Hear Him Louder Podcast

E41 | How Fasting from “Noise” Can Open Our Spiritual Hearing, with Wendy Speake

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:15:00 -0400

Today’s conversation with Wendy Speake is about how we can hear Jesus louder when we quiet the noisy places in our lives – and we talk specifically about the noise that food and social media introduce into our everyday.

How often do we think about food? How often do we reach for our phones? Wendy shares how she accidentally discovered the spiritual benefits of a sugar fast, which grew into a journey that hundreds of thousands of women have now participated in. What they learned is that eliminating sugar allowed them to know God more. And hear Him louder.

When we fast from things that crowd out God’s voice, or as Wendy says, when we set down the ordinary, we will discover the extraordinary.

We discuss:

What our appetites tell of our attentions and affections.
How consuming less allows us to experience more.
What fasting is actually about (hint: it’s not about what we give up).
How fasting from food and phone noise leads to hearing God louder.
How finding connection with Jesus keeps us both satisfied and makes us hungrier.

Friend, if you are longing to hear Jesus, opening up your spiritual hearing might begin with fasting from noisy places in our lives.

Wendy Speake is author and host of The 40-Day Sugar Fast, The 40-Day Social Media Fast, and the companion resource, The 40-Day Feast. She is also co-author of the popular parenting book, Triggers: Exchanging Parents’ Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses. As a trained actress and heartfelt Bible teacher, Wendy ministers to women's hearts through storytelling and Biblical life applications. She utilizes drama, poetry, and the study of God's word. During her career as an actress in Hollywood, Wendy longed to tell stories that would edify and encourage women. Today she does just that.

You can connect with Wendy at her Website or over on Instagram and Facebook. Grab her books here: The 40-Day Sugar Fast, The 40-Day Social Media Fast, The 40-Day Feast, and Triggers.

And to help you get into a practice of listening for Jesus in your everyday, Marnie created a FREE resource for you: Find Your Listening Rhythm with Jesus. Marnie would also love to hear from you. You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram.

E40 | How Learning to Hear God Helps Us to Trust God More, with Evelyn Sherwood

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:15:00 -0400

Have you ever wondered how people walk through back-to-back-to-back hard things and still stay standing? Have you wondered how God meets and sustains them? Today’s episode with Evelyn Sherwood will give you a glimpse of how.

We talk about her story of stacked-up-high hardships and how her practice of listening for Jesus sustained her through it all.

Evelyn shares with us the behind-the-scenes conversations she had with God during a series of difficult circumstances, including COVID and cancer, and how she grieved and lamented – and also listened in the unknowns. God asked her to trust Him in the “messy middle” and live her story openly as it unfolded. And He met her in new, unexpected ways.

As Evelyn says, the more we learn to hear God, the more comfortable we get with trusting Him.

Friend, if you, too, are in the messy middle, this episode will give you hope.

Marnie and Evelyn discuss:

How Evelyn discovered how present and real God really is.
Questions to ask God in the middle of grief.
The (many) hurdles Evelyn encountered and what Jesus spoke into each hard thing.
An unexpected, beautiful way Jesus began to meet Evelyn as she walked through chemo.
How noticing beauty helps us find peace.
The four-step TRIP method (Thank, Read, Invite, Post) for reading and listening while studying scripture.

Evelyn Sherwood is a trusted minister, speaker, and blogger who has served in pastoral ministry for forty years. Nothing puts a smile on her face more than sharing about the faithfulness of God with a friend over a steaming cup of cappuccino or iced peach tea. On a summer evening, you might spot Evelyn and her husband, Steve, driving through Indiana farmlands in a canary yellow ’47 Ford pickup or enjoying an outdoor movie night in the backyard with their eight grandkids.

You can connect with Evelyn at her Website or over on Instagram and Facebook. Her Pocket Full of Hope series is available here.

E39 | How to Run to (Not From) God When We Face Heartbreak, with Jodi Snowdon

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:15:00 -0400

In today’s episode, Marnie and Jodi Snowdon talk about how we walk through the hard parts of our stories. We each have stories that hold difficult and painful things that we didn’t and wouldn’t choose. When we face those hard things, we can choose to run to God or run from Him.

Jodi shares with us today about how to navigate our pain and cautions us that running from God means facing our grief alone. But the grief is there either way.

Maybe you know someone who has run from God in their pain? Or maybe you understand that yourself?

Listen to hear Jodi’s eight-step “grief roadmap” that will help us to see what it looks like to grieve with God and how He will meet our pain and redeem our stories.

Friend, if you are carrying grief, this episode will give you hope.

Marnie and Jodi discuss:

The lies we can hear in our heartbreaks.
Understanding the choice to run to or from God in our grief.
How running to God in our pain can move us toward growth.
Ten scriptures that meet our heartbreaks.
An 8-step grief roadmap to help us walk through grief.
How listening for God’s voice helps us to heal.

Jodi Snowdon is an author, podcaster, and speaker who serves women through her podcast, Depth, and her blog, Heartbreak to Strength. In August 2022, she released her first book, Depth: Growing Through Heartbreak to Strength. Having walked through multiple heartbreaks (divorce, miscarriage, & cancer), Jodi now inspires women to grow deeper in their faith and to find hope, joy, and purpose through their unexpected storms. She is raising two sons (one in college and one adulting) in Southern California where she teaches science to elementary students in the STEM Lab.

You can connect with Jodi at her Website or over on Instagram. Her book is available here.

E38 | How Listening for Jesus Helps Us to Stop “Emotional Hoarding” & Live Lighter, with Laurie Davies

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:15:00 -0500

We all have emotional stuff and the “stuff” we hold onto can not only impact us, it can impact our relationships and our connection with Jesus. Today, Laurie Davies and I talk about all of it – what weighs us down, how heavy it is, and how to lay it down. Because, as Laurie shares, if we miss addressing our emotional baggage, it can become more. It can become emotional hoarding.

What if giving Jesus our heavy things leads to freedom? What if we can feel lighter?

Friend, if you’ve struggled with worry or anger or bitterness or shame or fear, or another hard emotion, this conversation will point you towards freedom.

Marnie and Laurie discuss:

How our emotional baggage can turn into emotional hoarding.
How to recognize when we’re hoarding our emotions.
Why we hold onto stuff that weighs us down.
How to let our emotional baggage go.
How we can listen for Jesus in our hard emotions.
The promise that waits when we listen for Jesus.

A former journalist and women’s ministry director, Laurie Davies knows the burdens that weigh women down. As an author, speaker, and lay counselor, she encourages women to trade their “emotional accumulation” for freedom. Laurie’s book, Emotional Hoarding: Letting Go of the Stuff That Keeps You Stuck, is available from Moody Publishers wherever books are sold. Her writing can also be found in the Proverbs 31 First 5 app and in Guideposts books and magazines. Laurie lives in the Phoenix area with her husband of 30 years, Greg, and two schnockerpoos who run the show. Their adult son lives nearby.

Two ways to get the book:

Enter here to win a copy of Emotional Hoarding (Deadline to enter is March 11, 2026, at midnight PST)
Go grab a copy for you or a friend here.

You can connect with Laurie at her Website or over on Instagram, and she invites you to join her Facebook Group, Go Get Your Life.

E37 | Real Talk About Prayer: Discover How to Pray the Way God Wired You, with Janet McHenry

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:15:00 -0500

Today’s conversation with Janet McHenry is the second episode in our “real talk about prayer” series. Today, we’re examining how we pray differently based on our personalities, and how understanding our praying personality can change how we talk to and how we listen for Jesus.

What if we can hear Him louder when we’re connecting with Him in ways that feel natural to us – in ways that line up with how He has created us? Janet shares four different praying personality types she finds in scripture that may help us to connect with God more naturally and more deeply. When we learn our praying personality, and meet with God from that understanding, we’ll grow in our connection and relationship with Him.

Friend, if you want to discover how to better connect with God based on how He created you, this episode is for you.

Marnie and Janet discuss:

How we struggle with prayer “comparison.”
The truth that there is no one-size-fits-all way to pray.
How we pray differently based on our personalities.
FOUR different praying personality types.
How understanding our praying personality can change how we listen for Jesus.
How prayer is more about access than answers.
Simple, practical ways to listen for Jesus in prayer.

Janet McHenry is an inspirational speaker and the author of 27 books--eight on prayer, including the bestselling PrayerWalk and her newest, Praying Personalities, which was a Christian Book Award finalist last year. Janet leads the prayer ministries at The Bridge Church in Reno and is part of the leadership team for the National Day of Prayer in California. She and her rancher hubby Craig live in the Sierra Valley in northeast California, where they raised their four kids. Prayer and specifically, prayerwalking, are her passions because they have fostered a Looking Up! perspective in her.

Take the Praying Personalities Quiz here and grab a copy of Praying Personalities here. You can find Janet at her Website or over on Instagram and Facebook.

This is part two in our "Real Talk About Prayer" series. Did you catch Episode 36 with Barb Roose for four principles that will change how you pray?

E36 | Real Talk About Prayer: Getting Past Our Prayer "Hang-ups" to Get to God, with Barb Roose

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:15:00 -0500

Today's conversation with Barb Roose will change your prayer life. Have you ever had these thoughts: Is prayer worth it? Am I doing it right? Why don’t I feel closer to God? Why isn’t God answering?

If you’re feeling stuck in how you pray and your soul is longing for connection with God, this conversation is for you.

Today we talk about the ways we tend to relate to God (and all the grace, friends!), and four principles and truths that will change and re-shape how we pray. We’ll talk about repetitive versus persistent prayer, five behaviors we might choose over prayer, and how to listen for God in our prayers. Our entire conversation wraps around Barb’s Bible Study, Matthew: Pray Like This. Friend, if you’ve struggled with how to pray, you’ve landed in the right place.

Marnie and Barb discuss:

Common prayer hang-ups.
Three ways we tend to relate to God in prayer.
Four truths to re-shape and revolutionize our prayer mindset.
The difference between repetitive and persistent prayers.
A single sentence prayer that changes our grip on outcomes.
Five behaviors we can choose instead of praying.
How to listen for God and receive His truth in prayer.

Barb Roose is a popular speaker, author who is passionate about teaching women to live beautifully strong and courageous so that they experience God’s great adventure of faith and purpose for their lives. Barb speaks in the US and abroad at women’s conferences and events, including national platforms like the Aspire Women’s Events, She Speaks Conference and the UMC Leadership Institute.

She is the author of eight Bible studies such as Matthew: Pray Like This, and five books including Stronger Than Stress: 10 Spiritual Practices to Win the Battle of Overwhelm. Barb is the host of the Bold, Brave & Beautiful podcast. She lives in NW Ohio and is proud mother of three adult children. Whenever possible, Barb prefers to eat dessert first.

Check out these resources from Barb:

And connect with Barb at her Website, Instagram, and Facebook.

And go grab this from Marnie: To help you get into a practice of listening for Jesus in your everyday, Marnie created a FREE resource for you: Find Your Listening Rhythm with Jesus. You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram.

E35 | One Year of Hear Him Louder: Marnie’s Own Story + Listening for Jesus About the January Things, with Becky Keife

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:15:00 -0500

In today’s episode, we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Hear Him Louder Podcast! And today, the tables are turned! Becky Keife steps into the host role to ask Marnie all the questions.

They discuss Marnie’s own story of how she discovered that Jesus speaks to us, the backstory of this podcast, and how listening for Jesus can help guide us through all of the January things. If your heart is craving encouragement and clarity around listening for Jesus as we make our way through another January, this conversation is for you. Because all of these things matter and listening for His voice and guidance is the starting point for well, everything.

Marnie and Becky discuss:

How Marnie learned that God still speaks to us today.
Two key learnings about God's character after one year of Hear Him Louder episodes.
The one word that is the most important posture in listening for Jesus.
How to invite Jesus into your January and all of the January things you might be sifting through.
How God can speak promises and peace without answering the question we’re asking.
A story that comes with the promise that God will take us higher.

To help you get into a practice of listening for Jesus in your everyday, Marnie created a FREE resource for you: Find Your Listening Rhythm with Jesus. You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram.

And a huge thank you to our host today, Becky Keife, who is the author of A Verse A Day For The Anxious Soul, as well as a Bible teacher and speaker who is passionate about helping people hear God’s voice, embrace their true identity, and step into their purpose. A dedicated mental health advocate, Becky equips individuals and churches to understand anxiety biblically and experience Jesus wholly. She loves long naps, puffy clouds, and shady trails. Becky lives in Southern California with her husband and three always-hungry teenage sons. You can connect with Becky at her website or on Instagram. And you can grab a copy of her book here.

E34 | Calm the Chaos: How to Find God’s Peace in a New Year, with Becky Keife

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:15:00 -0500

In today’s episode, Marnie and Becky Keife talk about how the start of a new year can feel like a loud mix of hope and pressure. Maybe your calendar is already crammed, your mind is racing with goals you “should” accomplish, or anxiety has followed you right into January.

If your soul is craving calm and clarity, this conversation is for you, as we cover how to establish simple, soul-anchoring rhythms that make space for God’s peace not just for the start of the year, but also for whatever the months ahead may hold. Quieting that "New Year" swirl begins with tuning your heart to the One voice that matters most. God is near and His voice of love can be louder than the anxious noise we feel and hear.

Marnie and Becky discuss:

How to invite God into daily rhythms that help us to manage anxiety.
Becky’s own journey with anxiety.
The gift Becky found inside anxiety.
How listening for Jesus can help us to find peace.
Fourteen practices that center around listening for God and how they can help us calm the chaos.

Becky Keife is the author of A Verse A Day For The Anxious Soul, as well as a Bible teacher and speaker who is passionate about helping people hear God’s voice, embrace their true identity, and step into their purpose. A dedicated mental health advocate, Becky equips individuals and churches to understand anxiety biblically and experience Jesus wholly. She loves long naps, puffy clouds, and shady trails. Becky lives in Southern California with her husband and three always-hungry teenage sons. You can connect with Becky at her website or on Instagram. And you can grab a copy of her book here.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

E33 | An Advent Listening Practice: What We Can Learn From the Shepherds about Listening

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:15:00 -0500

In this special Christmas episode, we talk about what we can learn about listening from the shepherds in the Christmas story. Then we walk through four simple steps we can follow, just as the shepherds did, to listen for Jesus. Those four steps form a listening practice we can use during Advent and beyond.

What if we can learn how to see and hear God in new ways this Christmas? What if we can learn from and follow the shepherds’ lead from that very first Christmas to hear Jesus louder today?

In this episode you’ll:

Learn the four choices the shepherds made after the angel appeared.
Discover how those same four actions can help us listen for Jesus this Christmas and beyond.
Hear a simple four-step practice of listening for Jesus during Advent -- a practice you can follow in just 10 minutes a day.

Part of hearing God louder is first seeing what He is doing. When we see, we hear. When we hear, we respond. When we respond, we are changed.

Marnie walks through her FREE Advent Listening Guide, a simple resource to help you listen for Jesus during Advent.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email.

And be sure to grab your free Advent Listening Guide here. Merry Christmas! The Hear Him Louder Podcast will be back in January 2026.

E32 | What If We Could Know and Hear the Spirit of Christmas Differently This Year? with Cynthia Ruchti

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:15:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Cynthia Ruchti discuss a different way to enter into the holiday season this year. Could we see and hear Him differently this season? This conversation centers around our longing to know God’s presence in all of our days – even the busiest, hustly-bustly holiday ones and the good news that part of hearing God louder is noticing the ways He is already here.

Today’s conversation begins with Cynthia’s story of learning how God speaks into her life, and how she wants to live a life of noticing. We discuss her new book, The Spirit of Christmas, and how noticing where the Holy Spirit is in the Christmas story helps us to see and hear Him more clearly in our everyday.

As we begin this holiday season, and we find ourselves in checkout lines and at Christmas parties – what if we carry with us, into all those places, the truth and the joy that He is always speaking right where we are? Because noticing God and hearing His voice go together -- not just during the holiday season, but for every day long after the season ends.

Marnie and Cynthia discuss:

How noticing God leads to hearing God.
How asking God one simple question can help us to see and hear Him more clearly.
How “praying unceasingly” can look a lot like “listening unceasingly.”
The possibility that we can come out the other side of this holiday season more spiritually healthy than we entered.

Cynthia Ruchti tells stories hemmed in Hope through her more than 50 novels, nonfiction, and speaking events for women and writers. She draws from three decades writing and producing a radio broadcast heard on 48 stations across the country and internationally online. Her tagline is: I can’t unravel. I’m hemmed in Hope. She and her husband of a billion years live in the heart of Wisconsin. Grab your copy of The Spirit of Christmas: Discovery His Presence throughout the Advent Season and connect with Cynthia at her Website and on Instagram.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

E31 | How to Overcome Insecurities in Knowing God’s Voice, with Rachael Groll

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:10:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Groll discuss what we can learn about how God speaks to His daughters from the stories in our Bibles. God has always spoken to and through women. We discuss Rachael's book, Knowing God's Voice, which highlights women like Miriam and Hulda and Deborah and Anna, who heard and boldly obeyed God’s voice. When we study how God speaks to others, we are also learning more about how He’ll speak to us. We can lay down our insecurities about hearing God and know that He will invite us to join Him in His plans.

Marnie and Rachael discuss:

The insecurities that we can carry and believe about whether we are hearing from God.
How we can test what we hear when we’re seeking to hear Him.
How the enemy can use fear to keep us from hearing God.
How He is always FOR us and will speak to our hearts in similar ways to how He spoke to His daughters in the Bible.

Rachael Groll is an author, certified life coach, missionary, and podcaster with a heart for sharing Jesus with anyone who will listen. She has served in various full-time ministry capacities both locally and globally, including starting outreach programs for women, creating curriculum, teaching, and speaking. Her podcast, Hearing Jesus, has remained on the Top 30 list for Christian Podcasts in the US for the last year and ranks in the top 0.5% percent of all podcasts globally. She holds a BA in ministerial leadership from Southeastern University and an MA in Bible exposition/theology from Biola University/Talbot School of Theology. You can find Rachael at her Website and grab her book, Knowing God's Voice, here.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

E30 | How to Quiet Your Mind and Cultivate Mental Stillness in the Practice of Listening, with Asheritah Ciuciu

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Asheritah Ciuciu discuss practical ways to calm our hearts and minds to hear God louder. We discuss how we can find space to listen for Him EVEN in the fullness of our days, and how there isn’t a one size fits all way of listening for God’s voice. She walks us through a prayer practice that will help us when we’re distracted in our prayer time. And get ready to take notes as she walks us through a technique for praying and listening for Jesus that follows the acronym R-E-S-T AND three different ways to help us cultivate mental stillness. Asheritah’s insights and ideas will help you in your journey in listening for Jesus.

Marnie and Asheritah discuss:

Asheritah’s name and its meaning -- and the power of knowing what our names mean.
How we can learn to listen for God even in the fullness of our days.
A prayer technique for when we get distracted in prayer.
A prayer framework, R-E-S-T, that guides us as we pray and learn to listen for Jesus.
Three ways to cultivate mental stillness, to help us to quiet ourselves, notice God, and listen for Him.

Asheritah Ciuciu is a national retreat speaker, YouTube Bible teacher, and bestselling author of ten books, including Full, Prayers of Rest, and Unwrapping the Names of Jesus. Growing up as a Romanian missionary kid, Asheritah helps people worldwide delight in Jesus through creative Bible habits. She and her high school sweetheart raise their three spunky kids in NE Ohio—and anywhere they adventure together in their camper. You can find Asheritah at her Website. Sign up for the 5-Day Prayer Dare here and order Prayers of Rest here.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

E29 | For When We Have Questions About What We’re Hearing When Listening for God’s Voice, with Beth Guckenberger

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Beth Guckenberger discuss how listening for Jesus can bring questions. God promises that He will speak to us, but sometimes we feel unsure of what we’re hearing. After discussing Beth's journey of learning to hear God’s voice, we walk through a handful of “listening scenarios” – questions that can come up when we’re seeking to hear Jesus, like what do we do when we don’t hear Him? What happens when we do what we thought we heard, but it didn’t turn out how we hoped? What if what we hear and what someone else hears don’t match? Beth’s stories and experience and wisdom will encourage you for when you have these same questions.

Marnie and Beth discuss:

How she learned to recognize God’s voice, even as a teen
Practical ways we can learn to listen for Jesus.
What to do when we don’t hear Jesus.
How to reconcile being faithful to do what we think we heard, yet seeing an outcome we didn’t want.
How to handle when two people hear differing direction from God.
What we do when God answers us way outside the box we put Him in.

Beth and her husband, Todd, live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they serve as Co-Executive Directors of Back2Back Ministries. After graduating from Indiana University, the Guckenberger’s moved to Monterrey, Mexico where they lived for 15 years. Between biological, foster, and adopted children, they have raised eleven children.

Beth is the author of thirteen books including adult and children’s titles. She travels and speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings and church services about reckless faith. You can find Beth at her Website, on Instagram, and at Back2Back Ministries.

E28 | How to Hear God's Words of Hope When Battling Fear, with Judy Dunagan

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Judy Dunagan discuss our battles with fear and anxiety. During a time when things feel so loud and heavy in our world, this conversation offers peace for your heart by pointing you to God’s truth and practical steps to hear His Word and His voice louder. A mere whisper from Jesus can quiet the enemy’s lies. Judy’s wisdom and personal stories will make you feel like you’ve found a friend who understands the anxieties and fears we battle.

Marnie and Judy discuss:

Judy’s stories and experiences with fear and anxiety.
Practical ways we can battle the lies we hear and how we can tap into God's protection.
How we hold onto God’s victory when our circumstances don’t feel like victory.
How we reconcile our instinct to blame God for things we don’t understand.
How to see prayer as a gift.
How God will speak into our fears in deeply personal ways.

Judy Dunagan is a speaker, Bible teacher, and the author of The Loudest Roar: Living in the Unshakable Victory of Christ. A wonder seeker of God and His Word, Judy is passionate about discipleship and making God’s Word and prayer come alive in everyday life. She serves on the Board of Deeper Walk International, and recently retired from Moody Publishers as an Acquisitions Editor. Judy and her husband, Rick, live in Colorado and are the joyful grandparents of six grandchildren. You can connect with Judy at her Website.

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

E27 | How Hearing Jesus Changes Us and How We Show Up, with Amy Seiffert

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Amy Seiffert have a chat (in between a lot of laughing) about the most beautiful truths, beginning with how hearing Jesus changes us. His Word and words change how we think, which then changes: how we show up in all of our places, how we see ourselves, how we live life with others, how we walk through uncertainties, and yes, even how we send off our college kids. And we talk about how our position, as His beloved daughters of the Most High King, cannot change. Ever. When we let that truth take root deep, we walk out all the things differently.

Marnie and Amy discuss:

How to hold space to sit with Jesus even on the off-and-running days.
A quick and simple spiritual practice we can try to connect with Jesus.
How and why we can “keep our spiritual receipts” to grow our faith in God.
How to listen for God in hard places – like dropping off your firstborn at college.
Why understanding our worth to God matters.
How to battle the lies we hear by listening for Jesus.
A powerful story from scripture of how God spoke to and used one of His daughters in a big way.
A personal story of how God is faithful to lead us and those around us (and how we don’t have to be mini-shepherds).

Amy Seiffert is an author, speaker, and monthly YouVersion teacher. She also serves as the Pastor of Coaching and Content at Soma City Church. Previously was a Team Leader with Cru at BGSU and worked with them for more than fifteen years. Amy is currently a graduate student at Denver Seminary in the Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies program and is working on her next book project with Bethany House Publishers. Weaving biblical wisdom through her presentations, Amy inspires, teaches, and humbly invites any willing spiritual pilgrim to walk alongside her in the pursuit of truth and the knowledge of God. Amy is married to Rob, and they live in Bowling Green, Ohio, with their three kids. You can connect with Amy on Instagram and grab her book and sign up for her newsletter at her website.

E26 | How Listening with Unhurried Hearts Helps Us Find Peace in Any Season, with Jennifer Dukes Lee

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Jennifer Dukes Lee kick off a new season with a conversation that’s packed with goodness. We talk about the peace that comes in asking questions of ourselves and God, and how we can listen for and learn from Him inside those questions. And we discuss how our springs and summers and falls and winters all hold purpose and growth, even when we can’t see it. When we unhurry our hearts and open our ears, we can learn and grow in all of them.

Marnie and Jennifer discuss:

How (our shared) background in journalism began a practice of asking questions and listening.
How looking at the way Jesus asked questions offers evidence that our own questions can move us closer to God.
How listening for Him can bring peace, even in situations we don’t choose.
A single sentence that changed Jennifer’s perspective on how she listens for Jesus in the most ordinary places.
How to come out of “hurry sickness” and how unhurrying our hearts can help to open our ears.
The importance of all of the different seasons of our lives and how every season holds purpose, growth and opportunities to listen for Jesus.

Jennifer Dukes Lee is the bestselling author of several books, including Growing Slow, It’s All Under Control, and Stuff I’d Only Tell God. She’s a fan of queso, bright lipstick, and singing too loudly to songs with great harmony. She lives on a fifth-generation family farm in Iowa, where she and her husband have made a life of growing crops, pigs, two beautiful humans, and an enduring faith. You can find Jennifer on Instagram and Facebook and sign up for her newsletter at jenniferdukeslee.com.

S1 E25 | Summer Book Club: "God, Can We Chat?" with Niki Hardy

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:15:00 -0400

Welcome to the final episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

Do you have quiet, unvoiced questions for God? What if asking God our questions can strengthen our faith?

Marnie and Niki discuss all of this as part of her book, God, Can We Chat? In this episode, we talk about:

Reimagining our doubts
How our questions can strengthen our faith.
Reframing the lies we’re believing
Replying to Jesus’ invitation to come to Him, even with all of our questions.
Niki’s four-step C-H-A-T prayer format (and listen to her read an excerpt and walk through the C-H-A-T format).
How to listen after we ask God our questions.

In addition to God, Can We Chat?, Niki Hardy is also the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Niki has been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.

Grab your copy of God, Can We Chat? here. You can connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram, and check out Wildly Known on Substack.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

S1 E24 | Summer Book Club: "God, What Do I Do?" with Katie Reid

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:15:00 -0400

Welcome to the second episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

Do you have “What do I do” questions for God?

In this episode, Katie Reid and Marnie talk about these kinds of questions, as they’re the backbone of her new Bible study, God, What Do I Do?

This study asks the very same questions we ask: God, what do I do when I’m unsure? When I need help? When I’m in a battle? When I want to give up? God will meet us in these questions. If you have questions for God, this episode will help as you seek to hear Him louder.

Marnie and Katie discuss:

What we can learn from Judges 4 and Deborah on how to walk through an intimidating battle.
Why listening and obedience must go together.
A personal story of obedience and what Katie learned from trusting and doing what she heard.
A principle to follow when we’re not sure we’re hearing God.
How to lean into God in our questions of suffering.

Katie Reid, a Bible teacher and the author of Made Like Martha and, the Bible study we’re talking about today, God, What Do I Do? Trained in education, Katie teaches around her kitchen table, in the classroom, and around the country. She co-hosts The Martha + Mary Show and runs the Martha + Mary Show Sisterhood group on Facebook. Katie is a pastor’s wife and worship leader. Following Jesus, marrying her husband, and being a mom to five are the best decisions she’s made. Connect with Katie at her website or on Instagram. Grab her Bible study here.

S1 E23 | Summer Book Club: “With Open Ears” with Karen Wingate

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:10:00 -0400

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder Podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.

How would you listen differently if you couldn’t see?

In this episode, Karen Wingate and Marnie talk about Karen’s story of being born legally blind and how she used her ears as her eyes. With her limited vision, listening well to the world around her and for God within her became how she saw.

Karen shares her story of how hearing and seeing in her physical world taught her about spiritual hearing and seeing.

Marnie and Karen discuss:

Her journey of leaning into her hearing because of her limited sight.
How she learned about God’s character through what she could hear in His creation.
The truth that noticing what we can hear helps us to hear more.
A personal story of how God spoke words of hope to Karen during a difficult medical situation – words she still holds onto today.
How He speaks to us in so many creative ways, all the time.

Karen is author of With Open Ears: 60 Reflections on the Wonder of Sound from a Woman Born Blind. She has also written the award-winning book, With Fresh Eyes, and Grateful Heart: 60 Reason to Thank God in All Things. You can buy Karen's book and find more about Karen and her resources at her website.

S1 E22 | What It Looks Like to Love God and Others By Hearing His Voice, with Rachael Adams

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:45:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams continue with part two of their conversation about loving God and others better and how hearing God’s voice helps us to do that. Sometimes it helps to hear someone else’s stories, to know what it can look like to do a thing we want to do better.

Rachael shares several stories of what trusting those promptings has looked like for her, from conversations in the places she goes to inviting a dear neighbor for some barbecue chicken.

As she goes about her days, she is listening and walking out this call we share to love Him and others — and even ourselves. What a reassurance that yes, we can do this, too.

Marnie and Rachael discuss how:

God used everyday circumstances to invite Rachael to love others.
We can love God but not hear Him – and how to hear Him louder.
Hearing and obeying God isn’t about getting a certain reaction or outcome.
Loving ourselves means something different to God than in our culture.
To learn to hear God’s voice as the loudest.

Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love.

S1 E21 | How Loving God and Loving Others Helps Us Hear God’s Voice, with Rachael Adams

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:15:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams discuss how loving God and loving others fits together with hearing God’s voice. Because they go together. When we love God and others, we’re leaning into our journey with Him in ways that open us to hearing Him – and when we hear His voice louder, we can love Him and others better.

And sometimes we overcomplicate it all, when what God is really asking of us is pretty simple.

Marnie and Rachael discuss how:

Circumstances can unfold differently than we expect after hearing God’s direction – but that doesn’t mean we misheard God.
Knowing we are loved by God helps us to love Him and others.
Feeling unlovable can be a barrier to receiving God’s love for us.
Listening for God’s voice is part of HOW we love others.
We can love God and others as a natural part of our everyday.
We often overcomplicate what loving God and others looks like.

S1 E20 | How to Listen for Jesus When Reading Scripture, with Mariel Davenport

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport continue with part two of their conversation by diving into a four-step method, called TEND, for studying and listening for Jesus through scripture.

After she describes each step, she models what using her TEND method looks like with a verse in real time, so we can see it come to life.

As we wind down our busy spring seasons and transition into a new rhythm for summer, this TEND method is a great way to study the Bible this summer.

Marnie and Mariel chat about:

How Bible study can be powerful in a slower rhythm – even just a verse a day.
The four-step TEND method that she developed for studying scripture.
What it looks like to use the TEND method for one sample verse, in real time.
How we listen for Him in each of the four steps.
The importance of not just reading, but also doing what we read.
How Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will guide and teach us in all things, including scripture.

As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

S1 E19 | How This Atheist Heard God, with Mariel Davenport

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:05:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport discuss how as an atheist, she was perfectly content to believe that God didn’t exist – but God had other plans.

Marnie and Mariel discuss:

How the label “atheist” didn’t keep God away.
God’s heart to pursue us, even when we aren’t aware of Him or His pursuit.
How God used the imperfect humans from the stories in Genesis to meet Mariel's own brokenness.
How Mariel began to hear God speak to her as she read the Bible.
When we read His Word every day and listen for Him, He anchors us with those very words.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

S1 E18 | What Desperate Prayers Look Like (& How the Right Words Don’t Matter), with Rachel Wojo

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:30:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo continue with part two of their conversation by discussing her book, Desperate Prayers. In every desperate circumstance we face, we have the choice of whether to pray or not pray. To walk through it with God or without Him.

Rachel shares what choosing to walk through it with God can look like. And we don’t have to be perfect or say the right words.

Marnie and Rachel chat about how:

We can lean into and learn from the desperate prayers of 15 Bible characters – and know that our own heartbreaks look an awful lot like theirs.
To pray when we don’t have the words.
Simple three-word prayers open our communication with Jesus.
When we open ourselves up to God in prayer, we begin to hear Him in a different way.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

S1 E17 | How Our Pain-filled Prayers Can Actually Unlock Peace, with Rachel Wojo

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo discuss how, inside the hardest of hard things, we face a choice: Hold our heartbreak alone or offer God our most desperate, raw prayers.

We don’t always want to invite God into our anger, confusion, and pain – but Rachel asks the question, what if inside our trials, we leaned into Jesus? What if we asked Him to show us how to show up?

When we choose to, something unexplainable happens.

If you’re in a painful season, these next two episodes are for you. Marnie and Rachel have a real and raw conversation, through some tears, about how:

God is always pursuing us – and her story of His pursuit at age 6.
His voice and character are always the same, but the way we listen can change.
He meets us in what Rachel calls “the fellowship of suffering,” a sacred place that offers unexplainable peace, like the eye of the storm.
When we experience His comfort, we find a deeper longing for His presence.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

S1 E16 | How to Take Our Fears, Doubts, and Desires to Jesus, with Abby McDonald

Marnie Hammar — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:30:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Abby McDonald continue with part two of their conversation with a discussion of fear, doubt, and our desires. We talk about how each of these aren’t bad – but that the enemy can use our fears, doubts, and desires to keep us from meeting with Jesus and hearing Him.

What if we view our fears, doubts, and desires as invitations to seek deeper understanding of each WITH Jesus?

Marnie and Abby chat about how:

Fear has value, and we can take our fear to God to learn more about what’s happening behind the fear.
To recognize when fear is holding us back.
Doubt begins and why we doubt.
We can move past doubt, including when we doubt we’ll hear God and when we doubt what we hear.
To test whether our desires are God-given.
To find peace and to know what we can hold as certain.

Abby McDonald is the author of Surrendering Certainty and Shift. She is also a writing coach and speaker whose passion is to help women become unstuck in their calling and respond to God’s voice in faith. She is a regular contributor for Proverbs 31 Ministries, and her work has been featured in numerous publications. You can find her at her Website, on Instagram, and you can preorder Surrendering Certainty here.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

S1 E15 | Why Do We Need Certainty and How Do We Surrender It? With Abby McDonald

Marnie Hammar — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Abby McDonald discuss our longing for certainty. It’s something we all want, right? We want to know when we choose a certain path, it’s going to end up a certain way.

What we may not realize is that our desire for certainty can actually get in the way of being with and hearing Jesus. What if surrendering the need for certainty helps us find and hear Jesus better?

Marnie and Abby chat about how:

When Abby discovered that she could hear God’s voice, it changed everything about her walk with Jesus.
Only one thing is needed to hear Him — and it isn’t knowledge. Knowledge does not determine our ability to hear God.
We don’t have to have it all figured out to hear Him.
Wanting certainty is a “yoke” or burden that’s too heavy for us.
To lay down the need for certainty.

Abby McDonald is the author of Surrendering Certainty and Shift. She is also a writing coach and speaker whose passion is to help women become unstuck in their calling and respond to God’s voice in faith. She is a regular contributor for Proverbs 31 Ministries, and her work has been featured in numerous publications. You can find her at her website, on Instagram, and you can preorder Surrendering Certainty here.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

S1 E14 | How to Take the Pressure Off When Listening for Jesus, with Monika Kirkland

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:30:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Monika Kirkland continue with part two of their conversation with a discussion of how to open our hearts to hearing Jesus when He seems quiet. It’s all about taking the pressure off ourselves.

Marnie and Monika chat about how:

It’s normal that we experience quieter times with God.
We can draw near Him in several simple, practical ways that help open our hearts to hearing Him.
We want to seek Him in the “low stakes” moments so we can hear Him more clearly in the “high stakes” moments.
We’re probably already hearing Him more than we think.
If we’re bored or stale or dry in our walk with Jesus, we can tell Him that.

Monika Kirkland is a Christian writer, podcaster, wife, and mother of four that knows what it’s like to walk in the trenches of motherhood, marriage, and over a decade of ministry. She is passionate about encouraging and equipping women to cultivate intimacy with Christ and experience the transformative power of the gospel from the inside out. You can follow along on Instagram, tune into her podcast Inner Revival, or visit her website.

S1 E13 | How the Practice of Listening Looks Different in Different Seasons, with Monika Kirkland

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Monika Kirkland discuss what the experience of hearing Jesus can be like and how it can look different in different seasons. She shares two powerful stories, separated by decades, of hearing His whispers in two very different seasons.

Marnie and Monika chat about how:

Jesus whispered a specific, timely promise she needed in her teen years and then, decades later, whispered a fresh, unexpected promise that only He could orchestrate.
Our practice of listening can look different in different seasons.
Having knowledge does not equal having intimacy with Jesus.
Delighting in Him and spending time with Him can quiet our striving.
Our expectations of God can get in the way of hearing Him.

S1 E12 | How Inviting God Into Our Decisions Invites Us Into a Bigger Story, with Shawna Sullivan

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:30:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Shawna Sullivan continue their conversation about trusting God with “crossroads” decisions and then shift to discussing how understanding “stewardship” fits into both the big and small decisions.

Marnie and Shawna chat about:

How to wait on God for clarity and unity with “crossroads” decisions.
How scripture will root us as we wait and how God will offer confirmations.
How seeking first the kingdom of God means stepping into a bigger story.
What stewardship looks like (hint: it’s not only finances).
How we teach our children to know God as their provider.

Shawna Sullivan is a mother and home educator to four children. After 13 years, she traded the hustle and bustle of New York City for the suburbs of north Texas. She will never take a backyard, time with family, air conditioning, or her own laundry room for granted. Shawna writes regularly for Family Christian online. Her passion for living faithfully, not perfectly, informs her words and ministry.

Shawna and David, her husband of 20 years, are writing a book and launching a podcast encouraging and equipping others toward a life of faithful stewardship with their time, money, and talents. Shawna connects with her readers through a bi-weekly newsletter, First Things First, where she shares practical resources and real-life applications.

You can find Shawna at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. She also has a free ebook, 30 Prayers for Provision, designed to help you anchor your heart so you can trust the heart of God and lean on His faithful promises. Included in this ebook are:

- 30 prayers for provision, such as: a Prayer for Protection, Prayer for Finances, Prayer for Joy, etc.

- 30 Bible verses to guide your prayer time and anchor your heart

- A prayer journal page to record your prayers, thoughts, and requests along with a space to record God's faithful provision

S1 E11 | For When You Face “Stay” or “Go” Decisions, with Shawna Sullivan

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Marnie and Shawna Sullivan discuss those important “stay” or “go” decisions. Shawna shares how over a span of 13 years, as her family prayed and waited, God made both “stay” and then “go” not just clear, but even filled with peace and joy.

Marnie and Shawna chat about:

How in the waiting season, the question, “What if God brought us here for more than just ourselves?” became an anchor.
How God answered Shawna’s family’s prayers by confirming, “Stay,” and then in His timing, led them to “Go.”
How in God’s kindness, He will answer and even re-confirm His answer.
How in our waiting seasons, God’s Word is sufficient.

- 30 prayers for provision, such as: a Prayer for Protection, Prayer for Finances, Prayer for Joy, etc.

- 30 Bible verses to guide your prayer time and anchor your heart

- A prayer journal page to record your prayers, thoughts, and requests along with a space to record God's faithful provision

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

S1 E10 | Simple and Unexpected Ways God Speaks in our Everyday with Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:30:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young discuss how God can speak to our hearts in a variety of simple and unexpected ways.

Marnie and Dorina chat about:

The practice of choosing a word for the year (it’s never too late, by the way) and how Jesus meets us in those words.
How Jesus gave Dorina an unexpected, last-minute assignment and how He confirmed what she heard – and then surprised her multiple times as she took steps of faith and obedience.
How God cares about every little detail and shows us His care through even the smallest evidences of His perfection.
Simple, practical steps we can follow in our actual, everyday lives to regularly listen for Him.

Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young is an award-winning author, speaker, mentor, and Bible teacher who loves to help people discover God’s glory on life’s unexpected trails. Dorina has published more than 20 books, including children’s picture books, Bible studies, devotionals, poetry and non-fiction. She lives in Central California with her hubby Shawn and three courageous daughters.

You can find Dorina at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her new Bible study, Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth, is available everywhere.

S1 E9 | How to Find Hope in Seasons of Grief with Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young discuss how God meets us in our grief. Dorina shares her own story of becoming a widow with three young daughters, and how Jesus led her through that grief journey with the hope of redemption.

Marnie and Dorina chat about:

The promise that every grief journey holds the hope of redemption.
What Dorina would say to those grieving right now.
How Jesus met her heart in those early days of grieving.
How He led her to write this study, Redeemer, to offer hope to others for how God will redeem our stories.
How this study of Ruth also serves as an encouragement to care for those who need our help.

You can find Dorina at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her new Bible study, Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth, is available everywhere.

S1 E8 | How Hearing Jesus in Our Emotions Can Bring Peace in the Hardest Places, with Alicia Michelle

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Alicia Michelle continue their conversation about what it looks like to invite Jesus into the middle of our hardest emotional battles and how He speaks peace. Be sure to check out Episode #7 if you missed it, as Alicia introduces her 3-step ADD method that we dive deeper into in this conversation.

Marnie and Alicia chat about:

The kinds of questions we can ask, with Jesus, in each step of the ADD method.
How to acknowledge what we’re feeling with Jesus.
How to discern with Jesus what is keeping us stuck.
How to decide how to move forward with Jesus – even in ongoing, perhaps unresolvable situations.
A story from Alicia's own journey and how Jesus met her inside the hardest emotions.

Alicia Michelle, ACC, CPLC is an ICF-certified Christian life coach and NeuroCoach, author of Emotional Confidence, popular conference speaker, and multi-award-winning podcast host of the top-ranked podcast The Christian Mindset Coach with Alicia Michelle. Through her coaching and courses Alicia has equipped tens of thousands of women with practical brain-and-biblically-based tools to manage emotions and rewire toxic thought patterns for more calm, confidence and joy. She loves to travel, cook, draw, paint and savor life with her beloved husband, four kids and three dogs.

You can find Alicia at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her podcast is The Christian Mindset Coach, and her book, Emotional Confidence: 3 Simple Steps to Manage Emotions with Science and Scripture is available everywhere. She also offers a membership community, called the Emotional Confidence Club.

S1 E7 | What If Understanding the Science Behind Our Emotions Helps Us Connect with God? With Alicia Michelle

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Alicia Michelle discuss the science behind our emotions. When we understand how our emotions work and how God created them, we can more confidently navigate our emotions and even see our emotions as an invitation to connect with God.

Marnie and Alicia chat about:

How our bodies respond to emotions.
How we have more ammunition for navigating our emotions than will power.
How when we understand how our bodies work, we can work through our emotions WITH Jesus.
The 3-step method we can follow to understand and process what we’re feeling.
How we can work with Jesus to decide where to “emotionally dwell” in hard situations.
Learning to see our emotions as avenues to connect with God.

S1 E5 | How to Invite Jesus into Hard Decisions, with Niki Hardy

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Niki Hardy have a conversation about inviting Jesus into the wrestle of making big, hard decisions.

Marnie and Niki chat about:

The possibility that God has a British accent.
How we can expect God to speak into and lead our smallest steps and biggest decisions.
What watching and waiting for confirmation looks like.
How sometimes when we want revelations, our answers can come through realizations.
How the internal “knowing” can often be the hardest to trust.
How clarity can come in our faithful movement forward.
A practice that can help in discerning how Jesus responds to our questions.

Niki Hardy is the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Her next book, God, Can We Chat? hits the shelves March 2025. She’s been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.

Connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram. You can preorder Niki’s new book, God, Can We Chat? and go grab the resources Niki mentions, like How to Trust God When You Can't Stop Worrying and the Wildly Known Quiz.

S1 E6 | How Brain Science Fits into Listening for Jesus, with Niki Hardy

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Niki Hardy continue their conversation about what hearing God is like in our day to day. Check out Episode #5 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Niki chat about:

How being in nature offers us a unique invitation to meet with and hear from God.
The neuroscience behind hearing God and what’s happening in our brains when we listen for Jesus.
How to navigate the logical side and the creative side of our brains when we discern God’s voice.
How the practice of listening takes time to “tune” into as we form new pathways.
How to handle times when God seems quiet.
What we can know when we have questions.

S1 E2 | Two Questions We Can Ask Jesus Every Day, with Becky Keife

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In episode 2 Marnie and Becky Keife continue our conversation about listening for Jesus as a daily practice. Check out Episode #1 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Becky chat about:

Our identity in Christ and how hearing God’s voice leads us to a deeper knowing of who we are.
How asking Him specific questions will lead us to a greater understanding of how He sees each of us as unique individuals whom He has called to unique purposes.
Two simple, powerful questions to ask God every day.

AND:

A story of how God answered those two questions with the most unexpected, hold-your-breath surprise.

Becky references Jamie Winship’s book, Living Fearless. Check it out here.

Becky Keife is the author of multiple books and Bible studies and is mom to three loud boys. She’s the Community and Editorial Manager for (in)courage where she loves shepherding women’s words. Becky also runs her own business as a Conversion Copywriter & Brand Voice Strategist. She’s been married to her husband Chris for 19 years and only cooks dinner because people need to eat.

Connect with Becky Keife on her Website, Instagram, Facebook and (in)courage. Learn more about her Six-Week Identify Intensive.

S1 E3 | How to Live with Longing and Not Get Stuck, with Rebecca George

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Rebecca George have a conversation about the very human heart condition called longing.

Marnie and Rebecca chat about:

Rebecca’s journey of sharing Jesus with women and the many ways she’s done that over the years.
How Rebecca’s journey has held seasons of longing, especially the season of praying about and waiting on God’s plan for her longing to be married.
How those seasons of longing led to her upcoming book, You’re Not Too Late.
The definition of longing and how longing is "no respecter of persons."
The three-stage cycle of longing that we all experience.
How some longings are placed in us by God.
A question we can ask before our longings become unhealthy, to help us acknowledge our longing without getting stuck.

Rebecca is the founder of Radical Radiance® - a podcast community where listeners are equipped to blend what they love with the Jesus who makes them shine. She is a podcaster, speaker, and author whose greatest joy in life is discipling others to pursue their passions in a way that builds the Kingdom. In her free time you can find her running outside, writing, or trying a new recipe with 90s country playing in the background.

Connect with Rebecca George on her Website or on Instagram. Preorder Rebecca’s new book, You’re Not Too Late AND get the FREE 50-Day digital devotional at Nottoolatebook.live.

S1 E4 | How to Navigate Seasons of Longing, with Rebecca George

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Marnie and Rebecca George continue their conversation about longing and how we can listen for Jesus in our longings. Check out Episode #3 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Rebecca chat about:

The distinction between God-given longing and a longing that has become an idol.
How to navigate the times when we are stuck in the lingering stage of the longing cycle.
The relationship between accessibility and intimacy and how earthly longings and accessibility block intimacy in our relationships.
The connection between intentionality and intimacy.

AND:

A story of a hike that proves God is in every detail, sometimes working behind the scenes, even in our seasons of longing.

Connect with Rebecca George on her Website or on Instagram. Preorder Rebecca’s new book, You’re Not Too Late AND get the FREE 50-Day digital devotional at Nottoolatebook.live.

S1 E1 | What Does Listening for Jesus Look Like? With Becky Keife

Marnie Hammar — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:00:00 -0500

In this first episode, Marnie and Becky Keife have a conversation about what it’s like to listen for Jesus and how it fits into our everyday.

Marnie and Becky chat about:

How we need stock in Costco because feeding boys is endless.
Becky’s faith story and how God moved her from a faith filled with striving to a faith of knowing Jesus.
How Becky had to come to terms with that nagging question of whether it really was God speaking to her heart.
How sometimes it isn’t until we come to the end of ourselves that we start really hearing Him.
Three critical, over and over, steps that we must take to hear Jesus.
Becky’s definition of how God speaks to us.

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Hear Him Louder Trailer

Marnie Hammar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:33:09 -0500

Welcome to the Hear Him Louder Podcast where we delight in listening for Jesus in our everyday.