Rooted + Woven

Ep 42 // Walking by Faith, Digging for Truth // A Walk With Deb

While walking the Weiser Trail, Deb recorded a voice memo conversation with the Lord in real time. No teaching plan. No polished structure. Just an honest walk with God and a willingness to follow where He led. As Deb processes truth out loud, you’ll hear moments of silence, reflection, and even the sound of her stopping to dig after an old metal plate buried in the ground—a moment we almost removed, but ultimately realized carried a deeper picture. Sometimes the Lord calls us to dig. To keep pursuing truth beneath our feelings, fears, and false identities until we uncover what He has always said is true. What if God’s Word is more real than our emotions? This episode is an invitation to slow down, take a walk, and listen with the Lord. We pray it encourages you to lean in, keep digging, and discover again the truth of who you are in Christ.

Ep 41 // Led by the Spirit, Free from the Flesh // Deb, Lori and Laura

What does it mean to walk by the Spirit? In this episode, we look at the promise given in Galatians 5—that when we walk by the Spirit, we will not carry out the desires of the flesh. This isn’t about behavior management or trying harder. It’s about living led by Him. As we walk with the Spirit, He produces the fruit. He transforms our desires. And He leads us into a life marked by freedom and fullness in Him. This conversation brings us back to one simple truth: desire Him, walk with Him, and trust what He will do.

Ep 40 // A Matter of Life and Breath // Session 4: The Love of God

This episode is the fourth and final session from the A Matter of Life and Breath series , where we’ve been walking through Galatians 2:20—what it means to be crucified with Christ and to now live by faith in the Son of God. This conversation begins in an honest place: forgiveness. In light of the love of God, we often have to confront the ways unforgiveness has taken root in our hearts. Deb shares personally about the weight of unforgiveness, how it leads to bitterness, and how it subtly distorts our ability to believe the truth about who God is. Through repentance and renewal, we’re invited into alignment with what is true—that God’s love is not conditional, distant, or fragile… but constant, personal, and already given. As the conversation unfolds, we return to the anchor of Galatians 2:20: that we are loved, and that Jesus gave Himself for us. This is more than a concept—it’s a reality we’re invited to live from. This episode is a call into deeper discipleship, into living by faith, and into the freedom that comes from being fully known and fully loved by God.

Ep 39 // A Matter of Life and Breath // Session 3: The Life We Now Live

In this third session of A Matter of Life and Breath, recorded live at a women’s gathering, we center our conversation on a powerful phrase from Galatians 2:20: “The life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God…” What does it actually look like to live this way? Together, we explore the invitation to live right here in our everyday lives by faith in Jesus—not striving to become something, but living from what is already true in Him. This conversation gently brings us back to reality: * Faith isn’t something we add to our life—it’s the very way we live now * The unseen life in Christ is more real than anything we experience naturally * We are not the source of goodness—He is, and His life in us is enough Through Scripture, personal testimony, and honest reflection, this episode is an invitation to rest in what is already finished… and to live from the life of Christ within you. And at the very end, you’ll hear a brand new song written out of this very revelation—that the goodness of God isn’t just something we receive… it becomes our good.

Ep 38 // A Matter of Life and Breath // Session 2: Christ in Me — The Power of the Gospel Life

In this episode of Rooted and Woven, we’re continuing from last week’s session from the women’s event, where Deb spoke. In session one, we talked about what it means to be crucified with Christ… and now we’re stepping into the next part: “it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” This conversation really centers on what that actually looks like in real life. Not just as an idea we agree with, but as something we live from. We talk a lot about dependence on Jesus—how easy it is to slip back into striving, and how freeing it is to remember that we were never meant to be the source of our own life. There’s a letting go here… and also a deeper kind of living. You’ll hear us talk through things like: * what it means to walk in humility instead of self-effort * being raised with Christ into a completely new kind of life * how the cross and resurrection really shape everything * noticing God at work in both the big, miraculous moments and the everyday ones * living as a new creation right now, not someday * stepping out of performance and back into grace * what it looks like to die to self in the middle of normal life * and what it means that Christ Himself is actually living in us More than anything, this episode is an invitation. An invitation to stop striving… and to rest in the reality that Jesus is your life—and He’s faithful to live through you.