After decades of having these conversations in the counseling room and side by side over coffee with friends, we were compelled this year to create a podcast resource to inspire, equip, and train you to use your everyday conversations to connect others to the love of Christ.
Because we learn better together, we want to encourage you to gather and discuss the podcast. Simply sign up for our emails to receive 3 conversation starting questions, visuals, and handouts for each episode.
S9 Ep. 3 / Trauma: Walking with Others
How can we avoid being miserable comforters? As we encourage sufferers towards comfort and change, we must recognize our past failures and our current shortcomings. As we humbly understand our own limits, we can begin to embrace a biblical framework for suffering and sin and support others to find hope and healing.
S5 Ep. 6 / How Can I Suffer Well and Help Others?
Suffering well might sound like a contradiction, but it is the process of going to God over and over again and allowing him to change us through the process of suffering. As believers we can be confident in who God says He is and that He will do what He says - but in seasons of suffering those truths can be harder to hold on to. We want to be careful to not minimize suffering, or that suffering well means we walk through hard things perfectly. It does not have to be big and glorious. Suffering well can just be putting one foot in front of the other in daily life.
S3 Ep.7/ Miserable Counselors: Key elements of everyday ministry
Let’s be honest, sometimes as we walk with one another, we just miss it. None of us are perfect and sometimes we get on people’s nerves and even outright hurt them.
S3 Ep. 6/ Ministry of Words: Key elements of everyday ministry
Before we speak, we really have to remain humble enough to recognize that we don’t have all the answers. But when the time does come to speak up, how do we know what to say? What to not say? It’s so nuanced and unique in each situation.