S2 20: Friendship With God and One Another With Kelly Needham
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Needham, author of the book Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion, loves Jesus and has a desire for God's Word that radiates from her. Kelly has a passion for friendship, what friendship is for, and how through friendship we learn to find our roots in God. This conversation is full of encouragement to enjoy the gift of those around us and, ultimately, to pursue a friendship with God.
Kelly Needham Show Notes
Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion by Kelly Needham
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Anonymous by Alicia Britt Chole
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the |
| 0:07.2 | humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. I'm Sarah Stone Street. And I'm Erin Kunkel. Glad |
| 0:14.2 | you're here. On the Strong Women podcast today, our guest with us is Kelly Needham. |
| 0:23.4 | And we first were introduced to Kelly through her Instagram feed, which is beautiful. |
| 0:29.3 | So if you're not following Kelly, you should. |
| 0:31.8 | But she takes the everyday struggles and joys that we all feel and deal with. |
| 0:36.5 | And she kind of helps us lay it out before the |
| 0:39.1 | Lord and view it in light of the gospel. And so she brings a lot of clarity to those everyday |
| 0:44.5 | struggles that we can sometimes feel confused by because we're in them. Kelly teaches Bible at |
| 0:50.7 | her home church and she's also a co-leader of a women's teaching program, which has |
| 0:55.6 | online Bible studies, if I remember right. Is that right, Kelly? You do online? I do online Bible |
| 1:01.1 | studies as well as a separate thing. So Aaron and I both read your book, Kelly, friendish, |
| 1:07.4 | reclaiming real friendship in a culture of confusion. And we wanted to have a deeper conversation |
| 1:13.9 | about this with you because we all deal with friendship at some level or another. And so I thought |
| 1:20.3 | it would be good for our listeners to come along with us on this conversation and just think |
| 1:24.7 | clearly about what is friendship for and how do we do it well how do |
| 1:28.7 | we view it rightly you know but um as c s lewis points out and four loves the ancients over exalted |
| 1:35.9 | friendship as like the the ultimate glory of man and then the moderns kind of dismiss it as like |
| 1:42.0 | just a chain just to fill time you know something to fill the extra |
| 1:46.6 | space that we have and then we have our current cultural moment which has viewed everything in |
| 1:52.5 | the sexual light and so it sidelined this friendship love and replaces everything with this |
| 2:00.3 | eros love this sexuality is at the height of any |
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