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“We don’t have to keep relying on our works or measuring ourselves by our failures. We can measure ourselves and see ourselves as Christ sees us, which is people that he loves, his beloved bride.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.’” — John 6:29Today’s podcast: Have you ever wrestled with feeling like you need to be “good” to earn God’s favor? Even as Christians who know we are saved not by our works but by Jesus, we can still fall back into thinking our good works are necessary to save us. Join Natalie and Vera today as they talk about the design for this month’s verse, get real as they share their own experiences of realizing they were trying to work to earn God’s favor with their efforts instead of coming to Jesus, and remind us of the beauty of our God who is always ready to bring us back to him as he helps us to believe in the One he has sent.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:- To go deeper, check out “Are You Asking the Wrong Question?” by Natalie Abbott on the Dwell Differently blog. - Want some help spending time in the Word with your kids this summer? Check out our fruit of the Spirit summer kit for kids! - Did you know we have a Facebook group for Dwell Members? Join us as we seek to live out what we are learning each month!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“It’s not just the head knowledge, in this case, that the work of God is to believe in the one he has sent, to believe in Jesus—but to actually know it to the point that that’s how I’m operating. That that’s the belief that I’m not just knowing with my head but that I’m living out of.” — Amanda Bible WilliamsThis month’s memory verse: “Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.’” — John 6:29Today’s podcast: Have you ever wondered how good works and faith relate to each other? We often are looking for boxes to check and ways to justify ourselves, but following Jesus is a true following—step by step. Join Natalie Abbott and Amanda Bible Williams today as they dig into what this verse means, discuss barriers to belief, and encourage us to truly do the work of God: to believe in the one he has sent, Jesus. Our July Dwell guest: Amanda Bible Williams is co-founder and chief content officer of She Reads Truth. A lover of words and the Word, Amanda spends her days reading and leading, writing and editing, and explaining that her maiden name really is Bible. She lives with her husband and their four children in a chaotic farmhouse just south of Nashville, Tennessee.  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:- She Reads Truth website- She Reads Truth Instagram- She Reads Truth podcastSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

"If Jesus is our spiritual food, are we looking to Jesus to give us the food that perishes, or are we looking to Jesus for eternal, spiritual satisfaction? Are we looking for him to meet only our earthly needs and earthly comforts, or do we have eyes to see, spiritual eyes to understand our spiritual needs and to find them met in Jesus?” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.’” — John 6:29Today’s podcast: What is the message of the Gospel of John? Are we like the crowds following Jesus who were looking to him for the wrong reasons? Join Natalie Abbott today as she walks through the context of our verse for this month, John 6:29.  Find out why the original hearers had a hard time wrapping their minds around this concept, how we can evaluate our own thinking about the work of God, and be encouraged as we clearly look at the point that John is making and the question we all need to answer. 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:- Check out the Dwell Differently website and the free resources we have waiting for you there! - Join our Dwell Differently Community on Facebook.Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“It’s so encouraging to me that God has not left us on our own to follow after him—we don’t just hear a warning like this to not drift away without him also being the one to enable us.” — Lindsay TullyThis month’s memory verse: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” — Hebrews 2:1Today’s podcast: If we're being honest, we all know we have a tendency to drift spiritually. But how do we pay the most careful attention to what we have heard about Jesus? Join us today as Natalie Abbot, Co-founder of Dwell, and Lindsay Tully, Dwell Editor and Writer, sit down to talk about 4 of the instruments God has given us to help us stay the course and pay the most careful attention to the truth of the gospel, so that we do not drift away.      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:- If you missed it, be sure to check out “Lessons from Flight School” on the Dwell Differently blog!- Want some help spending time in the Word with your kids this summer? Check out our fruit of the Spirit summer kit for kids!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“What am I paying the most careful attention to right now? And how can I re-anchor myself to the truth with an easy habit or practice or rhythm?” — Vera SchmitzThis month’s memory verse: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” — Hebrews 2:1Today’s podcast: If you had an inventory of your thoughts, what (or who) are you paying the most careful attention to? In today’s episode, Vera Schmitz, co-founder of Dwell Differently, takes a look at 4 common things we are tempted to pay the most careful attention to, and encourages us to instead re-anchor ourselves to the truth of Jesus. 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:- Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen - Want some help spending time in the Word with your kids this summer? Check out our fruit of the Spirit summer kit for kids!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“The reason this verse is in Scripture at all is because we have this tendency to drift.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” — Hebrews 2:1Today’s podcast: Let’s be honest—it’s hard to talk about drifting. Today’s episode is a very real conversation between Natalie and Vera about how they see drifting happen in their own lives, spiritual habits they’d like to incorporate to help them stay on course, and the danger of looking good on the outside but dying on the inside. Are you in a season of drifting? Do you want some encouragement to keep digging into the Word? We’ve got you covered, and we are paddling toward God alongside 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 some help spending time in the Word with your kids this summer? Check out our fruit of the Spirit summer kit for kids! - We are loving The Bible Recap to help us daily dig into the Bible and pay the most careful attention to Jesus. - Did you know we have a Facebook group for Dwell Members? Join us as we seek to live out what we are learning each month!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“That’s the danger of drifting—while running away is an intentional, purposeful act, drifting away happens without our awareness.” — Emma Mae McDanielThis month’s memory verse: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” — Hebrews 2:1Today’s podcast: Do you find yourself easily distracted? Is it challenging to prioritize spending time with the Lord in busy seasons? Have you ever realized that you've unintentionally started focusing on things that weren’t worth paying “the most careful attention” to, and drifted away from the Lord? What should you do if you have a friend who is drifting? Listen in today as Natalie Abbott and Emma Mae McDaniel chat about all this and more. We know this conversation will be an encouragement to you today as we take a look at how to pay the most careful attention to Jesus.Our April Dwell guest: Emma Mae McDaniel is a wife, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, speaker, clothing brand starter, and recent grad from Liberty University. Her life is all about knowing God and making him known, and we are so glad to have her join us on the podcast 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: - Listen to Why Memorize Scripture? with Emma Mae & Natalie Abbott on the “Have You Heard?” Podcast - Pre-order You Are: Realizing Who You Are Because of Who God Is by Emma Mae McDaniel - Check out All-Caps YOU: A 30-Day Adventure toward Finding Joy in Who God Made You to Be by Emma Mae McDaniel (Natalie is currently reading this with her teenage daughters!) - Visit Emma Mae McDaniel’s websiteSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“This is a daily practice—of not drifting, of coming back. And we have a God who welcomes us with open arms.” — Natalie AbbottThis month’s memory verse: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” — Hebrews 2:1Today’s podcast: Don’t miss today’s episode with Natalie Abbott, co-founder of Dwell, as she digs into our verse for this month: Hebrews 2:1! She walks us through some important questions: How does this fit into the big picture of redemption in the Bible? What does it say about God? And what does it say about us and our everyday lives? We hope that you’re memorizing this verse along with us, and pray that this deeper dive helps you as you meditate on God’s Word 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.Link from today's show:Check out the Dwell Differently website and the free resources we have waiting for you there!Support the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

“This is what the church should look like, this sharing: ‘What I have, I’m going to offer to you, and what you have, you can offer to me.’ And that’s a beautiful thing, without either demanding it of the other.” — Melissa Kruger This month’s memory verse: “Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.” — 1 Thessalonians 2:8bToday’s podcast: Have you been listening to our series this month and found yourself thinking, “I want that! I’ve never been mentored. How do I even start?” Well you’re in the right place! We know today’s conversation with Melissa Kruger and Natalie Abbott will give you some super practical next steps to dig into what it looks like to share our lives with one another. Our May Dwell guest: Melissa Kruger is a wife, mom, and the author of multiple books, including The Envy of Eve, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, and Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests. She enjoys teaching women the Bible and serves as the director of women's initiatives for The Gospel Coalition.     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:Melissa’s website Growing Together: Taking Mentoring beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests by Melissa Kruger How Christianity Transformed the World by Sharon JamesSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.

"If there is one verse that I would want to characterize my ministry, it would be this one.” — Melissa KrugerThis month’s memory verse: “Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.” — 1 Thessalonians 2:8bToday’s podcast: What does it really look like to share not only the gospel but also our lives with one another? In today’s episode, Melissa Kruger and Natalie Abbott talk about the power of life-on-life ministry, why mentoring is not like marriage, and the joy of seeing how the gospel is impacting someone’s life over time. You won’t want to miss this encouragement and wisdom from women who have faithfully been mentoring others for years!Our May Dwell guest: Melissa Kruger is a wife, mom, and the author of multiple books, including The Envy of Eve, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, and Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests. She enjoys teaching women the Bible and serves as the director of women's initiatives for The Gospel Coalition.      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:Melissa’s website Growing Together: Taking Mentoring beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests by Melissa KrugerSupport the showFollow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferently.