The Lyric and The Light
A weekly space where faith and music meet. Each episode, we will take one song- from timeless hymns to modern worship- and pair it with the living truth of Scripture.
Episodes
24 episodes
Part 2: Church Hurt And The Rising Popularity Of Home Churches
What does finding community again look like after a painful church experience?Leena and special guest cohost Jessica Hayden of Good Grace Ministries return for Part 2 of their honest conversation about church hurt, healing, and belonging...
Divorce and Blended Families
What happens when the family you have looks nothing like the one you pictured?This week, Leena and Dionne talk honestly about divorce, remarriage, stepchildren, ex-spouses, and the relationships that can get complicated long after the pa...
Catching Up
No big theme. No perfectly organized lesson. Just us catching up.Life has been full lately, and apparently we had more to talk about than we realized. This week we’re sharing some of what has been happening behind the scenes, laughing ab...
Christians and the LGBTQ Community
Some topics don’t just start debates, they reveal what we think Jesus is like. We’re stepping into one of the most charged questions in church life: Christians, the LGBTQ community, and what it means to speak with clarity without sliding into c...
Mental Health. Real talk. Real struggles. Real hope.
Some mornings the news hits like a punch, and suddenly what you planned to talk about doesn’t matter anymore. That’s where we start: with a prayer, a heavy heart, and an honest conversation for anyone who feels unseen, overwhelmed, exhausted, o...
What Of God Doesn't Fix It?
Some of the hardest words to say out loud are also the most common: “I prayed, and God didn’t fix it.” We love miracle stories, and we mean it when we celebrate them. But what do we do with the other stories, the ones where the marriage still e...
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Praise You In This Storm
The lights went out across Northwest Indiana and what followed was bigger than a bad thunderstorm. We’re talking about the derecho and the very real aftermath: trees down, power lines ripped apart, homes damaged, schools closed, fuel running ou...
Two Friends Explore Faith, Music, And What It Means To Walk With Jesus
Start here if you want faith that breathes. We open our first episode with a simple prayer and an honest promise: no perfect formulas, no performative faith. Just two women who love Jesus, love worship music, and love the kind of community that...
Can Christians Have Fun?
Some church spaces don’t just preach holiness, they quietly train you to be nervous. Nervous to laugh too loud, to dance at a wedding, to wear the dress, to post the photo, to admit you actually enjoy your life. So we’re putting the question on...
'Round Here We Leave The Judgin To Jesus
Rumors don’t just travel, they land on real people. When our names, our marriages, and our faith get turned into a group-text storyline, staying quiet can start to feel like pretending nothing is happening. So we sit down and say what needs to ...
What Happens After The Amen- A Night of Worship Recap
A thousand people gathered in a park and stayed. Not for a show, not for a polished production, but to worship Jesus together and to remind each other what unity can look like when the body of Christ stops competing and starts praising. Dionne ...
The Mothers We Had And The Mothers We Became
Mother’s Day can be beautiful and brutal in the same breath, and we wanted to make space for both. We start with a simple prayer and then follow the shift we felt in real time: talking about our moms, the mother figures who shaped us, and the g...
God's Ministry, Not Ours: The Heart Behind Light The Way
A quiet scroll through TikTok. A glimpse of the Asbury College revival. Then a sentence spoken into the dark: “Nothing like this ever happens here.” What came next changed everything. Leena tells the full story of Light the Way, the Northwest I...
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Put Your Socks On And Bring The Kids
Kids in church can be beautiful, distracting, hilarious, and holy all at once, and we’re not interested in pretending otherwise. We talk candidly about what happens when children stay in the sanctuary, why some kids thrive in Sunday school, and...
“Graves, Grace, and Gray Areas”
A colorful idea for a Christian retreat meal got labeled “demonic,” and it forced us to ask a question most churches avoid: when does conviction protect faith, and when does it turn into control? We start with the everyday stuff Christians argu...
Many Names, One God
What do you call God when life gets loud—Yahweh, Father, Waymaker, Prince of Peace? We open with prayer and dive into the names of God, then trace how each name reveals something real: provision before the need, healing that reaches the heart, ...
If Rocks Can Cry Out, Why Not Code?
What if the question isn’t “Can AI worship?” but “How do we worship faithfully when new tools enter the room?” We dive straight into the heart of a growing debate around AI-assisted Christian music, sparked by the soulful, chart-climbing work o...
Surrender, Simple And Complete
What if surrender isn’t a single dramatic moment but a steady rhythm that reshapes every day? We open our hearts to the hard parts—praying out loud when it feels awkward, wrestling with worship that values polish over presence, and the quiet ac...