Tikvah

In this episode, we talk a bit about time from the perspective of a child. For children, time seems to work differently than for adults. Perhaps it is because it stretches out so far ahead of them or perhaps it is for another reason altogether, but children seem able to stop and enjoy moments without feeling the need to plan or rush about on a schedule. 

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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Today, I'm chatting with author (and all around wise human) Mez Blume about one of her favorite stories..."The Princess and the Goblin." I ask her questions about George MacDonald tackles wonder and skepticism through his stories (especially this one!) and how we can learn from his wise words. It's an epic conversation for an epic tale. 250/10 an incredible read.

We're back for another storytime with Sophie! This time, I explore the deeply true and profound themes found across all seven books of Harry Potter. We'll look at how Rowling deals with death, love, sacrifice, fate, and more...and ultimately, I think, we'll discover that Harry Potter resonates with our hearts because it reflects the truth of our own story...the story of our whole world. 10/10 an incredible series!

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In this episode, we talk about mystery. Mystery has been something we, as a culture, have shied away from since the Enlightenment. However, mystery in the world is unavoidable. We simply can't understand everything. We argue that it's worthwhile and good to embrace the mystery around us, and rest in our trust of the Lord, who stands above and outside of the mystery. Children seem often to have an easier time rejoicing in mystery and pursuing a joyous curiosity. We want to approach the world in the same way.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about friendship! We ask why friendship exists and is a good thing, what true friendship looks like (especially through the eyes of a child), and how friendship is intricately tied to hope. Friendship isn't easy, but it's a beautiful and incredible gift that floods our life with value, purpose, challenge, joy, and hope!

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about imagination. What is it? Why is it so important? How is it related to hope? If we struggle to imagine, how can we learn to imagine again? We know that children generally seem to have no lack of imagination, but adults often struggle to imagine. We, however, believe imagination is a crucial for a hopeful life.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about nature and hope. Nature is a beautiful and wondrous thing, and it points us back in joy and delight to the Creator. The flowers, plants, streams, and mountains all praise their Maker with their own joyous song, and that, we believe, gives us hope as well. Ultimately, looking at nature through the eyes of a child is to delight in it, get dirty in it, and embark on an adventure to explore it to its fullest.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this first story-focused bonus episode, Sophie discusses "The Ickabog" by J. K. Rowling. "The Ickabog" is a deeply profound fairy tale that points to the power of false narratives (PR gone wrong!) and their far-reaching and devastating consequences. But, even as the story dives into the very depths of evil, it provides a hopeful answer in the end. Just like in the book of Proverbs, the wicked fall into the very traps that they set for others. A 10/10 good book recommendation.

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In this episode, we talk about celebration. Celebration happens quite a lot in Scripture, but it's not as an important of a rhythm in a lot our lives today. There seems to be a disconnect here. God clearly prescribes celebration for His people, and He actively partakes in celebrations. Children generally seem to have an easier time celebrating, and they celebrate in a way that is far richer and fuller than that of many adults. We want to learn from them, because a hope-filled life is one full of good reason for celebration! God made a good world, and He made us in His image. We were made to rejoice, even now, in the midst of brokenness. 

We talk about hope a lot here, especially when it comes to the hope we have in the resurrection. But, we wanted to pause and talk about what genuine hope looks like, not just for the future, but in the here and now. Living a life of hope means living a life of action. It doesn’t mean we twiddle our thumbs just wishing for things to get better...it means we put our faith and trust in our King and do something. 

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast 

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In this episode, we explore what it looks like to live a life of childlike wonder. We delve into what wonder is, how we cultivate it, and why it's so crucial for a hope-filled life. This world and everything in it (including our very lives) are gifts from God. When we live out of a mindset then of abundance and not scarcity, we can't help but wonder at all the mystery and beauty around us. How can we not wonder then at God himself? We believe that living a life of wonder is intricately tied with having hope in every moment.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about what it means to be new. Our culture in general is obsessed with the new year, as if a new number on the calendar will change everything. We place our hope in fulfilling our new year's resolutions and end up trying to find our identity in how we can improve ourselves. But this effort is hopeless. New years don't magically change everything. New Year's resolution usually fall by the wayside in just a few short weeks. We can never make ourselves perfect. But God. Our hope rest in the fact that Jesus makes us new. Our identity is found in the truth that we are God's children, and that is enough.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about remembering and forgetting. We often find ourselves discouraged or fearful, even though we're in the hands of the living God, the Creator of everything. Why then do we lose hope? We believe it is because we, like the Israelites before us, forget about God. We forget about who He is and what He has done.  We want to find hope by reminding ourselves of God's nature and his many great and glorious deeds that have spanned from the beginning of it all to this very moment in each of our individual lives.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk all about gratitude. What is the difference between it and thankfulness? Why ought we to have gratitude? Where does it come from? To whom ought we to be grateful? Why? And ultimately, how does this affect our lives? The Lord didn't have to create this world, but He did. He didn't have to make beautiful flowers or stunning mountains, but He did. He didn't have to make loving dogs or (for you cat people) cats. He didn't have to create us, but He did. He didn't have to save us, but He did. He didn't have to promise us a New Earth and a new life and a new body with him, but He did. Our hope is closely tied to our gratitude for everything (big and small) the Lord has done and continues to do for us on a daily basis and for all of eternity.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about the differences between disappointment and discouragement, namely, how disappointment is at times inevitable, but discouragement is always a choice. We discuss proper responses to disappointment and ways to avoid becoming discouraged and bitter. Above all, we can find hope in the fact that Jesus will never let us down for he is always better.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about the power of story to reach into our hearts and radically change us, for good or for evil. We talk about how they can encourage us and give us hope, or how they can leave us feeling empty and hopeless. All good stories in some way tell the truth about the world, but there are countless stories that convince us to believe a lie. We, as believers, want to fill ourselves with stories that tell the truth and fuel our hope. The character of Aslan in C. S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" is one such example of this and has been a pivotal story in the life of Sophie.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about the promise of a future resurrection and new earth where we will live with God himself for all of eternity. While many Christians seem stuck in the idea of a bodiless eternity "in the clouds," the Bible talks about a physical reality with risen bodies, where we will see Jesus face to face. This is a hopeful promise! When we live out of a hopeful expectation of the fulfillment of these promises, it changes what we prioritize and how we act in the world here and now.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we explore what it looks like to live with a kingdom mindset. As followers of Jesus, we have been called to seek first the Kingdom of God.  Pursuing anything but the kingdom is at its core a hopeless endeavor, for nothing else is eternal. Thankfully, we can find hope in the promise that God welcomes us into a kingdom that can never be shaken.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about how the “love yourself” movement isn’t actually loving at all. We can never love ourselves enough to be satisfied, but thankfully we can find hope in the fact that the God who knows both our good and our bad already loves us fully and deeply. We are commanded then, in light of his love, to love him and love others.

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about what empathy is, why it's important, and how we can practically implement it. Since Jesus is an empathetic God, we, as his people, are likewise called to love our neighbors by rejoicing with them when they rejoice and weeping with them when they weep.   

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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In this episode, we talk about the classic children's story, "The Little Prince," written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. We explore how this simple story teaches us to look at the world like children, fill our hearts with wonder, utilize our imaginations, and pour ourselves out into beautiful relationships with the people we encounter. Since our God is a wonderful, imaginative, and relational God, we believe this story helps us to better understand his heart for all his creation. 

Our goal at Tikvah is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes are posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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Welcome to Tikvah! As friends, we (Annie & Sophie) have had the opportunity to have lots of cool conversations about the Lord, the world, people, and everything else in between. While we enjoyed our discussions, we felt like there weren't many similar, honest conversations happening between people. So, we started Tikvah, where we're inviting you to join in challenging and fruitful discussions about the world we live in. Our desire is to find hope by exploring the Lord's heart for his people and his world. New episodes will be posted biweekly on Sundays at 2 p.m. Be sure to follow along and reach out to us with your own thoughts, comments, and ideas! Follow us @tikvahpodcast

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