Episode 95 :: Rebecca Friedlander :: Stories of Spiritual Practices and the Divine Adventure with God
Today I am chatting with author, speaker, filmmaker, artist, musician, and just an all around renaissance woman, Rebecca Friedlander. During our conversation, Rebecca shares about waiting on the Lord in wilderness seasons and what it looks like to cultivate an intimate relationship with the Lord and then be willing to move when He says “move.” Her latest book The Divine Adventure: Spiritual Practices for a Modern-Day Disciple dives into this, and also looks at what spiritual practices or disciplines even are and how they move us into a place of preparation in order to embrace the divine adventure God has for our life. When we pursue God in an intentional way, we heighten our awareness of the activity of God all around us, and we begin to draw our attention away from working for the approval of people, and instead living from a place of knowing just how loved we are by Him.
Rebecca is such a soothing and lovely person, with such a beautiful heart. I hope that you enjoy our conversation and maybe feel intrigued to dive into your own divine adventure. I love how Rebecca points out that we need hope that walking with the Lord is practical in how to meet the genuine needs that exist in our heart. It can be hard, but not because He isn’t available to us. He helps us interact with the world around us. And I just want to say, if a relationship with God has a funky taste in your mouth right now due to how some Christians behave, don’t bank all your assumptions about who God is based on human behavior. Look to His word. Seek Him out He will make Himself known to you. Ultimately, we all have a desire to live a life that matters, to love well and walk in truth, and Jesus is the hope that anchors all of these things together. If you’re looking for ways to figure out what that might look like, we have other episodes in this podcast that speak to how to get started, but I also will say Rebecca’s book may be a great place for you to start as well. You can find ways to connect with all those resources in our show notes or over on my blog!
By the way, on the other end of the conversation, Rebecca has a masters in Celtic History and she shares with me some of the incredible things she’s learned from Early Church history and what can we learn from them, and it's fascinating. Y’all know I love to nerd out!! You guys are going to love Rebecca and I hope this conversation encourages you right where you are today. This journey matters, friend. Don’t lose heart. You matter. Your story matters.
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References:
Her latest book: The Divine Adventure: Spiritual Practices for a Modern-Day Disciple
The Bible Recap (book and podcast) with Tara Leigh Cobble
This is the God of covenant (a great resource to see how God made promises in the very beginning He keeps today)
Celebration of Disciplines (the book I mentioned that I studied that was very good, but is definitely was a challenge)
Bryan Litfin (My episode with him)
The early church’s model that appears more catholic
Mass-persecution of Christians
Red Martyrs, Green Martyrs, White Martyrs
The sanctity of cemeteries in the Early Church // the Roman catacombs
The early celtic church’s prayer book
Podcast Episodes on where to start with faith. Honestly we talk about this a lot in so many of our episodes, but it's more poignant in these!
Episode 2 with Ashley Abercrombie
Episode 17 with Hope and Christine of At His Feet Studies
Episode 47 with Jessica Hottle
Episode 84 with Elizabeth Wyndham
Scripture References:
Jeremiah 18- The potter and the clay
Isaiah 40:30-31/Psalm 27:14- Wait on the Lord
Exodus 40:36, Acts 1:8- God is always moving
Genesis 1:2- He is the Spirit that hovered over the face of the waters when creating
John 13:23- John the Beloved leaning on the Lord
Hosea 2:14- I will allure to the dessert and speak tenderly to her there
Fasting (a big list of verses!)
Spiritual Disciplines (list of verses)
John 1:10-13, John 6:40, 1 John 3:1,1 John 4:19, James 4:8, Revelation 3:20- God wants to be in relationship with us
John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 Peter 3:18-22- God of the universe gave up everything for us
Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 2:11,Titus 3:3-7, Romans 6:1-23, Receive the gift of grace
1 Corinthians 12:27- The body of Christ
Matthew 16:18- The gates of hell will not be able to withstand it
John 14:16, Acts 1-2- When Jesus handed the Spirit out (after His ascension)
Acts 13:4- When the Holy Spirit began to go across the globe
1 Samuel 15:11-35 ICB-Stories of kings or leaders in the old testament allowing idol worship “just in case” (there are SO many, this is just one)
Philippians 1:21- To live is Christ and to die is gain
God is who He says He is (a list :))
2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Hebrews 10:23- The hope we need in Christ
2 Kings 21, 2 Kings 22-23- (insert name here) king followed the way of the Lord, but his son… etc (SO many kings did this, but here’s an example of an evil King, whose son was good)
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