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.
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.
S6 Ep. 2 / Marnie Ferree: Help When Your Spouse Betrays You
Having herself been the betrayer, Marnie found out decades into her marriage that she had been betrayed. She shares her story from childhood up until just a couple of years ago with honesty and great hope, and in a way that is applicable to each of us as we've all experienced betrayal in some way.
S2 Bonus Episode / Sherri Tate's story of forgiveness
Season 2 was all about forgiveness, and we have a special treat for you in this bonus episode... Our dear friend and colleague Sherri Tate shares part of her own story and how the Lord brought her to a place of genuine healing and forgiveness after experiencing compound trauma and abuse.
Sherri bravely shares her story of suffering and even her own sin, graciously dispels myths perpetuated by those within the church that harmed her, and offers a long view of forgiveness full of freedom and redemption that has come and holds hope for the future still.
The stories shared in this episode are not explicit or graphic but they do involve murder, domestic violence and sexual, verbal, emotional, psychological and spiritual abuse so take caution if these are a part of your own story or if you have children who might be within listening distance.