Every Scar Has a Story: Mark Eaton & Kelsey Lamb
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
No matter how careful, each of us will go through life with bumps, bruises and scars. Behind each wound we receive is a story of how we tried, failed, and persevered through hardship. And one of the ways God can redeem our scars is to help us share those experiences with others so they feel less alone. Our guests this week—pastor and writer Mark Eaton, and country music singer/songwriter Kelsey Lamb—come from different places and circumstances. But Mark and Kelsey have each rolled up their sleeves to do the hard work of sharing their scars with others, helping them walk through or avoid pain in their own lives.
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Interview Quotes:
"[When I became a Christian], I somehow had the impression that life was going to get better the next day." - Mark Eaton
"I met the Lord when I was 14 because of a church that cared enough to . . . bring a youth pastor onto their staff." - Mark Eaton
"What was a tool became an addiction and later became a compulsion. 'I have to be popular. I have to be liked.' . . . And there's a point when those tools fail." - Mark Eaton
"What a gift [my dad] gave me by stepping off his platform and being willing to change and adjust our relationship." - Mark Eaton
"To me, every day not not divided up into good and bad, but easy and hard . . . because what's a bad thing one day might be the thing that saves you the next." - Mark Eaton
“I want to be around people who have scars, who are willing to talk about them and not afraid to show them.” - Mark Eaton
“Almost all of my songs come from personal experiences: my break ups, moving to Nashville, college. All of that is in my music, hoping to help someone else get through it.” - Kelsey Lamb
"When you jump back into [Jesus Calling] you start to realize that every devotion ends up being completely applied to what you're going through." - Kelsey Lamb
"I don't think [my career] will ever just be handed to me. I think [God] puts opportunities in my path to help me work to get to the next step." - Kelsey Lamb
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| 0:00.0 | I think of forgiveness not as a one-time event but as an ongoing posture of |
| 0:06.7 | live to forgive and as an ongoing posture of not just repenting now, but repenting kind of always when I see |
| 0:15.8 | that little part of me, ah, there it is again, I want to take control. I need to remember that I can |
| 0:22.0 | control things sometimes, but I need to love people. I can fix things sometimes but I need |
| 0:27.6 | to love people, not fix things and fix people. I want to fix things and love people. Well, I want to fix things and love people. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we talk with two guests from different walks of life who share their heart aches and scars |
| 0:42.3 | with others so they can be encouraged to find |
| 0:44.8 | their way. |
| 0:45.8 | Pastor and writer Mark Eaton and country music singer-songwriter Kelsey Lamb. |
| 0:52.0 | First up, Mark Eaton has 35-year history in nonprofit and ministry efforts from directing |
| 0:57.8 | a wilderness camping program for delinquent youth to consulting and mentoring business leaders to pioneering a regional men's |
| 1:05.2 | ministry in the northwest. Mark also tours with his wife, Susie McIntyre |
| 1:10.3 | Eaton, who has a thriving music ministry. Mark's road to ministry wasn't easy. |
| 1:15.6 | Growing up with a strict father shaped his view of God as a judge and Mark never felt he measured up. |
| 1:22.1 | He compensated by achieving in multiple areas all in an attempt |
| 1:27.0 | to receive the approval he craved, but there was always a whole in his life, one that needed |
| 1:31.8 | to be filled by the love of a father. |
| 1:35.0 | Hi, my name is Mark Eaton. I'm a Seattle native, actually north of Seattle in the |
| 1:41.0 | great state of Washington and moved to Oklahoma because I was |
| 1:44.2 | lucky enough to marry Susie McIntyre. I was born in 1956 in the northwest corner of |
| 1:51.8 | the northwest corner of the northwest state of Washington, |
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