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The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz

The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz

By: Twyla Franz
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 Welcome to a becoming-space. A place for imperfectly ready people to say yes to more Jesus and actual friendships with their neighbors. A place for introverts and workaholics and people-pleasers and self-doubters. Welcome, welcome, if that's you! I get that pull you feel to go deeper. Find purpose, meaningful conversations, community. I also get how you think you're not ready. Want to know a secret?! None of us are, least of all me! Also true is that we BECOME ready after, not before, we say yes. Yes to baby steps that deepen relationships and let God spill out everywhere. Yes to becoming more curious, more approachable, more moldable in the tender hands of Jesus. It's a process. A beautiful, becoming process where we look less and less like we used to and more and more like Him.The Uncommon Normal Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • 233 - A Christmas Prayer for When You Need Real Hope

    233 - A Christmas Prayer for When You Need Real Hope
    Dec 23 2025

    For every weary soul needing a bit of light, a scrap of real hope, a simple Christmas prayer. For every taxed mama and bustling grandma. Every newlywed and fresh divorcee. Every grieving heart. Every family scrambling to make Christmas happen.

    Wherever these words find you, and whatever heaviness fills the room, I pray for gritty, overflowing hope. I pray that the tender nearness of Jesus meets you in this moment. That His peace supersedes the pressure you're feeling right now.

    When you're emptied of all you can do on your own, when you've used up all the words, when your edges fray and your adrenaline runs out–there's room for more of God. Only when we're at the end of ourselves do we open in uninhibited welcome. And God? He always makes good on His word:

    Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you.

    James 4:8, The Passion Translation

    Today, let's stand on this promise together. Because when we really need real hope, we can rely on the unwavering Word of God.

    Links mentioned:

    1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
    2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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    5 mins
  • 232 - How to Choose the Best Word of the Year for Next Year

    232 - How to Choose the Best Word of the Year for Next Year
    Dec 16 2025

    As I step back to see where I've gone wrong, I see three potential pitfalls where you might be stuck as well.

    Links mentioned:

    1. Get a list of 200 missional word-of-the-year ideas HERE.
    2. Get the word-of-the-year month reflection sheets HERE.
    3. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
    4. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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    7 mins
  • 231 - A Korban Christmas: How to Draw Closer to Emmanuel Right Now

    231 - A Korban Christmas: How to Draw Closer to Emmanuel Right Now
    Dec 9 2025

    Ann Voskamp says korban boils down to closeness:

    Sacrifice in Hebrew is korban, which literally means an approach, a moving closer. Sacrifice is not losing something but moving closer to Someone.

    Korban isn't so much about loss as it is about proximity to Jesus. And to draw closer to Christ I must let rest all I try to do on my own strength.

    Links mentioned:

    1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
    2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.
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    8 mins
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