• You Promised You Were Done (with Heidi Austin)
    Apr 28 2021

    Denial is a spiritual disaster of the worst kind. So what do we do when we find ourselves defaulting to denial in our suffering? In this episode, Eric and Heidi cover Chapter 2 "You Promised You Were Done" from their book, Altered, and discuss what we all can do to start the process of moving beyond our denial and on toward looking more like Jesus.

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    20 mins
  • The Dream Is Over (With Heidi Austin)
    Apr 14 2021

    Recapping chapter one of their book, Altered, Eric and Heidi talk about what it is like when God's dream for your life doesn't match the dream you have for your own. In a set up for following episodes, why does God seem to draw a big fat line through our ten-year plan? And why does He use suffering to do so?

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    22 mins
  • Don't Mask-Up (It's not what you think)
    Mar 23 2021

    We live in this tension of wanting to experience peace with God and peace with others, but we are afraid that being who we really are will result in us not truly being accepted or loved. So, we put on masks to dress ourselves up. Grace, though, will disarm our fear.

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    19 mins
  • Joy in the Hustle
    Oct 13 2020

    Are you tired of hustling around from one thing to the next; living in survival mode, juggling the calendar, kids, appointments, quarantine, all in a pandemic? Surviving is not living, it is surviving. It is struggling in hopes to live once the struggle passes. When life becomes unrelenting and has us hustling, how will you find life in the struggle? How will you find joy in the hustle?

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    9 mins
  • Dragging On
    Sep 20 2020

    A quick bible teaching to encourage those whose loss, frustrations, and hurts seems to continue to drag on and on. It is easy when there seems to be no end in sight to wonder what God is up to; to wonder if this thing, that is dragging on, is it actually dragging somewhere. Is there meaning?

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    7 mins
  • (E08) Who
    Aug 3 2020

    Have you ever had thrown in your face the whole problem, if God is good why is there so much suffering, bit? Or, on a more personal level, you yourself have wonder, if God is good why am I suffering? We're going to talk about how that very question necessitates the existence of a good God.

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    27 mins
  • Chronic Love
    Jul 3 2020

    Mental illness. Many of us don't want to go there. If I say mental health we think yoga, our trusty Headspace app, or me time. Mental illness, however, we don't really want to have anything do with. But those suffering mental illness are all around us; they're in your life even now, and one day may even be you. Most of the time we write them off as the weird and annoying people to just avoid. Jesus said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." So, how can we better love those around us like Jesus; those who may come across as inconvenient and difficult to love?

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    21 mins
  • In The Meantime, Part 2
    Jun 2 2020

    How will we keep on hoping after we've suffered let down after let down, and disappointment routinely makes it so hard? How will you keep going when it seems so infinitely pointless?

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    21 mins