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. 8 / Trauma: Caring for Yourself as You Walk with Others
Self-care is so important as you walk alongside a sufferer on their path to healing! When you are able to care for yourself physically and emotionally, you can better support a sufferer and encourage them as they pursue comfort and change.
S9 Ep. 7 / Trauma: Helping Someone Tell Their Trauma Story
When we process our stories, we’re able to find God in the midst of them and find healing in the present. The healing we find in Christ can help us to comfort other sufferers!
S9 Ep. 6 / Trauma: Safe in Relationship
As we carefully and intentionally love others, we can support them on their path to comfort and change with kindness, curiosity, boundaries, safety and repair.
S9 Ep. 5 / Trauma: Safe in God
The healing journey can be messy and painful. We may question God's character and struggle to express our hurt and frustration from our suffering. Although some questions may never be answered, we can rest in the truth of God's character and His unfailing love for us and find lasting safety in His presence.
S9 Ep. 4 / Tiffany Higginbotham: Safe in Our Body
The counseling and medical communities often take different routes to help their patients heal or relieve their symptoms. Counselors can focus on the mental and spiritual and ignore the body while medical professionals may overlook the mental and spiritual influence on our bodies. In this episode, we’re joined by our friend and physical therapist Tiffany Higginbotham who encourages a holistic view of our minds, souls, and bodies so we can find healing in our suffering stories.
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.
S9 Ep. 2 / Trauma: Two Types
The field of trauma is complex and uncomfortable. As Christians, how do we sift through many assumptions and opinions to approach trauma with a biblical framework? We hope this episode encourages you to wrestle with the realities of our suffering stories in the now and the not yet and to look forward with hope to the coming restoration.
S9 Ep. 1 / Introduction to Trauma
In Season 9, we’re tackling the topic of trauma. Episode 1 lays the foundation for our discussion through defining trauma and placing a biblical view of trauma within the Grand Narrative and creation desires. While God does encourage us to remember and process our pain, He also points us to the hope we have in His salvation and His love.
S8 Ep. 6 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Love)
We wrap up our discussion of the Gospel Waltz with “Love.” Our Father’s forgiveness and the knowledge of His character should drive us to action and to heart change. Even as we continue to fail or struggle with sin in our weakness, He continues to forgive and pick us up again.
S8 Ep. 5 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Believe)
When we can look at our failures as the way by which God will draw us back to His heart and recognize we can’t defeat sin by our own power, our sin becomes a catalyst for greater worship and transformation.
S8 Ep. 4 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Confess)
We often consider our own fear or shame when we think about repentance, but God intends repentance as a gift to bring us back into relationship with Him. Though we will daily struggle with sin, and sometimes succumb to our corrupted desires, our Father offers forgiveness, love, and hope through repentance.
S8 Ep. 3 / The Capture of the Heart
Often, when we recognize sinful desires, we believe we need to kill our desires. However, God intends for us to live richly in this world He created, and He blessed us with desires. When sin corrupts the desires He intended for good, we must practice beholding on Him and His Word as we fight the sin in our lives. Our hearts will reflect who and what we behold, and our desires will follow.
S8 Ep. 2 / The Heart of the Problem is the Problem of the Heart
In this broken world, sin constantly tempts our hearts with fear, bitterness, anger, grief, and much more. But our Father offers hope as we behold Him. When we know God through heart knowledge instead of head knowledge, we’re able to encounter Him deeply as He transforms and renews our hearts.
S8 Ep. 1 / Ten Reasons Why We MUST Talk about Sin!
In season 8, we discuss the Sacred Struggle as we break down sin, our responsibility, and the journey to transformation. In episode 1, we describe the many ways sin affects our lives. In the midst of sin in our world, God’s Word reminds us that He has won the battle against sin, and one day, He will restore our fallen world.
S7 Ep. 6 / Telling One Woman’s Story with Lauren Duncan
Our friend and artist, Lauren Duncan, joins the podcast to share her infertility journey. Through this season of suffering, Lauren turned to art as an outlet to express her emotions and meditate on the promises of God. Her story reminds us of God’s faithfulness and encourages us to daily orient ourselves to our God and look forward to His coming restoration.
S7 Ep. 5 / You Have a Story (Part 2)
Our stories are filled with struggle and painful moments, but they also demonstrate God’s faithfulness and His grace. As we view our stories in light of the Grand Narrative, we can find hope and healing for ourselves. We’re then better equipped to help others through their own difficult seasons.
S7 Ep. 5 / You Have a Story (Part 1)
The Enemy wants our shame, our hurt, and our fear to isolate us from one another. When we find a God-filled community we can trust, we can together reach for hope and healing despite the brokenness and suffering we’ve experienced.
S7 Ep. 4 / Competing Stories
Where other counterfeit stories have failed, God’s great story gives us hope and peace for final restoration.
S7 Ep. 3 / Your Story and God’s Story
By looking backwards, we can recognize that He has walked alongside us and carried us through every part of our story. As He has been faithful in the past, He will be faithful to bring us to final restoration.
S7 Ep. 2 / The Bible as One Story with Adam Coppock
As we face the weight of sin in our own stories, we may be tempted to lose faith in God’s foreshadowed restoration. The Grand Narrative reminds us to look beyond our present struggles to God’s greater plans.