Mailbox Monday
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
My fiancé of 10 years doesn’t want me going to church. What should I do? | My heart is breaking for my prodigal adult child. How do I keep my head up and focus on my husband and children here at home? | How do I deal with Mom guilt when I fail? | Bethel Church: what are your concerns?
Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/mailbox-monday-questions-answered
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| 0:00.0 | Well, happy December, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. You have found me at the Off the Bench podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm so glad that you've joined me. Today is Mailbox Monday. It's the day of the week that I take just a little bit of time and I answer listener questions. |
| 0:12.8 | And as usual, you guys have sent in some fantastic questions and I'm going to spend the next 20 minutes or so answering them. |
| 0:18.7 | Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, first of all, before I jump into today's podcast, I want to say thanks to everyone who came out. |
| 0:37.4 | We had a sold out crowd in |
| 0:39.1 | Thousand Oaks, California at Godspeak, Calvary Chapel. This is an event I've done a couple of times |
| 0:44.2 | before, and I love going down to Godspeak. It's like a little bit of a family reunion. And this |
| 0:50.5 | year, they really outdid themselves. I mean, they had overflow seating and everything. And I spoke on what it means to shine. What does it look like for the women of God to display the countenance of God in the times that we're living in? So we don't know what's going to happen in 2024. And as I've said to you guys before, it wouldn't surprise me, and obviously we're going to wait |
| 1:14.7 | and see, but it wouldn't surprise me if 2024 wasn't a bumpy year. |
| 1:20.6 | We've got, first of all, it's an election year, and we've seen now what happens during election |
| 1:25.1 | years. |
| 1:25.6 | We see all kinds of, you know, crazy shenanigans coming from the |
| 1:28.8 | government, and we've lived through now pandemics and all kinds of things. And in the midst of all of that, |
| 1:36.2 | we are called as people of God to display the glory of God, the Father. We're supposed to be |
| 1:44.0 | salt and light in a world that desperately needs it. We're supposed to be the city on a Father. We're supposed to be salt and light in a world that desperately |
| 1:45.8 | needs it. We're supposed to be the city on a hill. We're supposed to be reflecting like the moon |
| 1:50.8 | reflects the light of the sun. We are supposed to be as Christians reflecting the light of Jesus |
| 1:58.3 | Christ. So not to be the light, but to be a reflection of that. And it doesn't |
| 2:04.6 | matter what happens in 2024 with regard to our command to do that. And so we spent the evening on |
| 2:12.8 | Friday in Thousand Oaks talking about what it means to shine. And it was just, it was a wonderful, |
| 2:19.4 | wonderful event. So thanks to everybody who came out for that. And I'm looking forward to hearing |
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