Part 2 and a follow-up from last week’s episode. This week we are looking at the topic of slandering God; how we do it and how to stop it. Plus a listener’s question about caring for the parts of your heart that feel overwhelmed.
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Who would do that, right? Well it turns out, it happens more often than we’d all like to admit. On this week’s episode we explore what it is we do that causes so much trouble in our relationships and confirm that Alyn still can’t do math.
Friends are a gift from God. And there’s no better gift than this week’s guest Glenn Carter. For almost 30 years Glenn and Alyn have been close friends. Despite changes in life, vocation and location somehow they’ve kept up their friendship. On this week’s episode they talk about the secret to longevity in relationships, exploring an underground nuclear bunker and how the Holy Spirit healed Glenn’s marriage.
We went to Asbury. On this episode we share our reflections from our time there. That and AJ gets her first speeding ticket in America, we hangout with John and Carol Arnott for 48 hours, the guinea pigs have a mani/pedi and we answer a question from a listener that goes something like, “How do you not retaliate when people say unkind and untruthful things about you?”
Stephen James is the founder and executive director of Sage Hill Counseling and the creator and CEO of The Leadership Lab. But he’s also a generous man, a brilliant thinker, someone who tells the truth and is fiercely curious - even when those things may get him into trouble. Which means he’s a perfect guest for our show. This week we unpack things like hope and grief, stress, addiction, trauma and the human experience of feeling stuck.
Following on from last week’s episode on authority, this week we tackle your questions including:
Where’s the line between challenging and abusive authority?
Where’s the line between disagreement and a rebellious heart?
How do you know if you’re under good authority and just being triggered or under bad authority?
And much, much more. Have a listen and let us know what you think!
This one is a two-parter. This week we talk about why authority is so good and why it’s designed by God to be such. Next week we’ll be answering your questions about why sometimes life doesn’t quite feel like the plan and what to do about it.
You had lots and lots of questions about relationships. Things like how do you know when a relationship is over? What do you do when friends don’t prioritize you? How to you practice vulnerability? What about building friendships when you have small kids? Is it ever okay to end a friendship with church people? How do you handle friendship when you’re in ministry? How do you avoid cliques? What about new friendships when you’re already relationally full?
These are just some of the questions we answer on this episode.
Relationships are one of the greatest gifts we have in this life. So why are they so often hard to do well and the source of great pain and sorrow? This week we start a two-parter on the topic of building and maintaining (healthy) relationships. On this episode we’ll talk about 3 guiding principles and follow up with 6 steps to do what the title says. Next week we’re answering listener’s questions on this topic! Dive in and let us know what you think!
To some, boundaries are nothing more than the tool of entitled jerks. To others they are a gateway to relational health and fruitfulness. On this episode we talk about when we first encountered boundaries, why they produce such a strong reaction and excitedly, we officially launch the Boundaries Summer School!
Dr. Chip Dodd is a feelings expert. He literally wrote the book on it. For the past 10 episodes we've explored what he wrote in his breakthrough book, "The Voice of the Heart". This week we were thrilled to sit down and ask him your questions on feelings. Join us on this wonderful, meandering conversation with a brilliant man with a beautiful soul!
So we've talked about all 8 feelings. Now what? Well that's precisely what this episode is all about.
And we're back to talk about gladness - the feeling everyone wants to feel! However, there's some fine print to feeling glad which is why so few people truly do! Tune in to find out why.
Out of all of the 8 feelings, this one is the most straightforward to talk about, probably because it's the one that we're so familiar with given the human condition. So here it is: guilt.
Out of all the feelings, this was the one that had the most impact on our understanding of ourselves. On this week’s episode we unpack why shame is actually a blessing (something that would previously been an anathema to our thinking), leads to a glorious gift and has two fairly horrible impairments. As a bonus: we breakdown an argument we had last week and show how shame played a role in it.
Fear is not as scary as we've been led to believe. This week we talk about the gifts and impairments (plural!) found in fear. Also we discover wrestling!
This week has given us plenty to be angry about and on this episode Alyn gets to demonstrate what anger looks like, AJ tells you what the gift is and we get to explore all sorts of misunderstandings regarding what is - and isn't - anger.
This week we talk about sadness. Not sadness as a concept, but our own sadness and what we’ve done with it in the past and how that’s worked out for us. We also talk about reconciling sadness with the goodness of God. Recorded after a week of deep sadness, we love how this turned out. Let us know what you think!