70.3K
Downloads
61
Episodes
Find inspiration for your work through the podcast of Women & Work where Courtney Moore and Missie Branch hear from women in various professions about how their work makes an eternal difference in the kingdom of God.
Episodes
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
J. T. English, PhD, is an author and teacher, and currently serves as the lead pastor of Storyline Church in Arvada, CO. Previously, J.T. served as a pastor at The Village Church in Flower Mound, TX, where he founded and directed The Village Church Institute, which is committed to theological education in the local church. He received his ThM in Historical Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and PhD in Systematic Theology from Southern Seminary. He is married to Macy English, and they have two children, Thomas and Bailey.
J.T. Also co-hosts the Knowing Faith Podcast with Jen Wilkin and Kyle Worley.
In this episode, J.T. joins Courtney Moore and Missie Branch to discuss:
- The importance of men and women working together as allies
- Insecurity and leadership
- Highest calling as Christians
- Complementarianism and the role of men and women in the church
- Utilizing every individual's gifts in the church
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Amy Whitfield is Executive Director of Communications at The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham. Prior to that, she served in various roles within the Southern Baptist Convention for twenty years. She co-authored the book SBC FAQs: A Ready Reference and is the co-host of the podcast SBC This Week. In 2019, she helped launch the SBC Women’s Leadership Network, and she serves as chairwoman of the board of directors of Women & Work. Amy and her husband Keith have two children and live in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
In this episode, Amy discusses with Courtney the chapter she authored in Women & Work. Chapter 10 is entitled, “Developing and Growing Your Gifts.” Here she shares:
– Why she is passionate about the topic of growth and development in Christian women
– How personal development is part of our design as image bearers
– The objections and hesitations many women feel toward growing in leadership
– Her encouragement to reluctant woman to move forward in personal development and leadership
– The most important advice she’s received as a woman in this area
– How the Holy Spirit is leading her own development in this season of life
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
- Episode 13 of the Women & Work Podcast
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Joanna serves as Denver Institute’s Director of Public Engagement and oversees the Women & Vocation Initiative. Prior to coming to the Institute, she worked in global telecom, nonprofit consulting, and campus ministry with Cru. She served as associate faculty at Denver Seminary and as a sewing instructor at Fancy Tiger Crafts. She has an MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Bakke Graduate University and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Joanna wrote chapter 8 in Women & Work, entitled, “The Grief and Grace of an Unexpected Career.” In this episode, she and Courtney discuss:
- Effects of the Pandemic
- What is the Faith and Work movement?
- Women's Role in the Kingdom of God
- The Grief of an Unexpected Career
- Caring for Women without Children
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
- Joanna' Podcast with the Denver Faith Institute, The Faith & Work Podcast
- Episode 23 of the Women & Work Podcast
- Called Together: A Biblical Look at Gender in the Workplace
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Courtney is a writer and Bible teacher living in Little Rock, AR. She is the author of numerous books and bible studies, including Teach Me to Feel: Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every Season of Life and a forthcoming bible study on the covenants. Courtney and her husband are the proud parents of four sons and together they serve at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, AR where she is also the Discipleship Content Director.
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
-
Promises Kept: 5 Old Testament Covenants and How Christ Fulfilled Them (6-Week Bible Study)
-
Teach Me To Feel: Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every Season of Life
- Glory in the Ordinary: Why Your Work in the Home Matters to God
- The Accidental Feminist: Restoring Our Delight in God’s Good Design
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Portia Collins is a Christian Bible teacher, writer, and podcaster with a passion for sharing God’s Word. Portia is also the founder of She Shall Be Called, a nonprofit women’s ministry focused on Bible literacy. You can also catch her hosting two weekly podcasts: Grounded—a podcast/videocast from Revive Our Hearts—and Sweet Tea with Jasmine & Portia.
Portia and her husband, Mikhail, have a daughter and currently make their home in the Mississippi Delta.
Portia wrote chapter 6 in Women & Work, entitled, “Don’t Waste Your Gifts.” In this episode, she and Courtney discuss:
- How the Bible defines stewardship
- How flourishing as humans is a result of good stewardship
- How fear and comparison are traps to managing our gifts and talents well, as mentioned in the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25
- What is holding women back from producing the life and growth that comes with faithfully putting our talents to use
- How Portia has overcome discouragement or exhaustion to persevere in being a good manager of her own gifts and talents
- Why humility is an important characteristic if you want to be a faithful steward
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Hannah Anderson is an author and Bible teacher who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband, Nathan, and three children. Her books include Made for More, Humble Roots, All That’s Good, and Heaven and Nature Sing Her latest children's book, The World God Made, releases in May 2023. Hannah’s goal is to encourage believers to think deeply and broadly about how the gospel transforms every area of life.
In this episode, Courtney continues to chat with another contributing author to our forthcoming book, Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work. Hannah wrote chapter 5 entitled, “Bodies of Work.”
Courtney and Hannah discuss:
– The fact that our current workspaces are systemically masculine and the challenges women face when we show up in those spaces in our female bodies
– Her answer to those who would assert that because workspaces aren’t made for women’s bodies, then women should only work at home
– Why she believes we have become a church and society that mostly emphasizes the spiritual or mental instead of the physical aspects of our humanness
– Suggestions for women whose work environments don’t honor their physical needs
– Her definition of society’s “success sequence” and how this sequence has not considered women’s bodies well
– Her thoughts on why the gender wage gap exists and what should be done about it
– How God designed our bodies from the beginning to fulfill work
– How Jesus’ work could only be accomplished in a human body
– How our bodies are an important part of us as humans and will one day be redeemed and resurrected just as Jesus’ was
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, DONATE today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
- The World God Made
- Women & Work Book Club Q&A with Hannah Anderson
- Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image
- Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
- All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
- Heaven and Nature Sing
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Jen Oshman has been in women’s ministry for over two decades on three continents. She’s the author of Enough about Me and Cultural Counterfeits, and her most recent book, Welcome: Loving Your Church by Making Space for Everyone. She hosts a weekly podcast about cultural events and trends called All Things, and she is the mother of four daughters. Jen's family currently resides in Colorado, where they planted Redemption Parker.
Jen is also a contributing author to Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work.
In this episode, Jen shares about chapter 4 of Women & Work, which she authored, entitled, “You Are What You Do. Or Are You?” Courtney and Jen discuss:
- How our identity and value as a woman become tangled with our productivity; how to combat this biblically
- How to both work hard as unto the Lord, yet all the while knowing that it is God who is at work in you (Philippians 2:12-13)
- How to practically schedule our calendars in a way that embraces dependence on God instead of hustle
- How she personally renews her mind and realigns herself when her work life becomes too self-centered or self-sufficient
- Tools that she uses to make the most of her schedule
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Courtney Powell holds a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in Christian studies from Union University and a MA in church ministry from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to being an Operations Consultant for a non-profit, she also serves as the Director of Ministry Content for Women & Work, where she helps to create and promote content that encourages and inspires women to use their gifts for the advancement of the kingdom. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Arvada, Colorado where her husband serves on staff with Storyline Church.
Courtney is also the author of chapter 3 in Women & Work, entitled, “Am I Called?” In this episode, she discusses:
- The importance of community in the believer’s life to help form us and discern God’s call on our lives
- How she makes sense of her own vocational journey, which could appear disjointed
- How she images God in both lanes of her work: the creativity of a musician and the administrative aspect of working in operations
- One of the 3 myths of calling from her chapter, i.e., that there is no “highest calling” for women apart from walking in obedience to Christ
- A biblical understanding of calling
- Four ways to discern what vocation God is calling you to next
- When God leads us to an assignment we don’t want to be called to, similar to Jonah being called to Ninevah
- The beauty of diverse callings in the body of Christ
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or DONATE today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Missie Branch serves as Asst. Dean of Students to Women and Director of Graduate Life at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in NC. She is also currently a student there completing her graduate degree in Ethics, Theology, and Culture. Missie is married to Duce Branch and together they have four children. She is passionate about women seeing themselves as theologians and disciples first. Missie is a contributing author to The Whole Woman: Ministering to Her Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength and the co-host of the Women & Work Podcast. Currently, Missie is serving as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Lifeway Christian Resources.
In this episode, Courtney interviews her co-host, Missie Branch, as Missie discusses the chapter she authored of Women & Work. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Image-Bearing and Your Good Works.” Missie shares:
- Her own work at Southeastern and how she has recently seen the faithfulness of God as she works, serves, and finishes up her Master’s degree
- What it means that we are image-bears of God and why that’s important to our work
- How our identity gets a makeover when we become believers in Christ
- The amazing benefits of knowing Christ and how that relationship with Him infuses our work with even more meaning
- What it means that we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10)
- And more!
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission Through Our Work
- The Whole Woman: Ministering to Her Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
- Women & Work Podcast, Episode 29
- Women & Work Podcast, Episode 31
- Women & Work Podcast, Episode 34
Follow Missie on Instagram, twitter or visit her website.
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Elyse Fitzpatrick has an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Trinity Theological Seminary. She has authored 25 books on daily living and the Christian life. Elyse loves to proclaim the good news of the gospel: That Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, perfectly obeyed all the Law in our place, suffered in isolation and agony as punishment for our sin, died, and then rose again, all for our justification.
A frequent speaker at national conferences, she has been married for nearly 50 years and has three adult children and six really adorable grandchildren. Along with her husband, Phil, Elyse attends Grace Bible Church in Escondido, California.
Elyse wrote chapter 1 in Women & Work, entitled, “The Creation Mandate, Great Commission, and Your Work.” In this episode, Elyse and Courtney discuss the following:
- How she began teaching the Bible, counseling, and writing
- How a conversation with Paul David Tripp changed the direction of her ministry
- Her heart for women and why she’s passionate about women’s work
- What the Creation Mandate and Great Commission are
- How motherhood or the lack of being a mother intersects with the value of women in both the Old and New Covenants
- What it means for us and our work that God Himself is a worker
- How she overcomes the feeling that her work is futile
- How the hope of heaven informs our work now
Thank you for listening. If this content is helpful to you as you seek to live out your God-given calling to His glory, purchase Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work, or donate today to help us continue to produce more inspiring content!
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- W&W Podcast, Episode 19
- W&W Podcast, Episode 20
- Book Club Worthy Interview
- Women & Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining in His Mission through our Work
- Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
- Jesus and Gender: Living as Sisters and Brothers in Christ