Dwell Differently
Natalie Abbott & Vera Schmitz
If you were our friend, and if we could look you in the eyes and see your struggles and know you fully, and if we could only give you ONE thing—we'd give you God’s Word. There is more power and love and truth in one verse than in a thousand other words. So, let us help you memorize God's words in a simple, easy way. We hope you'll love listening in while we chat about what our verse means, why it matters, and how it intersects with our daily lives.
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Dwell #104: What A Promise - Vera & Natalie
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10/04/21 • 18 min
Welcome to October! It's time for a new verse! Jump in and hear a little bit of the behind the scenes of this month's memory verse, 2 Corinthians 4:16.
Here's what we're talking about today!
-The reason for this month's tattoo and print designs
-A Dwell member must have
-Leaning on the promise in this verse
-How we can participate in our day by day renewal
T h e r e f o r e // w e // d o // n o t
l o s e // h e a r t.
T h o u g h // o u t w a r d l y
w e // a r e // w a s t i n g // a w a y,
y e t // i n w a r d l y // w e // a r e
b e i n g // r e n e w e d // d a y // b y // d a y.
2 C o r i n t h i a n s // 4 : 1 6
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Do You Believe You Have To Earn God's Love? // Vera & Natalie
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02/15/23 • 22 min
“Sometimes I think we think this promise is something that we earn, or that we get when we're good enough, or when we’re doing all the right things. But the beauty of this promise is the context of the promise: when we fail, when we are faithless, God is still faithful. God still loves us. He draws us with unfailing kindness—the kind of kindness that doesn’t fail. That’s who our God is.” — Natalie Abbott
This month’s memory verse: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” — Jeremiah 31:3b
Today’s podcast: We’re so glad you’re joining Natalie Abbott and Vera Schmitz, sisters and co-founders of Dwell Differently, as they talk about Jeremiah 31:3b today. Listen in to hear their ideal podcast walk out song, what happens when we look to people for the love that only God can give, and the truly good news about how God’s love is different—and far better—than the love we experience anywhere else. What would your life look like today if you really believed that God’s love is everlasting and his kindness is unfailing? God loves you even in the midst of your mess, and we pray that your understanding of his love for you would grow as we memorize the Bible together!
Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.
Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.
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Links from today's show:
- This letter is for you. You can sign up to get our devotional email every single Monday morning, just a little devotional to get your week started off right.
- Learn more about Starfish Project in our interview with their founder, Jenny McGee.
- Use the code PODCAST to take 25% off of one or both of the new necklaces on our website, made by our friends at Starfish Project!
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Stepping into Your Gifting // Heather MacFadyen
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05/10/23 • 33 min
Have you ever felt unsure of how God has gifted you? As Heather MacFadyen says, we’ve all been called to make disciples, but the where and how will look different in everyone’s lives—and that is freeing! Join author and podcaster Heather MacFadyen as she talks with Natalie Abbott about how to identify what God has uniquely equipped you to do, why God gives gifts to his people, and how to not miss out on the goodness that God has for you.
This month’s memory verse: “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” — 1 Peter 4:10
Today's Dwell guest: Heather MacFadyen is the host of the popular parenting podcast Don't Mom Alone, with more than 20 million downloads from around the globe, as well as the author of the books Right Where You Belong and Don't Mom Alone. She finds great joy in connecting other women to mentors and experts through her podcast and in speaking at live events with women across the country. She and her husband and their four sons live in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at www.heathermacfadyen.com.
Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.
Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.
Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Would you leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show?
Links from today's show:
- Heather MacFadyen's website
- Right Where You Belong by Heather MacFadyen
- Don't Mom Alone by Heather MacFadyen
- CRU Spiritual Gifts Assessment
- CliftonStrengths Assessment
- Made for This by Jennie Allen
- Dwell Differently Official Facebook Group
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All the Time, God is Good // Tina Boesch
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11/13/24 • 49 min
"The reality is, we see God's goodness all the time—when we wake up in the morning and there's light streaming in through the window and the rains fall and water the earth—there are these things that are happening all the time that we can miss that are displays of God's goodness and his sustaining grace."
— Tina Boesch
Today's Episode: You won't want to miss today's episode about the amazing goodness of our God! Listen in as Tina Boesch and Natalie share personal stories of God's goodness. They encourage us to find and recount God's goodness in hard times. They relate stories about how we can experience goodness through God's people. Through it all, they relate how we see the nature of God's goodness as it's expressed throughout the Bible. You will walk away encouraged to recount God's goodness all the time, because he is good all the time, even when we don't quite see it.
This month's memory verse: "For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." — Psalm 100:5
Today's guest: Tina Boesch serves as manager of the Lifeway Women's Bible Study team. For fourteen years, she and her husband and their three kids—Lois, Micah, and Naomi—called Istanbul, Turkey, home. Now they've settled north of Nashville, but she still misses steaming cups of Turkish tea. Tina is the author of Given: The Forgotten Meaning and Practice of Blessing and has written for publications like Christianity Today and The Gospel Coalition. She earned a Master of Arts in Theology from Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. You can find some of her stained glass window design and writing on travel, art, Scripture, and life together at tinaboesch.com.
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Links from today's show:
- Find out more about Tina at TinaBoesch.com.
- Shop our SALE and give thoughtful, Christ-centered gifts at deep discounts!
- Find out more about the easy button for Scripture memory: the Dwell Differently membership.
- Dig even deeper into God's Word (and memorize it!) in Natalie and Vera's new Bible study, Dwell on These Things and book, Dwell Differently.
Follow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferenly.
Through Every Up and Down // Whitney Newby
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05/14/25 • 30 min
"If we can look back on our lives and see how [God] has protected, provided, and cared for us in past, then we can trust that he's going to do that in future...forevermore!'"
— Whitney Newby
Today's Episode: Today we're diving into Psalm 121 with Author, Whitney Newby, who wrote a beautiful devotional book based just on that Psalm. Whitney shares stories of how God always keeps us, sustains us, and provides for us through all of life's ups and downs. She encourages us to rely on the promises of God found in Psalm 121 through every season of life, even (and especially) during the most difficult times.
This month's memory verse: "The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." — Psalm 121:8
Today's guest: Whitney Newby is a writer, artist, and the founder of Brighter Day Press, a ministry that creates literature-rich, gospel-centered resources for family discipleship. She has a Bible degree from Moody Bible Institute and is a registered nurse. Whitney makes her home in South Carolina, with her husband and four children.
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Links from today's show:
- Find out more about Whitney at BrighterDayPress.com.
- Memorize and meditate on God's Word with a Dwell Differently membership. Get your first month FREE with the code: PODCAST.
- Dig even deeper into God's Word (and memorize it!) in Natalie and Vera's new Bible study, Dwell on These Things and book, Dwell Differently.
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How to War against Pride // Trillia Newbell
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07/12/23 • 29 min
Do you catch yourself being more prideful than you'd like to admit? Pride is a difficult battle for all of us, and today Trillia Newbell and Natalie Abbott help us learn from Scripture how we can war well against pride. Looking at John the Baptist's famous words in John 3:30, they walk us through their own struggles with pride, why John the Baptist was able to say what he did about Jesus, and the freedom awaiting us when we worship the Lord for who he is and see ourselves as he sees us: covered in Jesus's righteousness.
This month’s memory verse: “He must become greater; I must become less.” — John 3:30
Today's Dwell guest: Trillia Newbell is the author of several books including A Great Cloud of Witnesses, Sacred Endurance, If God Is For Us, Fear and Faith, and the children’s books, Creative God, Colorful Us and God’s Very Good Idea. When she isn’t writing, she’s encouraging and supporting other writers as the Acquisitions Director at Moody Publishers. Trillia is married to her best friend, Thern, they reside with their two children near Nashville, TN. You can find her at trillianewbell.com and follow her on instagram at @trillianewbell.
Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.
Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.
Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Would you leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show?
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Matthew 6:10 Deep Dive // God's Kingdom...Then, Now, & Always
Dwell Differently
06/02/25 • 20 min
"We're going to zoom out and get this big-picture view of this massive, God-sized prayer. And I hope that it would ignite a passion in you—that your vision would be wider, that you desires would be deeper, that your commitment would be more firm, and that you would pray with a renewed passion God's big kingdom prayers."
— Natalie Abbott
Today's episode: What is God's kingdom like? Listen in today as Dwell co-founder Natalie Abbott walks us through the story of God's kingdom as it's laid out in his book—from creation, to the fall, to redemption, to it's final restoration. She also helps us see our part in that story and how we can live like kingdom people and be kingdom bringers in our everyday lives.
This month's memory verse: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10
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Links from today's show:
- Check out Penelope Judd by Shai Linne!
- Memorize Psalm 23 with your kids! Get the Dwell Differently Psalm 23 kit.
- Check out Natalie and Vera's new teen Bible study, Dwell on These Things.
- Dig even deeper into God's Word (and memorize it!) in Natalie and Vera's Bible study and book: Dwell on These Things and Dwell Differently.
Follow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferenly.
Redefining "Be Who You Are" // Glenna Marshall
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08/09/23 • 34 min
We are thrilled to have Glenna Marshall back again to talk about one of her favorite hacks for prioritizing Scripture memory in her life, the 3 things Colossians 3:12 reminds us are true of believers followed by the 5 virtues we are called to put on, and what to do when we try to obey but fail. We are right here with you, seeking to memorize God's Word and live the way he's called us to, and we know this episode will be an encouragement to you!
This month’s memory verse: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” — Colossians 3:12
Today's Dwell guest: Glenna Marshall is a pastor’s wife and mother of two sons. She is the author of The Promise is His Presence, Everyday Faithfulness, and Memorizing Scripture. She writes regularly at GlennaMarshall.com on biblical literacy, suffering, and the faithfulness of God. She is a member of Grace Bible Fellowship in Sikeston, Missouri.
Memorize Scripture with us: Find out more about Dwell’s monthly kit with temporary tattoos, a display card, a key tag, and more to help you know and dwell on God’s Word.
Get our weekly devotional email: Dive deeper into this month’s verse.
Did you love today’s episode?: We’d love to hear about it! Would you leave a rating or review in your podcast player to help others find the show?
Links from today's show:
- Glenna Marshall on the Dwell Differently Podcast
- A Right Response to Racism - Kenny King & William Marshall
- Learn more about Glenna Marshall
- Memorizing Scripture: The Basics, Blessings, and Benefits of Meditating on God's Word by Glenna Marshall
- Dwell Differently Scripture Memory Journal // Use code PODCAST15 to take 15% off your journal today!
- Free Devotional Resources
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Dwell #121: The Pink Bathtub - Ellie Holcomb
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01/31/22 • 17 min
Meet January's Dwell Guest: Ellie Holcomb! Ellie is a singer, songwriter, wife, mama, and lover of God and his Word. We are big fans of her work and we're pumped to start the year with Ellie on the podcast! After you listen today, take a few minutes to check out Ellie's newest book, Fighting Words (linked below). If you're here, we know that you've got some interest in Scripture memory so we know you'll love this book too!
Here's what we're talking about today!
- When Ellie first understood the gospel (yes, it includes a pink bathtub!)- What to do if you feel awkward sharing your faith
- Ellie's experience with Young Life and ways that it helped her to share hope with others
Links from today's show:
More about Ellie
Fighting Words Devotional: 100 Days of Speaking Truth into the Darkness
The Jesus Storybook Bible
l i g h t // i n // a // m e s s e n g e r ' s // e y e s
b r i n g s // j o y // t o // t h e // h e a r t,
a n d // g o o d // n e w s // g i v e s
h e a l t h // t o // t h e // b o n e s.
p r o v e r b s // 1 5 : 3 0
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BONUS Q & A // Are Tattoos Sinful? and Other Questions
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01/29/25 • 20 min
"Are tattoos wrong? Or rather, aren't tattoos wrong? We're going to look at the Bible and what it says about tattoos."
— Natalie Abbott
Today's episode: Listen in as Natalie answers our three most asked questions. Find out the value and purpose of memorizing just one Bible verse each month. Learn about the different Bible translations and why Dwell Differently uses the version they do. And finally, find out what the Bible says about tattoos.
This month's memory verse: “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” — Phil 3:14
Memorize with us: Find out more about the easy button for Scripture memory and memorize this month's verse with the Dwell Differently monthly membership!
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Links from today's show:
- Read this article from the Gospel Coalition to find out more about Bible translations.
- Check out Natalie and Vera's new teen Bible study, Dwell on These Things.
- Check out The Pour Over, Natalie and Vera's go-to source for concise, unbiased news from a Christian perspective.
- Check out our beautiful new bracelets.
- Dig even deeper into God's Word (and memorize it!) in Natalie and Vera's Bible study and book: Dwell on These Things and Dwell Differently.
Follow Natalie & Vera at DwellDifferently.com and @dwelldifferenly.
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How many episodes does Dwell Differently have?
Dwell Differently currently has 303 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Meditation, Christianity, Inspirational, Women, Religion & Spirituality, God, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Jesus, Spiritual, Bible, Scripture and Christian.
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The episode title 'Dwell #104: What A Promise - Vera & Natalie' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Dwell Differently is 22 minutes.
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Episodes of Dwell Differently are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Dwell Differently was released on Oct 2, 2019.
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