Glorious in the Mundane Podcast with Christy Nockels

This week on the podcast we’ll come around God’s beautiful invitation to REST. This rest isn’t just the gift of sleep or the pause of a Sabbath day—it’s the deep, soul-stirring rest that only comes when we surrender to God’s unfailing love, who is Jesus. As long as it is called “Today,” God beckons us to lay down the weight of our own efforts, and to find our peace and our pace in His way, His heart. And even when wrestle or get it wrong, His mercies are endless, His invitation still c...

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025

I was a bit reflective this week on the podcast, and for good reason! Nate and I are celebrating 30 years of marriage while also walking into a new season of the house growing quieter. I’ll share what I’m learning about the quiet and what the quiet stirs in us, if we’ll let it. I’ll also share the story behind the song Tick Tock (God of My Days) — a lullaby for every age, a rhythm of belonging— 🕰️✨It’s about remembering that our moments, no matter how small, are threaded with purpose an...

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2025

Today we will let several places in Scripture remind us of all the reasons that we have to rest in our King and His Kingdom, especially when it’s time to lay our head down on our pillow at night. Why is this so often when our minds race, our worries stir, and our doubt rise? I share about some of my own struggles with sleep, but how learning to shift my mind and heart to truth (in addition to a couple of practical habits that partner with the truth!) I have experienced significant brea...

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

If you need to be encouraged today that God really does care about the details of your life, that He really is better than we know, this episode is for you. He’s working, even when we don’t see it. He’s good, even when we don’t feel it. He is sanity, clarity and calm, right in the middle of our chaotic pace. And when we ask Him for His Kingdom perspective, order and life, He answers! Let one generation tell it to the next, He truly is “better than we know.” I’ll talk to you soon! Listen Here ...

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

We live in a world that runs at an unsustainable pace. As a result of this, you and I end up hosting this deep weariness and fatigue in our heart and soul. If we’re not careful, we’ll burn out and miss the beautiful opportunity of bearing witness to God’s goodness, grace and love to those around us and under our care. Today we’ll talk about inviting God to bring His “Kingdom Order” over our lives, our days, and even our to-do lists! When we invite Him in, He really does show up on our behalf....

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

Today we will remember together the incredible calling and identity that we have as God’s “witnesses” to this broken and hurting world. And it’s more than just about telling people about God, in fact, I don’t know if that was ever really the plan… God‘s presence with us and in us, has always been the plan. And because this is experiential and transformational, we end up bearing witness to the beautiful, personally nuanced, “withness” of God…the One who knows us and loves us …right in the mid...

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Today we’re coming around my release of Fly the Nest Song (Carry You) which is a song that has truly helped me mark this moment of our kids “flying the nest.” There’s a lot to hold in this bittersweet season of letting go! We can hold truth or lies, peace or anxiety, freedom or fear. Even if you’re not launching kids into this world, we can all still learn to grow in the letting go of things we want and people we love. And if we have eyes to see it, God is always leading us and invitin...

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

Okay wow, I bawled through the preparing of this one, y’all! Get ready to hear about a moment of great celebration in our family’s life together. But my prayer is that in the telling of it, you are deeply encouraged today that you have a God who knows you and loves you and CALLS you. That’s right, He is calling you today. Is it to a life of surrender? Yes. But in that surrender is the abundant LIFE He gives! I’ll talk to you soon. Christy Listen Here 👉🏻 https://cnock.lnk.to/kingwhoneve...

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

It is wonderful to be back with you this spring as we explore together what life in God looks like, even on our most ordinary days! We’ll ease back into the podcast schedule with two episodes this month, moving into more as April rolls around. Today we’re going to come around what I believe is the most essential, spiritual posture that we can have in this life. Whether you are new to your walk with God or you’ve walked with Him most of your life, having an open heart to Him is i...

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

Season 9 has been such a joy! Thank you so much for coming alongside me in celebrating my new album “Captivate Us: Live from Keeper’s Branch.” I have so loved sharing the stories and seasons behind these songs and it’s been good for my heart to remember God’s faithfulness, all through the years! Today we will come around the song The Purest Place and what it looks like to actively, even fiercely, guard the purity of our hearts…so that the Kingdom of God might advance in us, and through us! ...

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2024

It has been such a joy to spend this spring with you on the podcast, as we’ve come around my new album, “Captivate Us; Live from Keeper’s Branch!” I’ve loved remembering the stories and truths behind these songs! And today, we’ll come around one that Nathan and I wrote as a genuine prayer for our family during an election year! “A Mighty Fortress” has been an anthem for our family in learning to set our eyes on Jesus, especially when the distractions and confusion set in! I hope you’ll ...

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2024

In celebration of the full ALBUM RELEASE “Captivate Us” (available tomorrow, everywhere you listen to music!) we are going to come around this tried and true song that still carries so much heart and history in my story! This song is very descriptive of who Jesus is, even describing His face, His eyes, His hands, His loving arms—and though we don’t see Him now in the physical sense—I wonder if it helps prepare us for the day that we will see Him face to face! This song is really a “glorious i...

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2024

It has been SO beautiful to get to share these songs (and stories behind the songs!) but most importantly, the truth imbedded in them! Today we are going to look at “For Your Splendor,” a new version of a tried and true song that is deeply personal to me. I’d even venture to say that it’s quintessential when it comes to my sound and heart as a worshiper! It is from Isaiah 61, and we’ll come around the vital posture of being planted in the Lord, and staying deeply connected to Him at our roots...

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2024

I have LOVED this spring series so much! God has been reminding me of truth that He set in my heart, so long ago, knowing that I would need that truth to wash over me again, TODAY! We are going to remember together, that God always knows where to find us. Though there’s much temptation to just skip being made in the secret place (especially when we see the world around us charging forward!) God is preparing us, protecting us and will promote us when we wait in trust for Him. We will al...

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2024

Today we are celebrating the release of another EP called “Knees to the Earth,” which is the next three songs from the "Live from Keeper's Branch" album that we are unfolding this spring! Not only are these songs so sacred to us, many of them have very sacred stories behind them and today’s song emphasis, “Knees to the Earth,” is definitely one of those kind of stories! You don’t want to miss it! And you know me, it’s never just about the song or its story, but it’s always about t...

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2024

Okay so…somehow this episode got really personal! Did I actually just reveal what I want my “Grandma” name to be, someday? Or, maybe it feels personal because this song, “Lord, I Need You”, that we’ll come around today, is very dear to me! I’ll talk about being a part of writing it around a table of dear friends, who have been more like brothers to me. But, I’ll also give you some insight into being the only woman at that table, and in that community, for a very long time. It was both a...

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2024

I am so excited to continue this spring series, coming around my new EP, “You Revive Me”, available everywhere you listen to music! Y’all know me by now, that these songs are simply a diving board for us to plunge into the deep together! Into the glorious things of God…right in the middle of our mundane! Today we will do just that, as we come around the beautiful offering that each of us have to bring, in worship of our King. In each episode, we’re taking the time to put into practice t...

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2024

It has been so beautiful to get to release some new, yet familiar—even tried and true songs—in this season! One of those is the song, “Breathe” paired with another beloved song, “Let it Be Jesus.” Today, I’ll take you back to the seasons I was in when I first began to sing and lead both of these beautiful songs. They were very significant seasons in my life and in my spiritual formation, and to merge them together on this new album is such a joy. It’s amazing how songs can truly become guid...

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2024

Today we will kick off a spring series in celebration of NEW (but familiar!) music—my EP “You Revive Me”, releases THIS WEEK wherever you listen to music! I’ve named today’s episode “Up ‘Till Now”, because this album (that will continue to unfold throughout the spring) feels like an Ebenezer moment, to stop and say, “Up ‘till now, the Lord has been our help!” He has been so faithful, so kind and true, even through some of the hardest seasons in life. Also, as promised, today I will share w...

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2024

If you or someone you know has experienced loss this season, you’ll want to listen and pass this one along. There will be more to come with sharing some beautiful truths that I’ve learned and received from my sweet Mama’s legacy. But for now, this is me letting you in on some of the last days and hours of her precious life here on earth. When we released the beloved hymn, Be Thou My Vision, on November 10th, I could never have imagined that my mother would go Home to Jesus just ...

Transcribed - Published: 14 December 2023

Okay, so this one made me weepy! Today we’ll be in Psalm 118 which is a part of the Hallel—a collection of six Psalms (113-118) that have been sung and recited on joyous occasions and festivals all throughout Israel’s history. We’ll remember together that Jesus would have sung these very Psalms as a little boy, as well as his disciples, and Psalm 118 was sung by Jesus and his disciples together just before they made their way to the Mount of Olives. It’s this beautiful picture of the power of...

Transcribed - Published: 10 August 2023

Today we’re in beautiful Psalm 19 where we’ll remember together that God set revelation in the heavens that is pouring out promise over us day and night, night and day! This kind of framework, His order, His heart, His way, postures us to look into His rules, even His boundaries for us. To heed their warning—yes—but to also know the great reward in keeping His way! Certainly one of the greatest rewards is His very presence and even confession and repentance can afford us a closeness with Him...

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2023

Today I’m going to tell you about some home renovations that Nate and I have embarked on this summer, just to let you in on a little bit of our world and the DIY adventures that we find ourselves swimming in! With all that going on, the Psalms have kept a steady STIRRING in me and I pray the Lord has used them in the same way for you! Today we will be in Psalm 66 together where we will explore the beautiful declaration of, “As for me, I will tell what He has done for my soul.” W...

Transcribed - Published: 27 July 2023

In celebration of my husband Nathan’s brand new album “Everywhere the River Goes” (available anywhere you listen to music!) we’re going to talk about this River and the beauty of staying within the River’s reach all the days of our lives! In fact, we’ll use the song titles to give us a grid for what this River’s work looks like in us and through us. There’s mention of this River in Psalm 46, today’s Psalm, as well as in Ezekiel 47. We’ll look at aspects of both of these beautiful passa...

Transcribed - Published: 20 July 2023

Last week we talked about a holy resolve, when we have a shift in perspective upon remembering what is TRUE about God, about ourselves and the world around us. This week we’re going to sit in a bit of a holy tension together in Psalm 88, which is a passage that’s not easy to get comfy in! But I am so excited to tell you that we have a VERY special guest joining us today! Adrienne Camp is going to lead us in coming around our Psalm for this week and I know you’re going to LOVE hearing from h...

Transcribed - Published: 13 July 2023

I’m SO THRILLED that the SUMMER IN THE PSALMS series is back! I have needed this in my own life!! The lazy days of summer can be wonderful, but I find that it’s easy to drift from my rhythm of staying grounded in truth if I’m not careful. I hope this series meets you right on time in the same way! Today we’ll look at Psalm 73 together. It’s about as honest as it gets, I love it! We can glean so much from it as we witness the Psalmist sing of his struggle but most importantly, we get to...

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2023

Today you are going to get to hear some REALLY fun behind-the-scenes-stories from my new album “This is the Hour,” particularly from the adventure that was the photo shoot for this album! Even the little trick behind getting my hair to look “ablaze” in the wind for the cover of the song Valor! I had so much fun remembering the details of such a wonderful day, can’t wait to tell you all about it! We’ll also dive into the beautiful and sacred truth of Christ’s life IN us! His life i...

Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2023

Today I’m so excited to get to come around the song “Valor”, one of my favorite songs from my new album, “This is the Hour,” available everywhere you listen to music. This song rose up in me in a season where I began to realize that the hardships, the pain, and what felt like relentless trials were not for nothing. In fact, they would afford me something that nothing in this world could offer me. My bravest step in that season would be surrendering, yielding once again to a sovereign Go...

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2023

VALOR // This beautiful word… I’ve come to embrace it like a friend. It’s a personal bravery that is directly tied to, even flows out of our very identity as the Beloved of God. But much like soul rest, it isn’t accomplished by our determination or will — it’s in surrender that Christ’s strength is imparted to us and through us! Join me as I continue the stories behind the songs that simply act as a lens for us to look at some deep, life-changing truth that is for our flourishing in th...

Transcribed - Published: 4 May 2023

Today we’re going to keep leaning into the posture and perspective that God’s presence has always been His ultimate plan for His people, that we might flourish and even cause the world around us to flourish too! Shifting our gaze towards Him each day is vital for our growth and it remains one of the easiest things possible for the human race! Today I’ll also share some insights around the Overture—a song that is very dear to me—that opens my new album “This is the Hour”, available everywher...

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2023

New Episode Today!! Today we’ll come around these intriguing questions: What if His presence is really His plan for us? And, what if His will for our lives is simply to walk with Him and treasure His “withness” with us more than anything? The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that the mundane really is the platform that God uses to refine us and grow us…to even shape our lives for longevity! Our part in it is learning to be aware of His presence and being willing to consistent...

Transcribed - Published: 13 April 2023

Y’all, it’s back. I’M BACK! I’m so excited to relaunch The Glorious in the Mundane podcast this week! You probably guessed that I’m going to be coming around my new album called “This is the Hour,” available everywhere you listen to music! I’m not coming around these songs just for the song’s sake—I just believe that God has shown me so much in the past few years of writing and recording these songs and I’m excited to tell the stories and to testify of God’s faithfulness once again and to enc...

Transcribed - Published: 6 April 2023

Join me as we continue to look into how to meet with a glorious God in the mundane moments of our lives! We will talk about knowing WHERE we are in terms of what God is stirring in us, even WHERE we are in His Word—how we are consuming and experiencing His goodness and truth. We’ll even use our spiritual imaginations to remember WHERE we are in Christ, as those who follow Him, we are covered in His Almighty Life—Father, Son & Holy Spirit! I’ll talk to you soon! -Christy Listen Here 👉🏻 htt...

Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2022

Today we’re going to come around some simple practices— heart postures if you will—that help lead us to unbroken union with God. These postures have helped me to go deep with the Lord even when I’m on the go or only have a limited amount of quiet time. I’ve heard it said, mission is not sustainable without union with God. Whatever it is that we’re putting our hearts and hands to—it ultimately won’t last unless we cultivate a real and lasting relationship with God. One where we actually...

Transcribed - Published: 3 November 2022

NEW PODCAST TODAY!! Today I’m going to introduce a NEW SONG that is hands-down my favorite song that God has stirred in me yet. It’s that precious to me! Even days after writing it, I was sharing it but that’s mostly because of the encounter that I had with God on my front porch one evening. The song stands as a vivid reminder of not only that moment but of what I truly believe God desires for His people in this hour: That we would come HOME to His heart. Fully and completely. In John ...

Transcribed - Published: 20 October 2022

I’m so excited to present this mini-series in honor of NEW MUSIC releasing this month(October 21st)! You’ll be the first to hear TWO brand new songs and the stories behind them {before they officially release!} right here on the podcast! You might can guess the title of the first song I’ll be sharing by the title of this episode! I wrote “Come Magnify” {from Psalm 34} along with Nathan Nockels and Jason Ingram and I hope it truly moves you today to lift your eyes, your heart, and your ...

Transcribed - Published: 12 October 2022

SURPRISE!! BRAND NEW EPISODE TODAY! I decided to jump in and end our Psalms for Summer’s End series in REAL TIME and to say “HAPPY FIRST WEEK OF FALL, Y’ALL!” Today you’ll get an exciting update on the MUSIC and the PODCAST series that’s coming your way this fall! We’ll also come around Psalm 91 together, which is a very tender Psalm for me, as we prayed it over our son, Noah, even before he was born! You’ll even get to hear about the “Rite of Passage” ceremony we held for Noah when he ...

Transcribed - Published: 21 September 2022

This Psalm is so near and dear to my heart! In fact, Nathan and I wrote a song based around this Psalm when we were still just dating. David models for us in this passage what it looks like to take refuge in God and let Him hide us and heal us but he’s also showing us something so important to pursue during seasons of hardship! I think there are so many ways that we can respond in painful seasons. There’s always plenty to complain about, lots of drama to post on social media and tons of ways ...

Transcribed - Published: 14 September 2022

I pray that these Psalms for Summer’s End have caused you to slow down and remember who and Whose you are in an otherwise very busy season! Today we’re in Psalm 1 , which has always connected me to Jeremiah 17, a passage that God used several years ago to pretty much break my heart open! I share about that pruning moment as we look at why these two “trees planted by streams of water” passages are so sharply contrasted with rooting our identity in anything or anyone else besides God! &nb...

Transcribed - Published: 7 September 2022

Welcome back to the Psalms for Summer’s End podcast series! These episodes are some of my personal favorites that were previously released to my patron audience only and now we’re making them available to YOU! I hope that as we all anticipate the turning of the season that these truths will encourage and strengthen us along the way! Today you’ll hear all about our family’s FIRST trip to Lost Valley Ranch, a place–as many of you know–that would become a refuge for our family these past five ye...

Transcribed - Published: 31 August 2022

Welcome back to the Psalms for Summer’s End podcast series! These near and dear podcast episodes were previously released to my patron audience only and now we’re making them available to YOU! These were recorded a few years back but God’s Word is living and active, so I hope that they meet you right where you are with the peace that only God can give! Today we’ll dive into a not-so-obvious Psalm that’s one of those that you love at the beginning but you have no idea what to do with the middl...

Transcribed - Published: 24 August 2022

The world, with all its chaos and charm sets a trap. But Jesus…he sets a table. SURPRISE! I’m so excited to release this series of podcasts that have been so near and dear to my heart! These were originally created for my podcast patrons only and haven’t been released to the public until now! I called the series, “Summer in the Psalms” but since we’re nearing the golden hour of the summer of ‘22, I think we can receive them as “Psalms for Summer’s End.” (Makes me exhale just sayin...

Transcribed - Published: 17 August 2022

Enjoy the second part of this surprise podcast series in celebration of my song- release of “Abide”! If you need a bit of a reset this week, this episode was made with you in mind! In fact, you might want to get somewhere where you can be alone with the Lord or even go on a walk! We’ll talk about the love language of surrender and how God responds to a yielded heart and life in His presence. I pray that this deeply encourages you around what it looks like to abide in Jesus as a ...

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2022

SURPRISE PODCAST & SONG RELEASE TODAY!! // I’m thrilled to announce the release of the beautiful song “Abide”—available tonight, anywhere you listen to music! This is a song that I’ve found myself singing and praying in these days and I hope it lands in your life in the same, special way! AND to celebrate the song release—enjoy this mini series of The Glorious in the Mundane podcast!! We’ll remember together the essential call as Christ followers, to abide in Jesus. You’ll even get...

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2022

This was a little bit of an emotional process for me in getting this episode into your hands! Today we will come around the very last chapter in my new book The Life You Long For: Learning to Live from a Heart of Rest. The chapter we’ll look at is “Always Remember to Never Forget.” Whether you’ve heard my song titled this or read this chapter, I think today’s episode on this still stands alone! I think there’s no better time to remember together what I call “The Seven Wonders of the Beloved” ...

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2021

I’m welcoming back my lovely friend @magenleighroberson as my co-host today as we come around what is shamelessly my FAVORITE chapter in my new book The Life You Long For: Learning to Live From a Heart of Rest. It’s called “The Power of Small” and what makes the small so powerful is that we serve a God of multiplication! And, I wonder if in these days when things still don’t look like they use to, if we are being invited to experience His multiplication in a way we never thought possible....t...

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2021

Today we will pause from our regular podcast series to come around the beauty of the heart of a mother. Wherever you are in your journey, if you are a woman, you can carry a mother’s heart! You don’t have to be a mother physically to carry a mother’s heart spiritually! I pray that today you are reminded that you have a Father who delights in you and loves you and longs to FILL you with everything you need in order that you might freely give away what you’ve received! More than ever, thi...

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2021

NEW PODCAST TODAY! I had THE most beautiful time getting to catch up with the lovely @ellieholcomb today on the podcast! As you know I’ve been inviting friends and family to “co-host” with me during this season as a way of celebrating my new book The Life You Long For: Learning to Live From a Heart of Rest. Today we jump into one of my FAVORITE chapters in the book called “Everything is Mine in You” named after a song that Ellie and I wrote together the day we first met! It comes around the t...

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2021

NEW PODCAST TODAY! My lovely co-host is the one and only @ginnyowensofficial and I’m so excited for you to get to hear from her heart and her life! We got to reminisce about our days of getting to tour together (over 20 years ago now!) and how grateful we are to still be friends after all this time! This week we are coming around the chapter called “Heart Like a Honeycomb” in my new book The Life You Long For: Learning to Live From a Heart of Rest. We will talk about the pursuit of REST in th...

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2021

What a joy to get to invite some FAMILY in today as I talk about some of the themes of my new book The Life You Long For: Learning to Live From a Heart of Rest. This is another conversation that will remain one of my favorites of all time. I truly hope you will listen and be greatly encouraged by this one! My precious sister-in-law @mrskristinhill dropped so much wisdom today as she shared about what it has looked like to learn to bloom in the middle of what has felt like a “winter of the wor...

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2021