God Brings Life After Loss: Jonathan Pitts and John Hill
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🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When life brings us to our knees, it’s nearly impossible to remember that one day the pain won’t feel as sharp, and somehow we’ll find new life beyond the sorrow. In fact, God can redeem our darkest moments by bringing love and joy and newfound purpose to our days. That’s what He’s done for our guests this week: pastor and author Jonathan Pitts, who recently lost his 38-year-old wife author Wynter Evans Pitts, and entrepreneur John Hill, who struggled to find his way in life until He trusted God for each moment.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Church of the City, Franklin TN
Emptied: Experiencing the Fullness of a Poured-Out Marriage Book
For Girls Like You organization
Anthony Evans, Jr. singer & artist
Mitral Valve Prolapse (Mayo Clinic)
Factor V Lieden (Mayo Clinic)
Urban Alternative (Tony Evans)
Interview Quotes:
“Our identity, although it included our race, had nothing to do with our race. Our identity was much deeper than that.” - Jonathan Pitts
“It would take me years to discover just the level of woman that I married.” - Jonathan Pitts
“The beautiful thing of our marriage wasn't that it was perfect, but it was progressional.” - Jonathan Pitts
“Wynter accomplished her mission and God called her home.” - Jonathan Pitts
“[Slowing down] allows my girls to grieve even better, because with me being present, that allows me to be there for them.” - Jonathan Pitts
“As hard as it's been [to lose a wife and mother], there's been a lot of sorrow, but there's been a ton of joy coupled with it.” - Jonathan Pitts
“As a teenager, I started falling away from God, realizing, If it's black or white, there's no way I'm ever gonna make it to heaven.” - John Hill
“I just want to love You like I loved You when I was a kid, before I knew what sin was, before I knew what all this stuff was.” - John Hill
“I want to live every day--not just be alive.” - John Hill
“We get way too involved in trying to help God. God doesn't need our help. He needs our obedience.” - John Hill
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| 0:00.0 | Like we have this keen awareness and sense of the goodness of God and that even in the |
| 0:08.3 | tragicness of our tragic nature of where we've been that there's still this beautiful story |
| 0:15.4 | that's being poured out and that's been another beautiful thing. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests have traveled long stretches of despair and loss, |
| 0:27.0 | but today they're embracing what God has next for them. |
| 0:30.0 | Pastor and author Jonathan Pitts, an entrepreneur John Hill. |
| 0:34.6 | First up, Jonathan Pitts has had a whirlwind year, |
| 0:38.0 | weeks after celebrating 15 years of marriage with his wife, |
| 0:40.8 | winter. |
| 0:41.7 | On a warm summer night in 2018, 38-year-old Winter Evans Pitts passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. |
| 0:49.0 | Winter left behind a family of four girls and a thriving ministry and writing career. Today Jonathan shares about |
| 0:55.2 | his life with Winter, including their final book they wrote together called Emptied, and how |
| 1:00.3 | God is still using her creative spirit to minister to others. |
| 1:04.0 | My name is Jonathan Pitts and I'm currently an executive pastor at Church of the City |
| 1:09.0 | which is a church in Franklin Tennessee. It's a family of churches. They're about six churches total. |
| 1:14.0 | And I married my wife, Winter, Danielle Evans, and we were married 15 years. |
| 1:21.8 | I also served as president of for girls like you. |
| 1:24.9 | And it's a non-profit organization that's right now growing |
| 1:28.6 | out of what was just a heart desire for her, |
| 1:31.5 | for our girls. |
| 1:32.4 | So that's me. If you saw me you wouldn't know it but I'm I look |
| 1:36.4 | African American. I'm brown skin but my mom is German and my parents met at a place |
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