Hope for Right Now: A Walking with Purpose Podcast

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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Episode 55: Confident Reliance

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. Today, they discuss Lesson 2: Confident Reliance, and what it means to leave a legacy and why thinking about our death is essential to becoming true disciples of Christ. What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? How do you want to be remembered? And why does it matter? Tune in and find out!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture. 
2 Timothy 1:7: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 1:1–7.
2 Corinthians 2:15: For we are the aroma of Christ to God.
2 Timothy 1:13: Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me.
1 Corinthians 11:1: Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Psalm 124:1: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side.
Acts 14:22: It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 13:22: A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Invite Him in with this episode’s question for reflection.
What are three qualities that you want to be true of you at the end of your life? As you write those qualities down, write down one concrete action you can do to live out each of those qualities this week. 

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 1, Talk 1, Passionate Discipleship
CCC 239
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Be Still: A Daily Devotional to Quiet Your Heart
Hope For Right Now: A Walking with Purpose Podcast, Episode 9: When Help Doesn’t Seem to Come
Laura Phelps, Necessary Hardships

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Episode 54: The Next Generation is Ours to Raise

What can you do to make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever? Join Lisa and Laura as they dive into the Walking with Purpose Bible study, Passionate Discipleship. In nine powerful podcast 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. Are you ready to put away despair and resurrect hope as we rise to the call of discipleship? If so, grab your study guide and settle in. We have a generation to raise.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 1:7: God has not given us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power and of love and a sound mind. (NKJV)

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Judges 2:6–10: When Joshua dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land … And all that generation were also gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.
2 Timothy 1:5 (1–7): 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.
Acts 16:1: And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Make two lists.
List your fears and all the excuses why you are not equipped to step out and disciple others.
List your gifts, traits, talents, passions, and God-given uniqueness. Ask the Lord, “Is there something on this list that You have given me for the sake of leading others to You?”

Is there a young woman in your life whom you want to know Christ in a personal way? Write her name down and share it in our Facebook group. Let’s start praying for the next generation by name.

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 1, Talk 1, Passionate Discipleship
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Episode 53: Interview with Katie Brenninkmeyer

Join Lisa and Laura as they discuss the latest Walking with Purpose project, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You. A collaboration between Lisa Brenninkmeyer and some of her favorite young people, Heart of Vines is aimed at women in their 20s who feel untethered and unfulfilled: young women who have been told what to pursue for safety, success, acceptance, popularity, and comfort only to find exhaustion, loneliness, and false promises. 

This week, Lisa and Laura sit down with Katie Brenninkmeyer, coauthor of Heart of Vines. Packed with wisdom, vulnerability, and laughter, this candid conversation is one you do not want to miss.

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Katie Brenninkmeyer, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy. Grab your copy now and join Lisa and Laura on March 10 as they kick off our Lenten series.

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Episode 52: Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You

Join Lisa and Laura as they discuss the latest Walking with Purpose project, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You. A collaboration between Lisa Brenninkmeyer and some of her favorite young people, Heart of Vines is aimed at women in their 20s who feel untethered and unfulfilled: young women who have been told what to pursue for safety, success, acceptance, popularity, and comfort only to find exhaustion, loneliness, and false promises. 

Do you have a young woman on your heart? Is there a loved one you’ve been trying to evangelize but can't seem to reach? Have you been sharing books, conferences, and programs only to be met with a roll of the eyes? Are you desperate to find the onramp for the skeptic, the doubter, the disenfranchised, the one whose heart was too hurt to hope and believe?

Look no further, friend. We have created that onramp.

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Katie Brenninkmeyer, Heart of Vines: An Invitation to Escape the Life that is Slowly Killing You
Joshua D. Chatraw, Telling a Better Story
Jon Bellion, “The Good in Me”

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Episode 51: Maternity

Join Lisa and Laura as they wrap up the four-part series on Feminine Genius. The feminine genius has four components: receptivity, sensitivity, generosity, and maternity. Each week, Lisa and Laura have unpacked one of these components through the writings of Saint Edith Stein, personal stories, and the Word of God. This is the last week, and we are excited to be talking about maternity! Maternity is more than biological; it is spiritual. The truth is, we are all called to be mothers, to mother the world back to Christ. If you are wondering how, tune in and find out.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
James 1:27: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Psalm 68:5: Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Romans 12:22: Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Invite Him in with this episode’s question for reflection.
You matter.
Sit with this phrase in the presence of God until you fully absorb its truth.

Ask the Lord, “Who am I being called to mother back to God?”

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Show mentions.
Melissa Maleski, The Supreme Vocation of Women: According to St. John Paul II
Saint Edith Stein
Mindy Edginton, Blog
Liz Bell Young, Let There Be Havens: An Invitation to Gentle Hospitality
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Sisters of Strength
Lisa Bevere, The Fight For Female: Reclaiming Our Divine Identity
ACTS XXIX Mobilizing for the Mission

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Episode 50: Generosity

Join Lisa and Laura as they continue a four-part series on the Feminine Genius. There are four components in the feminine genius: receptivity, sensitivity, generosity, and maternity. Each week, through the writings of Saint Edith Stein, personal stories, and the Word of God, Lisa and Laura will unpack one of these components. This is week three, and we are diving into generosity! Sounds lovely enough, but the reality is that this call to generosity is countercultural, and not as easy as we’d like to believe. Why should women buy into generosity, and what are its obstacles? You’ll have to tune in to find out.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Malachi 3:10–11: Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil; and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Colossians 3:17: And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Matthew 25:35–36: For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison, and you came to me.
Luke 10:38–42: Jesus Visits Martha and Mary
Acts 20:35: It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Matthew 10:8: Freely you have received; freely give. (NIV)
Matthew 25:40: As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
What are your greatest obstacles to being generous? Use the questions from Jan Johnson as your guide: 

• Am I serving to impress anyone?
• Am I serving to receive external rewards?
• Is my service affected by moods and whims?
• Am I using this service to feel good about myself?
• Am I using my service to muffle God’s voice demanding I change?

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Show mentions.
Sister Virginia Joy, “The Feminine Genius: Generosity”
Jan Johnson, Living a Purpose-Full Life
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
Nicole Johnson, The Invisible Woman: When Only God Sees
Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalene, Divine Intimacy

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