MIDWEEK RISE UP
Episodes
67. Monday Meditations: The Sermon People Never Hear You Preach
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not every sermon needs a stage. Some of the most powerful messages people will ever encounter are the ones you preach without saying a word.In this ep...
S04:10 After 48 hours of labor. Emergency C-Section. What they don't tell you.
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's taken me three years to be able to share this story with you. Life is full. But God kept pressing on my heart that it's time to share the...
66. Monday Meditations: When the Enemy Knows Your Name
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spiritual warfare doesn’t always look like catastrophe, sometimes it looks like compromise, distraction, or slow drift. In this episode of Monday Me...
65. Monday Meditations: The Mercy of Not Knowing
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the silence in your life isn’t a sign of God’s absence . . . but His protection?In this episode of Monday Meditations, we explore the quie...
64. Monday Meditations: Bending to Serve
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a culture obsessed with control, performance, and platform, this episode is a call back to quiet strength, the kind of strength that doesn’t clam...
63. Monday Meditations: The Seduction of Safety
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve dressed fear up as wisdom. We’ve spiritualized our anxiety. We’ve built lives around safety and called it discernment. But let’s be hone...
62. Monday Meditations: Faith Before the Promise
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Monday Meditations cuts straight to the core of what it means to trust God when nothing makes sense. Based on Genesis 15, Erika Kirk t...
61. Monday Meditations: The Hope That Outlives Disappointment
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Monday Meditations episode speaks to the heart that’s grown weary. If disappointment has stolen your joy or loss has dimmed your vis...
60. Monday Meditations: Forging Faith
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Monday Meditations episode dives deep into the fear we all feel when God seems distant. In a voice of fierce faith and tenderness, Erika Kirk rem...
S04:09 Summer in the Psalms Speech at Calvary Chapel Signal Hill Women’s Conference
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode was recorded live at Calvary Chapel Signal Hill for Pastor James Kaddis’s Women’s Conference: Summer in the Psalms. I had the...
59. Monday Meditations: Beneath the Rage
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Monday Meditations, Erika Kirk delivers a powerful reflection on one of the earliest heart issues in Scripture: anger. Through the story ...
58. Monday Meditations: How God Reforms Our Routines
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bold Monday Meditations episode, Erika Kirk explores the spiritual significance of habits through the lens of Exodus 16. Drawing from the wild...
57. Monday Meditations: When God Says No
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are moments in life when God does not answer the way we hoped. When the doors stay shut. When the healing doesn’t come. When the timing feels ...
56. Monday Meditations: Be Still
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that never stops shouting, God still chooses to whisper.This episode invites you into the holy hush—into solitude, silence, and stillness...
S04: 08 Anchored: Revival to Biblical Womanhood
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live from the 10th annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit, this episode is a message straight from my heart to yours. I was deeply honored ...
55. Monday Meditations: A Temple Worth Tending
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world flooded with noise, mess, and mental overload, this week’s Monday Meditations calls you back to sacred order. You weren’t made for chao...
54. Monday Meditations: When Darkness Tries to Claim You
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are moments in our walk with God when the light seems to fade. We stumble, not because the presence of God has left us, but because something ha...
53. Monday Meditations: Anchored Beyond the Veil
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Waiting can feel like silence. Like stagnation. Like abandonment.But what if the delay isn't a detour — what if it's divine preparation?In t...
52. Monday Meditations: Redemption in Tribulation
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Monday Meditations, we walk through the holy fire of suffering and come face-to-face with the unshakable truth: our Redeemer lives. When ...
S04: 07 The Sunset Always Sets in the West
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There comes a moment — quiet, piercing, undeniable — when your soul whispers: “This isn’t working.”In this powerful episode, we confront th...
51. Monday Meditations: Miraculous Healing
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we step into the heart of who Jesus truly is—not only our Savior, but our Healer. Through tender reflection, biblical insight, and S...
50. Monday Meditations: Dusty Feet
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We follow headlines, influencers, and trends — but are we still following Jesus? In a world obsessed with the next big thing, this episode calls us ...
S04: 06 Submission is not a dirty word - feat. Charlie Kirk
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever Charlie and I have a chance to collaborate on a podcast episode together, they quickly become my favorite. Today we're answering real, un...
49. Monday Meditations: Personal Revival
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Revival was never meant to live on a stage or wait for a spotlight. It was always meant to start quietly—in the surrendered corners of a life fully ...
S04: 05 Blooming Out of Comparison
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Comparison isn’t just a distraction—it’s a sin.It’s a silent thief that creeps in unnoticed and leaves devastation in its wake—robbing you o...
39. Monday Meditations: The Fire Behind Your Lips
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re focusing on something small—but deeply sacred. It weighs just a few ounces and lives behind your teeth, yet it can split friendships,...
S04: 04 “I want to date you.” | Live Q&A
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s catch up — straight from the heart. In this special episode, I’m sharing a recent Live Q&A from Calvary OC where discuss all the thing...
38. Monday Meditations: Unlocking Gratitude
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re reflecting on unlocking gratitude—not from getting more, but from recognizing what God has already given us: His love, forgivenes...
S04: 03 A Heart Rooted in Trust | Bloom Conference 2025
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode, we dive deep into the choices that define our lives: Will we trust in man and live a cursed life, or place our trust in the ...
37. Monday Meditations: Seasons of Feeling Invisible
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I just want to encourage you as you go through the "unseen" season of life. Where you feel invisible to God. Don’t despise...
36. Monday Meditations: Heart, Soul, Strength
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Loving God with all our heart, soul, and strength is a beautiful command, one designed to deepen our relationship with Him. Yet, when we truly conside...
35. Monday Meditations: Garments of Praise
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Who designed your outfit?” or “What brand are you wearing?” The world chases after couture, but as Christians, we are called to be clothed in...
34. Monday Meditations: Love Your Neighbor
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is a dangerous message in today’s culture that equates love with silent approval. But love without truth is not love at all—it is deception....
S04: 02 Breaking Free from Mom Guilt
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel like you’re not measuring up as a mom? Maybe you scroll through social media and see other moms who seem to have it all together—...
33. Monday Meditations: Stewardship of Earthly Possessions
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The key is to choose God’s way and hold possessions loosely. Jesus warned that “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possession...
S04: 01 Here I Am Lord feat. Charlie Kirk
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 4 of Midweek Rise Up! We're starting off this new season with an awesome episode featuring my husband, the incredible, Charlie K...
32. Monday Mediations: God's Listening
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
God loves you—personally, powerfully, and passionately. His love is not distant or indifferent; it is intentional and ever-present. Would He save yo...
31. Monday Meditations: Comparison
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comparison is a thief. It can steal joy, it can steal self-worth, it can steal purpose. It robs people of peace and contentment. God specifically and ...
30. Monday Meditations: Christ Lives in Me
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are more than flesh and bone. We are spiritual beings made in the image of God. Jesus is the Son of God and the one and only Way. If you believe th...
29. Monday Meditations: Pure Joy
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hardships do not discriminate and trials come in many different shapes and sizes. When they do hit, remember that you possess the fruits of the Spirit...
28. Monday Meditations: Hope
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up I was consistently told that “hope is not a strategy.” This made no sense to me. I thought it was silly to say that it wasn’t because...
27. Monday Meditations: Repentance
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Repentance is more than just sincere regret or remorse. It’s more than just discontinuing a sin. Though we are extended grace continuously, it’s e...
26. Monday Meditations: "Why Me?"
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In case you haven’t realized, we do not live in a world where everyone is wearing rose-colored glasses and basking in pure utopia. We live on a sinf...
25. Monday Meditations: Solitude
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us are afraid to be alone. We equate it with loneliness. We avoid it because silence is where our thoughts can sometimes be the loudest and...
24. Monday Meditations: Disagreement
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every choice a person makes either stirs hell up or brings heaven down. There are people who are burden-lifters and people who are burden-givers. Some...
23. Monday Meditations: Fighting
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our primary mission field begins within our own homes and circles of friends and family. Oftentimes, this area of our lives is where we experience the...
22. Monday Meditations: Burden
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I want to embolden you today to release yourself from your burdens and the burdens of others. Fully relinquish your worries and lay them down at the f...
21. Monday Meditations: Fasting
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fasting releases us from the constant distractions surrounding us and the unworthy things vying for our attention. It helps us to be attune to God’s...
20. Monday Meditations: Holy Fear
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a challenge to define “holy fear” or the act of “fearing God'' in just a simple sentence or even paragraph for that matter. It...
19. Monday Meditations: Fix
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s so easy to get caught up trying to “fix” our circumstances, relationships or friendships instead of fixing our gaze on Jesus–the only one...
18. Monday Meditations: Healing
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to be meditating on healing.Every one of us is in need of healing, whether it be from sin, sickness, men...
17. Monday Meditations: Seasons of Change
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to be meditating on the Seasons of Change.Although seasons of change can be filled with so many unknowns...
16. Monday Meditations: Joy
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to be meditating on the power of Joy.Joy is powerful. Yet, it's not in interchangeable with happines...
S3: 04 waterboy vs. quarterback
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago I was so blessed and honored to have a tea hosted by TPUSA Faith, called RISE UP where I had 3 phenomenal women alongside me on stage ...
15. Monday Meditations: Eternal
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to be meditating on how our God is eternal.There’s a difference between time and eternity. As humans w...
S3: 03 tough love; feat. Charlie & Erika Kirk
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a very special episode of Midweek Rise Up where I get a chance to sit down with my husband Charlie Kirk and hash out some questions submitt...
14. Monday Meditations: Incomprehensible
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to be meditating on how our God is incomprehensible.he way God is just, righteous, patient, loving, wise...
S3: 02 burnout + boundaries.
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re “sick and tired, of being, sick and tired,” this episode is for you. In this episode we learn about Elijah Syndrome, and how to proper...
13. Monday Meditations: Sovereign
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Sovereignty. The sovereignty of God teaches us that th...
12. Monday Meditations: Righteous
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Righteousness. The righteousness of God can be one of ...
11. Monday Meditations: Infinite
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
11. Monday Meditations: Infinite Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Infinite. This is a ...
10. Monday Meditations: Wise
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Wisdom. Fear God. You can have knowledge without wisdo...
09. Monday Meditations: Love
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Love. God is love. Plain and simple. His love is the g...
08. Monday Meditations: Patient
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Patience. God is the purest definition of patient in t...
07. Monday Meditations: Merciful
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Mercy. We can see his mercy throughout the entire Bibl...
06. Monday Meditations: Redeemer
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hi Everyone! Happy monday! It’s E and welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations. Today we’re going to be meditating on our Redeemer. The de...
05. Monday Meditations: Kindness
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
05. Monday Meditations: KindnessHappy Monday Meditations! The attribute of God that we’ll be meditating on today will be his Kindness. God's kin...
04. Monday Meditations: Generous
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to start the week of right by meditating on God’s attribute of Generosity. As Christian’s we hear ...
03. Monday Meditations: Unchanging
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations! Today we’re going to start the week of right by meditating on the word Unchanging. In this world, ...
02. Monday Meditations: Faithful
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations! I hope that you had a great weekend and had some time to really unplug from work and social media an...
01. Monday Meditations: Truth
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Monday Meditations on Midweek Rise Up!These short episodes are dropped every Monday to give you a quick spirit check as you start the week....
S3: 01 live life abundantly.
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WELCOME TO THE MIDWEEK RISE UP RELAUNCH!To start this new season I wanted to share with you my speech from the 2023 Turning Point USA Young Women’s ...
sacredness of pregnancy + privacy
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise! On August 23, 2022 we welcomed into this crazy, but beautiful, world our precious baby girl! This episode of Midweek Rise Up is dedicated to...
living a godly life in a godless society
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Midweek Rise Up is my message from the Good Things conference at Calvary Chapel San Juan Capistrano with Michelle Randall. Get ready t...
Combating Comparison in a (toxic) "Boss Babe" Culture
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode close to my heart. On June, 12, 2021 I was blessed to speak to over 2,500 young, incredible women, at the Turning Point US...
change.
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: change.There is growth in change. Pain in change. Truth in change. Time to be brutally honest, do you think your faith would gr...
proclaim.
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: proclaim.What do you proclaim? How do you proclaim?In this episode we talk about how proclaim for me when living in NYC turned ...
mini-series pt. II: sees all, knows all.
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[pt II. day 3].Today's topic is: Many believe in ChristJohn 2:23-25 (ESV)Jesus Knows What Is in Man23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover...
mini-series pt. II: casts & cleanses.
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[pt II. day 2].Today's topic is: Christ casts the buyers and sellers out of the temple.John 2:2-22 (ESV)12 After this he went down to Capernaum, w...
mini-series pt. II: the first miracle.
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[pt II. day 1].Today's topic is: the miracle at Cana.John 2:1-11 (ESV)1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of...
mini-series: I saw you.
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 7].Today's topic is: Philip and Nathanael called.John 1:43-51 (ESV)Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Gal...
mini-series: seeking & staying.
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 6].Today's topic is: Andrew and another disciple follow Jesus.John 1:37-42 (ESV)37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Je...
mini-series: behold & bore witness.
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 5].Today's topic is: Other testimonies of John concerning Christ.John 1:29-36 (ESV)Behold, the Lamb of God29 The next day he saw Jesus coming...
mini-series: make straight the way.
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 4].Today's topic is: John’s public testimony concerning Christ.John 1:19-28 (ESV)The Testimony of John the Baptist19 And this is the testim...
mini-series: grace upon grace.
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 3].Today's topic is: John the Baptist's testimony to Christ.John 1:15-18 (ESV)15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was...
mini-series: word to flesh.
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 2]Today's topic is: His Divine & human nature.John 1:6-14 (ESV)6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witne...
mini-series: life & light.
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[day 1]Welcome to the FIRST DAY of our mini-daily devotional series where we take a few minutes to get our heart and our mind prepared for the days wo...
unbelief.
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: unbelief.“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” – Mark 9:24What is unbelief? How does unbelief manifest itself? Wh...
vote.
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: vote.March in the streets. Hold up your sign. Blast your opinion on your social channels. Scream at the top of your lungs the s...
conspiracy.
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: conspiracy.What does the Bible say about Conspiracy Theories? Are we, as Christians, supposed to partake in them? What if we on...
story.
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: story.We all have a story to tell…but why should we tell it? Why is it even important?In this episode we dive into how to wri...
anger.
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: anger."Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument," they say.The tension in this country right now is insane. Pa...
calling.
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: calling.What is your calling? Are we called to die? Are we supposed to follow our “passions”? So many times throughout vari...
stand.
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: stand.There is a difference between a statement and a movement.In this episode we unpack:1. why it’s important to defend the ...
dear america.
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
...dear America, this one's for you.Go rise up. || xxEemail: [email protected]/BIBLEin365Shop PROCLAIM's latest dro...
see.
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: see.Do you “see” the good in people? Do you “see” the good in situations?What exactly are you looking for? Is your visi...
because.
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: because.In this episode we dig into how to find peace when you’re drowning in the “why’s” of this world. How do you sur...
comparison.
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: comparison.I have watched, first hand, this one, single, word destroy some of the most brilliantly talented people I’ve ever ...
conquer.
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: conquer.They say that out of boredom sparks creativity.This episode is for all the business owners. The entrepreneurs. The move...
closer.
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
THE WORD THIS WEEK IS: closer.I know that might seem conflicting due to the circumstances we’re currently in with a nationwide 15-day quarantine ove...