Episode 208 - Catherine McNiel
What happens when the place that is supposed to be a source of comfort ends up causing you some of the greatest pain of your life? The avenue God created for both healing and sharing the good news of the gospel can sometimes be where many of us are intentionally or unintentionally wounded by the people within its doors.
Episode 207 - Curt Thompson
When trauma enters our lives, it can be difficult to imagine a life beyond the pain and brokenness that we see. Many of us turn to the coping mechanisms we have learned over the years in hopes of finding relief from the hurt. Yet often, we can find ourselves abandoning the one thing that can help put the broken pieces back together: connection.
Episode 205 - Brittany Tinsley
Pain has a way of keeping us in the dark, of making sure that we don’t know how to cope and heal properly. When it feels like there’s nowhere else to turn, it’s all too easy to fall into harmful coping mechanisms and patterns that may deal with our pain in the moment, but only make things worse in the long run.
Episode 205 - Jon Hagedorn
On one fateful day, Jon Hagedorn gathered his wife and children to engage in a family tradition of theirs, something they did to make sure they always remembered God’s goodness and faithfulness. But they couldn’t have known how much that belief was going to be tested. Mere hours later, Jon’s wife died suddenly.
Episode 204 - Jim & Martha Blackburn
We all hope that our faith will leave a legacy, that our decisions to follow God even in the middle of incredible hardship will have affect the lives of people who haven’t even been born yet. Faithfulness, it turns out, has a way of rippling across generations to impact the lives of our children’s children’s children.
Episode 203 - Brandon Janous
There are certain words and phrases that we all dread to hear, and perhaps one of the worst is when a doctor says “cancer.” When Brandon Janous’ wife was diagnosed, he knew their family was in for a long, hard struggle. But sadly, Brandon’s wife wouldn’t make it through this season.
Episode 202 - Gracie Parrish
Every partner of someone with an especially dangerous job has to face the reality that there is always a chance their husband or wife won’t make it home one day.
