Nurturing Faith and Filtering Harmful Voices: Leslie Schilling & Bianca Juarez Olthoff
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Belief is a crucial factor in personal growth and success. It fuels our determination, inspires resilience, and empowers us to overcome challenges. When we trust what is true we are less influenced by the opinions and judgments of others, which can often be hindered by their own limitations or biases. The object of our faith and belief must be sound, reliable, and constant. When we define our worth by a divine standard instead of the perceptions of others, we find greater self-confidence, authenticity, and ultimately, fulfillment.
This week, author and registered dietitian Leslie Schilling shares her philosophy on having a “full and fed” life where we resist what society tells us is “healthy,” and decide that the bodies God gave us, no matter their size or shape, are miraculous. Author and preacher Bianca Juarez Olthoff shares how she defied the voices that told her that she was “prone to fail” by believing her status as a child of God would bring her a true definition of success.
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Interview Quotes:
“It's important to have a healthy relationship with food so we can actually feed ourselves, so we can have the energy to go out and connect with others and take care of those we love around us and do our jobs. We have to be fed to live this life well.” - Leslie Schilling
“My hope is that people realize that it's never wrong to feed yourself and that we are diverse by design so we can move into more of a fed and full life.” - Leslie Schilling
“Diet culture has made us not trust our bodies and not believe that body diversity is by design.” - Leslie Schilling
“I think connecting with God daily helps us have a healthy mindset. If we really think about what healthy means, it's our own definition of healthy and not the world's definition of healthy. And for me, that's starting my day with time with God.” - Leslie Schilling
“I think pursuing health in a way that aligns with our individual values can help us spiritually by being fed. If you are living a fed life and not a restricted one, you can do more.” - Leslie Schilling
“No matter what I walked into, no matter what people said, no matter what my test scores evaluated me as, I knew that I was a child of God, and with God on my side and a whole lot of work, you can step into the God call upon your life with or without a traditional educational story or a traditional story of how you were raised.” - Bianca Juarez Olthoff
“We all love an underdog story, but I think it was more the Spirit of God reminding us of our truest identity, that we have a good Father who hears us and loves us.” - Bianca Juarez Olthoff
“This idea of grit, this idea of resilience, this idea of perseverance has been something that has been fostered and fought for in my life.” - Bianca Juarez Olthoff
“Our God is the God who redeems. If the situation is not good, then God is not done, that is the perspective that we need. That perspective allows us to be gritty.“ - Bianca Juarez Olthoff
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| 0:00.0 | With more than 40 million copies sold, |
| 0:02.6 | the original classic edition of Jesus Calling |
| 0:05.5 | is your daily guide to living a more peaceful life. |
| 0:08.7 | Its price and size also make it the perfect gift |
| 0:11.9 | for anyone who needs encouragement. |
| 0:14.2 | Find Jesus Calling wherever you buy books. |
| 0:21.0 | As Christians, we really don't want to let |
| 0:25.1 | this world's view of healthy like policies |
| 0:27.7 | and all of that limit us. |
| 0:29.9 | And so, healthy needs to be defined |
| 0:33.2 | within someone's individual thoughts |
| 0:35.9 | or in their family system |
| 0:37.8 | and not let kind of our cultural expectations |
| 0:41.0 | of what health looks like, get in the way of that. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | Believe in oneself as a crucial factor |
| 0:49.4 | in personal growth and success. |
| 0:51.2 | It fuels our determination, inspires resilience, |
| 0:54.3 | and empowers us to overcome challenges. |
| 0:56.9 | When we trust in our abilities, |
| 0:58.3 | we are less influenced by the opinions and judgments |
| 1:00.7 | of others, which can often be hindered |
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