With all the voices speaking into our teenage girls today, let’s be sure ours is one. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kathy Knochel and Katie Miller turn up the volume on 3 critical ideas from which our teenage girls would benefit. And it’s no surprise, God very much wants to speak into these important matters.

Show notes:

 Three things teen girls should know:

1.       Learn the sound of your inner voice.

·        Learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy self-talk.

·        Learn to tune out unhealthy self-talk.

2.       Learn to see your identity through God’s eyes.

·        Learn the difference between identities that come to us from this world and those that come to us from God.

·        Learn to tune in to who God has created you to be.

3.       Learn to see yourself as an image-bearer of God.

·        Learn to detect where your self-image is coming from.

·        Learn that your value and worth come from God.

Resources

https://accounseling.org/spiritualgrowth/women/young-women-support/

JJ Heller song 

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that "makes all things beautiful in his time.” This truth is curious. It would seem that God has an intention beyond making things right. Or making things work. Or making things whole. He intends more than those...He intends to make things beautiful. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Isaac Funk and Shauna Streitmatter help us understand beauty and faith. When our senses are exercised to detect beauty, we will live a bit more as we were created to live.

Show notes:

Beauty is beautiful:

·        Beauty is an intention of God. He creates things beautiful.

·        God sets the standard for beauty. Our senses can be exercised to better detect it.

·        Anywhere that beauty exists can be a place for worship of God.

·        Beauty is detected in our senses. We find art, music, flavors, textures and fragrances pleasing to our senses.

·        We detect beauty in our thoughts.  We find story and lyric appealing.

·        We must linger with beauty to appreciate it. It slows us down.

·        Beauty transcends usefulness. Not making life possible but making life worth living.

·        God is beautiful. Redemption is beautiful. Resurrection is beautiful.