Barbara Reaoch chats to Taryn Hayes about her new Christmas family devotional A Better Than Anything Christmas and how she came to be a writing grandma! Barbara also shares her journey to faith in Jesus, her involvement in Bible Study Fellowship including years as a missionary in Cape Town and as the Children's Director in Texas ..read more

In this episode, the main feature is from the GROW Women's Conference in Brisbane when Tori interviewed three women about living their lives in the light of the gospel. Recorded live at the 2019 GROW conference, this episode is shorter than most. However, keep listening because after the GROW interview, Tori shares some exciting news about the podcast platform and she introduces listeners to Katie - The Lydia Project's very own podcast assistant who has been working hard behind the scenes ..read more

Claire Smith is a New Testament scholar, women’s Bible teacher, and the author of God’s Good Design: What the Bible really says about Men and Women. Listen as she talks to Tori Walker about these topics as well as the value of committees in ministry ..read more

Dr Carolyn Russell's expertise and experience in mental health care makes this episode especially informative and encouraging. Listen as she shares with Taryn Hayes about faith, family and her pathway into medicine and ministry ..read more

Host Tori Walker recently travelled to China and took the opportunity to catch up with Sally* about her life and work over the last 20 years in a large city in China. Sally and her husband are involved in leadership development with a Christian organisation, and they have many opportunities to share their faith in Jesus and encourage Chinese Christians to grow in leading others to Christ and growing in maturity in Him. *not her real name ..read more

Kim Gibson's journey with ovarian cancer has taught her many things about God and herself. Listen as she speaks with Taryn Hayes about her journey to faith, student ministry, cancer, books and much more ..read more

Host Tori Walker met with Sue Abbott while she travelled with her husband to run the Everyday Evangelism course in Brisbane. Tori and Sue chat about evangelism and how Sue is spending her retirement years. Listen in as Tori gleans some of Sue's wisdom gathered over many years of serving Jesus in different contexts ..read more

Voice work, a psychotic episode, MTS, biblical peacemaking - these are just a few of the topics discussed in episode 47. Jennifer Mary shares how the truth of God’s Word and promises brought her through some of the darkest times in her life and how she has the joy of sharing the truth with her family and through her ministry ..read more

When Sophie De Witt first encountered the gospel of Jesus, she found it strange and unnerving. Despite her initial resistance to what she had deemed intellectually ridiculous - something that would have been reinforced in daily lectures by her uni professor, renowned atheist, Richard Dawkins - Sophie became less convinced of her own position as she encountered more evidence for the truth of the Bible. It was God working through friends and evangelists like Rico Tice and John Chapman that led her to finally put her trust in Jesus. Listen to her story here as she speaks to Taryn Hayes of how she ..read more

With Mother's Day around the corner, Tori and Taryn had a fun interview with all their kids. Finding out what their kids would answer to questions like "what do you think Mum prays for when she prays for you?" and "what does Mum always say?" was a fun exercise that produced lots of laughs.  On a more serious note, Tori and Taryn begin this episode with a brief discussion around how Mother's Day began, what they value about it and their thoughts around the question of how to best care for others for whom Mother's Day is an emotionally difficult day ..read more