Christians in the Gritty
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.
Walk with us as we take you into the grit of life.
Together we have been through cancers, loss, fostering, co-parenting, and the list goes on. We laugh, we cry and we use God's strength and scripture to try and encourage you to draw closer to God.
Episodes
76 episodes
Written on the Hearts of All
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.To look at all God created and not to see that indeed it had to have been created by a higher power, but instead created by happenstance is such a leap of faith. It takes more faith to be an atheist than...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 5
•
52:05
).png)
Rooted in Godly Worth
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.Knowing our worth as adults is hard enough, being a teenager doesn't make it any easier. In this episode Christina and Melissia talk about how hard it is to get through those times in our lives when we f...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 4
•
45:53
.png)
Keep Knowing who God is
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends!KeywordsFaith, spirituality, community, obedience, worship, life changes, God, support, prayer, personal growthSummaryIn this episode of 'Christians in the Gritty', Chr...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 3
•
47:16
)%20(2).png)
For His Name Sake- Guest Carolyn
Our good friend Carolyn has stepped in to help out while Christina is sick. She guest hosts with Melissia for this episode about God's glory. A video version of this episode will be available on our YouTube
•
Season 2
•
Episode 2
•
36:16
.png)
.png)
Way Maker
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.Everything happens in God's timing. He will lead us to something and often we have to wait for our next steps. BUT in the meantime, don't wait around. Go do the work. Be sharpened. Ask God to search your...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 71
•
41:35
Walk Humbly
Christians. Sisters. Best friends. Micah 6:8 ESV“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 70
•
46:59
Yet not What I Will, but What you Will
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. As humans, we want all the creature comforts. As Christians, we don’t stop wanting that and we know what our God can do. He can take our pain and He can heal any of our sorrows. But often we need the p...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 69
•
57:51
In Wonder and Surrender
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Full surrender comes from trusting God. Our obedience of what the LORD is asking of us shows God that we love him. Not obeying God completely, is not being truly obedient. “Jesus answered, “If ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 68
•
45:08
Let Your Ear be Attentive to the Prayer of Your Servant
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Melissia and Christina talk about God‘s provision and putting their trust in Him. Sometimes we try to take control of our lives and the situations we are in rather than letting God take care of us. We ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 67
•
58:22
The Lord Has Sent you
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God often calls us to things that we are afraid to do or we just plain don’t want to. Melissia was feeling led to speak about the rebuilding of the temple in the book of Haggai. When God‘s people...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 66
•
47:17
Baptism: Testimony of Faith
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Baptism is the outward expression of faith. It’s your Testimony! We are not saved with baptism. We are saved only with the blood of Jesus! We are then sealed! The Bible talks about the importance of ba...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 65
•
34:45
The Greatest Gift
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The greatest gift is Jesus! We get the spirit of God to dwell in us being our guide. We are HONORED with the opportunity to share the greatest gift WE can give to another person, the gift of shar...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 64
•
42:24
.png)
Refinement and Restoration
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.God’s plans for us are beyond our scope. It’s hard to know why we are going through the things we are. While we are still in the midst of it, it’s especially hard to know of what good is going to come f...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 63
•
32:59
Should not Shepherds Feed the Sheep?
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. In the book of Ezekiel it talks about leaders who were benefiting from those who they were to care for. The people they were to lead. They were not taking care of the sick, the poor, the lost, or the h...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 62
•
49:52
Thankfulness Grows Your Faith
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.When we are thankful we don’t have room for worry. God did not wire our brains that way. Being thankful in prayers and remembering who God is and what He has done and can do strengthens our faith....
•
Season 1
•
Episode 61
•
52:40
Teaching is not for Everyone
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Teaching comes with great responsibility. The Bible talks about how people will be held to what we teach others, especially when it comes to children. Jesus says in Matthew 18:6 "but whoever causes one...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 60
•
52:21
Being Speakers be Like
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.We had our first speaking engagement! Oh, how we were blessed! It was a great event and we are in awe of the fact that God used us for this. We were able to hear from women who were talking about the ba...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 59
•
47:53
Division Among Christians
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We are not the ones who were called to convict others! We are called to love. We, as Christians, are to keep each other accountable, but God does not want us to attack each other for our choices. We le...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 58
•
45:43
Trusting God Through Life’s Disappointments
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.To paraphrase Lysa TerKeurst, who said it well, “The gap between our expectations and reality is where our disappointment lies.” It’s natural to expectations in life and have a picture of how things are...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 57
•
53:17
To Halloween or not to Halloween?
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The question in our hearts should always be, “What is God asking from me”. Sometimes that means, what is he asking us to give up. Christina was contemplating this in this episode. She was feeling a per...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 56
•
46:35
Finding Your Worth
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We all try and find our worth in worldly things or achievements at some point in our lives. Often people will search after success in a secular way. I’ve been there. Do I have a good enough job yet, do...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 55
•
58:25
Tribulation Saints
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The book of Revelations seems like a very scary book, but it is a book full of hope and mercy! One day, there will be a rapture of Christians. People will be together and one person will get pulled up ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 54
•
51:28
The Least Will be the Greatest
Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God often uses the unlikely people to do his will. Those who are considered less in society and in a worldly sense. These are often the people that God rises up to do great things! In the Bible, God us...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 53
•
36:39
