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Welcome to The MomLife Ministries Podcast with Melanie Hill and Christy Crosby. Being a mom is messy yet lovely in a very real way! We are here to help moms of all ages and stages feel encouraged, supported, and spurred on in their faith journey toward Christ. We want to take this journey together through all kinds of seasons and stories. Our hope is that you leave this show feeling a little more valuable and a little less alone. As a part of MomLife Ministries, INC, podcast topics will follow along with the greater MomLife Ministries curriculum.
Season One: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beauty
Learn more about MomLife Ministries at momlife.org.
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Editing: Angela Edwards
Music: "Another Successful Day" BoDleasons
Graphic Design: Melanie Hill
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Send us a Text Message.Join Melanie as she reveals the heart behind the theme for the MomLife Ministries Podcast and local MomLife groups across the country for August 2024-May 2025.Wholehearted—Loving God: Heart, Soul, Mind, & StrengthMomLife Ministries wants to help you take a step toward building connections with some mom friends. Whether you have lots of experience leading a group of women or none at all, MomLife Ministries is here to put all the tools that you need in your hands. We ...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beauty… in Summer!Let’s talk about summer! For moms, the thought of summer can come with a whole range of joy or dread or some uncertain mix of both. One of the messiest parts of being mom is the constant need to transition—from one growth stage of our kid(s) to the next, from work to rest, from season to season. It’s always keeping us on our toes! Join Melanie and Christy as they share some encouragement about how to enter summer ...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION.We all need help—in faith, motherhood, marriage… life in general! And yet it can be so hard to ask for it and accept it. Why is that? Join Melanie and Christy as they talk about some steps we can take to inform, strengthen, encourage, and prove our belief in Christ that will build our confident hope in who he is and what he is able to do. Which will in turn help us to navigate this beautiful mess of life.2024-2...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTION.Melanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Tabitha Dowdy. Tabitha serves on the MomLife Ministries Board of Directors and Planning Team and she serves as the Kids Ministry Director at her local church.Listen in as they talk about how both the idea and follow-through of obedience can be challenging. But also how it serves as a way to connect to Father God. …We’re always looking for new lea...
Send us a Text Message.MomLife: Messy. Lovely. Real.Melanie and Christy are joined with some special friends: Tabitha Dowdy, Alicia Mullinix, Megan Evans, and Sydny Simpson. All of these women serve in various ways as leaders of local MomLife groups. Listen in as they talk about the importance of building community among fellow moms and specifically why they felt the nudge to spend time investing the lives of others.We hope that as you listen you are encouraged to take a step to build connect...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTIONMelanie and Christy are joined by friend and special guest Stephani Cook. Stephani has had a long career in school psychology and she also loves writing, and speaking; she serves on the Board of Directors of MomLife Ministries as Vice President. She has been married 30 years and has two adult kiddos. She is passionate about helping others to improve relationships and to discover intentional, abundant living. She...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTIONMarriage is hard. It holds great beauty and is also overwhelmingly messy at times. Melanie and Christy share some things that they have learned to be helpful in building and maintaining connection in marriage.Find out more about MomLife Ministries at momlife.org. Think about starting a local MomLife group for the September 2024 - May 2025 MomLife season as an independent Table Mom (meet in your home, coffee...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful CONNECTIONAs we think of all of our relational connections, there’s both beauty and mess. A common messy connection for women can be with our in-laws. Because it’s a common question and struggle we hear from moms, we want to take an extra episode to share some specific encouragement about how to build connection in these special relationships. And a big part will be seeking Jesus for wisdom.Two friends join Melanie and Ch...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOMMelanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Jenn Powell. They have a candid conversation around the hot topic of how to seek the wisdom of Jesus in the hard decision about schooling your child(ren). We get it—it’s hard! It feels weighty and important, and as moms we want to make the very best choice possible. Our goal isn’t to give you an answer, but to offer some helpful encouragement as you proces...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOMJoin us for this special Q & A episode! Melanie and Christy are joined with friend and special guest Jenn Powell. Jenn serves on the MomLife Ministries planning team as the Director of Fun and she works full-time as a physical therapist. Listen in as they respond to questions sent in by moms! Questions like: How do we battle entitlement in our kids? How do we prepare for the day our kids leave home? How do we re...
Send us a Text Message.Hard things happen. It’s uncontrollable and oh so uncomfortable. So when they do, how do we respond? How do we get through? Melanie & Christy help to define what perseverance is and how it’s possible. They also share tips for how to build perseverance in our kids.Discussion questions:What have you learned through the experience of hardship?Beautiful Truths: Romans 5:4-5 and Psalm 34:17-18. How are these words encouraging/challenging to you?How does learning to...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOMChristy welcomes special guest Lauren Groves, a mom of two and lover of Jesus. She is thoughtful and kind, and always looks to point women toward the wisdom of the Lord. She is a licensed professional counselor that specializes in trauma and children; she has a heart for helping others walk in the freedom that Christ offers.Listen in as they discuss seeking God’s wisdom when discerning what is good from what i...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful WISDOMChristy talks about Hagar’s story in Genesis and she will guide you through a reflection to get ready for the new year.We need your help to shape our February podcast episodes. We will be talking about How we seek Jesus in the midst of the mess? Is there a mess you are facing that would like to hear us discuss… Email us at info@momlife.org.Reflection Questions from Podcast:Where have you come from? ...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSEMelanie and Christy are joined with special guest Starr Cliff. Starr is a speech and language pathologist with her local school system. She has been married for 25 years and has 3 children, ages from 18, 20, and 21. Starr loves people and loves walking with them through seasons of mess and/or beauty. Listen in as Melanie, Christy, and Starr discuss how their friendship has helped to shape their beautiful faith and ...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSEMelanie and Christy are joined with special guest Janey Pitts. Janey is an author and speaker with a vivacious spirit and calling to serve the Lord. She is passionate about inspiring others to become the person God has created them to be in their families, relationships, and overall lives. She has a Masters Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has served on church staff for student ministry and...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful PURPOSEMelanie and Christy are joined with special guest Sara Turnquist. Sara is a writer who desires to speak into the spaces of women’s lives where they are struggling: with momming, with faith, and with life in general. Her presence is kind and full of warmth and grace. She always has a good story to tell and we just know you’ll be encouraged by her words today. Listen in as Melanie, Christy, and Sara discuss some comm...
Send us a Text Message.As we seek Jesus we find beautiful faith and also beautiful purpose. Some of the messiest things we face are the questions of: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? If we are seeking Jesus to help us with answering those questions, we will find stability and security in who he has created us to be. He has given us an identity of great value and a calling of great purpose—whether that is on display in front of 1000s or 10s. You, sweet mom, matter and have outstand...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITHWe encourage you to save this episode to listen to outside as you take a prayerful walk in creation. But even if you can’t, we know Jesus is present wherever we are, whatever we are doing. Melanie describes what it would be like to literally take a walk with Jesus and then guides listeners through some scripture and prompts for a time of prayer.Build Your Mom Community with a Podcast Club!Discussion questions for tod...
Send us a Text Message.Melanie & Christy are joined with special guest Megan Evans. Megan's a wife, mother, & writer, She is passionate about spurring others on to know & walk at the pace of Jesus. She has a beautiful website—unhurrymyheart.com—where she offers encouragement for hurried hearts who want to be still. She’s a beautiful follow on IG @megan.m_evans, offering snippets of peace, joy, & calm into your day as you scroll. She also has a new book, Permission to Walk: A 4...
Send us a Text Message.Beautiful Mess: Seeking Jesus, Finding Beautiful FAITHMelanie and Christy talk about what it looks like to seek Jesus through the practice of reading scripture. We know it can feel daunting and overwhelming, or like you don’t have the time or space to add it into your hectic schedule. Listen in as they share tips and encouragement for why scripture is necessary to building your faith and finding help for the big stuff, the ordinary stuff, and everything in between.Build...
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