-of-reach plan, additional demands on your time, or an annoying voice filling your head with “shoulds.” So here are some simple summertime tips that will fill you up rather than deplete you. Links mentioned: If baby...
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254 - How to Apply Half-Marathon Preparation to the Rest of Life
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
I sign up on a whim. One half-marathon for Saturday, through hilly horse country. My calves are still tight from three runs the same morning, because my impetuous mind decided to run to the start line of a community 5k, which also meant I had to get home on foot after the race. Honestly, my only hope of non-stop running for the half is contingent on keeping a slow, steady pace. And resting. Funny how sometimes the best way to prepare is literally to take a break. To slow to a walk. To sit in the sun. To stretch. To strengthen with pilates. Fear tells me to cram-train, to sprint up...
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253 - How to Make Whatever You Are Doing Be Unto the Lord
Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz
Sometimes you are doing too much, and you know it from the tumble of thoughts burying the task that truly needs your attention. You find yourself making slow progress in several areas simultaneously. At every spin, you find more before you that could be straightened, sorted, or scheduled. Oh friend, I get it. I admit I mostly (okay, only) wipe out the interior of my fridge when I should be packing for a trip. I tidy the pantry and put wheels to a wild whim of an idea when I have barely enough margin for the minimum. I make spontaneous updates to pages on my website that don’t need to be...
info_outlineOkay, Lord, I get it. My stubborn insistence that I never need help is the opposite of koinonia.
Koinonia is a lighter way to live.
An easier way to breathe.
It takes the shape of rest–right in the middle of writing a book. Looks like a yes to relationship-building, which is wired in all of us, by God’s design.
Every time you link arms, share a burden, trust a friend with your confession, unite in prayer, accept help, or make space around your table, a little light gets in under your shell. Your got-to-keep it together begins to erode. Your self-defeating assumptions are deflated. Your insecurities are dethroned.
But koinonia with God is where it begins. There’s no sweeter fellowship than with God’s son. No conversation more life-transforming than with the Word of God. No bond more true than you can have between God and you.
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