When you hear the word ‘faith,’ what comes to your mind? It’s a word we hear all the time in our journeys with God, but there can be a wide spread of what the word actually means. Erin H. Warren, founder of the online Bible study community Feasting on Truth, joins AllMomDoes host Julie Lyles Carr for a candid conversation about what it means to pursue faith…and what it doesn’t.
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Erin H. Warren:
What I think we have misunderstood is that, that God is not after a good life here on earth. He’s after our hearts. And no matter what we walk through, we are going to go through hard things. Why wouldn’t we just want to go through them with him? Because he is the one that can fulfill every promise that he has made.
Julie Lyles Carr:
So you probably hear a lot, Hey, when you’re a mom, you got to pray. You need to pray. You need to pray. You need to pray all the time. There’s so many things flying at us. I get it. I understand, but sometimes, are you ever wondering, What am I supposed to be praying about? How? Somebody give me some intel on this. I’m Julie Lyles Carr. This is the AllMomDoes Podcast. Today, we have somebody on who’s going to help us do just that. Just walk us through what it means in a practical way to pray and how to pray when you’re a mom in those everyday situations. Erin H. Warren, thank you so much for being on the show today.
Erin H. Warren:
Thanks for having me. I am so glad to be here, Julie.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Absolutely. You are a mom, and a wife, and an author, and a video producer, and you have been in vocational ministry before. I mean, you have done it all. So tell me about your life in Florida, what chapter, what season you’re in now, things you love to do, all that kind of stuff.
Erin H. Warren:
Well, I am a very rare native central Floridian.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Oh, yeah.
Erin H. Warren:
I have been here, was born here, and I’ve been here my whole life. So I’ve seen a lot of change over the years, and a lot of people come and go, but it is my home, and I absolutely love it. And at the time of recording, most of the country’s under snow, and we’re sitting pretty in the 60s, so I’m really enjoying this.
Julie Lyles Carr:
You can have that moment of being like, ha, ha, ha. Yeah.
Erin H. Warren:
I know. You guys all come back to us in the summer when it’s lovely in the summer. The thing about Florida is that it’s always opposite. So people stay indoors in the summer because it’s so hot, whereas people in other places in the country stay indoors in the winter because it’s so cold. So this is our time, it’s our season. But I absolutely love it. I am married to my husband, Chris. We will celebrate 19 years of marriage this year, and we have three kids who I always describe as littles who are not little anymore, somewhat because I’m in denial, but two, just because they’re really tall. We’re a very tall family, and so even though they still feel little, they’re getting bigger and bigger.
So my oldest Tate is 14, my daughter Bennett is 11, and my son Kipton is nine. And so we are just in the busyness of elementary and middle school and kind of all the things that that entails. We’re getting ready to enter show season. My older two are involved in theater, both on stage and behind the scenes, and my youngest plays basketball. So we’re in the thick of activity season for us. So that’s kind of my family season. And then, I, as you mentioned, used to be in vocational ministry, and God called me out of that in 2020, in February of 2020.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Right before. I mean, same story on this side, same time of year. A little bit later than you, but yeah, yeah, right there in that COVID margin. Yep.
Erin H. Warren:
Yes. And it was like the Lord knew that I needed, I mean, all of a sudden I was home. I had three kids who were suddenly at home, and I was responsible for their education, and he just knew we were going to need that margin. But what was beautiful in that season is there were women I had been teaching bible study with at our church at the time who were kind of like, “What’s next, Erin? We want to keep studying. And we were all stuck at home.” So I was like, well, let’s study Colossians together. And they’re like, okay, great. And we did that for four weeks, and then they’re like, What’s next?
And I’m like, well, there’s five Tuesdays in July, and there’s five chapters in first Peter. Let’s do that. And they just kept asking for more and more. And so the Lord, in that season, just birthed an online ministry called Feasting on Truth that helps women be equipped and encouraged to learn how to study scripture for themselves. And so it’s just been a sweet spot. He’s opened doors for me to write books and publish Bible studies and the latest of which is Everyday Prayers for Faith, which I did in partnership with Million Praying Moms. And it’s really a book about prayers for faith that are rooted in the promises of God.
Julie Lyles Carr:
I love that. We’ve had Brooke on before from Million Praying Moms, and such an inspirational story about people, how they are connecting. And with what you’re doing on Feasting on Truth, it’s so cool because it’s right in that same lane, this community that has developed very natively, very organically online that really comes alongside women, right? Where they’re living in crazy busy seasons, and makes things like Bible study together, prayer time together, small group together, a whole lot more accessible. I think for a lot of us, when we have kids who are younger and we are trying to be all the places and do all the things, sure, it’s great if you are part of a faith community that has all the bells and whistles and phenomenal child care and you’re able to adjust your schedule and your work schedule to be able to go in at certain times.
But I kept finding when I was in women’s ministry, Erin, that we were offering a whole lot of stuff for younger moms, and it was getting harder and harder for those younger moms to actually be able to make those things happen on a week-to-week basis simply because of the heaviness of schedules, of work schedules, all the rest. So I love seeing these communities cropping up that are robust and healthy and doing awesome things and are able to also accommodate so that you can be the kind of mom you’re supposed to be and be around and all the things and not make your life crazier, make it something that’s really beautiful and additive to your faith walk. So congrats to you. I think that’s just amazing.
Erin H. Warren:
Thanks. It’s 100% the Lord.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Oh, well. And you know, the things that he does are way more effective and efficient than the stuff that I try to come up with. So I think that’s amazing. So talk to me about this notion of that it’s Everyday Prayers for Faith. I love talking about faith in this way, in a way that’s a little bit different. I think a lot of us have what I would call a connotative understanding of what faith is. And for many of us, I think that we would say that praying is faith. It’s kind of a faith thing we’re doing.
And yet, I love how you’re spinning the box on us and talking about praying prayers for faith. I had a message I did several years ago in which I talked about Philip, one of Jesus’s disciples, who is often panned by the commentators that, well, he wanted all this proof and he wanted to know the numbers and on and on and on, and the tenor of that message was, Hey, fighting for your faith is faith. We forget that sometimes. So talk to me about this idea about praying prayers for faith. What is the message you are getting to? How are you defining faith in that perspective?
Erin H. Warren:
I think faith is one of those concepts. There’s some concepts within scripture within, I would say, our Christian communities where we maybe have misrepresented, or they’re just kind of because of the way they’re also used outside of the church, it creates just a lot of confusion around the meaning of it. And I think faith is one of those. We talk about faith a lot. I have faith in you, you can do well on that test. I have faith in you. I have faith in my team, they’re going to win the championship. It’s not a word that is only found within Scripture. The world uses faith too. And so sometimes I just think it gets a little muddled. And for me, a lot of my journey with understanding faith as God defines it started when my husband was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease about seven, eight years ago.
And even leading up to that as people would say things to me like, God is faithful, God is faithful. I noticed that we always used it in the context of good earthly outcomes. You get healed from cancer or your cancer goes into remission, you get pregnant, you find the guy, you get the job. God is faithful, God is faithful. And so it has created kind of a misunderstanding of his faithfulness because by definition, the fact that he is faithful is that he keeps his promises and we have to know what his promises are. And really in that season of wrestling, I was going, okay, then what are your promises? And I think I’ve misunderstood something about God. And so one, it was a recognition of kind of like what you were saying, that faith, even asking for more faith, wrestling that faith is faith. So pressing in when those questions arise instead of just going, well, if that’s not his faithfulness, then he must not be faithful and walk away.
I think a lot of times we hold God to promises he didn’t make. And so for me, I really began trying to find who he is in Scripture, what his character is, and what did he promise us. And he didn’t promise us earthly outcomes because the truth is, he is still faithful, even if you don’t ever get the job. He is still faithful, even if you continue to walk through infertility. And when we tie his faithfulness to our good earthly circumstances, we’re opening others to questions of faith because then they go, is God not faithful to me?
And so one of the things in that season, so learning first and foremost what his faithfulness is, but two, is recognizing how knowing his faithfulness helps build our faith. So faith is not a perfect the moment you say yes to Jesus and surrender your life that you have all the faith you’re ever going to need and have, and you can just move on. Faith is something that continues to build in us. And so praying for faith, to get to your original question, praying for faith is a recognition of who he is and who we are and knowing that it is only through the knowledge of him and his faithfulness that it helps build and re-instill our faith. And so really, this book is an opportunity to make faith a prayer focus because it’s all about him and not about us.
Julie Lyles Carr:
What I hear you saying is we often have a perspective on faith that if we can just grow our faith big enough, then that gives us the auspices. And we not think of it this way, but if my faith’s big enough, then I can manipulate God, or it somehow changes the scale to where then he has to do what I want. And I get why people get confused on this, Erin, because we do have Jesus saying, “I couldn’t even heal anybody in this hometown of mine because they didn’t have faith.” Jesus tells us, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, then amazing things can happen.”
And so a lot of times, to my perspective, we end up thinking if I can just get my faith to a certain magnitude, weight, volume, depth, whatever the metric is that we’re trying to evaluate our faith by then things have to go my way. And if they don’t go my way, then that means my faith isn’t big enough yet. And yet, what I hear you saying is what if we switched that up and we became more interested in God’s faithfulness to us, the places he is faithful? And again, that’s not to say that we don’t have a goal and a perspective on building our faith, but the only way we build our faith, I think, is by recognizing where God is already faithful. Does that resonate with you?
Erin H. Warren:
Absolutely. And I think I’m teaching through Mark this year in the Feasting on Truth Bible study, and both those passages you just mentioned are in there. And I think what’s so fascinating about reading, and this is why I love studying the Bible in context and studying whole chunks of scripture at a time, is because when you see those passages in context, I think a lot of times we pull them out and we go, well, I have faith of a mustard seed, and if this didn’t happen, if this outcome didn’t happen, then obviously I didn’t actually have faith. I think that’s a lot of times what we think of. And so I think that’s when those questions of faith start to hit us because Satan comes like he has done since the Garden of Eden and go, did God actually say? And so you’re like, oh, well, he did say if I had faith of a mustard seed.
But if you read it in context, you see this, Mark has this definition, this is from James R. Edwards and his commentary on the book of Mark, that Mark’s definition is hear, believe, bear fruit. And where does fruit start? It starts with a seed. And so it’s about this idea that we have this moment where we put our faith in him, but then we believe, but then we continue to bear fruit. And that’s why this is a fruit of the spirit. And the everyday prayer series has been going through different fruits of the spirit. So there’s everyday prayers for peace, everyday prayers for patience. I was really glad that one was already written because I was like, nah, not that one.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Don’t want to take the [inaudible 00:14:45] course on that one.
Erin H. Warren:
Everyday prayers for joy. And so rooted in the understanding of fruit of the spirit and rooted in that idea of faith is that faith starts somewhere and then it grows. And in fact, that’s in the Gospel of Mark a lot. There’s scholars who believe that he is writing to the early church, who are the late first generation, early second generation Christians who would’ve known these disciples and who were the fruit of their ministry and saw them, a couple of them martyred, saw the bigness of what they were doing for God and in the kingdom. And then Mark is reminding them of the seed of where it all started, because you actually never hear the disciples in the book of Mark recognize Jesus as the suffering servant Messiah. Peter says, “You are the Messiah.” But he’s thinking military Messiah like he’s come to save.
And so he’s showing this. And actually, a lot of those parables and a lot of those miracles in Mark are not about the faith of the people, but about the God who is faithful to do in us what we cannot do ourselves. And that’s not necessarily earthly outcomes; it’s more about our heart and it’s more about making us; that he came to save us; that he can take what was unclean and make it clean; that he can take what is deaf and make it hear; and that he can take what is blind and make it see the truth of who he is. And so, I think, understanding that aspect of faith and knowing that it’s something that grows in us, I think takes a lot of pressure off.
I think a lot of us believe in, we would say, oh, totally salvation by faith, absolutely. Nothing I can do to earn it. But then we have this notion that somehow it flips, and we have this works by faith, like you were saying. If I do these things, then these outcomes will happen. And God doesn’t promise us that. He promises us quite the opposite in John’s 16:33 that we are going to have trouble in this world.
Julie Lyles Carr:
I do think we have a DIY approach it many times to our faith.
Erin H. Warren:
That’s a good way to put it.
Julie Lyles Carr:
It’s up to me. It’s up to me to grow it. It’s up to me to do all the things. And this idea of praying toward it is really beautiful, like I said. One thing that I would love to hear you unpack for us, Erin, is we also have passages of scripture that talk about that measures of faith are given in different measures to different people. We are to respond out of the measure of faith that we have been given. How does that dovetail with the idea of we’re wanting to move from glory to glory, we’re wanting to grow into deeper faith, and yet there may be someone in our world that just seem to get a more robust download on the faith thing?
And then, for some of us, ours seems kind of tiny compared to some of the faith. We all have those people in our world, too. I know I have the friend who just says, oh, we just feel like God told us to sell everything and move off to this place we’ve never been, and he’s got a job for us there in a community, and dah dah, dah, and we’re going to do it. And I’m thinking, I don’t, what universe is that? It’s just, and the crazy thing is, Erin, a lot of times with those folks like it all works out and it’s all fine. And there are those who would look at that and say, well, that’s mindset. They went in expectant, and they went in with the right frame, and on and on. But when I rewind and take a look at God’s word, I think part of it is we’re probably not supposed to be comparing against each other, but what do you make of this idea that maybe God just has different measures of faith for different things for each of his different kids?
Erin H. Warren:
I think this is another area where we tend to put the focus on us and not on God. And I think a lot of our questions of faith come when we start looking side to side instead of looking to him. And when I teach Bible study, it is, I call it God-centered Bible study because we are looking first and foremost for who God is, not who we are. And I think a lot of times we approach scripture going, Well, what does this say about me? Or what does this say to me? And so when we have those questions and we are wrestling, I think a lot of times we think, well, there’s something wrong with us or because it’s not like them or whatever. And one of the things that I’ve been learning over the last couple of years, I taught through Romans last year, and there’s this Romans chapter four where Paul starts commending Abraham’s faith.
And I think a lot of us go, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. You said he had faith. But if I’m remembering the story correctly, he did some things that were very much outside of trusting God. And I think a lot of times we again forget that faith is a process, and it’s something that grows in us. And the longer you walk with God and the longer there’s a posture of your heart, I love. So the Greek word definition of faith is, hold on, I got to find it in my notes here, it talks about; it’s the firm belief in something for which there is no proof. This is the English word, sorry. So it’s this idea of firm belief and strong conviction, and complete. But the Greek word for faith is always a gift from God. This is the HELPS Word Study. It’s never something that can be produced by people for the believer, it’s God’s divine persuasion, and it’s therefore distinct from human belief or confidence yet involves it.
So I love that it has this twofold. It’s something that is not dependent on us, yet we still have to hold to it. It still requires us to submit. But here’s the thing that always gets me. The Lord continually births faith in the yielded believer, so they know what he prefers. And I think a lot of times we forget that yielded and believing that there’s a surrender and that we continue to believe and press in when we have those questions and surrender and go, Lord, what is it that you want? And not necessarily looking, you have no idea what’s going on in the background of that person’s life, truly. They may look like they have a lot of faith, like Abraham stepping out and going, not knowing, and all that stuff. But they also might get to Egypt and be like, oh, yeah, this isn’t my wife. It’s my sister.
And so recognizing that we’re human, God knows that we are not perfect, but he does call us to continue to yield and surrender and to continue pressing in toward him so that we know him. And I think the more I know of who he is, the more I know of what he has promised, the easier it is for me to surrender, the more it enables him to work in my life, and the more my faith grows. And so, I think, just continually reminding yourself daily, I surrender. I want to seek him. He tells me who he is. My faith grows.
And that’s really the core of this book. And the reason why I wrote a book on faith that takes you 30 days through promises of God is because when you know what his promises are, all of a sudden you start seeing him fulfill those in your life. And you start seeing, oh, I do see where you went before me in this situation, and I do see where you gave me peace despite the craziness around me. And I did see how you were faithful to use that season of suffering in my life. And I do see how you cared for me. And I do see, and all of those help reassure the foundation of our faith.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Right. I have had someone recently in my life say something along the lines of, that I’ve been thinking a lot about, Erin. Just turning it over, turning it over in my mind to the point that you were saying that when you were teaching, you’re going first to really understand in context and to look for God and it in a God-centered way. They said that scripture is not about you, it’s for you, but it’s not about you. And so often, I think we almost try to treat scripture as an astrology chart. I mean, let me get a little controversial here. Now, believe me, I have certainly had those experiences where I open the word of God, and there’s something that jumps out at me that really feels like, wow, I know this was written 2,000, 3,000 years ago, but boy does it feel absolutely today. And it’s got my name on top of it, and I love that.
But when we’re only approaching scripture from that perspective, it can rob us of a broader understanding of the machination of everything that’s going on and how God does go before us in so many ways. Now, in this book, when you’re whittling it down to the promises of God that you feel like are for believers broadly, how did you make those decisions? Because you and I both know there are lists out there on the internet and other places that have all the promises of God, and they are awesome. And as Bible teachers, we’ll go back in and look at the context and go, huh, that seems like that might’ve been a promise of God for a very particular people in a very particular situation, and now we’re trying to plug and play it into something today. Maybe it wasn’t intended that way. Is this a promise that’s ubiquitous? Is this a promise that was conditional and specific? How did you make those choices? Because I think that’s a lot of where we get tripped up is we find a promise somewhere, and we think that it’s one for now. So what was your filter process?
Erin H. Warren:
I’m pretty sure I know which one you’re talking about.
Julie Lyles Carr:
I mean, there are a few that have definitely made it to meme worthy plaque etched kind of status.
Erin H. Warren:
Yes. Exodus 14:14, Jeremiah 29:11.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Yeah. I mean, there’s a whole list and I love them. I think they’re amazing. Don’t get me wrong.
Erin H. Warren:
They’re amazing. Yeah, yeah. We’ll go there. I can go there. I think one of the things that helps us know is that they are promises that are seen in multiple places throughout scripture. So there is a theme through scripture of God as a shepherd. It’s throughout the Old Testament, it’s in the New Testament. John 10, Jesus says, “I’m the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep.” And so I think that’s one way we can kind of see that. And I do think, and I think a lot of these, so several of these promises, I actually had a really hard time picking which verse I wanted because it’s like, well, it’s in here and it’s in here, and both of those are really good. And so I think looking at the whole of scripture and understanding the thread of scripture in the right interpretation of it helps us know what the promises are that are for us.
And like I said, we were talking about earlier, I think understanding context. If you go read Exodus 14:15, God says, “Why do you stand there crying out to me? Move forward.” It’s a great verse. The Lord will fight for you. You only need to be silent or still, depending on which translation you read. But if you keep reading, God’s like, Hey, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to move. And so, yes, God does fight for us. He is victorious. That’s one of the promises. But his victory may not necessarily be in the earthly circumstance that you are going through.
He has power over cancer, but he may choose not to heal this side of heaven, but he is ultimately going to restore us and heal our bodies despite the hardship. And I have two people in my family who deal with chronic illness that most likely will never go away. Not that I don’t believe God could heal them, I just have to wrestle that my life is more about eternity than it is the here and now. And that we live in a world that is broken and marred. It’s one of the things I’ve loved in Mark is we see Jesus grieving over and over at the brokenness of our world, but he came to do something about it, and his victory was about eternity and what he did. And no one can take that away from us. The battle’s already won.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Right. We have grappled in our family, as my listener knows, two of my eight children are differently abled. One has significant hearing loss, one has cerebral palsy, and I have spoken on this on platforms and at events before. And every now and then, Erin, I’ll have someone come up. I think they’re well-intentioned, or I’ll get an email afterward if I talk about this experience with my two girls, and I think they’re trying to be helpful, but what they will say to me is, You really need to stand firm and pray harder for your girls. It is God’s will that they would be healed. You need to conjure up more faith, activate more faith, all of these things. The first time it happened, I can tell you that my response was probably not as gracious as it should have been. Now, when it happens, I really feel in a certain way that God’s given me the ability to see before me a little scared kid who really is wanting a lot more control.
Now, that is not to say that God cannot come along and do those things because we know he can and we see it in his word all over the place, but when he doesn’t, it doesn’t mean that there’s been a failure of faith. How do you advise people? Because we all just want to make people feel better, right? I mean, I think part of the heartbeat of what goes on in some of the dumbest things we say is that we really want people to feel better. We want them to be okay. We don’t want to leave them in a certain circumstance. We want to give them hope. And yet sometimes we say things that are less than that and don’t always really align with the word. What are some of the things we can do to make sure when we’re trying to encourage someone in their own faith that we’re not doing, that we’re not saying, that we’re not assuming? Because it really isn’t the fullest context of how God operates.
Erin H. Warren:
First of all, let me tell you, I’m so sorry that that’s happened to you, and I think it’s happened to me. In fact, I had somebody once tell me that diabetes was a demon in my son’s body and that I could call on Jesus and that demon would have to leave. And I was like, it’s not. And I think a lot of us want to believe that the good life here on earth without pain and without trouble is what God intended for us. And I would say, to an extent, it is. However, we messed up. We sinned and brokenness entered the world, sickness entered the world, disease entered the world. I was doing an Instagram live interview on the Million Praying Mom’s Instagram and mine on Erin H. Warren with Michele Cushatt, and one of the things she said is that life is hard no matter what.
And I don’t want to live a hard life apart from God. She was talking about the reason why, after everything she’s been through, why she still follows Jesus, and it’s because it’s going to be hard whether I believe him or not. But, oh my goodness, where else would I go? In John chapter six, these people who want their food for their stomachs, this is after the feeding of the 5,000, and the next day all these people come back to Jesus. John’s the only one who records what happens the next day. They come back to Jesus, and they’re like, they basically, they’re trying to manipulate, like, oh, we want you, show us a sign. And Jesus is like, “No, I know what you want. You want bread for your stomachs. You don’t want me. You don’t want a sign. You want to be fulfilled here on earth.”
“I am the bread that came down from heaven, and if you eat of me, you will never go hungry again.” And they start going, it says, these are disciples. It’s not the 11, but it’s people who are following Jesus. And they’re like, Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is too hard. And it says in John 6:66 that after that, many disciples turned away and no longer walked with him, and I think, oh, my goodness, they were standing in front of the Messiah, the bread of life, who could give them everything that they needed for life and godliness. And they walked away, and he turns to the disciples, and he says, “Are you guys going to go away as well?” And Peter says, “Where else would we go?”
Julie Lyles Carr:
Where would we go?
Erin H. Warren:
You have the words of eternal life. And so I think for a lot of us, I went off on a little bit of a tangent here, Julie, welcome to my world.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Love it.
Erin H. Warren:
I’m trying to remember what the original question was. But what I think we have misunderstood is that God is not after a good life here on earth. He is after our hearts. And no matter what we walk through, we are going to go through hard things. Why wouldn’t we just want to go through them with him? Because he is the one that can fulfill every promise that he has made, that he is with us. Oh, what do we pray? So here’s what we say. Okay, let me get back to the original.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Love it.
Erin H. Warren:
I have come to a place where my prayers for people and my encouragement for people walking through hard things is praying specifically that they would see God fulfill the promises, particularly of his presence with them before them and behind them, because that is the one that has meant the most to me. When my son was diagnosed with type one diabetes, almost, it’ll be two years in April, that that was the promise. I said, God, I don’t know what to pray here. I don’t know what to pray, but I don’t want to miss you. I know you’re with me. Show me where you are. And you all, I saw God’s provision before me in a diabetic basketball coach in our community league who helped my son get back on the court. I saw him in a “chance meeting” in the aisles of Target with a friend who I hadn’t seen in a long time, who literally gave me the exact encouragement from scripture that I needed that day.
I’ve seen him in the relationships that he had already woven together, that allowed us to meet other type one families so that we weren’t walking through this alone. I could go through my life and think those were all chance and miss the fact that they were God fulfilling his promise to me. And so I think for us, we’ve got to know what the Christian platitudes are that are not going to make someone feel better. It is not going to make someone feel better to say, Well, if you just prayed a little harder, this would probably go away. That helps no one. That’s like asking a woman if she’s pregnant and she’s not. It’s just painful.
Julie Lyles Carr:
It’s just painful. It’s just painful. Erin, I think that is such wisdom, that place of really taking a look at asking someone to just know that God’s around them. I have so many similar stories that the amazing encounters, those divine appointments that you never could have constructed that really helped me hold fast to where God was showing up even when circumstances were murky and confusing and didn’t always line up with some of the very tidy and neat theology that some people wanted to present to me. So I think that’s such a beautiful way of saying it. Well, Erin, I have loved this conversation, and I want to make sure that the listener knows where to go to find you and all the great stuff you’re doing. So tell me where the listener can go to find out about the book, to find out about your Bible study online, all the things.
Erin H. Warren:
You can go to feastingontruth.com and you can click books and on there has both of the books that I’ve written plus all the Bible studies. And then on Instagram is where I show up the most at Erin H. Warren.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Perfect. Well, we will have Rebecca put that in the show notes for the listeners. So listener, you can go and just click in there and find all of the great things that we’ve been talking about today with Erin. Erin, thank you so much. Congratulations on the new book. And I’m just thrilled that you have found a way to continue to operate in community to encourage women right where they are. And now, in this latest way, to help all of us understand what it means to pray and to pray in faith in a really fresh perspective. Thanks for all that you do.
Erin H. Warren:
Thank you so much for having me. And thank you for what you do too, Julie. I appreciate it.
Julie Lyles Carr:
Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay, listener, you’ve got your directive. Get over to those show notes, and a big thank you to Rebecca. She just is so great to get those together all the time. And you’ll find those show notes on all of the episodes. So if there’s anything you’re looking for, you can go back and take a look. And I love to hang out with you too on Instagram. Just like Erin was saying, that’s primarily where I run around. I’m Julie Lyles Carr there. Also, the AllMomDoes community, that’s where we hang out quite a bit. Plus allmomdoes.com with incredible articles and all kinds of community and thoughts for you in the life you’re leading, in the faith that you are growing, the marriage you’re nurturing, the kids you’re raising, all the things. So be sure and check that out. Would you do me a great big favor?
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