Forward Conversations

How you react during difficulty reveals if you believe you’re a child of God or not. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

"What you behold you become." - Caroline Harries In this week's episode, Nick interviews Caroline Harries about her story of infertility. Unlike many stories, Caroline is still living hers out and she shares how she remains hopeful despite her circumstances not changing. If you are waiting on a promise from God, this episode is sure to encourage you no matter what season of life you are in. Caroline shares the importance of not holding the promise over the Promise-Giver. We hope you are encouraged by this week's episode and please share it on your social media platforms! More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

For most of us, if we want to love the people in our lives well, it requires that we wake up early. Waking up earlier means we get alone time to spend in prayer and studying the word; it means we get time to align with Christ before we begin to pour out. In this week's Forward Five, Nick shares how he established the discipline of waking up early. For a while, Nick was waking up at 4am - now he consistently wakes up at 5am. In this short episode, Nick shares the value of waking up early and practical tips that might be simple, but they actually work. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

God will always desire our faithfulness over our success. In this week's episode, Nick interviews Rebecca George about being faithful in your calling in seasons of transition. In seasons where it can feel as if we are out of control, or seasons that might seem insignificant - God is still beside us and still cares about each season. Listen to this week's episode as Nick and Rebecca tackle transition seasons to help make you a success - not in the eyes of the world - but in the eyes of God. Follow Rebecca: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccadotsongeorge/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dothethingmovement Podcast Site: www.dothethingmovement.com More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Negativity isn’t from God. Negative thoughts make us doubt God’s promises for us instead of us choosing to trust Him. Start controlling your thoughts by implementing these two simple changes: - Start believing the best (1 Corinthians 13:7) - Start thinking "I get to do this" NOT "I have to do this." More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

There is no greater gift you can give to your marriage than to pray for it. So, then, why do so many of us wait to pray until things are desperate? Our marriages need our consistent prayers because there is an enemy who is consistently trying to divide us. Let us not be naive to the enemy's schemes but instead get on our knees and pray for our spouses! If Jesus, while with His disciples on earth, saw the power and importance in praying for them - that God would protect them - how much more so should we be praying for God to protect our spouses and our marriages? In this episode, Nick and Amaris share a powerful example of what it looks like to pray for our marriages & how we to specifically pray for our spouses. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

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Counseling while you're dating. Premarital Counseling. Marriage Counseling. Nick and I are PRO-counseling no matter what season your relationship is in! Marriage counseling is a weapon that protects your marriage from the temptation of divorce - but it’s also a safety-net that maintains the quality of your marriage before divorce is ever a real consideration. How to tell if you need counseling? You’re not making progress on a specific issue or are struggling to forgive You are holding offenses from years pasts You’re not seeing eye-to-eye on an essential issue. The same issues repeatedly come up. Your communication isn’t good. Your fighting isn’t safe (you yell, cuss, throw accusations, always end up in tears, or don’t fight fair) You’re not having sex - one partner isn’t happy with the sex. You’re not agreeing on how to parent. You’re experiencing a major life change. Where to go to receive counseling:Your church pastors (we highly recommend going to both the husband and wife pastoral team).A Christian counselor or therapist.A professional Christian marriage coach. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Flowers and Chocolate? Dinner reservations at an expensive place? An extravagant gift? Does romance have to exist in your marriage to have a healthy sex life? Do we set our husbands up for failure, and ourselves up for disappointment when we don't communicate our expectations for holidays? In this episode, Nick and Amaris have an honest conversation on romance, sex, and healthy expectations for holidays! With Valentine's Day right around the corner, let's set our marriages up for success!   More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

Forward Five episodes were created with the hopes of giving you a little boost in the middle of your week.    No matter how long you’ve been married here’s one simple fact that husbands should memorize: Your wife will always want to feel wanted and sought after. It doesn’t always mean roses, expensive dates, or diamonds... sometimes (most of the time) it’s the small things. Husbands, we want to know you’re thinking about us. In this week's F5, Nick will be talking candidly and practically on the important topic of pursuing your wife for the rest of her life. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

If you are going to be in a relationship forever - shouldn’t you strive to make that relationship the best relationship in your life? Often, husbands and wives can feel disconnected - they can feel it’s easier to connect with the same sex and it just shouldn’t be that way. Your spouse should be your closest friend; your best friend. In this week's episode, Nick and Amaris speak about some very practical ways to prioritize your marriage and make it a relationship you look forward to spending the rest of your life investing in. Your marriage is your first ministry - it’s time we start acting like it! More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Forward Five episodes were created with the hopes of giving you a little boost in the middle of your week.    It's impossible to pour into our children when we are running on empty. So, what do we do when we have a day where we feel fried and have nothing to give our children? In this week's F5, Amaris shares practically about what she does in the middle of the day when she's overwhelmed or frazzled. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

We all fail daily as parents. Let’s be honest, sometimes it’s not pretty. In this week's episode, we hope to relate to you and give you some insight into our daily lives. We tell stories, share laughs and give some insights into our journey as parents. We hope this week encourages you in your parenting as we point our children to Christ. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Forward Five episodes were created with the hopes of giving you a little boost in the middle of your week.    Technology was meant to help us multiply our lives, not take away from it - but unfortunately, technology, more often than not, takes away from our lives instead of helping us. In this week's F5, Nick talks practically about how to establish boundaries with your phone, computer, and television to have a more fulfilling life. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Everyone wants to be relevant online, but there is no place more important to serve than the local church. What prevents us from serving the local church? Season changes, feeling unappreciated, burnout? In this episode, Amaris interviews Lorna Wells regarding the importance of serving in the local church. Lorna is a stay-at-home-mom who loves ministry and music. She is married to multi-Grammy nominated and Dove winning recording artist, Tauren Wells and has 3 boys and another one on the way! Lorna is a worship leader and blogger and enjoys working for the Kingdom of God and encouraging others in Christ.   You can follow Lorna Wells on Instagram HERE! More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Forward Five episodes were created with the hopes of giving you a little boost in the middle of your week.    In this week's F5, Amaris is giving you two practical questions to help you process insecurity. Two questions to ask yourself:    1. What thought and/or emotion is being triggered?  2. What are you dwelling on?   More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

Within every man lingers the underlying question:"Do I have what it takes?" Yet, so often, we as wives forget to meet the emotional and relational needs of our husbands. As long as they are fed (and given sex!) we forget to give them the encouragement and support that they long for. But our husbands need our emotional stability, our intentional affirmation, and our warmth that assures them: "You can do it! I believe in you!" Your husband wants to come home to a life-giving wife - it's time we learn how to make a life-giving home. More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

Forward Five episodes were created with the hopes of giving you a little boost in the middle of your week.    In this week's F5, Nick is breaking down and sharing his most practical tip for moving forward and achieving his goals.    Two questions to ask yourself:    1. Who do you want to become?    2. What does habits would help you become that person?    And make sure you check out the book Atomic Habits by James Clear!     More from Forward Conversations:     Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content!    Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!    

In Galatians 1:6 Paul says that he is shocked at how quickly they were turning to another gospel. And while it might seem like a far-off idea to many Christians - many Christians are not experiencing what Christ has called them to because they have intentionally or unintentionally believed another gospel. It’s easy in America to think that the gospel is about our comfort and putting us back in control - there are so many messages preached that refer to this. In this week's episode, we expose the lies, and address the heart concerning the danger of believing “another gospel.” More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

The holiday season can cause a lot of stress and conflict for families. This should not be the case. When traditions conflict, or going house to house no longer seems realistic, how do we approach our loved ones with grace and gentleness? In this week's episode, Nick and Amaris talk about addressing the holidays united as a married couple. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

Nick shares a bit of his testimony, and helps us unpack the question - is God really good even when our lives don't feel that way?   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

The difficulty you experience, as you walk out life with your spouse, is inevitable.  So, how do you process that grief with our spouse? How do you allow the challenges that life brings to foster vulnerability and connection instead of hindering intimacy within our marriages? In this week's episode, Nick and Amaris interview Matt and Lisa Jacobson about building vulnerability and connection through difficulty in marriage. You can follow Lisa Jacobson on Instagram HERE. Follow Matt HERE. Listen to their podcast, Faithful Life, HERE. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

Most Christian married couples have such wrong thinking when it comes to their sex life. Are you one of them? 6 Lies Couples Believe About Sex: 1. “You can’t share your struggles with your spouse.” 2. “My husband is not satisfied with me, so he’s looking elsewhere.” 3. “There’s something wrong with me because my sex drive is different than what I think it should be…” 4. “It’s weird to get counseling about our sex life.” 5. “Once you have children you stop having sex.” 6. “I can’t trust my spouse since they’ve looked at porn.”   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

October is Miscarriage and Infant Loss Awareness Month.  Rachel Fraser joins Amaris and shares candidly her story of losing her baby at 24 weeks and then miscarrying another baby just a couple of years later. Miscarriage and Infant Loss can often seem like solitary grief. A lot of women grieve privately for different reasons, and Rachel shares hope and encouragement to the women who are grieving deeply. As well, Rachel also gives the friends around the grieving mom very practical guidance on how to be in the pain with our friends.  Follow Rachel on Instagram. Follow Amaris on Instagram. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

The hesitation. The fear. The unknown, and "what ifs?" God is placing dreams and callings in us, and He's asking us to chase after them now. So often, we want to wait until the timing feels perfect, safe, but God is asking us to trust Him with our dreams now. And it's as we obey Him with our dreams that our faith is built. In this Episode, Amaris interviews Brenna, a Christian designer, and owner of Elly and Grace. Brenna is a Christian creative based in Missouri. In 2016, after feeling uninspired at her nonprofit day job and struggling to start a family, she started Elly and Grace, a Christian and inspirational company, in her basement. God has grown the company beyond her wildest dreams, and Elly and Grace employs over 10 people who print and ship each shirt with love from Missouri.  Follow Brenna on Instagram Shop Elly and Grace Follow Amaris Beecher on Instagram More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!  

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We all know that God has good plans and purposes for our lives, but we also have an enemy. And he is going to do whatever he can to kill, steal, and destroy all that you have. There are schemes against your marriage and your children. Don't be ignorant of them. Learn how to fight back.   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!   Scripture References: Ephesians 6:12 "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Proverbs 3:5-7 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil." Galatians 5:16-26 "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ..." James 1:22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." James 4:1 "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?"  

Do you want more for your life?Do you feel stuck in the same patterns? Are you tired over going in circles with your spouse? Are you filled with anxiety and inner turmoil? Do you feel close to God?Do you desire more for your life but don’t know how to receive it? Sign up here to receive updates on the upcoming She is Reclaimed Bible Study! Follow Amaris on Instagram HERE. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

We believe there is power and fruitfulness in serving God together. God has placed you and your spouse together for a significant purpose. There is a calling for your marriage, and it's time to discover what it is!   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

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Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Proverbs 15:4 The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Scripture References: Genesis 50:20 “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” Hebrews 12:1-3 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Discouragement is a real spiritual issue. One that Nick and I wrestle with almost on a weekly basis. Discouragement often comes sneaking in through the door of “waiting” making us weary in doing good.We grow tired... Tired of trying. Tired of hoping. In this episode, we want to equip and encourage the Saints to break free from discouragement. “If the devil can’t destroy you, he will often try to discourage you.” - Craig Groeschel   Scripture References: Isaiah 40:28-31 “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Psalm 139:11-12 “If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.   More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Even while trying to foster intimacy with our husbands, there are many reasons that can cause insecurity in the bedroom ... -Maternal body changes. -Shame over which spouse desiring intimacy more. -Broken trust and hurt after a spouse has looked at porn. But there is more for your marriage. God has freedom for the wife who desires to feel confident and secure. More from Quinn Kelly: Instagram Facebook Podcast Website More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Scripture References:Proverbs 19:21 "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails." 1 Thessalonians 5:18 "Give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will..." John 14:15 "If you love me, keep my commands." Luke 14:33 "In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples." Matthew 16:24-25 "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." Reflection Questions: 1. Does your life look more like Jesus today than it did 90 days ago? 2. What area of your life is not surrendered to God? 3. Have you been asking God permission or trying to lead instead? More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

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How The Enemy Uses Complacency and Indifference to take you away from your God-Given Calling More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Kim and Archie are our real-life friends, and we wanted to have them on the show to give you real-life examples of racism. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

Learning to encourage your husband in his God-given role. Purchase Dad Tired and Loving It book HERE. Follow Jerrad Lopes on Instagram HERE. More from Forward Conversations:  Sign up for our Email List and receive updates on new episodes, freebies, and other fun content! Email List sign up HERE! Follow us on Instagram!

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