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Create Your Now Podcast4170 Turn Prayer into a Daily Habit
Let’s be real for a second. When was the last time you prayed and it wasn’t because something was falling apart? Most of us have that 911 prayer…
Create Your Now Podcast4169 Love Doesn’t Clock Out
Have you ever had one of those days where you’ve given everything you have — to your job, to the kids, to the house, to the never-ending list — and by…
Create Your Now Podcast4168 Your Child’s Mountaintop in the Valley
We tell our kids something all the time without realizing it. We say, “You’ll get there— one day,” painting the picture of a summit…
Create Your Now Podcast4167 Mark Your Words
You’ve probably heard someone say it before — maybe a parent, maybe a mentor, maybe someone who just knew they were right and wanted you to remember it…
Create Your Now Podcast4166 The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Here you are, standing on ground you didn’t choose, in a season you didn’t plan, holding a life that looks nothing like the one you sketched out in…
Create Your Now Podcast4165 Embrace True Accountability
Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping someone will hold their feet to the fire. We don’t naturally gravitate toward the hard conversations, the honest…
Create Your Now Podcast4164 Fresh Pages and Open Doors
There’s something about this time of year that makes your soul sit up a little straighter. Maybe it’s the smell of new school supplies or the way…
Create Your Now Podcast4163 The Prayer You’re Afraid to Pray
We all have moments when life stops asking politely and starts demanding. The diagnosis you did not see coming. The relationship that shifted overnight. The…
Create Your Now Podcast4162 Don’t Match the Madness
We are wired to want to be right. It’s part of being human — this deep pull toward controlling our circumstances, defending our perspective, and standing…
Create Your Now Podcast4161 Make Time Before There’s No Time
There’s a shift that happens every year around this time. You can feel it coming. The backpacks come out. The schedules start stacking. The buses start…
Create Your Now Podcast4160 Stay Open
It can be one of the hardest things we ever do — keeping our hands unclenched when everything in us wants a tighter grip. Staying open when life has taught us…
Create Your Now Podcast4159 The Woman in the Water
When was the last time you looked at yourself, really looked and didn’t flinch? It’s not the quick glance in the rearview mirror to check your…
Create Your Now Podcast4158 Knocked Down But Not Knocked Out
Life has a way of catching you off guard. One minute you’re standing tall, feeling like you’ve finally got your footing — and the next, something…
Create Your Now Podcast4157 What You Can’t Control Doesn’t Get the Final Say
You already have what you need, right now to create your now. There is no reason to wait for tomorrow, nor when the circumstances shift, or when that one thing…
Create Your Now Podcast4156 The Secret of Being Content
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether…
Create Your Now Podcast4155 Celebrate Your Spouse
When was the last time you actually celebrated your spouse? Not on their birthday or your anniversary. Not some calendar-mandated holiday where Hallmark…
Create Your Now Podcast4154 Before the Bell Rings
There is something about the start of a new school year that carries both excitement and weight. The backpacks are packed, the outfits are picked out, and the…
Create Your Now Podcast4153 One More
I know you’re tired. I know that thing you’ve been carrying — that weight you keep picking up every single morning, even though nobody would blame…
Create Your Now Podcast4152 The Woman in the Mirror
There’s a moment — and if you’re honest, you know exactly the one I’m talking about — where you catch your reflection and the first thing…
Create Your Now Podcast4151 Design Your Day
Why is it that we can pour ourselves into everyone else’s schedule, everyone else’s crisis, everyone else’s to-do list, but when it comes to…
Create Your Now Podcast4150 Stop Going Back
Have you ever made a decision, felt good about it for a moment, and then spent the next three days replaying it in your mind like a movie you can’t turn…
Create Your Now Podcast4149 Overflow with Hope
When you feel like all you’re doing is running away from or toward all the things, it’s hard to find joy and peace in life. You can get down and…
Create Your Now Podcast4148 Look For Something To Work With
There’s a moment in every marriage where you have to make a choice. You can stand there replaying every missed pass — every time your spouse came up…
Create Your Now Podcast4147 Never Miss A Beat
Parenting is a never-ending, rhythmic song that plays over and over again. Some of the melodies are soothing to the heart — a sleepy child curled into your…
Create Your Now Podcast4146 The Circle Isn’t Wasted
There is a particular kind of tired that comes from walking in circles. You look up and realize you have passed this same tree, this same doubt, this same…
Create Your Now Podcast4145 Just Because Life Takes An Unexpected Turn
Life doesn’t always unfold the way we planned. One day the road looks clear, and the next, it curves somewhere we never saw coming. Unexpected turns can…
Create Your Now Podcast4144 Keep Walking When the Miles Feel Long
There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It’s the tired that comes from carrying a dream for longer than you expected to…
Create Your Now Podcast4143 You Didn’t Come This Far to Come This Far
A journey lasts a lifetime. It requires a chosen mindset, intentional thoughts, and actions that put an exclamation point to movement. Not a comma. Not a…
Create Your Now Podcast4142 Satisfy Us in the Morning
There’s a moment right before your feet hit the floor. The alarm has gone off, the day is waiting, and for just a second you get to choose what you reach…
Create Your Now Podcast4141 Keep Your Clothes On
Marriage was designed for intimacy. God built it that way on purpose — physical closeness is part of the gift. So why in the world would I tell you to keep…
Create Your Now Podcast4140 The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Parents have it rough sometimes. The struggle is real. We want to give our kids everything. The newest shoes. The latest gadget. The experience everyone else…
Create Your Now Podcast4139 Boost Your Best
Not very often do we think about bettering ourselves to the extent of excellence. Yes, we want to do better, but sometimes that gets nullified by the busyness…
Create Your Now Podcast4138 When Trying Harder Isn’t Always the Answer
There’s a moment we all reach eventually. You come to the end of yourself — done, done doing all the things that aren’t working. Done pushing. Done…
Create Your Now Podcast4137 Don’t Be Afraid
Sometimes it’s the littlest things that spark a thought that deepens the meaning. As I was sitting with my granddaughter reading a book, there was a…
Create Your Now Podcast4136 Why Presence Changes Everything
We are masters at paying attention to the wrong things. The comment someone made three weeks ago. The comparison trap on social media. The “what…
Create Your Now Podcast4135 Taste and See Who God Wants You to Be
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up a quiet, exhausting belief: that heaven is a reward we earn. That if we pray enough, serve enough, show up…
Create Your Now Podcast4134 Blaze Your Trail Together
When we get married, we bring dreams into the relationship. Some of those dreams we built as a couple, sitting across from each other at 2 a.m. talking about…
Create Your Now Podcast4133 Hear Me Out
As parents, it’s easy to lose sight of the goal. We stress about how good we are at this — replaying conversations, grading ourselves on tone, wondering…
Create Your Now Podcast4132 Been There, Dump That
You know the phrase, “Been there, done that.” It’s the verbal shrug we give when something no longer impresses us, no longer scares us, or no…
Create Your Now Podcast4131 Fear Isn’t Who You Are
Fear rarely shows up looking like fear. It shows up looking like “that’s just who I am.” It shows up as “I’ve always been this…
Create Your Now Podcast4130 Find the Gift in the Grind
Some days don’t ask permission. They just show up — loud, full, and relentless. The alarm goes off before you’re ready. The inbox is already three…
Create Your Now Podcast4129 Why Your Hustle Needs A Pause
How many times have you pushed through the day fueled by caffeine and sheer will, only to realize by evening your decisions are fuzzy, your energy is gone, and…
Create Your Now Podcast4128 The Room is Never Empty
There’s a version of faith that lives in a building. You walk in on Sunday, sing the songs, hear the message, maybe even feel something shift in your…
Create Your Now Podcast4127 Are You Sleeping with a Stranger?
People change. That’s a truth we all accept, or at least give a nod to in passing, yet rarely sit with deeply. Time moves on, circumstances evolve, and the…
Create Your Now Podcast4126 You’re Not Lost, You’re Just Sightseeing
Life doesn’t come with a map. It twists and turns, throws detours at us, and sometimes drops us in places we never expected. This reality hits even harder when…
Create Your Now Podcast4125 It’s Okay to Look Back
Looking back at your past is natural. It’s part of being human. We reflect on where we came from, what we’ve endured, and how we’ve grown. But there’s a line…
Create Your Now Podcast4124 Put the Phone Down
We live in a world wired for distraction. Endless notifications, the addictive drag of social media feeds, and the constant buzz of other people’s highlight…
Create Your Now Podcast4123 Get Through Today
In a world buzzing with endless tasks, deadlines, and distractions, it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos of what’s next. We pile on to-do lists, strategize…
Create Your Now Podcast4122 What If You Lowered the Bar?
How much of your time is wasted feeling overwhelmed while trying to do everything with excellence? Excellence is always great. But maybe good is enough…
Create Your Now Podcast4121 Live Where God is Growing You
It’s tempting to live in a state of “almost”—almost ready, almost fulfilled, almost free. We tell ourselves that real life will start when circumstances…
Create Your Now Podcast4120 Reveal My Own Heart
Marriage is often painted as a dance of two individuals growing together. But too often, that dance becomes a blame game in which one partner points out what…
Create Your Now Podcast4119 The Gift of Home
Parents have so many responsibilities besides raising their children. And when everything gets a little out of hand, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed as if…
Create Your Now Podcast4118 Welcome the Unknown as a Doorway
Standing on the edge of something new can be terrifying. The unknown stretches before you like a vast, uncharted ocean, and self-doubt is the anchor that…
Create Your Now Podcast4117 Find Your Path
In a world dominated by social media feeds and constant connectivity, becoming the person you are meant to be feels almost impossible. Every scroll hooks you…
Create Your Now Podcast4116 Step Into Your Worth
We all face moments where failure feels oversized, where defeat seems like a script we’re doomed to replay. But here’s the truth no one tells you enough…
Create Your Now Podcast4115 Defeat Is Just A Mindset
Failure and defeat are not the same thing, though we treat them like twins. Failure is an event. It happened, it’s done, it’s a fact you can point…
Create Your Now Podcast4114 The God Who Plants Nations
Before there was a Declaration, there was a design. Before a single word was written on parchment in Philadelphia, before a single boot crossed the Delaware in…
Create Your Now Podcast4113 The Garden We Were Given
Two hundred and fifty years ago, somebody planted something for you. They didn’t know your name. They couldn’t picture your face. They had no idea…
Create Your Now Podcast4112 The Home Front
There are those days when you don’t feel like a patriot. Instead, you feel like a referee, a short-order cook, a lost-and-found department for one sock…
Create Your Now Podcast4111 Plant What You Can’t See
No farmer has ever watched a seed disappear into the ground and known — truly known — what would come back up. They trust it. They have reason to trust it…