Join me in today’s episode as I chat with my friend and sister in Christ Amelya Foster, LMSW. She shares just a little of the trauma from her past, what led her to become part of the ministry of Celebrate Recovery at Grace and how God is doing a new and exciting thing in her life. How He is using everything she’s been through and her education to help others suffering with mental health disorders, PTSD and so much more through the opening of her new business, The Resilience Center!  For more...

When we begin to place our hope in the pursuit of health and wellness believing in the lie that to achieve it will bring us happiness and satisfaction completely it can become an idol for us.  So while eating healthy, exercising, therapy, meditation and so on are all beneficial to us we can’t depend on any of them as our source of happiness and fulfillment Indefinitely. How do we find the balance between taking care of ourselves and allowing it to overshadow our need for a deep relationship...

I’ve had conversations with a number of women just in the last few weeks who are struggling in their marriages and feeling hopeless. Feeling like they can't fix their spouse and their marriage, so what can they do? How will they move forward and find joy still? I know I've felt that way at low times in my own marriage.Feeling like I'm trying everything in my power to do the right thing and it's just not working. If God wants us to respect our husbands and our husbands to love us fully and...

Let’s dig into the Bible with my dad, pastor Mike Stambaugh on an often convicting topic of our motives!  In this episode we talk about how easy it can be to slip into doing things, even “good” things from a place of selfish ambition!  Listen as my dad shares 6 characteristics of selfish ambition and then how we can move more towards humility and Kingdom focus!   Pastor Mike’s YouTube channel:    https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGud4CcgBWwJ6NqTioUj3w    Email Pastor Mike...

If you’re anything like me you may pack your day full, going from one thing to the next in a quest for fulfillment!  You keep working, hustling and striving, but still feeling like something’s missing. Why can’t I feel His presence or hear a Word from Him?  Maybe you haven’t created margin for rest and time to sit in His presence?  Let’s chat about it!   Contact me- [email protected] Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/  

How many times have you believed the lie that you were really in control? We want control, so we make our plans and depend on ourselves or sometimes other people to keep everything in order. But just think about it, just in the last few days in your own life how many things have happened outside of your control? How does this become and idol for us and how do we learn to surrender it? What happens when we don’t and our plans don’t go the way we thought? Take a listen as we look at what the...

Listen as my friend Julie shares how she had found sobriety in secular recovery but it wasn’t until almost 10 years later that she found true life transformation in a personal relationship with Jesus as her higher power! Julie shares how her addiction started by trying to fill a void, but quickly became unmanageable and how looking back she could see God’s pursuit of her the whole time!!    Registration for “How to Reduce Anxiety and Find Peace”...

Are you struggling with seeing God’s goodness in the midst of your pain and hardships? Maybe, things aren’t going the way you planned for your life, and the healing that God has for you in it is not what you think or feel you need either? Listen as I share from my own experience of delaying my healing because I refused the “good medicine” which can often taste bitter at that time but WILL bring healing if we just accept it!   Registration for workshop:...

Someone needs to hear this today! You feel stuck in a feeling- sadness, anger, doubt, fear, frustration, etc. So, what is the thought behind that feeling?  We have an enemy who likes to pull a chair up to our thought table and spoil the feast God has for us!  How do we respond? What can we do? Take a listen and see if God has a word for you today!   Registration for workshop: https://forms.gle/FDoRxCuyiBf63YZU9   Contact me- [email protected] Community-...

Like most of us, maybe you have found yourself stuck in a particular season of your life and maybe you have some decisions to make where you have several options that all may be great or maybe not. So how do we know what the best next right step truly is?  Listen as Kelly shares a powerful word the Lord gave her early this year and how he’s been cultivating what it looks like to truly discern God’s voice in your daily life! Understanding how inner peace and outer grace help us move forward in...

Are you a planner like me? Do you struggle when plans change? What if God is asking you to pivot or change course? Do you trust that He has better for you than what you had planned? Let’s dig in and chat about it!   Contact me- [email protected]  Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/    

You do not want to miss this one! Conflict is unavoidable, however there are things we can do to make peace. Listen as my dad, Pastor Mike shares 3 sources of conflict, 3 things we sacrifice when conflict goes unresolved and then 7 steps to resolving conflict!! So much packed in this episode, so grab your Bible, a pen and a notebook and anchor in with us in keeping the peace!   Pastor Mike’s YouTube channel:    https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGud4CcgBWwJ6NqTioUj3w   Email Pastor Mike...

Join me as I share how God used a humbling experience for me in recent weeks to remind me that I don’t have to be perfect and have it all together! That it’s often when we are weak and willing to acknowledge it, that he does the most powerful work! Let’s see what the Bible has to say about perfectionism and the balance between having the virtue of excellence verses feeling the desire to do everything without fault and in our own strength!   Contact me- [email protected]...

Join Christy and I as we talk about the importance of taking time each week to reset and find rest for our busy souls! The Bible teaches us the importance of taking a Sabbath. It’s not that we should but that we get to! It’s a gift from the lord to us to allow us time to fill back up so he can use us to pour out that much more! So how do we do this in our already busy schedules?? Take a listen and also check out the link below for a helpful resource from Christy.   Sabbath...

Our brains are hardwired to keep us safe and comfortable. And God does give us gifts of comfort but the purpose is for us to give Him thanks and praise, but we've come to a place where we expect these things in our lives and feel we even deserve them! Listen as a share 3 different idols of comfort in many of our lives that can lull us asleep and keep us lukewarm as believers! Contact me- [email protected] Community-...

Listen as my friend Jenn Bledsoe shares her story of growing up in a fairly normal environment yet still finding herself in an addiction to alcohol that was spiraling out of control. How she found healing and victory, and as a single mom now is helping others find recovery from their hurts, habits and hang ups! God is using her story for his glory and it is beautiful!   Contact me- [email protected] Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin  Website- https://anchoredinalways.com/ Help-...

Do you ever feel like you're on this never ending quest to find balance and peace in your life? Like if you could just discover what’s missing then your life will make sense and you could experience fulfillment. So, you go through life chasing this elusive sense of balance believing that to achieve it means you will  then feel a certain way but what if it’s not chaos OR peace,  or joy OR sorrow, what if it’s BOTH?    Website- https://anchoredinalways.com  Contact me-...

Join me in a discussion with my good friend and a core leader on our Celebrate Recovery leadership team Tracy Davis as she shares how God brought healing into her life through CR.  How she was able to step out of denial and identify negative behavior patterns that were impacting her relationships. How God is using the broken parts of her story, that she had always felt she needed to hide to be accepted, to help other hurting women!   Website-  https://anchoredinalways.com/ Contact me-...

In today's episode I share a little more openly about how I've been wrestling with God about circumstances in my own life and those around me and feelings of frustration and even anger. Looking into scripture and sharing how God has been speaking to me through His Word and the Holy Spirit on this issue. We can't always choose our circumstances, but we can CHOOSE our responses. And He has not left us empty handed in doing that, so take a listen to hear what He has been revealing to me and I...

Emily and her husband Michael both work for Hope Center Ministries which is a year long rehab program that focus on teaching men and women that struggle with substance abuse addiction how to find healing and victory over their addictions in a growing relationship with Jesus! Her story shows God’s providence and how she had tried finding fulfillment her way and God kept pursuing her and ultimately led her to her now husband ( which is a Hallmark love story itself she shares with us) and an...

Have you ever felt like you just don’t have the strength to fight anymore? Like a dry desert all around you and you have one tiny leaf struggling to poke through and thrive in this broken and hurting world. Well, I’ve got good news for you! Take a listen as we dig into God’s Word together to discover how we can grow deep roots that never run dry, no matter how fierce the storm, we can grow and flourish!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- [email protected] Community-...

Listen as my dad, Pastor Mike Stambaugh shares from over 34 years experience as a pastor on how to address depression, not just spiritually but also physically! Answering tough questions like “ Is it a sin to be depressed?” And looking at the Word of God and many Biblical examples of our faith pioneers who battled depression too!   Website- https://anchoredinalways.com Contact me- [email protected] Community- https://bit.ly/Anchoredin     Pastor Mike’s YouTube...

Listen as we look at the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible and discuss how we often choose the busyness of the tasks we feel we should do over what Jesus says in this story is “the better thing." And how often this busyness leads to comparison and bitterness that draw us away from an intimate relationship with Jesus and people in our lives! So how do we choose the better? What does it mean to live unapologetically sold out for Jesus like Mary did? Take a listen in today’s...

I had planned to have Kelly teach, but she hijacked the episode and wanted to share instead from her experience of being coached. What her mindset was going into it, having never experienced it before and not sure what it really even was to seeing real value and impact on her life today! Plus, listen in on an impromptu mini coaching session between Kelly and me in this episode to see what the experience might be like for you! If you’ve been on the fence or have no idea what coaching is, then...

We all have different gifts, but our purpose is the same to love the Lord our God with all of our heart soul mind and strength and to love other people by sharing the gospel with them. But how we go about doing that may look different for each one of us and that’s OK. Listen as I share how about a recent encounter with a sweet woman searching for God. And as I sat at that table and listened to her ask questions, there was a moment of hesitation and then I thought to myself do I really...