Month: June 2018

One Family’s Journey with Autism

by Christina Fox, in category Suffering
DAVINA PERRET|GUEST Three days before Mother’s Day, our 12-year-old son was removed from our home by police escort and taken to a psychiatric hospital. The months leading up to this event were filled with several inpatient and outpatient hospital stays because of his constant obsessions over suicide, death, and all things dark.  Our weeks revolved… Read More
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Why ONE?

by CDM Media, in category Uncategorized

Why ONE?: The brokenness of this world hurts. Its broken edges rub up against our tender hearts and pierce our relationships creating division, conflict, and grief, but the work of Christ promises us more than this world’s brokenness. Scripture promises us that one day our divided hearts will be renewed and our broken relationships will… Read More

E: 23 Why ONE?

by Cami Summers, in category Podcast
Why ONE? The brokenness of this world hurts. Its broken edges rub up against our tender hearts and pierce our relationships creating division, conflict, and grief, but the work of Christ promises us more than this world’s brokenness. Scripture promises us that one day our divided hearts will be renewed and our broken relationships will… Read More

The New Dress

by Christina Fox, in category Identity
PATSY KUIPERS|GUEST I remember the moment, even if I can’t recall the exact date—the moment when I realized I wasn’t good enough. A number of childhood experiences— an inconsistent relationship with my dad; often being described as “smart”, but rarely “pretty”; enduring a pudgy pre-adolescence during which classmates called me names — planted seeds of… Read More

E: 22 “Covenantal Life” Sarah Ivill’s Workshop from the 2018 Women’s Leadership Training

by Cami Summers, in category Podcast
"Covenantal Life" from Sarah Ivill's Workshop at the 2018 Women's Leadership Conference Each year, CDM hosts a women's leadership training conference to help strengthen churches. This summer, you will get a chance to listen to some of the speakers. You can access all of the audio files from this year's conference in the Ministry Toolbox… Read More

The Father’s Lavish Love

by Christina Fox, in category God's Word
BARBARANNE KELLY|CONTRIBUTOR Let’s play a little word-association game. When I say, “lavish,” what comes immediately to your mind? I don’t know about you, but what comes to my mind is frosting on a cake—chocolate frosting, deeply and generously applied with reckless abandon. I want to reach out and swipe up a fingerful for a taste.… Read More

FOMO, Our Hearts, and The Gospel

by Christina Fox, in category Fear
CAROLINE SCRUGGS|GUEST What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?                                                                              Romans 8:31-32 I’d like to think… Read More
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The Secret of Contentment

by CDM Media, in category Uncategorized

The Secret of Contentment How much is enough? Do you really believe that God is good and sovereign over your circumstances? In this episode we are replaying Karen’s conversation with Melissa Kruger as they go back to the beginning of our discontentment to see what the Bible says about coveting and the real secret to… Read More