Family friend Evan Menzies joins the podcast to talk about a book that totally changed the way he parents, as well as lives. They discuss the secret sauce of parenting, the idea that families are groups of sinners living under one roof, and showing vulnerability to your kids when...
Grow on the Go
This week, Wendy Lowe helps us Grow on the Go through and open and honest discussion about racism in Canada. She is the Senior Pastor at NEXT Christian Community...
We all need people who know our hearts and have our backs. In this episode, Donna and Randy Carter discuss the importance of intimate friendships. These are the people...
Jesus pursued Intimacy with his Father from the beginning to the end of his life. What does that look like for us? This week, Donna and Randy talk together about how...
What did John mean when he invited us to walk as Jesus walked? Do we have to go green and stop driving? No, it means we need to follow him closely and adopt his gait...
Helping busy women grow is what this podcast is all about. Michelle Woeckener shares this passion and joins the program to talk with Donna about an exciting project she...
The power of our words can lift others up and drag them down. This week on the podcast, Donna and Randy Carter share personal stories to illustrate several strategies...
Donna and Randy Carter continue talking about how to kick the boring out of our lives, discussing how labels can both damage us and empower us. They chat about how being...
A crisis has a way of nudging us to evaluate how we want to live and the changes we want to make in our lives going forward. So, what changes will emerge from this...
Picking up from last week’s podcast, Donna and her daughter Kendall share their individual prayer journeys. They discuss the need for both the big picture and...
Times of crisis can often increase our need for prayer, but it should always be an essential part of our lives. In this podcast, Donna is joined by her daughter Kendall...
Avoiding conflict is almost impossible when we are together 24/7. Even if we can avoid it, research shows that doing so is actually very damaging to a marriage. In this...
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Donna Carter and her eldest daughter Kendall have an honest discussion about being a mom. They talk about what motherhood can teach...
Creating and enjoying beauty can benefit us emotionally. In this podcast, Donna and Randy suggest ways to reconnect with your creative side and introduce scripture and...
Learning to replace entitlement with gratitude can free us to move from a short term investment strategy to an eternal one. This week, Donna and Randy talk about times...
This week on Grow on the Go, Donna and Randy talk about all or nothing endeavours like marriage, summiting Everest and following Jesus. Are these things worth it? Does...
We kind of like the lie that our friends don’t want to hear about our faith because it lets us off the hook: we don’t have to deal with our insecurities or risk...
With Kevann in Australia, Donna welcomes back her husband Randy to talk about how condemnation comes much more naturally to us than compassion. Psychology tells us the...
The lie that “God is not good” is a troubling one, and a hard one to answer. In this podcast, Donna and Kevann explore the ideas people have about God based...
This week, Donna and Kevann discuss how the labels assigned to us can impact the trajectory of our lives and why we need to identify the things that feed into the lie of...
The relationship with our parents often influences our relationship with God, but when we believe the lie that God is like our own parental figure, we open ourselves up...
Believing the lie that failure is fatal can take you down some destructive roads. In this podcast, Donna and Kevann discuss how powerful self-talk can be and how the...
Donna and Randy continue to unpack the learning associated with the seasons of our lives together. In this podcast, they share candidly about their pain, pride and shame...
Some lessons are hard, others are exciting. In this podcast, Donna invites her husband Randy back into the blanket fort to reflect on what God has taught her in the...
A nobody who empowers others is really a somebody. In the last podcast of the Obedient Nobodies series, Donna and Kevann reflect on how one small act in obedience to a...
There were many life-defining moments in Peter’s life that happened between the two catch and call events that bookended Jesus’ human relationship with Peter. In...
Donna and Kevann explore the poetic symmetry of Simon Peter’s life with Jesus and how that relationship so profoundly touched Jesus that Simon later became Peter the...
How do you want to live this year? Donna and Kevann chat about their holidays, the difference between an intentional journey and a spontaneous one, and how to approach...
While it seems irreverent and totally inappropriate to call Jesus a nobody, his obedience took him from the ultimate eminence to complete obscurity and vulnerability...
In this episode, Donna and Kevann talk about AHA! moments when they earned something new about the ancient Christmas story. They discuss the where and why the shepherds...
