Posts by Lisa-Jo

HomePartner With Us 78. The Home Series: Stories from the Backyard This is a story about that room we sometimes forget — the backyard.  Whether it’s fun with chainsaws, fires, bikes or weeding, this week we remind ourselves that the backyard might just be the best room of all! _______ Sponsor appreciation: In these uncertain…

HomePartner With Us 77. The Home Series: Stories from the Bathroom! This is a story about bathroom hospitality.  What on EARTH?!?, you might say. Yup, as wild as it sounds. We’ve actually got those stories for you today. So get comfy, get ready to laugh and happy sigh. Here’s the latest in our series of…

HomePartner With Us 76. The Home Series: Stories from the Living Room This is a story about tunneling out of our quarantined homes through our sofas and into two memories from when the couches in our living rooms were just newborns.  It’s amazing how much love and what wild stories can live in the droopy…

HomePartner With Us 75. The Home Series: 7 Practical Ways to Rest at Home This is a story about how rest does NOT require a cabin in the woods or room service.  Instead, it’s a helpful guide to finding rest in the very middle of your ordinary rhythms.  While this conversation was recorded before this…

HomePartner With Us 74. The Home Series: Stories from the Kitchen This is a story about two out of control kitchens. And the power of grace and sugar. This is The Home Series. For the next few weeks we’ll be telling stories from our favorite rooms in the house. We hope this series offers you…

HomePartner With Us 73. The Home Series: Stories from the Dining Room This is a story about seeing our homes less like places where we’re trapped with frighteningly low supplies of toilet paper and more like places of refuge and welcome for ourselves and others we love. This is The Home Series. For the next…

HomePartner With Us 72. Nothing Preaches Like a Feast This is a story about how everything that wasn’t normal about this Easter can’t detract from the feast that teaches like no other and the father that rescues like no other.   Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram here: @lisajobaker Follow Christie on Instagram here: @ChristiePurifoy 

HomePartner With Us 71. Holy Week and the Opposite of Fear This is a story about Holy Week in the time of social distancing, the courage we’ve seen in unexpected places, and what we have to learn from the saints of old and the everyday heroes of Corona.  Travel with us this Holy Week as…

HomePartner With Us 70. Hope in the Time of Corona This is a story about ALL YOUR stories. Listeners from all over the world sent in stories of hope and laughter and love in the time of Corona this week. And boy did we need them.  Thank you for doing what community does — carrying…

HomePartner With Us 69. Dolly Parton Was Right: Laughter Through Tears IS the Best Emotion! This is a story about laughing our way through tears, toilet paper shortages, and the wild mashup of homebound kids and a global quarantine.  Friends, how are you all doing, eh? In these unpredictable times we wanted to bring you…