After Church Diaries is a personal column by Danielle Wallace, founder of The Virtuous Creative, an independent journalism platform for Christian women entrepreneurs. This column covers faith, lifestyle, and the stuff that happens between Sundays.
Do you listen to podcasts while you’re doing something else? Cleaning up around the house, cooking, laying down with nothing particular going on… that’s my thing. I rarely sit and give a podcast my full undivided attention, and the right Christian podcast can make an ordinary day feel a lot less spiritually dry. These five have been with me long enough to know they belong in rotation.
Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Back when I was working as a TV news reporter, I was driving my news vehicle on assignment, and Revive Our Hearts was on the radio. I had no idea who Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth. I only knew I wasn’t turning it off. Something about the way she taught stopped me, and that was years ago. I’m still listening. She goes straight into Scripture without softening a word of it and manages to be warm and convicting at the same time, which is harder to pull off than it sounds. Put it on during a drive or let it play while you’re moving around the house.
Seek First CEO with Heather Shriver Burns
Heather built an eight-figure business, lost it all, and came back with a completely different relationship with God and with work. Her whole message centers on helping ambitious Christian women stop measuring their worth by what they produce and start anchoring it in whose they are. She connects neuroscience and biblical principles together, and the combination sounds like a lot on paper, but she makes it feel practical and spiritually grounded at once. If you’re building something and you want content speaking to the business and the soul at the same time, start here.
A Word Fitly Spoken with Michelle Lesley and Amy Spreeman
What draws me to Michelle and Amy is that they will say the thing. Bold, doctrinally grounded, and willing to go there on topics a lot of Christian podcasts tiptoe around. Discernment, biblical boundaries, what’s happening inside the modern church… they cover all of it without flinching. The name comes from Proverbs 25:11 and it really does describe what they do. Queue this one up when you want to be challenged, not just encouraged.
The Daily Grace Podcast
The Daily Grace Podcast was created to show women deep Bible study and solid theology are for everyone, and Shelby, Krystal, and the team deliver on it every week. Warm, approachable, and theologically grounded without any of the stuffiness. Pull it up when you want to go deeper in the Word without feeling like you need a seminary background to follow along.
Hagee Ministries Podcast
I’ve been watching John Hagee since I was a teenager. He would come on TV and I remember being drawn to how bold he was, how unashamed he was about the Word, how he refused to soften anything for the sake of keeping people comfortable. Decades later, nothing about that has changed. His son Pastor Matt carries the same conviction, and together the messages coming out of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio are consistently deep, prophetic, and grounded in Scripture. Some sermons you listen to for comfort. But these sermons by the Hagees are perfect for when you need to be reminded what it means to stand on the Word without apology.
I hope you’ll check out at least one of these…or maybe all of them. Now, I want to know what’s in your earbuds. Drop your favorites in the comments.
Danielle Delaney is the founder of The Virtuous Creative, an independent journalism platform, and Chayil Media Publishing, where she helps Christian women entrepreneurs with content marketing. After Church Diaries is her personal column on faith, lifestyle, and the stuff that happens between Sundays. Read more here.
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