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Forgiving What You Can’t Forget :: Lysa TerKeurst [Ep 304]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
11/09/20
•53m
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Do you ever find yourself replaying and reliving the details of the deepest hurt in your life? My guest today has endured a devastating, public heartbreak – and she has wrestled with the lingering,unresolved pain which followed. Author and speaker Lysa TerKeurst joins me to share part of her journey of learning to forgive what you can’t forget.
“I don't want to make this sound more clean and pretty than it actually was. It was hard. It was horrific. It was terrible. And walking out something as devastating as an affair in a marriage created tremendous burden and tremendous hardship. But I will say that one commitment that I made that was really important was that I can feel hurt, but I don't have to choose to live hurt. Or perpetuate that hurt into other people.”
Lysa shares vulnerably and offers advice for anyone who feels stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain. We talk about the huge help a Christian counselor has been both for Lysa and her children throughout this process and how she delved into what the Bible really says about forgiveness.
“The Bible never says that people have to forgive and forget. It actually says quite the opposite. If we can be healed of it, it is actually beneficial not to forget because it becomes a testimony that can be used in powerful ways. And that's part of the good that God can bring in our story. I think how we know that we are experiencing healing is the way that we tell the stories of our lives.”
Connect with Lysa:- Website: https://lysaterkeurst.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLysa
- Instagram: @lysaterkeurst
- EP 45: 5 Schedule Sappers and How to Stop Them :: Lysa TerKeurst
- EP 131: Uninvited :: Lysa TerKeurst, Kay Wyma & Courtney DeFeo
- BOOK: Forgiving What You Can't Forget
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Praying as God's Daughter :: Molly Rhodes [Ep 303]
November 2, 2020
•43m
As a long time believer, my friend Molly just couldn’t see much value in prayer. With her always on-the-go personality and her full life raising three boys with her husband, taking the time to sit in silence and pray seemed unappealing. Besides, doesn’t God already know what’s going to happen?
But, something shifted in a big way for Molly as she started to learn more about the Holy Spirit and met a friend who prayed with power and conviction and talked about really having a relationship with God.
“I would say that my prayers were very polite and just formal at best and just really few and far between. So I really did just kind of blow the lid off of the box that I had him in regarding prayer and just gave me this fresh perspective of going to him and communing with him... I started to see it as this right and this privilege to pray as God's daughter.”
Since then, Molly has seen God move in powerful ways in her life through the humble act of prayer. She shares just a few of the stories of how God has used her — just a “normal mom” — to minister to others around her, even door-to-door salespersons!
If you are feeling discouraged or need a boost in your prayer life, this is the episode for you! I pray Molly’s story gets you excited about talking with God in a new way.
Links Mentioned:
More on Prayer:- Listening to the Lord :: Kelsey Phillips [Ep 279]
- Praying the Scriptures :: Jodie Berndt [Ep 194]
- God-centered Prayer (part one) | DMA blog post
- God-centered Prayer (part two) | DMA blog poast
- God-centered Prayer (part three) | DMA blog post
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Celebrating Advent :: Tsh Oxenreider [Ep 305]
November 16, 2020
•47m
As a mom of three small children, author and podcaster Tsh Oxenreider found Christmas a bit overwhelming and as Charlie Brown would say, “too commercial.” Year after year she found herself dreading the season and looking for simple ways to refocus the holiday on the things that mattered most.
After living overseas for a year with her family and switching to a more liturgical church, Tsh found the centuries old observance of Advent to be the perfect way to slow down the crazy season of Christmas. She joins me to introduce Advent if you are new to it and to talk about the beautiful new Advent guide she created.
“This is for us, this is to reset our hearts and our focus to that which is the true reason we celebrate Christmas. So the thing I love about celebrating Advent in our culture is that it feels pretty counter-cultural in a world that both is focused on the gifts and is focused on the consumption parts of Christmas.”
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the liturgical practice of Advent, this is the show for you! Tsh shares a lot of practicals and perspectives about why celebrating this separate season can help us prepare for both the celebration of Jesus’ birth and the eventual time when Christ will, one day, make all things new.
Connect with Tsh:- Website: https://tshoxenreider.com
- Instagram: @tshoxenreider
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tsh
- BOOK: Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent
- Biblical Feasts with Amber Lee
- Advent resources from Tsh
- Other books from Tsh
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