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“It was then, in the midst of my mess, that I encountered Jesus. And I kept thinking, ‘How come no one ever told me? How come no one ever told me about God and his unbelievable love—even for a messed up woman like me?’” — Cindy BultemaThis month’s memory verse: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” — Jeremiah 31:3b Today’s podcast: It’s February, and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! In this month where we celebrate love, we wanted to stop and look at God’s everlasting love. Join Natalie Abbott as she talks with Cindy Bultema, Executive Director of GEMS Girls’ Clubs, about this month’s verse: Jeremiah 31:3b. You won’t want to miss Cindy’s testimony of how God rescued her, what to do when we find ourselves looking for love in people and places that are not God, and why this verse was so significant not only for the original hearers in Jeremiah’s day but for our lives today as well. May you be encouraged as you hear these stories of God’s everlasting love and unfailing kindness! Today's Dwell guest: Cindy Bultema is a wife, mom of four, author, and Executive Director of GEMS Girls’ Clubs. She loves traveling the world sharing with women of all ages and stages about the fullness and freedom available through Christ.Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Would you leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show? Links from today's show:GEMS websiteJeremiah 31:3b necklaceAre you looking for a place to connect with other people who are memorizing this month’s verse? We’ve got you covered! We have a Dwell Differently Official Facebook group—come check it out!Learn more about Starfish Project in our interview with their founder, Jenny McGee.Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“This is a verse not spoken in a place of perfection and goodness and righteousness…but a place of mess and of need and even of God’s rebuke. In this midst of their sin, God says this to [his people]: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” — Jeremiah 31:3b Today’s podcast: What should we do when we feel unlovable? Join Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell Differently, as she digs into the context of the book of Jeremiah, helping us to see the richness of God’s unfailing love for people like us who just keep messing up. In the midst of the drumbeat of impending judgement throughout Jeremiah, there is also the heartbeat of God’s love for his people—calling them to return to him, showing his faithfulness in the face of their faithlessness. And this is still our God today, calling out to us in the middle of our wandering and wavering and offering us instead a secure, safe place with him in his steadfast love. Who can you share this love with this month? Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show. Links from today's show:Check out the Dwell Differently website and the free resources we have waiting for you there!Learn more about Starfish Project in our podcast episode with their founder, Jenny McGee.Use your exclusive podcast listener code for 25% off the Dwell Differently necklaces.If you’ve enjoyed the show, would you take a minute to leave us a rating or review? It helps other people find the show!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“For each of us—no matter who you are, no matter how mentally tough you are—there are things in our lives we are believing that are not true. Or maybe we need guidance in our life. And God’s Word is saying here in this verse, in Psalm 119:105, that his Word is the light and the lamp for our path.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” — Psalm 119:105 Today’s podcast: We all know what darkness is—we know what it feels like and how we try to avoid it. The good news in our verse this month is that God’s Word is a lamp and a light, breaking through the darkness around us and in us, illuminating our path. In today’s episode, Vera shares about her struggle with anxiety and how the practice of “breathing Scripture” has helped her to memorize and meditate on truth to help her remember what God has said when her mind is spinning. He is faithful to bring light to our darkness through the truth of his Word, and we pray that as you memorize the Bible along with us, you will experience the light his Word brings as well!Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show.Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“God’s Word is this lamp, it’s a light. It makes a way in the darkness. It shows you the path where you should be going.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” — Psalm 119:105Today’s podcast: As we celebrate the 5 year anniversary of Dwell Differently, Vera Schmitz, co-founder of Dwell, talks with her good friend Kelsie Holahan about how Dwell came to be. Listen in as they share about their days of training together for the Olympic trials as pole vaulters, why Vera started writing Bible verses on her arm, and how the mental fortitude they developed in training has helped them replace lies with truth in their everyday lives.Today's Dwell guest: Kelsie Holahan is a 2016 Rio Olympian, nurse, wife, mom, and good friend of Vera's. We're so glad to have her on the show today!Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show.Links from today's show:Get Out of Your Head by Jennie AllenWant a physical kit to show up in your mailbox every month with helpful tools to help you memorize and meditate on one Bible verse each month? Check out our Dwell Membership today!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“To be able to look to Scripture in the dark times, and look to Christ in those dark seasons of my life, gave me hope that brought light into the darkness and really was just a foundation for me when it felt like the earth beneath me was shaken and shattering.” — Lauren McAfeeThis month’s memory verse: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” — Psalm 119:105Today’s podcast: Have you ever walked through a season of darkness and longed for light? Today’s episode is a special one as we welcome back Dwell’s very first podcast guest, Lauren McAfee. She shares about how God’s Word has brought light in seasons of significant grief. We know you’ll be encouraged as you hear her passion for knowing God through his Word, what spending time in the Bible practically looks like for her, and how to discern which path to take when there is more than one good choice. We have one prayer for you (and us) this year: that we would be people who are in God’s Word—reading it, studying it, memorizing it, applying it, and letting it shape us—because it is from God himself and is for our flourishing as we come to know and love him more. Today's Dwell guest: Lauren McAfee is a wife and mom who works at the Hobby Lobby corporate office and is currently pursuing a PhD in ethics. She is a speaker and an author, and is passionate about knowing and loving the Bible. Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show.Links from today's show:Context podcast episode for Psalm 119:105Lauren McAfee’s websiteMuseum of the BibleLumina Women’s ConferenceAre you looking for a place to connect with other people who are memorizing this month’s verse? We’ve got you covered! We have a Dwell Differently Official Facebook group—come check it out!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“We walk in a dark place. This is inherently saying that we need God’s Word to light the way. We are not the light—we need God to be the light, to shine a light on our path and to illuminate where it is we are supposed to go. We need God’s Word.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” — Psalm 119:105 Today’s podcast: When you hear the word “law,” does it make you bristle a bit, or do you want to start composing a love poem? Join Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell Differently, as she walks us through 3 important questions as we memorize and and meditate on Psalm 119:105 this month. This important verse, and important chapter, in God’s Word helps set the tone for us as we think about the Bible and how we interact with and respond to it in our daily lives. We know you’ll be encouraged as you see afresh the benefits and beauty of the Word of God!Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show. Links from today's show:ESV Scripture JournalsJoin us on our weekly blog! Follow along this month, and go back to read more about past verses as well.Check out the Dwell Differently website and the free resources we have waiting for you there!If you’ve enjoyed the show, would you take a minute to leave us a rating or review? It helps other people find the show!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“We’re not just putting verses on stuff to put verses on stuff. If it’s not going to bring life and push forward the Word for the good of God’s people, then we’re not going to do it.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.” — Isaiah 60:1Today’s podcast: Here’s your chance to hear a behind-the-scenes conversation with Vera Schmitz and Natalie Abbott, co-founders of Dwell Differently! Hear about their favorite designs and verses from this past year, what they’ve learned and what’s stuck with them, and find out about the “Dwell Vault” for members. You won’t want to miss the special sneak peak at what’s coming in 2023!Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show. Links from today's show: There’s no better way to start the new year than in the Word—join us as we memorize Scripture with over 9,000 people each month! Check out our membership options here!Anxious No More necklacePsalm 23 Children’s SeriesDwell Official Facebook groupSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“You can read the whole Bible in a year in about 12 minutes a day…it’s 1% of your day that’s going to change the whole other 99%.” — Tara-Leigh CobbleWe are so excited to share this special bonus episode with you today! Have you ever started reading through the Bible and then stopped soon after starting because it felt hard or you were confused? Here at Dwell, while we focus in on memorizing and meditating on one verse a month together, we also have a passion for knowing the whole counsel of Scripture. We can’t wait for you to hear today’s episode with Tara-Leigh Cobble, Bible teacher, podcast host, and author of The Bible Recap. Our prayer is that we would all grow in our knowledge of and love for God through his Word, and we’d love to invite you to join The Bible Recap to read through the whole Bible in 2023! Links from today's show:Want to read through the Bible in 2023? Get started at The Bible Recap website!There’s no better way to start the new year than in the Word. If you’re not yet a Dwell Differently member, we’d love to have you join us this year! Learn more here!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“So often we get so caught up in our own individual lives that our heads are down and we’re doing all the things and we forget that we have God’s light in us and that we can shine—that we are called to be a city on a hill that cannot be hidden, and we are to point other people to Jesus.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.” — Isaiah 60:1 Today’s podcast: What if Jesus came back today? What would you want your life to look like on the day he returns? Vera Schmitz, co-founder of Dwell Differently, is bringing us 3 reflections on Isaiah 60:1 today—and telling us why Isaiah 60 is one of her favorite chapters in the whole Bible. May your awe of the King of the universe grow today as we anticipate the return of Christ!Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show. Link from today's show: Still looking for a meaningful gift for someone who “has it all”? Check out our Dwell Gift Memberships to give the gift of memorizing God’s Word in an easy, beautiful way!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“This should be our heartbeat…when we feel the pain and the darkness in our lives, that we would look at that eternal restoration of all things and long for it—we would long for this light, the glory of the Lord, to shine on us.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.” — Isaiah 60:1Today’s podcast: Curious why we picked Isaiah 60:1 for December? Listen in as Natalie and Vera talk about the layers to this verse, our longing for the glory of the Lord to shine upon us, and how it all applies to our lives today. Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word. Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse. Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show. Links from today's show: Missed Natalie's teaching episode on Isaiah 60:1? Listen here! Still looking for a meaningful gift for someone who “has it all”? Check out our Dwell Gift Memberships to give the gift of memorizing God’s Word in an easy, beautiful way!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.