Rare but Real

Audrey answers a first-time mother’s question about responding to her 15-month-old’s desire to have her own way. She recommends calm, consistent limits and age-appropriate redirection, while emphasizing enjoyment, affection, patience, and seeking biblical guidance.

📚 CHAPTERS
00:00 The question: how to handle a 15-month-old wanting her own way
02:22 Discipline as teaching and training
04:09 Relax, seek wise guidance, and account for development
06:44 Build connection through play, affection, and attention
11:25 Audrey’s Biblical Mothering Bible Study plans
15:30 Use a firm voice and follow through calmly
18:54 Correct, redirect, and set steady limits
21:20 Lessons in calm follow-through from family
26:26 Consider hunger, tiredness, and overstimulation
28:44 Enjoy your child, repeat the lessons, and keep perspective
30:12 Encouragement for mothers at every stage
32:03 Who can join the January study and community activities

Audrey draws on decades of motherhood and Scripture to explain how parents can pray for their children while cultivating their own obedience, persistence, and attentiveness to God’s Word. Through examples from Jesus’ prayer life and memories from raising her children, she encourages parents to model prayer, include children in it, and keep trusting God through exhausting seasons and life’s storms.

🚨 Join Audrey for the 2026-27 season of Woman’s Life as she study's the Women of the Bible and discover what God wants to teach us through their lives. Come be encouraged in His Word, and bring a friend!
⁠⁠Learn More Here⁠⁠

📖 Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:16 A prayer guide Audrey still uses for her adult children
09:20 How Jesus made prayer a regular practice
13:02 Turning sleepless nights with children into prayer
17:20 Jesus prayed while training his disciples
19:10 Parents shape faith while seeking wise counsel
24:16 Praying with children in everyday situations
26:42 Prayer as conversation, listening, and Scripture
31:10 Jesus’ command to pray and not lose heart

🗒️ Show Notes
Praying For Your Children Blog Post
⁠⁠Would You Like To Know God As Your Friend?⁠⁠⁠

💪 Support Audrey and Rare But Real
⁠⁠Donate⁠⁠

📱Download the Rare But Real app!
⁠⁠Apple App Store⁠⁠
⁠⁠Google Play Store⁠⁠

🤳 Follow Audrey and Rare But Real on:
⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠
⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠
⁠⁠Audrey’s Website

Audrey explores the biblical understanding of womanhood, the effects of the fall in Genesis, and the divine design for women, including motherhood, roles, and spiritual significance.

🚨 Join Audrey for the 2026-27 season of Woman’s Life as she study's the Women of the Bible and discover what God wants to teach us through their lives. Come be encouraged in His Word, and bring a friend!
⁠Learn More Here⁠

📖 Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:44 Woman as the crown of creation
10:50 Marriage, singleness, and God’s design
13:38 The bride throughout Scripture
19:01 Motherhood and nurturing life
22:05 The serpent’s deception and trusting God’s Word
26:31 Adam’s responsibility and the fall

🗒️ Show Notes
Dealing With Our Cycles
⁠Would You Like To Know God As Your Friend?⁠⁠

💪 Support Audrey and Rare But Real
⁠Donate⁠

📱Download the Rare But Real app!
⁠Apple App Store⁠
⁠Google Play Store⁠

🤳 Follow Audrey and Rare But Real on:
⁠Instagram⁠
⁠Facebook⁠
⁠Audrey’s Website

Audrey continues to explore the responsibilities of leadership and submission, why biblical teaching on marriage matters even for those who are single, and how women can nurture life both physically and spiritually.

🚨 Join Audrey for the 2026-27 season of Woman’s Life as she study's the Women of the Bible and discover what God wants to teach us through their lives. Come be encouraged in His Word, and bring a friend!
Learn More Here

📖 Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:44 Woman as the crown of creation
10:50 Marriage, singleness, and God’s design
13:38 The bride throughout Scripture
19:01 Motherhood and nurturing life
22:05 The serpent’s deception and trusting God’s Word
26:31 Adam’s responsibility and the fall

🗒️ Show Notes
Would You Like To Know God As Your Friend?⁠

💪 Support Audrey and Rare But Real
Donate

📱Download the Rare But Real app!
Apple App Store
Google Play Store

🤳 Follow Audrey and Rare But Real on:
Instagram
Facebook
Audrey’s Website

Audrey shares insights from her recent experiences at Share the Arrows in Dallas, Texas, and explores foundational biblical truths about God's design for men and women, the importance of understanding Genesis, and the role of women as helpers and rulers in God's creation.

📖 Chapters
00:00 Share the Arrows Highlights and Meeting Listeners
02:31 Why the Foundations in Genesis Matter
04:46 Created in God’s Image
09:57 Men and Women as Co-Rulers
13:03 Equal Worth, Different Roles
15:45 The Creation Mandate: Living Fruitfully
19:36 God’s Provision and Our Accountability
23:04 A Helper Suitable: Marriage, Singleness, and Submission
28:45 The Creation of Woman and the First Marriage
30:28 Closing Thoughts and What’s Coming Next

🗒️ Show Notes
Would You Like To Know God As Your Friend?⁠

💪 Support Audrey and Rare But Real
Donate

📱Download the Rare But Real app!
Apple App Store
Google Play Store

🤳 Follow Audrey and Rare But Real on:
Instagram
Facebook
Audrey’s Website