100 episodes
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz Twyla Franz
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5.0 • 21 Ratings
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Living as a disciple-making-disciple in your neighborhood doesn’t have to feel intimidating, and that is why I started The Uncommon Normal. My vision for the podcast is that it will be a space to steep in truth that combats the faulty messages we have believed about our worth and our purpose. A space that will inspire both a dream of what it could look like to live missionally right in your neighborhood and the courage to take baby steps in that direction. A space to be life-long learners together.
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How to Become a Better Listener
But talking, I’ve found, isn’t the only antithesis of listening. The thoughts inside our heads can also inhibit our ability to be present.
Links mentioned:
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
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What Happens When Light Illuminates and Nourishes
Jesus and the God-breathed words I’m holding in my hands aren’t just for my mind, but my heart. It’s light and it’s food. Because we’re not robots replicating Him but dearly loved children. He satisfies us with His abundance—for us and so we can tell those around us what we’ve experienced.
Links mentioned:
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
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146 - How to Face Risk When You Want to Run Away
There' a risk I’ve feared but not dug into the why. God wants to talk about it. Show me where my assumptions are flawed and reactionary.
Maybe you’ve been here too. Fearing the no because you don’t want to be misunderstood or rejected again. Fearing the yes because you’d assume it was sympathy or special consideration, and you want neither. You’d rather erase both possibilities, not risk hoping or caring.
Links mentioned:
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
Read the written version of this episode HERE.
Find Jennifer Dukes Lee's guided journal, Stuff I'd Only Tell God HERE. Highly recommend! -
How to Embrace the Unexpected When You Get What You Pray For
Then God interrupts, as I’ve known Him to do. Corporate restructuring, says my husband when he calls me. Effective immediately.
Links mentioned:
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
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How to Pray Scripture When Your Heart is Heavy
I wasn’t prepared to read the Psalm drenched in tears and pleading prayers. In the Bible I held close this time last year, it’s barely legible through pen marks and smudges. But in The Voice, which I read for Mary Demuth’s 90-day Bible reading challenge, the page was untouched.
Links mentioned:
Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here.
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
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143 - Four Habits That Will Make Your Desire for God Grow
We want to get it, don’t we? Faith that’s not safe but real. Conversation with Jesus that is constant yet effortless. Honesty we know is welcome. A passion to know God intense enough to wake us in the middle of the night.
Links mentioned:
Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here.
Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (free with a purchase) to get the most out of the devotional.
Read the written version of this episode HERE.
Customer Reviews
Restful Encouragement
I love Twyla’s encouragement to love our neighbors by loving God and loving ourselves. Instead of giving us more things to do, she helps us to see that loving others comes from what is resting in our hearts.
“Neighbor Friends”
Your encouragement has led us to go out of our way to speak with neighbors whenever we see them. In doing so, we’ve had the joy of building relationships to the point where we’ve been invited to attend baby showers and birthday parties and had the honor of supporting several families during their first days back home with their newborn babies. We’ve laughed with neighbors while watching our children play soccer together in the street, and we’ve enjoyed countless meals together, both in our home and in the homes of our neighbors. Thank you for inspiring us to realize the tremendous opportunity we have to build community right where we’re at as now we couldn’t imagine life without our “neighbor friends”. Thank you!
Melissa D.
I totally related to this topic. It takes courage to bridge the awkwardness to be mission minded with your neighbors. Great encouragement and tips.
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