Latest Women in ministry Podcast Episodes
Let's Talk Episode 87 | Modesty in the 21st Century
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - July 12, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, host Bridgette Tomlin and her guest Crystal Williams tackle the "modest is hottest" mantra, talk about what true modesty actually is, how to teach the generation behind us more about it, and what the risks and rewards are in speaking truth when it's easi...
Let's Talk Episode 86 | When Jesus Delays the Miracle
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - June 28, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. When you’re suffering, when someone you love is suffering, when it seems the evil in the world is thriving or excelling, it just doesn’t make sense that God would not intervene right now and make it all right. What do you do when Jesus delays? But more importantly, how d...
Let's Talk Episode 85 | Empowering the Men in Our Lives
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - June 14, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. You may have heard the slogan, “Behind every good man is a better woman”. Good men can be even greater men when challenged to become that. It is within the power of every woman to champion the greatness and potential she sees in the man she knows and loves, especially an...
Let's Talk Episode 84 | Single Women in Ministry
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - May 24, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. There is a growing, almost staggering uptick in women who are serving in vocational ministry or on the mission field who are not married. And yet very few conversations are centered in the ministry world around what it looks like to be single in the local church, much le...
Let's Talk Episode 83 | What's a Jezebel Spirit?
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - May 10, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Even those beyond the church's four walls recognize that being labeled with a "Jezebel Spirit" is not a good thing. But often this term is thrown around flippantly, and even more often, it is thrown around without an understanding of its true meaning according to Scriptu...
Let's Talk Episode 82 | Tough Skin, Tender Heart
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - April 26, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. There's a lot of talk these days about church hurt. People who have been hurt or disappointed by spiritual leaders, spiritual leaders who have been hurt by those they are called to lead. How can someone in spiritual leadership maintain a heart that is tender to those he ...
Let's Talk Episode 81 | Teaching the Next Gen About Sexuality
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - April 12, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In today's episode host Bridgette Tomlin welcomes Casey Gibbons of Mothergood to return to the podcast and talk about S-E-X. How do we talk to our children, teens, and young adults about God's plan for sexuality? In the midst of a gender identity crisis, how should today...
Let's Talk Episode 80 | Silently Bleeding
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - March 29, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. While there are many seasons in the life of a ministry wife, undoubtedly there are seasons where it may feel like she's silently bleeding--isolated with no one who seems to understand the life she leads. In this episode, host Bridgette Tomlin welcomes her guest Jan McInt...
Let's Talk Ep 80 | Silently Bleeding
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - March 29, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhile there are many seasons in the life of a ministry wife, undoubtedly there are seasons where it may feel like she's silently bleeding--isolated with no one who seems to understand the life she leads. In this episode, host Bridgette Tomlin welcomes her guest Jan McIntyre to share candidly abo...
Let's Talk Episode 79 | Does image matter for spiritual leaders?
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - March 15, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. While we don’t want to believe it, public perception or image definitely matter. As a general rule, there are two camps, perhaps three, within the ministerial community when it comes to public persona. One ascribes to that of the Influencer in every way--focusing on high...
Let's Talk Episode 78 | Lessons for the Ministry Marriage
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - February 23, 2024 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Bridgette Tomlin, your host, welcomed her husband Chresten Tomlin to the podcast for Episode 78! In our most recent episode, Episode 77, we featured the incomparable Pam King and dug into her insights about the combo of marriage and ministry. This week we want to come at...
Let's Talk Episode 77 | Prioritizing Healthy Marriages
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - February 09, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Throughout the month of February we will feature content that focuses on the dynamic of marriage + ministry. First up, we welcome Sanctuary lead team member Pam King back to the podcast as she shares about the TOP THREE areas of concern for many married couples, especial...
Let's Talk Episode 76 | Discovering (& Liking) the Real You
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - January 26, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Understanding who we are, what our strengths and weaknesses are, how we communicate, but then also all of the above about the people we are working with can help diffuse a lot of tension or unnecessary conflict when you’re working on a pastoral staff, a lead team, or eve...
Let's Talk Episode 75 | The Fight for Identity
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - January 12, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We are launching Season Four of Let's Talk with Sanctuary today & welcome a return visit with our friend, Sheila Harper of SaveOne. As we sit in the first month of the year 2024, the very definition of identity is up for grabs. In the past, the term ‘identity’ meant your...
Let's Talk Episode 74 | Ministry Wife Retreats
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - September 29, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Despite the fact that Sanctuary, our ministry for ministry wives, was launched by an annual event we host call Let’s Retreat, we have never done an entire episode on what it is, why it’s important, who should go, all the things. So, today we are talking about Let's Retre...
Let's Talk Episode 73 | Ministry to Women
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - September 15, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Whether you’re actively engaged in leading a women’s ministry, personally involved in a local church women’s ministry, or simply a woman yourself, let me encourage you to lean into this content. And to our male listeners who are married, or even pastoring women, this is ...
Let's Talk Episode 72 | When God Writes Your Story
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - August 25, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In the case of a tapestry, it starts as an idea. The weaver gathers the raw materials and the tools to work, prepares them, weaves them, and tamps them. Slowly, bit by bit, an image starts to appear; however, it's not until completion that the designer's vision is appare...
Let's Talk Episode 71 | Back-to-School Parenting
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - August 11, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. All of us have experiences, tough moments, hopefully some great memories, through the evolution from childhood to adolescence, and on into young adulthood. It can be tough growing up! But children being raised in today’s culture are facing challenges that previous genera...
Let's Talk Episode 70 | Ambiguous Grief
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - July 28, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Often times grief is exclusively defined as the loss of a friend or loved one to death. But there's actually a form of grief that comes when someone hasn't died, but something has died. You feel a sense of loss. Perhaps it's the death of a dream, the loss of a friendship...
Let's Talk Episode 69 | Sanctuary Book Club Q3
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - July 14, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today we welcome author Kelly Balarie to Let's Talk with Sanctuary as we launch Quarter Three of the Sanctuary Book Club. This quarter's featured book is Kelly's latest book, Take Every Thought Captive. Regardless of how long you've been serving God or leading in a minis...
Let's Talk Episode 68 | The Sameness of God
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - June 30, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We often quote the well-known verse in Revelation 12, stating that “they overcame him (the adversary or Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,…" It is vital as we pray and seek the Lord to intervene in our lives that we make room for the test...
Let's Talk Episode 67 | Raising Up 21st Century Ministers
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - June 16, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. For the Kingdom of God to be sustainable, fulfilling its mission until Jesus comes, every generation must raise up men and women of God who are called to give their lives for His cause. What does it look like for 21st century believers to acknowledge and answer the call ...
Let's Talk Episode 66 | Effectiveness in Children's Ministry
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - May 26, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In today's episode we welcome Pastor Brian Dollar, a 25+ year veteran of ministry to children. Pastor Brian talks about the value of children's ministries, from its foundations in Jesus's earthly ministry to its validity in today's 21st century culture. We ask the questi...
Let's Talk Episode 65 | The God of Miracles
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - May 12, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. As we head into Mother’s Day weekend, we can’t think of a better way to focus our thoughts than to acknowledge the powerful role that women play in shaping the lives of those around us. Today you may be grieving the loss of your own mother or perhaps you’re struggling in...
Let's Talk Episode 64 | The Lie of Comparison
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - April 28, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today we are going to visit a topic that has been written about, talked about, prayed about so very often, but it’s something we can’t possibly write, talk, or pray about enough, and that is the lie of comparison. Church planter + Sanctuary Lead Team member Casey Graves ...
Let's Talk Episode 63 | Sanctuary Book Club Q2
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - April 14, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today we welcome podguest Lisa Goins back to Let's Talk with Sanctuary for the THIRD time (yes, she's one of your favorites!) as we launch Quarter Two of the Sanctuary Book Club. This quarter's featured book is Jennie Allen's most recent bestseller, Find Your People. Joi...
Let's Talk Episode 62 | Grace for the Growth Track
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - March 24, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Let's Talk host Bridgette Tomlin steps away from the show's typical fare of an interview alongside a featured guest to deliver a timely message to women in ministry of all generations. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and sip slowly as you take in the mentorship Bridgette is ...
Let's Talk Episode 61 | The Partnership of Church + State
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - March 10, 2023 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We have heard so many cliche-phrases throughout the decades about the separation of Church and State that have sent mixed messages to the people of God about what they can and should say in regards to the government of our land. What exactly is the Church's role and resp...
Let's Talk Episode 60 | The Art of Worship
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - February 24, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. What does worship look like in the life of a 21st century believer? How do we as leaders lead others into worship, in spirit and in truth? What are the contents of a corporate worship gathering? Is it all old stuff? Is it new stuff? So many nooks and crannies we can peek...
Let's Talk Episode 59 | Not On My Watch
Let's Talk with Sanctuary - February 10, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Buckle up because today we are issuing a clarion call, a challenge, to the women of God across this nation and around the world! Today’s guest, Pastor Rochelle Ferguson, and host Bridgette Tomlin unpack what is at stake for our culture, for the Church, for our families, ...
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