Let's Talk with Sanctuary
Let's Talk with Sanctuary is a podcast for women, specifically women in ministry. It's our firm belief at Sanctuary that isolation is the Number One tool that the enemy is using to take down women in leadership. Through this platform it is Sanctuary's endeavor to open the conversation with off-limits topics, share some love, laughter, and encouragement, and inspire more authentic conversation among ministry wives. Let's talk.
Episodes
92 episodes since 2020
Let's Talk Episode 91 | Pathways of a Prodigal
What do you do when you've done everything right? You've raised your child in the ways of the Lord. You've modeled the heart of Christ. You've instructed them in right and wrong. Yet, the unthinkable happens--your once obedient and faith-filled...
September 13, 2024
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59:15
Let's Talk Episode 90 | How to Live with Integrity for All Your Days
Eternity in heaven, with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is the ultimate goal for every believer. Unfortunately, many professing followers of Christ, including ministers of the Gospel, will give themselves far too much latitude as they age, l...
August 30, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 90
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58:42
Let's Talk Episode 89 | Ministry Wife to Widow + How to Minister to Widows
Today’s guest will inspire you to just be a better, stronger, more compassionate human being. James wrote in chapter one, verse 27: “Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: ...
August 16, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 89
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50:57
Let's Talk Episode 88 | Bi-Vocational & Co-Vocational Ministry
Today's conversation is going to be an encouragement for all our friends who are serving in the ministry, like pastoring a church, or preaching out on the weekends when invited, or serving as a lay youth pastor or worship pastor, while also car...
July 26, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 88
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50:24
Let's Talk Episode 87 | Modesty in the 21st Century
In this episode, host Bridgette Tomlin and her guest Crystal Williams tackle the "modest is hottest" mantra, talk about what true modesty actually is, how to teach the generation behind us more about it, and what the risks and rewards are in sp...
July 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 87
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53:39
Let's Talk Episode 86 | When Jesus Delays the Miracle
When you’re suffering, when someone you love is suffering, when it seems the evil in the world is thriving or excelling, it just doesn’t make sense that God would not intervene right now and make it all right. What do you do when Jesus delays? ...
June 28, 2024
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32:55
Let's Talk Episode 85 | Empowering the Men in Our Lives
You may have heard the slogan, “Behind every good man is a better woman”. Good men can be even greater men when challenged to become that. It is within the power of every woman to champion the greatness and potential she sees in the man she kno...
June 14, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 85
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1:03:49
Let's Talk Episode 84 | Single Women in Ministry
There is a growing, almost staggering uptick in women who are serving in vocational ministry or on the mission field who are not married. And yet very few conversations are centered in the ministry world around what it looks like to be single i...
May 24, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 84
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48:10
Let's Talk Episode 83 | What's a Jezebel Spirit?
Even those beyond the church's four walls recognize that being labeled with a "Jezebel Spirit" is not a good thing. But often this term is thrown around flippantly, and even more often, it is thrown around without an understanding of its true m...
May 10, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 83
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45:21
Let's Talk Episode 82 | Tough Skin, Tender Heart
There's a lot of talk these days about church hurt. People who have been hurt or disappointed by spiritual leaders, spiritual leaders who have been hurt by those they are called to lead. How can someone in spiritual leadership maintain a heart ...
April 26, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 82
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47:05
Let's Talk Episode 81 | Teaching the Next Gen About Sexuality
In today's episode host Bridgette Tomlin welcomes Casey Gibbons of Mothergood to return to the podcast and talk about S-E-X. How do we talk to our children, teens, and young adults about God's plan for sexuality? In the midst of a gender identi...
April 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 81
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53:29
Let's Talk Episode 80 | Silently Bleeding
While there are many seasons in the life of a ministry wife, undoubtedly there are seasons where it may feel like she's silently bleeding--isolated with no one who seems to understand the life she leads. In this episode, host Bridgette Tomlin w...
March 29, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 80
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41:50
Let's Talk Episode 79 | Does image matter for spiritual leaders?
While we don’t want to believe it, public perception or image definitely matter. As a general rule, there are two camps, perhaps three, within the ministerial community when it comes to public persona. One ascribes to that of the Influencer in ...
March 15, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 79
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1:03:48
Let's Talk Episode 78 | Lessons for the Ministry Marriage
Bridgette Tomlin, your host, welcomed her husband Chresten Tomlin to the podcast for Episode 78! In our most recent episode, Episode 77, we featured the incomparable Pam King and dug into her insights about the combo of marriage and ministry. T...
February 23, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 78
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55:57
Let's Talk Episode 77 | Prioritizing Healthy Marriages
Throughout the month of February we will feature content that focuses on the dynamic of marriage + ministry. First up, we welcome Sanctuary lead team member Pam King back to the podcast as she shares about the TOP THREE areas of concern for man...
February 09, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 77
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54:12
Let's Talk Episode 76 | Discovering (& Liking) the Real You
Understanding who we are, what our strengths and weaknesses are, how we communicate, but then also all of the above about the people we are working with can help diffuse a lot of tension or unnecessary conflict when you’re working on a pastoral...
January 26, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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50:34
Let's Talk Episode 75 | The Fight for Identity
We are launching Season Four of Let's Talk with Sanctuary today & welcome a return visit with our friend, Sheila Harper of
January 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 75
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50:19
Let's Talk Episode 74 | Ministry Wife Retreats
Despite the fact that Sanctuary, our ministry for ministry wives, was launched by an annual event we host call Let’s Retreat...
September 29, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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1:00:08
Let's Talk Episode 73 | Ministry to Women
Whether you’re actively engaged in leading a women’s ministry, personally involved in a local church women’s ministry, or simply a woman yourself, let me encourage you to lean into this content. And to our male listeners who are married, or eve...
September 15, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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39:47
Let's Talk Episode 72 | When God Writes Your Story
In the case of a tapestry, it starts as an idea. The weaver gathers the raw materials and the tools to work, prepares them, weaves them, and tamps them. Slowly, bit by bit, an image starts to appear; however, it's not until completion that the ...
August 25, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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38:03
Let's Talk Episode 71 | Back-to-School Parenting
All of us have experiences, tough moments, hopefully some great memories, through the evolution from childhood to adolescence, and on into young adulthood. It can be tough growing up! But children being raised in today’s culture are facing chal...
August 11, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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47:34
Let's Talk Episode 70 | Ambiguous Grief
Often times grief is exclusively defined as the loss of a friend or loved one to death. But there's actually a form of grief that comes when someone hasn't died, but something has died. You feel a sense of loss. Perhaps it's t...
July 28, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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45:39
Let's Talk Episode 69 | Sanctuary Book Club Q3
Today we welcome author Kelly Balarie to Let's Talk with Sanctuary as we launch Quarter Three of the Sanctuary Book Club. This quarter's featured book is Kelly's latest book, Take Every Though...
July 14, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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35:44
Let's Talk Episode 68 | The Sameness of God
We often quote the well-known verse in Revelation 12, stating that “they overcame him (the adversary or Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,…" It is vital as we pray and seek the Lord to intervene in our lives tha...
June 30, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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34:39
Let's Talk Episode 67 | Raising Up 21st Century Ministers
For the Kingdom of God to be sustainable, fulfilling its mission until Jesus comes, every generation must raise up men and women of God who are called to give their lives for His cause. What does it look like for 21st century believers to ackno...
June 16, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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36:53