Episode 296 - Stumbling Toward Eternity with Josh White

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

How do we move towards the cross when our journey is full of detours, distractions and divergence from the abundance and freedom Christ offers us? For author, musician and pastor Josh White, learning to navigate the terrain of his past wounds while pastoring wasn't a linear course. When the hurt from growing up with an alcoholic father began to bleed into his life and ultimately his ministry, Josh went down the difficult road of examining himself and his story. Through his own personal reflection upon his life and upon the crucifixion of Christ, Josh wrote Stumbling Toward Eternity: Losing & Finding Ourselves in the Cross of Jesus, as a way to better understand the freedom that the cross offers to each of us. In this episode, Davey talks to Josh about why we are seeing leaders fall to scandal, how to notice pinpoints of God's grace, and where to even begin in the mess of learning to forgive those who have deeply wounded us. This conversation is an encouragement to anyone who has ever felt like their spiritual walk was more of a stumble than a climb upward as they heal and grow in greater understanding of the work Jesus did upon the cross for each of us. Website: www.joshawhite.com Instagram: instagram.com/josh.alexander.white Book: Stumbling Toward Eternity: Losing and Finding Ourselves in the Cross of Jesus https://a.co/d/2HledTF Do you have a child in your life dealing with some big feelings? Aubrey Sampson's new book, Big Feelings Days, can help kids and their adults process the pain of life. Get it now wherever books are sold: www.aubreysampson.com/big-feelings-days/ Want to see healing and life transformation after the pain you've encountered? Check out the Pain to Purpose course and start the path towards healing today: www.course.nothingiswasted.com Have a friend who is walking through something difficult? Invite them to our next 5 Steps to Taking Back Your Story zoom call with Davey Blackburn. Send them this link to sign up: www.nothingiswasted.com/starthere Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Aubrey Samson here, and just like you, I have dealt with a lot of big feelings
0:05.5	and heartache in my life.
0:07.5	Mostly I've written about lament and grief for a grown-up audience, but we all know, especially
0:12.5	here at Nothing is Wasted, that adults do not have a monopoly on strong difficult emotions.
0:18.5	And so I have turned my attention to writing about big feelings for little ones with the
0:24.2	brand-new children's book called Big Feelings Days, a book about heartings, heavy emotions
0:31.2	and Jesus' love.
0:33.0	We all know that children have a lot of emotions and feelings sad or angry or broken-hearted
0:38.2	can be overwhelming.
0:40.6	That's why it's so important to help the kids in our lives understand that their feelings
0:44.8	are valuable and normal and that they can creatively express what they feel to Jesus,
0:50.8	who created emotions and deeply cares about everyone.
0:55.5	Big Feelings Days is a tender and engaging picture book that helps children ages 3-7 learn
1:01.7	how to release their feelings of grief, anger and heartbreak in creative ways to our God
1:07.5	who cares.
1:09.1	This picture book includes full-color illustrations and they are darling, relatable imagery to
1:15.5	help children express and identify emotions and creative ways for children to process
1:20.8	their feelings with Jesus.
1:23.2	Even now you can be helping your kids develop emotional health or your grandkids, your
1:27.4	nieces and nephews, those kids you love, you can help them begin to develop emotional
1:32.1	health and emotional intelligence as they learn to come to Jesus with whatever they may
1:37.0	be feeling and a little secret between us.
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