OHCW Women's Conference

OHCW22 Women’s Conference ~ Day 3

Michelle Lesley

Who’s excited for Open Hearts in a Closed World? I am!

If you’re not familiar with OHCW, it’s a FREE annual online women’s conference. It has been my privilege to be one of the speakers each year since its inception.

Join us for OHCW22 – a FREE online women’s conference all this week, July 11-15. Watch and get all the details here!

All of the conference details are below. Here’s today’s teaching session (Remember, teaching session videos will not be available until 8:30 a.m. Central each day, but will remain available indefinitely.):

Some (not all) of this week’s teaching sessions have accompanying handouts:

No handouts for today’s sessions.

Missed a day of this week’s conference? Click below to catch up!

Day 1 (Monday)
Day 2 (Tuesday)
Day 4 (Thursday)
Day 5 (Friday)

The theme of this year’s conference is Spiritual Sisterhood: Going Beyond the Facade, so each of our speakers will center their teaching around what it means to be godly, genuine sisters in Christ.

OHCW 2022 Speakers:

Find out more about each speaker here.

Where and When to Watch:

The conference will run each day this week, July 11-15, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Central time), and “attending” is as easy as watching your favorite TV show! There’s no cost, no registration – just tune in starting at 8:30 (Central) each morning. You can even watch the recordings later, if that’s more convenient, as the videos of each session will remain posted.

I’ll post the YouTube version of each day’s teaching session so you can watch it here on the blog if you like. Or, if you prefer, you can watch directly on…

YouTube, AGTV, or Exposit the Word.

Daily Schedule:

This year, we’re so pleased to have the TMU Chapel Band from The Master’s University leading us in worship each day.

Here’s the teaching schedule for each day of the conference:

For more information:

For more conference details, check out the OHCW website, follow Open Hearts in a Closed World on Instagram, or join the OHCW Facebook group and ask the conference organizers directly.

I hope you’ll join us each day this week
for Open Hearts in a Closed World 2022!

Can’t get enough? Here’s a little “throwback” to last year’s conference sessions!

OHCW Women's Conference

OHCW22 Women’s Conference ~ Day 2

Michelle Lesley

Who’s excited for Open Hearts in a Closed World? I am!

If you’re not familiar with OHCW, it’s a FREE annual online women’s conference. It has been my privilege to be one of the speakers each year since its inception.

Join us for OHCW22 – a FREE online women’s conference all this week, July 11-15. Watch and get all the details here!

All of the conference details are below. Here’s today’s teaching session (Remember, teaching session videos will not be available until 8:30 a.m. Central each day, but will remain available indefinitely.):

Some (not all) of this week’s teaching sessions have accompanying handouts:

Session 2 Handout

Missed a day of this week’s conference? Click below to catch up!

Day 1 (Monday)
Day 3 (Wednesday)
Day 4 (Thursday)
Day 5 (Friday)

The theme of this year’s conference is Spiritual Sisterhood: Going Beyond the Facade, so each of our speakers will center their teaching around what it means to be godly, genuine sisters in Christ.

OHCW 2022 Speakers:

Find out more about each speaker here.

Where and When to Watch:

The conference will run each day this week, July 11-15, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Central time), and “attending” is as easy as watching your favorite TV show! There’s no cost, no registration – just tune in starting at 8:30 (Central) each morning. You can even watch the recordings later, if that’s more convenient, as the videos of each session will remain posted.

I’ll post the YouTube version of each day’s teaching session so you can watch it here on the blog if you like. Or, if you prefer, you can watch directly on…

YouTube, AGTV, or Exposit the Word.

Daily Schedule:

This year, we’re so pleased to have the TMU Chapel Band from The Master’s University leading us in worship each day.

Here’s the teaching schedule for each day of the conference:

For more information:

For more conference details, check out the OHCW website, follow Open Hearts in a Closed World on Instagram, or join the OHCW Facebook group and ask the conference organizers directly.

I hope you’ll join us each day this week
for Open Hearts in a Closed World 2022!

Can’t get enough? Here’s a little “throwback” to last year’s conference sessions!

OHCW Women's Conference

OHCW22 Women’s Conference ~ Day 1

Michelle Lesley

Who’s excited for Open Hearts in a Closed World? I am!

If you’re not familiar with OHCW, it’s a FREE annual online women’s conference. It has been my privilege to be one of the speakers each year since its inception.

Join us for OHCW22 – a FREE online women’s conference all this week, July 11-15. Watch and get all the details here!

All of the conference details are below. Here’s today’s teaching session (Remember, teaching session videos will not be available until 8:30 a.m. Central each day, but will remain available indefinitely.):

Some (not all) of this week’s teaching sessions have accompanying handouts:

Session 1 Handout

Missed a day of this week’s conference? Click below to catch up!

Day 2 (Tuesday)
Day 3 (Wednesday)
Day 4 (Thursday)
Day 5 (Friday)

The theme of this year’s conference is Spiritual Sisterhood: Going Beyond the Facade, so each of our speakers will center their teaching around what it means to be godly, genuine sisters in Christ.

OHCW 2022 Speakers:

Find out more about each speaker here.

Where and When to Watch:

The conference will run each day this week, July 11-15, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Central time), and “attending” is as easy as watching your favorite TV show! There’s no cost, no registration – just tune in starting at 8:30 (Central) each morning. You can even watch the recordings later, if that’s more convenient, as the videos of each session will remain posted.

I’ll post the YouTube version of each day’s teaching session so you can watch it here on the blog if you like. Or, if you prefer, you can watch directly on…

YouTube, AGTV, or Exposit the Word.

Daily Schedule:

This year, we’re so pleased to have the TMU Chapel Band from The Master’s University leading us in worship each day.

Here’s the teaching schedule for each day of the conference:

For more information:

For more conference details, check out the OHCW website, follow Open Hearts in a Closed World on Instagram, or join the OHCW Facebook group and ask the conference organizers directly.

I hope you’ll join us each day this week
for Open Hearts in a Closed World 2022!

Can’t get enough? Here’s a little “throwback” to last year’s conference sessions!

OHCW Women's Conference

Get Excited! Open Hearts in a Closed World is Next Week!

Michelle Lesley

Who’s excited for Open Hearts in a Closed World next week? I am!

If you’re not familiar with OHCW, it’s a FREE annual online women’s conference. It has been my privilege to be one of the speakers each year since its inception.

Join us for OHCW22 – a FREE online women’s conference – *next week,* July 11-15. Get all the details here!

The theme of this year’s conference is Spiritual Sisterhood: Going Beyond the Facade, so each of our speakers will center their teaching around what it means to be godly, genuine sisters in Christ.

OHCW 2022 Speakers:

Find out more about each speaker here.

Where and When to Watch:

The conference will run each day next week, July 11-15, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Central time), and “attending” is as easy as watching your favorite TV show! There’s no cost, no registration – just tune in starting at 8:30 (Central) each morning. You can even watch the recordings later, if that’s more convenient, as the videos of each session will remain posted.

I’ll post the YouTube version of each day’s teaching session as soon as it goes live (just like I did last year), so you can watch it here on the blog if you like. Or, if you prefer, you can watch directly on…

YouTube, AGTV, or Exposit the Word.

Daily Schedule:

This year, we’re so pleased to have the TMU Chapel Band from The Master’s University leading us in worship each day.

Here’s the teaching schedule for each day of the conference:

For more information:

For more conference details, check out the OHCW website, follow Open Hearts in a Closed World on Instagram, or join the OHCW Facebook group and ask the conference organizers directly.

I hope you’ll join us each day next week
for Open Hearts in a Closed World 2022!

And, since it’s Thursday, how about a little “throwback” to last year’s conference sessions to get us pumped up and ready for next week?

Podcast Appearances, Southern Baptist/SBC

The Anaheim Agenda

Michelle Lesley

OK, y’all. Dance in the aisles with me. Barring anything out of the ordinary, I’m planning for this post to be my last Southern Baptist Convention-related content for quite a while. Thanks for hanging in there with me over the past few months of my wall to wall coverage of SBC shenanigans, especially if you’re not Southern Baptist (You people are just gluttons for punishment, aren’t you? :0) ).

Thank you for your prayers as (and after!) I attended the SBC annual meeting in Anaheim last month. The absolute best part of the trip was spending time with my daughter (who went with me and represented her church), the other members of my church family who went as messengers, and dear friends from other parts of the country whom I don’t get to see very often.

Also phenomenal was getting to meet so many of you who also attended and took time out of your busy schedules to stop by one of my “pop up meet & greets” to say hello. There are still many good, godly people in the SBC, and it was a pleasure and an encouragement to chat with you.

  • With my sweet friend, Jen Buck.
  • coral aloe
  • yellow hibiscus
  • She finally got the window seat she wanted!

By now, most of you have probably heard about the more publicized “highlights” of the Convention (such as Rick Warren’s ode to himself – Ick. Don’t get me started.) But I didn’t want to walk away from this whole thing and leave a bunch of loose ends. So let’s box everything up neatly with a little wrap up before we stick SBC22 on the closet shelf way, way, waaaay back there in the corner.

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down and discussing my experience at the annual meeting with one of my pastors, Travis McNeely, for his new podcast, At the Crossroads. (You might remember I’ve featured some of Travis’ excellent work before.) Be sure to go subscribe to At the Crossroads on Travis’ YouTube channel or on your favorite podcast platform.

I think the previous episode Travis released – with another of my pastors, Laramie Minga, about his SBC22 experience – is excellent. You’ll want to listen in as Laramie talks about the worship and music aspect of the annual meeting along with his encounter with a female senior “pastor” of an SBC church, along with her two female deacons, who were representing their church as messengers in Anaheim.

In addition to these, if you’d like further details and more perspectives on SBC22, I commend to you the following:

Additional Resources

Watch the entirety of SBC22 on Baptist Press’ YouTube channel

Thinking Out Loud at A Word Fitly Spoken

Californication: Anaheim, the SBC, and Spiritual Adultery by Allen Nelson

The Liberal Drift of the Southern Baptist Convention (Part 1) (Part 2) by Gabriel Hughes SBC22 Recap – Encouragements and Disappointments with Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden

Is it time to leave the Southern Baptist Convention? And, what’s a secondary issue? by Elizabeth Prata

Will Egalitarianism Rule the SBC? by Josh Buice

Will Feminists Win the Pulpit? by Virgil Walker