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LOVE IS FEARLESS
Love Is Fearless (LIF) is the podcast of The Story Expedition—an ongoing exploration of what becomes possible when human beings learn to inhabit our Father's world. Hosted by Janet and Doug Newberry, each conversation begins with a simple conviction: the Kingdom of God is more than something to believe in. It is the reality we were created to inhabit. Rather than offering formulas, techniques, or another framework for self-improvement, Love Is Fearless follows stories. Stories from Scripture…
Episodes
- LOVE IS FEARLESS
#118 Are Emotions Our Enemies Or Our Friends?
Difficult days can go from bad to worse when we forget emotions are intended to be our friends instead of our enemies. When we live as if emotions are our…
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#117 A New Conversation about "What Are We Aiming For?"
Season 4 of the LIF podcast is all about starting new conversations. We're leaning in instead of leaning away from fresh perspectives…even if they seem to lead…
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#116 A New Conversation About Living A New Life As A Child Of God
Join us in this episode as we dig deep into a new conversation about The Connected Life, by Todd W. Hall. This week, we're talking about the power of love that…
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#115 A New Conversation About Relating With Others and Why It Matters More Than You Think
The connection crisis in our culture is running parallel to the mental illness epidemic in our world - for us and for our children. The crisis is more than…
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#114 A Conversation About Learning How to Relate to Yourself
LOVE IS FEARLESS is having a birthday! Born on July 4, 2018, LIF has been downloaded in over 60 countries and is transforming families worldwide. Share this…
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#113 A Conversation About Life and Loss with Dan Herod
Dan Herod is known for starting conversations we didn't know we needed to have. Gifted with an uncommon path in life, he writes and speaks to empower. Born to…
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#112 A Conversation About Family, Faith, and Forgiveness with David Zailer
The LOVE IS FEARLESS podcast is a safe place to have conversations about painful and difficult stories. If you experienced childhood in a dysfunctional family…
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#111 A Gift To the Class of 2023
Janet was invited to share the commencement speech with a graduating class in Stephenville, TX and the message was so powerful and well-received, we promised…
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#110 A Conversation About Safe Relationships
A safe relationship is different from a good relationship because a safe person is different from a good person. When we experience good relationships with…
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#109 A Conversation About Living a Vulnerable Life
The Cure is undoubtedly the book that's changed our lives the most. Truly! If you're wondering where the Bible fits in our stories, it is the most important…
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#108 What if we don't call them bloopers?
This is our first-ever BONUS episode! As we launch Season Four we're promising great conversations about books and authors that love us well. We're admitting…
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#107 A Conversation About Unconditional Love
Welcome to Season Four! We're excited to share meaningful conversations about great books and maybe a few great movies, too. :) What do great books have to do…
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#106: How Love Meets Our Need For Acceptance
When we sit with the weight of the truth that LOVE IS A PROCESS OF MEETING NEEDS, we are reminded that if we're going to love someone, that means we're going…
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#105: How Faithful Love Offers Us Hope
Hope is soul food. We can live without it for a few days or maybe a few weeks, but living without it for very long causes us to be careless about life…
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#104: How Love Meets Our Need for Significance
In our Everyday Love series, we're talking about our God-given needs. This episode is all about our real need for significance and attention. Love meets our…
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#103: How To Experience The Freedom Love Offers
Season 3 is all about learning how to love ourselves and each other every day in practical ways. We're not talking about five love languages or how each…
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#102: How can we experience correction as love?
Every day we wake up with God-given needs. Having our needs met is the way we experience love. One of our everyday needs is for direction and love meets this…
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#101: How Love Meets Our Real Need For Security
How do I experience love, practically speaking? How can I put it into words? If I can put it into words, I can put it into action. I can recognize love when I…
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#100: What is the impact of love?
This is episode 100! Wow! Thank you for celebrating with us! For 100 episodes we've been wrestling with the differences between a lifestyle of fear and a…
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#099: What does it feel like to love someone?
Welcome to Season 3! We're calling this season "Every Day Love" and our goal is to make love practical in our everyday lives. Recognizing the practicality of…
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#098: 6 Key Ideas in a Lifestyle of Love
We are recording again! This episode catches our audience up on the changes that have impacted our story since we shared a conversation with podcast mics in…
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#097: Zealous for the Whole Truth
ZEALOUS is an adjective that describes someone who is passionate, fierce, and wholehearted. In a culture of love, we're invited to be zealous for the whole…
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#096: Cancel Culture, Fear, and Love
We've been building an alphabet on the LOVE IS FEARLESS podcast for months now. We've been talking about building cultures of love in our homes and communities…
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#095: Ego, Sacrifice, and Racism
Conversations about racism may be at an all-time high in America right now. Conversations are the seedbed for change and it's past time for healing racism in…
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#094: Privilege and Responsibility
In a culture of love, work is the way we invest our time and energy that has an impact and influence for good in our own lives and in the lives of the world…
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#093: What Are The Benefits Of Being Vulnerable?
Transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability are popular buzz words these days. We sometimes use them as if they were synonyms, but they're not. Transparency…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#092: Why Giving Yourself Permission To Be Sad May Be Good For You
In this episode, we are reminded that, as believers in the finished work of Jesus, all of our sins (past, present, and future) have been forgiven. "It is…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#091: How to THRIVE in a pandemic and in relationships
A virus is an abuser--and we're all learning how to wash our hands and keep our distance so the toxic Coronavirus will make fewer people sick--especially those…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#090: How Changing Your Beliefs Can Change Your Life
If we aren't trusting love, we're trusting fear. The opposite of trusting truth is trusting lies. When we refuse to trust God, we're left trusting a resource…
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#089: Leading With Love: A Transformational Approach To Leadership
As leaders, we leverage either the power of love or fear to motivate or to manipulate those in our care. Love helps us stay connected, especially in a season…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#088: Reclaiming The Lost Art of Personal Responsibility
In a culture of love, we grow in our capacity for responsibility. In a culture of fear, we are non-responsive to the things that are important, or we react…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#087: Where To Start When Life Isn't Working Out
The origin of the word "frantic" is a word that means "insane/gone mad." In a culture of fear, life gets noisy and feels frantic. Sometimes it seems we're at…
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#086: Why Love Is The Only Weapon Against Self-Sabotage
John Lynch is our special guest on this powerful episode that offers freedom in the way only love can. John is one of our favorite authors, a dear friend, and…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#085: What Does Love Protect?
Protection is a gift of love that can get lost in a culture of fear. Fear is the voice that demands we have no boundaries. Without boundaries, identity gets…
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#084: 3 Questions To Help You Discover Your Purpose
Fear invites us to experience life differently than love does. What we experience, we will share. You're in the right place if you want to experience and share…
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#083: How To Break The Cycle of Stress
The power of love holds the secret to completing the stress response cycle and experiencing long-term healing from real stress. In this episode, we'll tell you…
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#082: Building A Life That Nourishes Your Soul
"We keep doing good...thinking it will make us good." Those are the words written on an index card laying on the desk in our living room. This one idea is the…
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#081: MIRACLES--A Conversation With Sports Psychologist David Cook
It doesn't seem reasonable that we'd have a conversation with a top sports psychologist and peak performance coach when our topic this week is MIRACLES and the…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#080: Why Laughter Is The Best Medicine
Every week we're offering new discoveries about the power of love, how we can practically CHOOSE LOVE, and how we can become aware of the ways we're choosing…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#079: How Does Fear Make Us Weak?
Welcome to the ROARING 20s! We hope this decade will be remembered as the time in history when LOVE roared louder than fear. Together, there is great hope…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#078: The Best New Year's Resolution of 2020
One resolution is all you need for the new year and the new decade. Imagine your life next year at this time...without fear. Most of us don't realize it's…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#077: Choosing JOY Instead of Fear
LOVE or FEAR will be our source of strength today and our bodies will develop reliance and a comfort level with one or the other. In our LIF community, we're…
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#076: Why Integrity Matters--with Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison was an anomaly to me (Janet) when I first met him--about 5 years ago. In some ways, he still is. He is kind, but he has boundaries. He is wise…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#075: HUMILITY--Where Healing Begins
In a performance-obsessed culture, we learn to hide our mistakes. We defend our perspectives--not because we're always right, but because we're afraid of the…
LOVE IS FEARLESS#074: What Chick-Fil-A Knows About Gratitude
One of the best parts of going to Chick-Fil-A is the way every employee always responds to a customer's "Thank you" with a sincere "My pleasure!" Have you ever…