You're invited to pull up a chair on Lisa Harper's Back Porch, where faith meets real life. Welcome to Back Forch Theology. Each episode helps you dive deeper into God's word and discover that the gospel isn't just good news for eternity. It's great news for everyday life because God is for you and he's always been restoring our value and drawing us closer to him. With honest conversations, a few laughs and guests ranging from close friends to brilliant theologians. Back Forch theology is thoughtful, meaningful, and never stuffy.

So grab some calls. him with honest conversations, a few laughs, and guests ranging from close friends to brilliant theologians.

Batforch Theology is thoughtful, meaningful, and never stuffy.

So grab some coffee or sweet tea and join Lisa Harper on Bat Forch Theology.

Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts.

Life Audio

Healthy relationships come from healthy people skills. And that is exactly what we are going to be

diving into in this week's episode. Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents. And welcome to this

week's episode of the Botten Beloved podcast. As always, it's your girl kirby kelly back at it again and i'm

pumped for today's conversation because it's one of those that is super practical and you might

be wondering how does this have any like crossover with the bible or relate to us as believers

but being someone who got her undergrad in communications and biblical studies later went on to get

my master's in theology, I find the whole topic of communicating and communication and people skills

and all of those things to be so important, not just as a vital life skill, but for ministry, for connection, for relating to people,

for doing relationship in a way that honors God. And I'm so happy that my friend who's joining me

today, Deborah, she wrote a book about it. It's called people skills. Your relationships are only

as strong as your skills. And I'm like,

amen to that. So she is joining me. We're going to dive into that. But before we do that,

Deborah, welcome to the podcast. Can you just introduce yourself and let people know a little bit about

what you do, what you're passionate about, and where the heart of this book really came from.

Yeah, it's so good to be here. And I'm excited to dive into this topic. I'm Deborah Fileta.

I'm a licensed professional counselor. I am an author of nine books, which is wild to say.

...