Hope for Right Now: A Walking with Purpose Podcast

Episode 63: El Roi

Today, Lisa and Laura kick off a brand-new series, Names of God. In biblical times, names were of great importance—they conveyed a person’s essence, history, nature, or character. As we explore the various names of God in the Old Testament, we gain insight into His character. With each name, we will learn a new attribute, deepening our understanding of and growing closer to God. In today’s episode, we delve into Genesis 16 which is the story of Abram, Sarai, and Hagar. Here we uncover the first name in our series: El Roi, the God who sees. Do you struggle to believe that you are seen? Do you wonder if God hears your prayers? Do you believe your suffering is insignificant? If so, don’t miss this episode. Grab your Bible and get ready to encounter the God who sees you.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Genesis 16

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Psalm 9:10: Those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Exodus 33:19: I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name, “The Lord”; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Proverbs 18:10: The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Isaiah 43:1: But now thus says the Lord, He who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”
Psalm 56:8: You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle! Are they not in your book? 

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Who do you turn to to tell you who you are and what you are worth?
What does it mean to you personally that God sees you?

Show mentions.
Heart of Vines Summer Book Club starting in July! Using code HOVBOGO50, purchase one Heart of Vines book and get a second one at 50% off. Limit one use per customer. This offer ends July 8, 2025. Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Katie Brenninkmeyer, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You.
Register for Heart of Vines Summer Virtual Book Club.
Hope For Right Now: A Walking with Purpose Podcast: Episode 24: What Kind of a Father Is God?
CCC 239

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Episode 62: Fighting the Good Fight

Join Lisa and Laura as they wrap up their journey through Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Bible study series. Deepen your faith this Easter season as we unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, reflecting on how we can apply it today. Grow in personal holiness, as we recognize the importance of our God-given mission to reach and raise the next generation. On today’s final episode of the series, Lisa and Laura discuss Lesson 9, Talk 9, titled “Fighting the Good Fight.” Hear about the personal obstacles they face in running the race, as well as helpful tips to persevere when we feel like giving up. This is a must-listen for women learning to live as disciples of Christ!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 4:7–8: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 1:5: I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you.
2 Timothy 1:6: For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you.
2 Timothy 1:7: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:13–14: Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
2 Timothy 2:1–2: You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 3:2–5,7: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 4:3–4: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
Matthew 13:33: The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
2 Timothy 3:12,14–15: Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it. And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the Sacred Writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 40:41: But they who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. 

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Did I love well today? Who did God place in my path? Did I just tolerate her? Did I slow down for her? Was I distracted in my interactions, or was I present?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Hope for Right Now, Episode 59, Alert to Your Surroundings
Fr. John Riccardo, ACTS XXIX
Hope for Right Now, Episode 19, The Shoes of the Gospel of Peace
The Lila Rose Show, Episode 204: A Demon’s Guide to Destroying Women—and How to Fight Back w/Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson Hussem, Sincerely, Stoneheart: Unmask the Enemy’s Lies, Find the Truth That Sets You Free
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 9, Talk 9, Fighting the Good Fight

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Episode 61: Finishing Well

Join Lisa and Laura as they continue their journey with you through Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Bible study series. Deepen your faith this Easter season as we unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, reflecting on how we can apply it today. Grow in personal holiness, as we recognize the importance of our God-given mission to reach and raise the next generation. Today’s episode is all about finishing the race. Do you have the endurance to keep running or has grace run its course? Do you persevere when life is good, but as soon as you hit a roadblock, want to give up? If so, it is time to grab a cold drink and get back in the race—we are cheering you on!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 4:7: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 4
Numbers 28
Revelation 21:4: He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain.
Acts 20:24: But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
2 Timothy 4:8: From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearance.
2 Timothy 4:9: Do your best to come to me soon.
2 Corinthians 6:11: Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.
2 Timothy 4:21: Do your best to come before winter.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.

1. They say that we don’t choose saints, they choose us. Ask God in prayer to reveal the saint that has chosen you, and learn about his or her life, asking for intercession to help you run the race and finish well.
2. If you were trapped in a cell and death was near, what three personal possessions would you ask for?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Beth Moore, Entrusted: A Study of 2 Timothy
The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She, “You Have a Mission (Right Where You Are)”
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Grounded in Hope, Talk 5: The Race
Walking with Purpose, Find a Group
Fr. Matthias Thelen, Encounter Ministries
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 9, Talk 9, Fighting the Good Fight

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Episode 60: Living a Godly Life

The Lord has risen! Alleluia! 

Lisa and Laura have enjoyed the Lenten journey with you through Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Bible study series. They’ve been unpacking Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, reflecting on how we can apply it today. As we grow in personal holiness, now is the time to boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation. In today’s episode, get ready to be encouraged and cheered as we set out to put all we’ve learned into action. There’s no greater, holier way to begin the Easter season!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 3:10–4:5 

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 3:16–17: All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
1 Corinthians 10:20–21: No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of the demons.
2 Timothy 4:2–4: Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Root out idolatry in your life. Consider these idols and circle any you struggle with: looks, reputation, approval, sex, opinions, health, future, self-reliance, control, pleasure, sports, marriage, children, friends, clothes, politics, plans, weight, recognition, intellect, performance, independence, comfort, families. Take some time to journal whether you have something (an idol) absorbing your heart and imagination more than God.  

OR 

Based on 2 Timothy 3:10, pick a couple of the following questions that resonate with you.

Is there an area of my life where what I say doesn’t match what I do?
Is my purpose in life—the thing that I am revealing is most important to me— the right purpose? Is it what God says matters most? And am I living in a way that makes it clear that this is what is most important to me?
Am I continuing to grow in my faith or am I stagnant?
Am I patient?
Am I willing to love in radical and self-sacrificing ways? Even when it’s inconvenient? Even with people who are on my nerves?
Am I steadfast? Am I faithful in my relationships? Do I stick with things or do I quit when it gets difficult or bored? Am I resolute and unwavering?

Show mentions.
Mary Guifoyle, ACTS XXIX
FOCUS, “In the Dust of the Rabbi”: Living as a Disciple of Jesus
The Passion Translation
Mark P. Shea, Making Senses out of Scripture
Matthew Kelly quote
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Opening Your Heart
CCC 2113
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Katie Brenninkmeyer, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You

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Episode 59: Alert to Your Surroundings

Special guests: We are kicking off Holy Week with Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle from ACTS XXIX.

This Lent, Lisa and Laura explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they kick off Holy Week by welcoming two special guests to discuss Lesson 6, Alert to Your Surroundings: Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle from ACTS XXIX. They talk all things prayer, identity, and Scripture. This episode is an absolute must-listen!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 3:1–7: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses, who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Psalm 139:1–3: O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
Mark 10:17–31: The Rich Man
Luke 15:11–32: The Parable of the Prodigal and His Brother
Isaiah 43:1,4: But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine … Because you are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you.
Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Go to prayer and ask the Lord these two questions:
By what name do You call me?
What is the one thing that keeps me from wholeheartedly following You?

Show mentions.
ACTS XXIX, Leadership Immersive
Arthur Brooks and Tim Ferriss, “How to Be Happy, Reverse Bucket Lists, The Four False Idols, and More”

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Episode 58: These Last Days

Make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever. Join Lisa and Laura as they explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they discuss Lesson 5, Talk 5: These Last Days (watch the video), and dive deep into culture and worldview as they set out to answer the question we all have: Why is this generation so confused? This episode is a must listen if you desire to be a disciple that makes disciples.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 3:1–7: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses, who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Matthew 5:48: Be perfect, as my heavenly Father is perfect.
John 8:32: And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Ezekiel 34:11–13,16: For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when some of his sheep have been scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep; and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; I will seek the lost, and I will bind up the crippled, and I will strengthen the weak.
Isaiah 55:11: So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I intend, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
1 John 3:16: By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
2 Timothy 4:1–2: I charge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Is there a young woman God has placed in your life? What opportunities could you create to reveal love to her? What concrete action step can take you from wishful thinking or good intentions to beginning to build a relationship of trust with her?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 5, Talk 5, These Last Days
Taboo game
Paige Stitt McBride quote
Pope John Paul II, The Redeemer of Man
St. Thomas Aquinas quote
Jacques Philippe, The Way of Trust and Love

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Episode 57: Aim at Righteousness

Make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever. Join Lisa and Laura as they explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they discuss Lesson 4: Aim at Righteousness and the importance of how we pass on the baton of faith. 

Our faith is the greatest treasure! We don’t want to “wield it like a boulder;” we need to share it in a way that makes it seem appealing. But how? Grab your Bible and tune in because you are about to find out.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 2:11–13: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Matthew 18:9: And if your eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery hell.
Galatians 5:24: Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
2 Timothy 2:15: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:16–17: Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will eat its way like gangrene.
James 3:6: And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
Sirach 27:4–7: When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do people’s faults when they speak. The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; the test of a person is in conversation. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so speech discloses the bent of a person’s heart. Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested.
2 Timothy 2:21: If anyone purifies himself from what is ignoble, then he will be a vessel for noble use, consecrated and useful to the master of the house, ready for any good work. 
Luke 6:45: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
2 Timothy 2:22–25: So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing, correcting his opponents with gentleness.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Take the time this week to think about and listen to the words that come out of your mouth. Identify your biggest pitfall (in silence ask the Holy Spirit to point this out). And then go to prayer and pray for the opposite virtue.

Show mentions.
Matthew Kelly pilgrimage

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Episode 56: Called to Make Disciples

Make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever. Join Lisa and Laura as they explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they discuss Lesson 3: Called to Make Disciples and explain what it means to pass on the baton of faith and “make” disciples. If you want to know what to pass on, what it will require, and why it matters, this episode is for you.  

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 2:2: And what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 1:12: And therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
Isaiah 53:3: He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Matthew 10:16: Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Matthew 10:17—18: Beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.
1 Samuel 7:12: Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Jesha’nah, and called its name Ebene’zer, for he said, “Hitherto the Lord has helped us.”
2 Corinthians 12:9: My power is made perfect in weakness.
2 Timothy 2:8—9: Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.
1 Corinthians 15:14: If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:17: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:20: But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:51—55: We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?”
2 Timothy 2:3: Bear your share of hardship along with me like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Do you trust Jesus with the suffering He’s entrusted to you? How might He use your pain to lead others to Him?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Praying From the Heart: Guided Prayer Journal
Beth Davis, Blessed Is She

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