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“The darkness is being dispelled—the light is coming. Sin is being dispelled—righteousness is coming. Death is being dispelled—life is coming.” — Jason 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: What does “glory” mean? Chances are you’ve heard that word a lot already this Christmas season, but how should we understand and explain what it means for the glory of the Lord to rise upon his people? We’re so excited to have a special guest on the podcast today as we dig into Isaiah 60:1: Natalie’s husband, Jason Abbott! We know you’ll be encouraged as you learn more about how to understand Old Testament prophecy, hear a helpful conversation about what the glory of the Lord is, and walk away with practical ways we can shine forth the glory of God as we await his second coming.Our December Dwell guest: Dr. Jason Abbott is married to Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell. They have a big family of seven and spend a lot of time running around Jefferson City, Missouri, together. Jason has been in pastoral ministry for the past 20 years in the Evangelical Free Church of America. He’s currently the Senior Pastor at Central Church of Jefferson City, Missouri.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:Are 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!Want to give the gift of Scripture to a friend or family member this Christmas? Check out our Dwell Gift Memberships!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“I really hope that as you memorize and mediate on this verse this month, it would really guide you in the process of reflection on who Jesus is, and the beauty of who he is, and what he has done for us, and that it would compel you to share that good news with others throughout the month.” — 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: Happy December! Join Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell Differently, as she digs into the book of Isaiah today, exploring our verse for the month in its context to help us understand it at an even deeper level. See anew the hope that Israel had as they awaited a Savior, the hope that we have today, and the sure hope that is still yet to come when the Lord comes again and we will be with him. May you arise and shine the light of Jesus today, and invite people into his light all month long! 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:Starfish Project + Dwell Differently necklaces are a wonderful gift, not only for the recipient but also for the women making these beautiful pieces of jewelry. Learn more here!Want to give the gift of Scripture to a friend or family member? Check out our Dwell Gift Memberships!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“My challenge to you is to find somebody…who is further along in the faith than you and I want you to ask them this question: 'What is the most wonderful thing God has done in your life?’ and just treasure their answer.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.” — Psalm 107:8 Today’s podcast: In our final episode for Psalm 107:8, Vera Schmitz, co-founder of Dwell Differently, brings us a super practical way to live out our verse: remembering and giving thanks to God. Hear how this practice has helped Vera in seasons of anxiety, and join us in committing to ask someone this week: “What is the most wonderful thing God has done in your life?” We pray it will give an opportunity to together thank God for who he is and what he’s done! 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: Looking for meaningful gift ideas for Christmas? We’ve got you covered! Head over to our Black Friday Sale today!Want 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.

“This is why this verse says let them give thanks—because when we share in the triumphs of God with others, our faith grows.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.” — Psalm 107:8Today’s podcast: How have you experienced the goodness of God? Psalm 107:2, just a few verses before our memory verse this month, says, “Let the redeemed of the LORD tell their story,” and that is exactly what we are doing here today! Join Natalie and Vera as they share about God’s unfailing love and wonderful deeds in their lives, pointing not just to the good gifts and acts of deliverance, but to the Giver himself. May these stories of God’s kindness spark reflection and thankfulness in your own heart today as you dwell on who he is and what he’s done, and share those stories with those around you. 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:  - Want to learn more about this month’s verse? Check out our weekly devotionals!- Shop the Dwell Black Friday DealsSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“There’s something about the practice of [thankfulness] in community that completes it. And that’s God’s design, that’s not a crutch. It’s not more holy if I’m just praying to Jesus alone in my thankfulness—it is in fact the bigger vision of what God’s redemption is that he creates a people that is marked by thankfulness.” — Rachel Gilson This month’s memory verse: “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.” — Psalm 107:8 Today’s podcast: Have you ever heard someone thank an item instead of the person who gave it to them? What is behind that impulse to be thankful, and where should it really be directed? If you’re looking for both a deep dive into the meaning of Psalm 107 as well as some practical questions and tools to help you live out it’s call to thank the Lord, you’re in the right place! Rachel Gilson and Natalie Abbott dig into the details to not only help us see what Scripture is saying, but to lead us in learning how to live lives of thankfulness to God together as his people.Our November Dwell guest: Rachel Gilson is a writer, speaker, and campus minister with Cru. She is the author of Born Again This Way. We are so glad to have her with us 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:- Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson - Rachel’s website- Join our Dwell Differently Community on Facebook to connect with other believers who are memorizing Scripture and encouraging one another!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“[Psalm 107] is just such a beautiful picture of the gospel, isn’t it? That Jesus came not to save those who were good and righteous and the best, but he came to seek and save the lost. He came for those of us who were his enemies, who were thumbing our nose at him. And that is who our God is, and his love is unfailing, and his deeds are wonderful. Even to people like me who, in so many ways, am undeserving of the kindness of the Lord.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.” — Psalm 107:8 Today’s podcast: When’s the last time you took a minute to stop and think about the things the Lord has done for you? And when’s the last time you stopped to give him thanks? If you are looking for ways to grow in gratitude this month, we are right there with you! We are excited to dive into a new verse together this month that calls us to remember and rehearse what the Lord has done: Psalm 107:8. Join Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell Differently, as she walks us through what the context of this verse is and how we can rightly understand and apply it to our lives today. You won’t want to miss it! 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:Join 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.

“Don’t be afraid to share your heart, to share God’s truth, and to share his promise, because it’s true that we can live full lives following Jesus—it is the only way to be full in a real and lasting way.” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” — John 10:10Today’s podcast: You won’t want to miss today’s episode where Dwell Differently co-founder Vera Schmitz shares how this month’s verse, John 10:10, was pivotal in her own spiritual journey as well as in her husband’s. She fills us in on why she put her now-husband in the “friend zone” for a couple of years, how she’s seen the way that the Word of God never returns void but always accomplishes what he has planned, and encourages all of us to share the truth and hope of God’s Word with those around us.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: Want 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.

“This is the promise that we have in Jesus: not to be taken from but to be given. Even when we don’t deserve the kinds of gifts, the fullness that he gives us, he does it—willingly, fully, beautifully for us.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” — John 10:10Today’s podcast: If somebody were going to look in on your life today and make a list of how you spent your time, what would that tell them about you? Where are you looking for peace and rest today? Listen in as Vera and Natalie, co-founders of Dwell Differently, talk about John 10:10, encouraging us to experience fullness of life and abundance in Jesus by choosing to follow him and listen to his voice.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: Take a listen to the John 10:10 teaching episode from Natalie!Did you know we have a weekly email devotional? Check out past posts here and sign up to have them delivered to your inbox every Monday.Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“I know what it is to grow up with my identity rooted in something that is temporary, and something that actually does come to steal, kill, and destroy rather than he who gives abundant life. And so it is with some urgency and compassion and drive that I want others to know that as well.” — Jen OshmanThis month’s memory verse: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” — John 10:10Today’s podcast: Have you ever thought you understood what a Bible verse was saying only to be surprised after taking some time to study it that what you initially thought wasn’t actually the main point? You’re not alone! Don’t miss this conversation between Natalie Abbott and Jen Oshman where they confess their initial misunderstanding of what this verse means, how the Old Testament helps us to understand what Jesus is saying in John 10:10, how to recognize a thief when they come along, and how to encourage ourselves or someone else who is caught up in a lie. Savor the good news today that instead of coming to exploit others like the religious leaders of Jesus’s day were doing, we have a Savior who came for the exact opposite purpose: to lay his own life down so that his people could have abundant life.Our October Dwell guest: Jen Oshman is an author, speaker, podcaster, missionary, pastor’s wife, and mom to four daughters. She is passionate about helping herself and the women around her understand and remember that we have a Creator and Savior who designed us to live abundantly with him, and that we were made for so much more than the world has to offer us.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:- Enough about Me by Jen Oshman - Cultural Counterfeits by Jen Oshman - Jen’s weekly podcast: All Things - Jen’s website - Join our Dwell Differently Community on Facebook to connect with other believers who are memorizing Scripture and encouraging one another!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“Are we going to entrust ourselves and believe in those things that are taking from us, or are we going to entrust ourselves and believe in Jesus, the Good Shepherd, who has laid down his life for us, and promises us abundant life?” —Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” — John 10:10Today’s podcast: Spoiler alert: in today’s episode, Natalie Abbott shares how she misunderstood this verse for a long time, and she’s wondering if you might be in the same boat! Listen in as Natalie walks us through the context of this month’s verse, John 10:10, and helps us see how it fits into the big picture of the Bible, what it tells us about who God is, and what it tells us about who we are. We pray this will encourage you as you follow Jesus today and walk in the abundant life he offers!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:- Read more about the thief in "How to Spot an Enemy," by Natalie. - Check out  Dwell Differently website and the free resources we have waiting for you there! - Join our Dwell Differently Community on Facebook to connect with other believers who are memorizing Scripture and encouraging one another!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.