Ep 21: Hope In The Hard Places with Levi Lusko

We're Going There with Bianca Juarez

That Sounds Fun Network

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Welcome back, friends! This week we are talking about finding hope in hard places. Our guest, Levi Lusko, is a pastor, author, podcaster, and church planter. But one of his most cherished role is that of father. Several years ago, I remember learning about the tragic passing of daughter Lenya and it hit way too close to home. Pastor Levi is going to share some amazing learnings on finding hope in hard places. Hope can only be experienced after grief. Four lessons on grief that I’ve compiled from my book How To Have Your Life Not Suck are: Acknowledge Reality Accept Reactions Avoid Remedying Affirm Reengaging If we know how to grieve well, we will heal well. And faster. In addition to being able to survive pain and loss, I believe we can also know how to deal with those who will walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death… and you can let them know, “you will fear no evil” (Psalm 23:1). Pastor Levi has so many books and amazing resources that you should check out. It would mean the world if you tagged him @levilusko and @biancaolthoff on social media and shared what you learned. As my thank you to you, two lucky winners will get a copy of Through The Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, finding Incredible Power. If you haven't yet, subscribe to this podcast and leave a loving review. This helps get this show into more ears and more hearts. Thanks for joining and I can’t wait to chat next week! 🖤 B Resources: Fresh Life Church Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back, friends. Thursdays are quickly becoming my favorite day of the week because we get to share new stories. And I love saying all the amazing love that you guys are sharing online. Honestly, your gratitude goes a very long way.
0:24.1	Guests from the show talk about how gracious y'all are online and how you tag them,
0:28.0	and I'm truly honored to spend time with you each week. This week we're talking about finding hope in hard places. Our guest this week is Levi Lesko, who is a pastor,
0:32.2	and church planner. But one of his most cherished roles is that a father. Several years ago,
0:38.2	I remember learning about the tragic passing of his daughter, Lenia, and it hit way too close to home.
0:43.3	Though I wasn't close with the Loscos, I had met them and saw them at churches or at conferences,
0:47.5	and I even met their kids. On the day of the funeral, I felt an inordinate desire to watch a funeral
0:52.8	and send love even though to this day they don't know I watched the serviceordinate desire to watch a funeral and send love even to this day.
0:55.8	They don't know I watched the service from start to finish.
0:58.5	There was something about how they opened up their lives that made me want to support and carry
1:02.3	their grief and pain with them.
1:04.3	From that day, a day marked by such pain, I held Jenny and Levi Lesko in the greatest regard.
1:09.7	They demonstrated such hope that I wanted to learn from them and emulate their faith. If for anything like me, when we face this type of loss or grief or death, we are faced with questions like, why was her life taken so tragically, so painfully? How could this happen to such a good person? Why did God allow this to happen?
1:30.0	Though these questions are hard, they're also normal.
1:34.3	They've been asked for centuries from the mouths of the faithful and the faithless alike.
1:36.6	Death isn't something that we like to talk about.
1:39.4	If you're under 30 years old, it's something rarely even discussed.
1:42.4	But whether we acknowledge it or not, death will happen, and sometimes it will happen in different
1:44.2	ways more often than we'd like to admit.
1:46.5	We might experience a death of a dream.
1:48.3	We might experience a death of a marriage.
1:50.2	We might encounter the death of a friendship.
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