Ep 895 | Is Motherhood God's Plan for Every Woman? | Q&A

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today, we're answering a few of your questions. We offer some advice for those wondering if motherhood is part of God’s plan for them, and how do we square the command to be fruitful with an inability to get pregnant? We also answer the question of whether circumcision is biblical or barbaric and look at what evangelical Christianity might get wrong as well as why Catholics believe in the Apocrypha and protestants don't. --- Timecodes: (00:48) What if motherhood isn't God's plan for me? (11:28) Is IVF okay if a couple uses their own eggs/sperm and eventually uses them all? (17:25) Favorite movie? (18:14) Is circumcision biblical or barbaric? (21:55) Do you ever plan to homeschool? (22:10) If you could change one thing western evangelical Christianity does wrong, what would it be? (24:55) Can you do a book tour when your next book comes out? (25:00) Why are some books left out of the Bible that we use today? (27:15) Aside from the Lord, what makes your marriage stronger? --- Today's Sponsors: Carly Jean Los Angeles — use promo code 'RELATABLE' (new code!) to save 20% off your first order at CarlyJeanLosAngeles.com! CrowdHealth — get your first 6 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Brave Books — go to BraveBooks.com and get BRAVE’s newest book free when you subscribe to their Freedom Island Book Club! Use code ALLIE to get a FREE book and 20% off your subscription. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 442 | Is Circumcision Barbaric? | Q&A https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-442-is-circumcision-barbaric-q-a/id1359249098?i=1000526386569 Ep 887 | What Do We Do with Frozen Embryos? | Q&A https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-887-what-do-we-do-with-frozen-embryos-q-a/id1359249098?i=1000630867724 Ep 876 | How LGBTQ Activists Are Redefining Infertility | Guest: Katy Faust (Part One) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-876-how-lgbtq-activists-are-redefining-infertility/id1359249098?i=1000628613840 Ep 877 | Should Gay Couples Adopt? | Guest: Katy Faust (Part Two) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-877-should-gay-couples-adopt-guest-katy-faust-part-two/id1359249098?i=1000628741716 Ep 554 | IVF, Embryo Adoption, & Surrogacy: Answering the Hard Questions | Guest: Jennifer Lahl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-554-ivf-embryo-adoption-surrogacy-answering-the/id1359249098?i=1000549207733 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is circumcision, biblical, or barbaric?
0:04.0	Should you keep trying for children if you've been trying for a long period of time
0:08.0	and God has not yet allowed you to conceive?
0:11.0	What about IVF? Is it unethical in all cases? Also, what's my
0:16.4	favorite movie? We've got all of this and more on this episode of Relatable,
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0:42.5	Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.
0:44.0	I've got some questions to answer from y'all
0:46.8	that you sent me.
0:48.5	All right, a lot of interesting ones.
0:50.5	First one, advice for someone
0:51.8	who is wondering if motherhood is part of God's plan for me.
0:54.3	We've been trying for over a year with no results.
0:56.6	I feel, I keep feeling like God is teaching me that I don't need this and I should be satisfied
1:02.0	with Jesus alone. How do I square this with the
1:04.5	command to be fruitful? So I am so sorry that you have been desiring something
1:10.8	trying for something for this long.
1:14.6	And I understand that that feeling,
1:17.9	that sinking feeling every month,
1:20.2	when you get that negative pregnancy test,
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