Giving It to God, Then Taking It Right Back with Mary Boswell

Have you handed your worries over to God, felt lighter for a few days, and then realized you were carrying them all again? This week, Rachel sits down with longtime friend and Bible study author Mary Boswell to talk about the exhausting cycle so many of us live in: theologically, we know Jesus off…

Fighting Bitterness in Motherhood

Are you living in the gap between the motherhood you pictured and the motherhood you actually have? If Mother's Day stirred up grief you didn't know was still there — or if something has been quietly hardening around the edges of your heart — this episode is for you. In this post–Mother's Day epis…

Praying for a Miracle When You've Felt Disappointed Before

Have you ever stopped praying boldly because you've been disappointed by God's answer before? In this episode, we're sitting with one of the hardest questions a praying woman carries: how do you ask God for another miracle, when last time you asked, the answer wasn't the one you wanted? Anchoring…

Praying When You Don't Know What Your Child Needs

Watching your child struggle and not knowing what they need? You're not alone. Whether your kid is two or twenty-two, there are seasons where you can tell something is off but you can't fix it, can't name it, and don't know how to pray about it. In this episode, Rachel explores how to pray for you…

Mothers Day After Losing a Child How to Pray Through the Fog of Grief Jennie Lusko Interview

f Mother's Day feels heavy this year because your arms ache for a child in heaven, this episode is for you. I'm sitting down with my friend Jennie Lusko, author of The Fight to Flourish and mama to a daughter in heaven, for one of the most honest conversations I've had on this podcast about what pr…

What to Pray When You're Drowning in Comparison

Have you ever sat in a prayer circle and thought, her prayers sound so much deeper than mine? Or read somebody's dramatic testimony and wondered if God is even listening to you the same way? Or wished your prayer requests were about the happy problems instead of the hard ones you're actually carryi…

How to Pray When Your Mind Won't Stop Racing

You're lying in bed, and your brain will not stop. The to-do list. The what-ifs. The thing you said yesterday that you keep replaying. You want to pray, but you can't even get a full sentence out before your mind is somewhere else. If that's you, this episode is for you. In this episode, Rachel un…

Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?

The angels at the empty tomb asked the women a question that I've been thinking this week: "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" This Easter, Rachel gets honest about the dead places she's been looking for life — not out in the world, but inside her own heart. The self-talk that tears d…

Praying from Victory: How the Resurrection Changes Everything

Sometimes we think God stops working because the battle shifts to unfamiliar ground. He helped us through that one thing, but this? This feels like a different category. In this Easter episode, Rachel unpacks a surprising story from 1 Kings 20 where Israel's enemies called God a "hill God" — power…

What God Did When Elijah Quit

Elijah called down fire from heaven. And then one threatening message from Jezebel sent him running face-down under a tree, telling God he might as well be dead. Fear does that. It doesn't matter what God just did for you. Fear has a way of making you forget all of it. First Kings 19 is the story…