Marian Jordan Ellis from This Redeemed Life is a wife, mom, author, and Bible study teacher who is passionate about helping women grow in their Bible literacy and love for God's Word. Our prayer is that you come away from this conversation fired up about truth and your pursuit of it.
What We Chat about in Today's Episode:
~Marian's radical conversion story - how Jesus found Marian in a bar following a hard childhood and her life was changed
~Marian's Bible study on Ephesians, "For His Glory: Living as God's Masterpiece" - what to expect in it and some of the lies she tackles throughout
~God's tenderness mixed with truth
~Why Marian is so passionate to equip women to know Jesus more deeply and live a Spirit-filled life; how she encourages women to do this
~How our ability to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and His leading is dependent on our actually spending time with the Lord
~What we learn about our identity in Christ from the truths of the gospel in Ephesians 1
~How understanding our identity in Christ leads to our understanding the armor of God and ability to stand firm
~How being in God's Word leads to our loving Him more and having His opinion of us matter far more than anyone else's
~Standing firm in the face of spiritual warfare
~Discernment as our greatest weapon; understanding that spiritual warfare will take us out if we do not know truth for ourselves
~The work of the Holy Spirit to make our speech and reactions gentle towards those with whom we disagree
~Busting away the myth of "my truth"
~And more!
155: God's Word and Your Life with Marian Jordan Ellis