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That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

Episode 455: Ines Franklin on How to Age Well in a God Honoring Way, Combatting Shame with Gratitude, and Confession

That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

Annie F. Downs

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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I can't wait for y'all to get to know my friend, Ines Franklin. She is a giant of the faith and today she is helping us step towards the mystery of Jesus. I'm just so thankful for her and her friendship! Her book Uncharted: Navigating Your Unique Journey of Faith is incredibly deep, and poignant, and beautiful. To hear more from Ines and listen to her teaching, be sure to check out her podcast Uncharted with Inés Franklin. Did y'all hear What Sounds Fun to You from Beth? What a story! Read more about Bethany and Moe's love story.  . . . .  Go to hereforyoutour.com to get your tickets to our upcoming tour this June! Want to gift a ticket to a friend? Go to anniefdowns.com/events for a printable Here For You gift ticket. . . . . Subscribe to Let's Read the Gospels with Annie F. Downs HERE. Go to https://anniefdowns.com/gospels to purchase your March Reading Plan or Let’s Read the Gospels Guidebook. . . . . Find more fun things on this episode by going to anniefdowns.com/thatsoundsfun. . . . . . Head to anniefdowns.com/books for more information and to sign up for the AFD Book of the Month. . . . . . Sign up to receive the AFD Week In Review email and ask questions to future guests! #thatsoundsfunpodcast . . . . . Thank you to our partners! Ritual: Right now Ritual is offering listeners 10% off your first three months. Visit ritual.com/THATSOUNDSFUN to start Ritual today. Shopify: Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/soundsfun. ButcherBox: Sign up today at butcherbox.com/TSF and use code TSF to get free Chicken Nuggets for a Year and 10% off your first box! . . . . . If you’d like to partner with Annie as a sponsor for the That Sounds Fun podcast, fill out our Advertise With Us form! . . . . . NYTimes bestselling Christian author, speaker, and host of the That Sounds Fun Podcast, Annie F. Downs shares with you some of her favorite things: new books, faith conversations, entertainers not to miss, and interviews with friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi friends, welcome to another episode of that sounds fun. I'm your host Annie F. Downs. I'm really

0:19.8

happy to be here with you today. We've got a great show in store today on the show. I get to talk

0:24.4

with my friend and as Franklin and as casually popped over to the studio from Irvine, California on her

0:29.6

book launch day this week for this conversation. She's an imdiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and

0:35.9

serves as a teaching pastor at Mariner's Church in Southern California and she's launching this

0:40.7

beautiful new book Uncharted, Navigating Your Unique Journey of Faith. We're going to talk all

0:45.6

about it. I cannot wait for y'all to get to know her. She is a deep well of kindness and wisdom

0:50.1

and discernment. She's helping us step toward the mystery of Jesus today. I am honored to get to

0:55.5

introduce this giant of the faith to y'all. So here is my conversation with the deer on as Franklin.

1:06.4

I know it's Franklin. Welcome to that sounds fun. Thank you. Finally. It's what I have to say about

1:11.1

that. Finally. I know. You are such a gift in my life and getting to have you here on the show

1:16.2

feels like a real gift. So thank you. Thank you for making time to do this. Okay, you just turn 60. Yeah.

1:21.6

Okay. Yeah. My best decade. Your best decade. Yes. I believe you. Yes. Before we started, you said

1:26.8

here's why being 60 is awesome. Okay. So I've lived long enough to have enough experience where I

1:32.8

think now I can share more from experience. I think people take you more seriously because you've

1:37.1

lived. Yeah. Right. You've walked. Yeah. So I sense that. And also, but I'm young enough for I am

1:41.8

still relevant. I can connect to generations, a couple of generations before me. And so I feel like

1:47.1

I'm writing that in between. So I think this next 10 years is going to be the best. Yeah. And I'm

1:52.1

excited. I'm excited about what I get to learn from the next generation, but also what I get to

1:56.5

share from my journey. So I'm ready to pour it out. Can I ask you some questions about aging? Yes.

2:01.7

Oh, but I'm figuring out wrinkles in my forehead. My hair going gray. I'm not married yet. So

2:09.6

that is a factor that I have. That's a soundtrack in my head that I have to not pay as much attention

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