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Count it all joy, the Bible says, when we face trials of various kinds. In this final episode of 2023 I share some thoughts on scripture from James chapter 1 on how we look at trials in our lives as believers and how we should respond to them. Jesus already told us that in this life we would have trials, so are you prepared to grow from them?   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keyword  

It's so easy to forget our position as believers. We get so caught up and distracted with the things of this world and we lose sight of the Kingdom. As a believer, we are sons and daughters of the Most High, so why do we still walk around defeated with our heads down or distracted and busy pursuing temporary pleasures when we have access to the King?!   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/      “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1   "Kingdom Woman" by Tony Evans: https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Woman-Embracing-Purpose-Possibilities/dp/1624053548/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=KJ4SK5AGLSC2&keywords=kingdom+woman+tony+evans+book&qid=1701955945&sprefix=kingdom+w%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-1

In this episode I share 2 different situations where I cried out to the Lord for help and although the outcome for each was very different, I experienced a peace that didn't make sense in both of them! Listen as a share several passages from God's Word that helped me walk through two painful trials, how I'm learning to have gratitude in all things and how in doing this I have found a deep hope for the future. God is doing a brand new thing in our lives and hearts and I can't wait! Take a listen.   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/   “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1    

It's easy to look at someone else and judge them based on their behavior. But what brought them to that place? In each of us is build a heart for worship. The problem is sin and where we choose to place our worship. Is what you are bowing down to bringing you life and peace or leading to destruction?   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/   “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1     Sermon:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdKxzWPtp4      

Join me as we continue the conversation about relationships and boundaries but focusing more in this episode on forgiveness. We can sometimes feel like we are “letting them off the hook” but is that even our responsibility? Listen as my dad, Pastor Mike Stambaugh shares several scriptures on the importance of forgiveness and being able to emotionally release those who have offended or hurt us and leave the consequences to God which ultimately frees us!   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/      “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1   “Love Must be Tough” https://www.amazon.com/Love-Must-Be-Tough-Marriages/dp/141431745X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2K9O5J3XRCE01&keywords=love+must+be+tough+dobson&qid=1698320327&sprefix=love+must%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-1  

Sometimes we may feel that placing boundaries is unloving. Listen as I share how placing boundaries for myself has lead to more authenticity in my relationships, allowing me to bring a more honest and confident version of myself to the table. How we often try to misplace boundaries and put them on other people, who we can't control and end up more angry and frustrated. This is just the beginning of this super important conversation on the importance of placing healthy boundaries and what that looks like in our lives!     Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/     Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa Terkeurst:   https://www.amazon.com/Good-Boundaries-Goodbyes-Loving-Without-ebook/dp/B09X43TPY2/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=3FJAQWGV46ZJO&keywords=good+boundaries+and+goodbyes+lysa+terkeurst&qid=1697114437&s=books&sprefix=lysa%2Cstripbooks%2C78&sr=1-3-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1         “Into the Storm” https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1      

Join me as I share why it's important in finding the balance in our lives between “feeling our feelings” but not making impulsive decisions from an emotional place. What does it look like to move forward in faith even when you feel or don't feel it or there is uncertainty?  How God has called me to “pull up my tent pegs” and stop camping out in complacency waiting for my feelings when I know He's calling me to move forward in faith!   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/     Link to order “Courageous Faith- claiming your promised land through the book of Joshua by Amy Craighead   https://www.amazon.com/Courageous-Faith-Claiming-Promised-Through/dp/0692140808/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LY7NSVBHLTX3&keywords=Courageous+Faith+by+Amy+Craighead&qid=1695905516&sprefix=courageous+faith+by+amy+craighead%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1   Link to order “Into the Storm”   https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1  

Listen as my good friend Deon shares how she thought her life was heading in the “perfect” direction. But when her heart is betrayed and broken, she discovers God's sovereign provision and protection more than ever!   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/   Link to order “Into the Storm”   Https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1      

In this episode I share vulnerably how the enemy has pursued my family, but also my own more recent struggles.  He doesn't stop, when one attempt fails he will keep coming after you if there is something of value! Let's take a look into God's Word together though to see his warnings for us but also His promises to us!    Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/     Link to order “Into the Storm”    https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CEMDE2MQC8FE&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1693482456&sprefix=Into+the+Storm%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1    

After 2 months off from recording new episodes on the AIA podcast, I'm excited to be back! This episode is all about the story behind my new book, available on Amazon September 1st! Pre order the Kindle version now.  Lots of great God winks leading to the writing of this story. Plus, some updates on the direction moving forward for the podcast.     Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    Link to Pre order Kindle version- https://www.amazon.com/Into-Storm-finding-healing-hardships-ebook/dp/B0CFK5XMZ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DSUTLCPDNC0M&keywords=into+the+storm+katie+thornhill&qid=1692300109&sprefix=Into+the+Storm+by+Katie%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1  

I can't believe we've made it to 100 episodes!!    You do not want to miss this powerful story.   My new friend Chrisy Slate shares the devastating loss of her 17 year old son Caleb to suicide.  She shares openly with us and many others in the hopes of bringing awareness to teen suicide and to give hope to other parents who have lost children and don't think they can survive it.  She shares with us who Caleb was, how she wrestled with God and still doesn't know why this happened. But she is CHOOSING to trust God and find purpose by sharing their story and carrying on her son's legacy of compassion for others through the Caleb Cares Project.     Visit and donate to foundation here:   www.ajourneyforcaleb.org   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/      

One thing we are all guaranteed in this life is that we will face challenges, hardships and even crisis at one point or another.  So maybe you're at a cross road right now and unsure of what your right next step is, which way is the path to peace? Join me as I walk you through a 4 step process that I use personally and have also used with coaching clients to help you move from chaos to peace. I've also included the P2P(path to peace) guide in the show notes as a resource for you to print as you work through these steps.   P2P Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oLRCycmGW8G0pEinIFoJBb0HCRavEGVg/view   Connect- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Are you tired of the world setting the pace for you in your daily life?    Join me as I chat with my good friend and new author Megan Evans about her newly published book “Permission to Walk.” Where she invites the reader to join her on a 40 day journey to unhurried peace.   She shares where the idea and title for the book came from as well as the season of life she was in that motivated writing a devotional style book.   If you feel weary and are needing a change of pace and a breath of fresh air, don't miss this episode and get your copy of Megan's book today!   Permission to Walk Book: https://www.amazon.com/Permission-Walk-Megan-Evans/dp/B0BXDH9BQQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1W5LTCXDOXDXW&keywords=permission+to+walk+megan+evans&qid=1681265598&sprefix=permission+to+walk%2Caps%2C247&sr=8-1   Connect with Megan on her blog site:   https://www.unhurrymyheart.com/     Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/      

In this episode I share just a little bit from my incredible experience at Onsite which offers world-renowned emotional wellness retreats, therapeutic intensives, residential trauma care, and digital resources. There is something so unique and healing when we gather with others who share in the same pain, even each with different experiences. How many came in withdrawn and hopeless and left hugging each other and laughing!  So where are you feeling stuck and maybe hopeless in your life? There is hope, Community and help. You just may need to take the first step to look for it!   Onsite: https://onsiteworkshops.com   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com   Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

You want to be transformed by God's Word and you keep reading it but nothing is happening.  In this episode my dad shares how we build on memorization( episode 94) with Biblical meditation. In this episode he shares 3 reasons meditation is essential for spiritual growth and 4 ways we learn the practice of Biblical meditation and apply it to our daily lives and Bible study!   Pastor Mike's You Tube Channel- https://youtube.com/@michaelstambaugh5389   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

Join me in this powerful episode as Jill shares her family's story of devastating loss and beautiful redemption.  Listen as she shares how her and her husband fulfilled their daughter's dream for her life to impact the Kingdom.  How God has used her story and their faithfulness to help thousands of people grieve the loss of their children and find hope and healing in community and sharing!   While We're Waiting Website- https://whilewerewaiting.org/   While We're Waiting private FB support:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/WhileWereWaiting.SupportForBereavedParents/       While We're Waiting Podcast:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/while-were-waiting-hope-after-child-loss/id1526191629     Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course! https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

We all go through difficult times in our lives. God has given us His Word for guidance, comfort, wisdom and even power as we navigate this life. How much more powerful would it be if we had it memorized and could recall scripture anytime! Listen as my dad and I discuss why scripture memorization is the foundation we build on to truly meditate on it and apply God's Word to our lives for spiritual growth!   Daily Grace Co- Expanded Scripture Memory- Dwell https://thedailygraceco.com/   Pastor Mike's You Tube Channel- https://youtube.com/@michaelstambaugh5389   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Have you heard the saying “less is more”?  Listen as I share how as I was pulling back and doing less, there was actually space for God to do more in my heart!  During my couple of months off I went back to the foundations of some key spiritual disciplines. In this episode I share how God is using them to bring true peace to this broken heart.      Daily Grace Co- Expanded Scripture Memory- Dwell https://thedailygraceco.com/   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!    https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Have you ever been in a place where you know you've given you're best effort and it's just not enough? Where you keep trying and at some point you're depleted, pouring out to others from an empty cup.  Join me in this episode, which will be my last one for several months as I take a 2 month sabbatical for rest. I share how God has been pressing on my heart to stop “doing” for Him and just be “with” Him. Sitting at his feet in surrender and allowing Him to fill my cup so that I can pour out from a place of overflow. Stepping out in faith, despite my fear and trusting Him with the outcome!   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/   Pastor Mike's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGud4CcgBWwJ6NqTioUj3w    

Join me as I chat with my new friend Bryna. She shares some of her low valley experiences that at the time made her feel lost in a dark valley until God used a unique experience to shine His light on her and now she has a vision for her life that's better than she could've imagined. Including a book about her powerful story coming our Spring of 2023.You don't want to miss this one!   Bryna Grant:    Blog site: Christian Women Encouragement | Thistle Girl Thoughts In A Daisy World (thistlegirldaisywo.wixsite.com)   Email: Thistlegirldaisyworld@gmail.com   She's also available on Fb and IG!!   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/

In today's episode we are talking about two things! First, how even ministries that God calls us to can become idols in our lives if we begin to find our identity or purpose in the ministry itself over the one it's designed to draw people too!  And second, what happens when that ministry experiences a hardship? How can we begin to see God in the details, trusting that sometimes what looks like a setback is often a set up for something even greater! When we surrender it all to Him we can trust that anything that happens can be used as part of his plan to grow you and help you thrive!   Now available- “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” online course!  https://anchoredinalways.com/courses/   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Today we are looking at the idol of approval. Do you struggle to find your worth in what other people think of you? If you're being honest with yourself does it shape the way you look or dress, maybe how you make decisions, work, or even the things you buy?  Desiring words of affirmation from people you love and respect is not a a bad thing, it's a normal human desire but it can become an idol when it begins to define WHO we are. When we start to worry more about what people say then what God says in our lives it can often lead to compromise!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

I'm so honored to have my sweet friend and fellow podcasting sister on the show! She shares a little about her story and how her marriage almost ended, but through a particular ministry and some hard work their marriage is restored and she is now using her experience to help others finding healing in their marriages and thrive as God intended for us to do in marriage!    Listen to Lydia's podcast:   http://bit.ly/thejarpodcast Soul Healing, wholeness and redemption from sin or a broken marriage!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Self- sufficiency or this idea that we can manage on our own strength that we don't need or we shouldn't need someone to help us because we are strong enough on our own. If we're being honest, we know that that is not true. So many of us find ourselves taking this message and striving to the point of exhaustion to build our lives or find success in ourselves and what we can accomplish in our own strength.  The Bible says that when I am weak then I am strong. Our lives were never intended to reflect us, but to reflect his power at work in our weakness. If we are constantly focusing on what we are capable of, we limit the opportunities to allow his strength and his power and glory to be reflected in our lives. So let's chat about how this can become an idol in our lives.    Daily Grace Co. “More than Anything” study on idolatry plus many more resources! https://thedailygraceco.com/   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

Join me in today's episode as I chat with my friend and sister in Christ Amelya Foster, LMSW. She shares just a little of the trauma from her past, what led her to become part of the ministry of Celebrate Recovery at Grace and how God is doing a new and exciting thing in her life. How He is using everything she's been through and her education to help others suffering with mental health disorders, PTSD and so much more through the opening of her new business, The Resilience Center!  For more info or to contact Amelya:   Www.resiliencecenterclarksville.com.  Email: info@resiliencecenterclarksville.com.  Phn: 931-561-3488   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

When we begin to place our hope in the pursuit of health and wellness believing in the lie that to achieve it will bring us happiness and satisfaction completely it can become an idol for us.  So while eating healthy, exercising, therapy, meditation and so on are all beneficial to us we can't depend on any of them as our source of happiness and fulfillment Indefinitely. How do we find the balance between taking care of ourselves and allowing it to overshadow our need for a deep relationship with God?    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

I've had conversations with a number of women just in the last few weeks who are struggling in their marriages and feeling hopeless. Feeling like they can't fix their spouse and their marriage, so what can they do? How will they move forward and find joy still? I know I've felt that way at low times in my own marriage.Feeling like I'm trying everything in my power to do the right thing and it's just not working. If God wants us to respect our husbands and our husbands to love us fully and if marriage is the representation of Christ and his bride which is the church how do we keep it from becoming an idol, while still placing a priority on it of importance in our lives? What happens when we expect each other to fill a void that only God can?   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

Let's dig into the Bible with my dad, pastor Mike Stambaugh on an often convicting topic of our motives!  In this episode we talk about how easy it can be to slip into doing things, even “good” things from a place of selfish ambition!  Listen as my dad shares 6 characteristics of selfish ambition and then how we can move more towards humility and Kingdom focus!   Pastor Mike's YouTube channel:    https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGud4CcgBWwJ6NqTioUj3w    Email Pastor Mike at:    stambaugh53@gmail.com to be added to his email list so that you can get an outline emailed for each episode of his YouTube series!    Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

If you're anything like me you may pack your day full, going from one thing to the next in a quest for fulfillment!  You keep working, hustling and striving, but still feeling like something's missing. Why can't I feel His presence or hear a Word from Him?  Maybe you haven't created margin for rest and time to sit in His presence?  Let's chat about it!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

How many times have you believed the lie that you were really in control? We want control, so we make our plans and depend on ourselves or sometimes other people to keep everything in order. But just think about it, just in the last few days in your own life how many things have happened outside of your control? How does this become and idol for us and how do we learn to surrender it? What happens when we don't and our plans don't go the way we thought? Take a listen as we look at what the Word of God says!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Listen as my friend Julie shares how she had found sobriety in secular recovery but it wasn't until almost 10 years later that she found true life transformation in a personal relationship with Jesus as her higher power! Julie shares how her addiction started by trying to fill a void, but quickly became unmanageable and how looking back she could see God's pursuit of her the whole time!!    Registration for “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace” workshop:    https://forms.gle/FDoRxCuyiBf63YZU9   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  Help- https://celebraterecovery.com/  

Are you struggling with seeing God's goodness in the midst of your pain and hardships? Maybe, things aren't going the way you planned for your life, and the healing that God has for you in it is not what you think or feel you need either? Listen as I share from my own experience of delaying my healing because I refused the “good medicine” which can often taste bitter at that time but WILL bring healing if we just accept it!   Registration for workshop: https://forms.gle/FDoRxCuyiBf63YZU9    Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Someone needs to hear this today! You feel stuck in a feeling- sadness, anger, doubt, fear, frustration, etc. So, what is the thought behind that feeling?  We have an enemy who likes to pull a chair up to our thought table and spoil the feast God has for us!  How do we respond? What can we do? Take a listen and see if God has a word for you today!   Registration for workshop: https://forms.gle/FDoRxCuyiBf63YZU9   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

Like most of us, maybe you have found yourself stuck in a particular season of your life and maybe you have some decisions to make where you have several options that all may be great or maybe not. So how do we know what the best next right step truly is?  Listen as Kelly shares a powerful word the Lord gave her early this year and how he's been cultivating what it looks like to truly discern God's voice in your daily life! Understanding how inner peace and outer grace help us move forward in confidence!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com   Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin _____________________________________________________________________   You can follow Kelly at Organizational Peace on:    FB- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077988871156 Instagram- https://instagram.com/organizationalpeace?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=  

Are you a planner like me? Do you struggle when plans change? What if God is asking you to pivot or change course? Do you trust that He has better for you than what you had planned? Let's dig in and chat about it!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

You do not want to miss this one! Conflict is unavoidable, however there are things we can do to make peace. Listen as my dad, Pastor Mike shares 3 sources of conflict, 3 things we sacrifice when conflict goes unresolved and then 7 steps to resolving conflict!! So much packed in this episode, so grab your Bible, a pen and a notebook and anchor in with us in keeping the peace!   Pastor Mike's YouTube channel:    https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGud4CcgBWwJ6NqTioUj3w   Email Pastor Mike at: stambaugh53@gmail.comto be added to his email list so that you can get an outline emailed for each episode of his YouTube series!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com    Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

Join me as I share how God used a humbling experience for me in recent weeks to remind me that I don't have to be perfect and have it all together! That it's often when we are weak and willing to acknowledge it, that he does the most powerful work! Let's see what the Bible has to say about perfectionism and the balance between having the virtue of excellence verses feeling the desire to do everything without fault and in our own strength!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/      

Join Christy and I as we talk about the importance of taking time each week to reset and find rest for our busy souls! The Bible teaches us the importance of taking a Sabbath. It's not that we should but that we get to! It's a gift from the lord to us to allow us time to fill back up so he can use us to pour out that much more! So how do we do this in our already busy schedules?? Take a listen and also check out the link below for a helpful resource from Christy.   Sabbath Rest: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gK_cAJlYlRg6lgKhpsfID2CUqZP6QKh7HC4KaL_dG_8/edit?usp=sharing   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

Our brains are hardwired to keep us safe and comfortable. And God does give us gifts of comfort but the purpose is for us to give Him thanks and praise, but we've come to a place where we expect these things in our lives and feel we even deserve them! Listen as a share 3 different idols of comfort in many of our lives that can lull us asleep and keep us lukewarm as believers! Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

Listen as my friend Jenn Bledsoe shares her story of growing up in a fairly normal environment yet still finding herself in an addiction to alcohol that was spiraling out of control. How she found healing and victory, and as a single mom now is helping others find recovery from their hurts, habits and hang ups! God is using her story for his glory and it is beautiful!   Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/ Help- https://celebraterecovery.com/  

Do you ever feel like you're on this never ending quest to find balance and peace in your life? Like if you could just discover what's missing then your life will make sense and you could experience fulfillment. So, you go through life chasing this elusive sense of balance believing that to achieve it means you will  then feel a certain way but what if it's not chaos OR peace,  or joy OR sorrow, what if it's BOTH?    Website- https://anchoredinalways.com  Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

Join me in a discussion with my good friend and a core leader on our Celebrate Recovery leadership team Tracy Davis as she shares how God brought healing into her life through CR.  How she was able to step out of denial and identify negative behavior patterns that were impacting her relationships. How God is using the broken parts of her story, that she had always felt she needed to hide to be accepted, to help other hurting women!   Website-  https://anchoredinalways.com/ Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Help- https://celebraterecovery.com/  

In today's episode I share a little more openly about how I've been wrestling with God about circumstances in my own life and those around me and feelings of frustration and even anger. Looking into scripture and sharing how God has been speaking to me through His Word and the Holy Spirit on this issue. We can't always choose our circumstances, but we can CHOOSE our responses. And He has not left us empty handed in doing that, so take a listen to hear what He has been revealing to me and I pray it blesses and strengthens you in whatever hard trial you may be experiencing as well.   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

Emily and her husband Michael both work for Hope Center Ministries which is a year long rehab program that focus on teaching men and women that struggle with substance abuse addiction how to find healing and victory over their addictions in a growing relationship with Jesus! Her story shows God's providence and how she had tried finding fulfillment her way and God kept pursuing her and ultimately led her to her now husband ( which is a Hallmark love story itself she shares with us) and an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling job in  recovery ministry!    To donate/sponsor a resident for Hope centers: Search Emile Himes https://pushpay.com/g/admissionsregionfour     Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin     

Have you ever felt like you just don't have the strength to fight anymore? Like a dry desert all around you and you have one tiny leaf struggling to poke through and thrive in this broken and hurting world. Well, I've got good news for you! Take a listen as we dig into God's Word together to discover how we can grow deep roots that never run dry, no matter how fierce the storm, we can grow and flourish!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin   https://www.thejamesmethod.com/products/verse-map-journal

Listen as my dad, Pastor Mike Stambaugh shares from over 34 years experience as a pastor on how to address depression, not just spiritually but also physically! Answering tough questions like “ Is it a sin to be depressed?” And looking at the Word of God and many Biblical examples of our faith pioneers who battled depression too!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin     Pastor Mike's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/sxXClS1IqHY     Email Pastor Mike at: stambaugh53@gmail.com to be added to his email list so that you can get an outline emailed for each episode of his YouTube series!

Listen as we look at the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible and discuss how we often choose the busyness of the tasks we feel we should do over what Jesus says in this story is “the better thing." And how often this busyness leads to comparison and bitterness that draw us away from an intimate relationship with Jesus and people in our lives! So how do we choose the better? What does it mean to live unapologetically sold out for Jesus like Mary did? Take a listen in today's episode!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

I had planned to have Kelly teach, but she hijacked the episode and wanted to share instead from her experience of being coached. What her mindset was going into it, having never experienced it before and not sure what it really even was to seeing real value and impact on her life today! Plus, listen in on an impromptu mini coaching session between Kelly and me in this episode to see what the experience might be like for you! If you've been on the fence or have no idea what coaching is, then you don't want to miss this episode!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com  Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  

We all have different gifts, but our purpose is the same to love the Lord our God with all of our heart soul mind and strength and to love other people by sharing the gospel with them. But how we go about doing that may look different for each one of us and that's OK. Listen as I share how about a recent encounter with a sweet woman searching for God. And as I sat at that table and listened to her ask questions, there was a moment of hesitation and then I thought to myself do I really believe that Jesus is what she needs, that having a relationship with him will indeed transform her life! Then why would I hold back? Why would I not share with her exactly what she's looking for?!    Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin    

Have you ever been caught in the ocean or for me it was Lake Michigan and the waves were high and the current was strong? And the more you fought and tried to swim to the shoreline the farther away you were and the more exhausted you felt and maybe even scared or hopeless. What if you just surrendered? And allowed the current to lead you to the safe place. Maybe you would be further down the road and things might look different but you would also be able to stand up and catch your breath again? Take a listen as I share from my own experience and as we look at a few examples in the Bible as well!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin

Have you ever felt like you were under water, in the dark trying to find hope and change but going nowhere? Listen as my friend and Outreach Director at Grace Community Church in Clarksville, TN shares how she finally turned a corner in her struggle with anxiety as she got curious about it and started asking questions and seeking answers!  She shares how stepping out of the darkness and talking about it brought healing and changed the course of her life! Listen as she shares more amazing nuggets of truth with us and how God is using her story to impact other people's lives now! Won't He just do it, if we just surrender it!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- katie@anchoredinalways.com  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin   Sabbath Rest Practicing Sabbath with Family with Shireen Eldridge - https://thesavvysauce.podbean.com/e/175-practicing-sabbath-with-shireen-eldridge/   Practicing Sabbath as a Single Person with Annie Downs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcDf65MRH6I   MomLife - resource to start a Moms group in your home or in your church - momlife.org