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She Proves Faithful
by Lauren Hlushak
Welcome to SPF, the podcast to help you build fruitful Christian culture in your home and beyond. I’m Lauren, a wife, a mom to four hilarious kids, and I love teaching women about the rich blessings we have in Christ and how applicable His Word is to our daily living. Together we will dive into God’s Word and learn how to faithfully cultivate lasting fruit, building up God’s Kingdom now and for generations to come. Worldview, theology, parenting, marriage, personal growth, and Christian living, it’s all here. Welcome to the show!
Episodes
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SPF 297: Influencers Gonna Influence: Tips to Discerning Social Media
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! The socials are a buzz these days and with that the flood gates of opinions and demands have stepped up from influencers and friends. Today I'm going to share why you're hearing...
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SPF 296: Christmas Spectacular: Christmas Wisdom & Quotes & Mirth with Andy Hlushak
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! It's the annual SPF Christmas Spectacular with my husband, Andy Hlushak, as a special guest. Join us as we discuss quotes from the Femina Quote Calendar, G.K. Chesterton and a...
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SPF 295: The Mercy of the Wicked is Cruel (biblical justice in an upside down world)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! In this episode: In a recent conversation with a friend she said " Children don't need happy endings, they need just endings." Today I will explore the virtue of justice and it's...
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SPF 294: Life is short: How to Live with Wisdom in Every Season
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! There's something about the turning of seasons, especially the fading of summer into fall, that reminds me of Psalm 90:12 when Moses prayed, "Teach us to number our days, that we...
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SPF 293: Grab Bag: Laundry, The Idol of Precision, Training Your Kids for Church
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Today is a bit of a Grab Bag of Life. Simple musings that hopefully produce some practical application. Topics include laundry, the idol of precision and withholding truth…
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SPF 292: Two Truths When it Feels Like Wickedness is Prospering
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! As we see the fruit of wickedness unfold each day in our nation I have to truths to give balm to the soul and sobering perspective as we live in our small window of time. In Job...
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SPF 291: Why You Need to Set Aside Time for Personal Education - PART 1 How a Humble Love of Learning Fosters Wisdom
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Proverbs 18:2 says "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion." Today I am going to share why pursuing a well educated mind is not only…
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290: Adventure, Glory, & Another Great Story (How to Live a GOOD Story)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! "Your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story, no matter what you do. You and I are spoken. We will contribute to the narrative. But how?" How do we make great…
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SPF 289: MAIL BAG! Raising Humble (but encouraged) Children, Responding to New Age Culture
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! It's a SPF mailbag episode! Today I am sharing some SPF mail and answering listener questions about raising humble kids and how to approach new age deception with friends and...
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SPF 288: Left Hand, Wrong Assumptions: Learning to Spot False Dichotomies
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Have you ever heard negative things about the left hand or being left handed because the Bible refers positively to the right hand so many times? That's a false dichotomy and…
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SPF287: Hold the Line: 3 Reasons Sound Doctrine Safeguards Your Life
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Sound doctrine is critical to a Christian's faith and life. How we love, how we live, how we act, how we worship - is all downstream from what we believe; and if it's not rooted…
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SPF 286: Discerning Zeal - Two Things Passion Must be Rooted In
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! According to Noah Webster, Zeal is the Passionate ardor in the pursuit of any thing; it is an eagerness of desire to accomplish or obtain some object. Zeal that accomplishes good...
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SPF 285: Two Truths to Help You With Guilty Feelings (Do You Ever Feel Like the Worst?!)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Do you ever feel like you're the worst? Have you ever struggled with feelings of guilt even though you know you've been forgiven by God? Do you look back at sinful times in your...
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SPF 284: A Prayer to Help You Hold Your Tongue (Practical faith for marriage, parenting, and more!)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Have you ever been in a situation where you opened your mouth when maybe you should have bit your tongue instead? James says if you can tame your tongue you can bridle your whole...
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SPF 283: How the Daily Little Battles Build Virtue
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Johnathan Edwards said, "True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed;" Today I am sharing how Opposition to virtue is grounds for glory - That all these…
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SPF 282: What's the Deal with Manifestation? (And How to Think Biblically about our Desires)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! What is manifestation? How has this practice crept into the church? Can we really just declare something and make it happen? How do we pray for things we want? Today I am sharing...
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SPF 281: How to Enjoy Life & Pursue Christ (Is it really an issue of balance?)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! How are we enjoy the temporal joys of life? Are they really all a vanity, or chasing after the wind? Today I am sharing how we can faithfully enjoy the good gifts God gives while...
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SPF 280: Overwhelmed & Anxious by Too Much Input
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! The internet has made so many things better. But along with our ability to constantly access information, we can hit a point of input overload, leading to overwhelm and even a...
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SPF 279: Christmas Spectacular - Mirth, Merriment, Traditions, & No Pressure Christmas
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! It's the 2024 Christmas Spectacular with Lauren and Andy! This year we are talking about traditions, a bit of Christmas history regarding the Christmas tree, how to be mindful of...
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SPF 278: Mirth Through Faith (How to Cultivate a Merry Heart)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Charles Spurgeon once preached "Such merry hearts have a continual feast." Where does a merry heart come from and how can we have a truly "merry" Christmas this season? But I...
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SPF 277: How to Plan and Prepare for the Holidays
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! A few years ago I did a faith and practice series that gave faithful tasks practical applications. We are called to be faithful to Christ as Lord and that includes living…
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SPF 276: What Does Your Name Say About You? Names and Building Character
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Proverbs says a good name is better than riches? A name becomes synonymous with character. What type of character is behind a good name? How do we cultivate a good name? Today…
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SPF 275: Whatever Happens - Three Truths to Help you Trust God's Will
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! William Gurnall a 17th century English clergyman said, "Sincerity enables the Christian to do two things which the hypocrite cannot -- to speak good of God, and to expect good…
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SPF 274: My Missed Miscarriage - How the Lord Helped Me Despite the Women's Rights Movement
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! In 2017 I experienced a missed miscarriage. I could not find the help I needed. Where were the bullhorns shouting for my healthcare? today I'm sharing my story of how the Lord...
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SPF 273: The Fruits of Suffering & Casting off Dread
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! This past week our city was in the direct path of Hurricane Helene, a category four storm with projected winds of 140mph. There was a lot of uncertainty surrounding the storm and...
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SPF 272: Be Ready by Being Faithful: Three Ways to Honor God with Your Talents
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! God gives us gifts and abilities to use for his glory, and to produce a return. The gifts and abilities vary, but the task is the same and we will be held accountable. Today I am...
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SPF 271: "If Jesus Were Here Today, He Would Totally Approve" (Red Flags in WWJD Messages)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! WWJD - remember the "What Would Jesus Do" bracelets in the 90s? What happens when people wrongly assume what Jesus would do in our current culture? How can we prove faithful when...
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SPF 270: False Security in a Perishing System (Plus Four Ways to Put Your Hope in Christ)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! A question we all need to consider is "Where is our security?" Where are we laying up our treasures and how is that impacting what we are hoping in? Today I am sharing good truth...
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SPF 269: History is a Wise Counselor (Knowing the Past to Build the Future)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Today I am sharing why knowing history will give you fortitude and encouragement in the current political and cultural climate plus a truth concerning birds to give you peace and...
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SPF 268: How to Overcome Evil with Good
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Charles Spurgeon once preached, "You must either be overcome of evil, or you must yourself overcome evil: one of the two. You cannot let evil alone and evil will not let you…
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SPF 267: Discerning the Trajectory of Questions and Wrestlings (Deconstruction vs a Teachable Heart)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! What do we do when we come across an internet post targeting Christians but it seems off? Today I am walking through a post about deconstruction, what God honors, and the...
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SPF 266: Making Sense of Progressive Christianity (and How to Hold the Line in your Home)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Today we are making sense of progressive Christianity through a parable Jesus taught plus learn something you can do to hold the line of truth in your homes. Enjoying SPF?…
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SPF 265: Three Things To Make You a Potent Christian Culture Maker
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Sometimes it's a clear the temple day and sometimes is a clear the table day. Building culture requires reformation. Reformation is the constant course correction to Scripture....
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SPF 264: Glory in the Mess: The Nature of Fruit-Bearing Labor
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Have you ever thought keeping your home clean with kids at home is like brushing your teeth while eating cookies? Or felt the temptation to avoid a project simply because of the...
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SPF 263: Two Proverbs for the Summer to Cultivate Christian Culture in the Home
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Summer is a great time to start laying foundational principles through the wisdom of the proverbs that keeps the mind focused on what is true and the hands busy with the Lord's...
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SPF 262: What is the Aim of "Church Discipline?" (In a World of Inclusion, Is There a Time to Exclude?))
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Our culture constantly uses the word “inclusive” but is there a time for the Church to exclusive? What about when it comes to matter of “church discipline?” Today I am sharing…
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SPF 261: Two Questions to Ask When Culture Pushes Back on Motherhood
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Today I am addressing cultural push back I received with advice on how being a mother hampers life and confuses the value of one’s work. Plus I’m sharing how to dig deep and...
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SPF 260: Two Ways to Pass on a Biblical Worldview to Your Children
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! How do we pass on a biblical worldview to our children? Today I’m sharing two research based factors in transferring a biblical worldview to the next generation in our homes....
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SPF 259: Resisting Tempting Counterfeits
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Spurgeon said, “When Satan temps us, his spark falls upon tender; but in Christ’s case, it was like striking sparks on water; yet the enemy continued his evil work. Now if the...
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SPF 258: Outnumbered but Victorious (God Uses the Humble to Demonstrate His Might)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! A few battles in the American War for Independence helped turn the tide for the Patriots, but it wasn't because of their huge imposing armies. Today I am sharing a little…
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SPF 257: Being Industrious, Content, and Taking Our Troubles to the Lord
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Charles Spurgeon wrote, "If you have some worry, and you do not know how to meet it, some work, and you do not know how to do it, look to him who made the iron swim and he can do...
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SPF 256: The Resolution to Make in a New Year or New Season
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Whether it's a new year or a new season of life, or you are just looking to make the most use of your time, commiting to this one thing first helps everything else fall into…
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SPF 255: Christmas Spectacular! Using Our Five Senses to Remember Christ at Christmas
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Our five senses are Christian virtues because God made them and they are to be used for God’s Glory. Christmas time is full of using our senses but how can we use them to…
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SPF 254: Three Ways a Wise Woman Builds Her Home
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Proverbs 14:1 says that a wise woman builds her home but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands. One creates and one destroys. Today I'm sharing three ways we can be wise...
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SPF 253: Is There More to Giving Thanks Than Just Saying Thank You?
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Have you ever wondered what does giving thanks to God look like besides saying thank you? Is there more to it? Today I am sharing three lessons on giving thanks from Psalm 100…
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SPF 252: Raising Arrows: Addressing Sibling Conflict
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! What causes fights and quarrels among you? James asks. Maybe you have asked that same question to your children. But if our homes are green houses, if they are training ground…
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SPF 251: How Can I Forgive When I Don't Want To or Don't Feel Like I Can?
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Ephesians 4:32 says, "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you." But what if we struggle with forgiving someone? What are we to…
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SPF 250: Jesus is Lord Over Past Offenses Against Us
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! When someone sins against us, the sting can last awhile. If we are not careful, thinking about past wrongs can turn our hearts into simmering pots, bothered and bitter. There are…
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SPF 249: Jesus is Lord over Past Memories
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Do you ever recall something in your past - whether triumphant or terrible and it seems to sabotage your thoughts? The way we think about past memories matters. It can lead to...
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SPF 248: Reasoning in Our Own Hearts (Taking Our Thoughts Captive)
Send me a Text Message! (I can't directly respond, but I can answer questions and share comments in upcoming episodes! Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigor; stringent are…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to SPF, the podcast to help you build fruitful Christian culture in your home and beyond.
I’m Lauren, a wife, a mom to four hilarious kids, and I love teaching women about the rich blessings we have in Christ and how applicable His Word is to our daily living.
Together we will dive into God’s Word and learn how to faithfully cultivate lasting fruit, building up God’s Kingdom now and for generations to come.
Worldview, theology, parenting, marriage, personal growth, and Christian living, it’s all here.
Welcome to the show!
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