Wholehearted Discipleship for Everyday Living.
Rise and Rejoice with Heather Murdock is a Christian podcast for anyone who wants to follow Jesus with their whole heart. Christian speaker and Bible teacher Heather Murdock brings biblical teaching, Spirit-led insight, personal stories, and honest conversations to the questions that shape our faith and our lives.
What does it really mean to follow Jesus? How does God transform us from the inside out? How do we grow in character, navigate relationships and conflict, lead well, heal from what has hurt us, and live with courage and conviction in a complicated world?
Rise and Rejoice serves the whole Church. It’s for people who want more than inspiration: to know Jesus deeply, become more like Him, and live out their faith with greater wholeness in everyday life.
Heather is the founder of Rise and Rejoice Ministries and the author of Rise and Rejoice: A Heart Transformation Journey for Women.
www.riseandrejoiceministries.com
We pray for revival. But what happens when the people we’re praying for actually walk through our church doors? Years ago, a Celebrate Recovery T-shirt said, “I Am Those People.” I’ve never forgotten it. In this Season Two opener, I’m sharing a few ministry stories that challenged the way I think about brokenness, grace, and the Church. We all need Jesus. And making disciples means more than celebrating someone’s decision to follow Him. It means being willing to walk with people as He tra...
27 Aug 2026
Dig Out The Wells
We are living in one of the most distracted generations in history, and distraction is not harmless. In the Season One finale, Heather shares a prophetic picture God gave her during a three-day prayer retreat in Mendocino: wells being clogged with dirt and debris, cutting people off from the water they need to live. What if distraction is doing something similar to our spiritual lives? Through the imagery of clogged wells, a dying fire, and Jesus’ words in John 15 to “remain in Me,” Heather e...
14 Aug 2026
Ep 7: The Rise of the Kingdom
We call Jesus King. We sing about His Kingdom. We pray, “Your Kingdom come.” But what does it actually mean to live as though Jesus really is King? In this episode, Heather explores the Kingdom of God as the rule and reign of God, and what that means for surrender, trust, fear, power, loving our enemies, and the way we represent Jesus in the world. From Buckingham Palace to the Sermon on the Mount, from wounds that can distort our view of God to Corrie ten Boom’s extraordinary story of forgiv...
30 Jul 2026
Ep 6: What Is This Producing? The Fruit of Consumer Christianity
In this episode of the Rise & Rejoice Podcast, Heather asks a sobering but necessary question: What is the version of Christianity we are practicing actually producing? Jesus didn’t call His Church to build impressive ministries, He called us to make disciples. Yet many of our modern definitions of success emphasize attendance, influence, visibility, and growth while overlooking the deeper work of spiritual formation. Together we’ll explore: Why every church culture forms people into some...
16 Jul 2026
Ep 5: Church, It’s Time To Come Home
Church, It’s Time to Come Home Through a lot of prayer about this episode, I felt the Holy Spirit leading me to speak to the Church, to ask all of us some hard but necessary questions, to speak the truth in love, and to look honestly at where we are and where Jesus is calling us as the body of Christ. This message comes from a place of deep love for the Church. We have become very good at building impressive churches, creating powerful experiences, and filling our calendars with activities.&n...
2 Jul 2026
Ep 4: Why Do I Keep Doing the Things I Don’t Want to Do?
Why do we keep repeating the same unhealthy patterns, even when we genuinely want to change? Why do we react in ways we later regret? Why do fear, shame, comparison, striving, or control seem to keep showing up? In this episode, Heather unpacks the connection between our beliefs, thoughts, emotions, desires, behaviors, and the results they produce. Drawing from Romans 7, Romans 12, Proverbs 4, and practical insights into how our minds are renewed, she explores why lasting transformation doesn...
18 Jun 2026
Wholehearted Discipleship - Why God Wants Your Heart
Why does God place so much emphasis on the heart? In this episode, Heather explores one of the foundational truths of spiritual transformation: behavior is not the source; the heart is. Drawing from Proverbs 4:23, Heather unpacks what the Bible means when it speaks of the heart and why lasting transformation happens from the inside out, not the outside in. Together, we’ll explore how our thoughts, feelings, desires, motives, and will shape the course of our lives and why God is after more tha...
3 Jun 2026
Rise and Rejoice Episode 2
In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how Jesus transformed my life. Growing up in poverty, abuse, substance abuse, and dysfunction, I spent years searching for love, validation, and identity in all the wrong places. That search led me from a small town to Hollywood, New York City, heartbreak, addiction, and devastating loss. When my younger sister was killed in a tragic accident, the grief and unanswered questions nearly consumed me. But God was pursuing me long before I kn...
21 May 2026
Rise and Rejoice Episode 1
Episode 1 is an introduction to the heart behind Rise and Rejoice and the message that is foundational to this podcast. In this episode, Heather shares the journey toward finally launching the podcast, the importance of clarity in this season, and why wholehearted discipleship, emotional health, spiritual maturity, and courageous leadership matter more than ever in a noisy and distracted world. This is an invitation to grow deeper, live with purpose, and become not just informed, but transfor...
17 May 2026
Welcome to Rise and Rejoice (Trailer)
Rise and Rejoice with Heather Murdock is a podcast about wholehearted discipleship, courageous leadership, and real transformation. In this short trailer, Heather shares the heart behind the show: honest conversations, practical teaching, Scripture, and Spirit-led insight that explore what it means to live rooted in truth and fully formed in Christ. Not just informed, but transformed. Whether through solo teaching or meaningful conversations, this podcast is for people who are hungry for dept...
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