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Listening In

A conversation with Tim Challies - S11.E9

Listening In

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary/Description: After the death of his 20-year old son, Tim Challies started to write: not for others, but himself. The popular blogger and author chronicled his private journey through grief and loss. He later decided to share those reflections in: Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God. In this conversation with Warren Smith, Tim walks through the early days of sorrow, and shares the comfort than brought him through that difficult first year

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I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with author and popular

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blogger, Tim Chalice.

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He's written a new book that chronicled the year following the death of his son, the

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book is called Seasons of Sorrow, the pain of loss, and the comfort of God.

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I'm still next, Father.

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He's still my son and we do have a great and wonderful future ahead, and even in heaven,

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though, I'm sure relationships will change, he'll never stop being my son, I'll never

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stop being his father.

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On November 3rd, 2020, Tim Chalice and his wife, Ilene, got news that no parent wants

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to get.

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Their 20-year-old son, Nick, had died.

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He had been a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky,

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participating in a school activity with his sister, his fiancee, and friends when he collapsed,

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an expert and immediate efforts to revive him were not successful.

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That life-ending and life-changing event sent Tim Chalice on an unexpected journey of grief

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and sorrow.

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Tim Chalice processed that grief and sorrow in the way he knew best by writing.

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His new book, The One We'll Discuss Today, takes us on that journey with him through

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the seasons of the first year after next death.

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Tim Chalice has become internationally known because of its popular blog, chalice.com,

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tens of thousands of people read him every day, making it one of the most widely read

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blogs in the world.

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