God Will Show Us What We’re Capable Of: Joseph Rojas & Monica Swanson
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week’s stories are set an ocean apart, but share a common thread of two individuals placing their trust in God to be a lighthouse in the dark while mapping a new course for their lives.
Joseph Rojas, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Seventh Day Slumber, candidly shares a background where abuse, addiction, and suicidal ideation haunted his days, and how that led to a rock-bottom moment in the back of an ambulance, where he had a life-changing encounter with God. Author and podcaster Monica Swanson is a mom to four boys who she decided to start homeschooling when they were elementary age. Though Monica and her husband initially had doubts about handling the boys’ education, they leaned into the task and discovered some of the benefits of this type of education, and now help others who desire to choose this route for their own families.
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Interview Quotes:
“It was hard to believe that if there really is a God and He's holy and good, what would He want with someone as messed up as me?” - Joseph Rojas
“I gave my heart to Him. I was talking with my heart to God. I don't remember exactly what I prayed, probably something along the lines of, God, if you'll still have me, if you still want me, I'll give my life to you.” - Joseph Rojas
“When I saw the people come forward and give their hearts to the Lord, I said, ‘That's what I want to do.’” - Joseph Rojas
“I wish that someone would have told me earlier on that I need to quit looking to everybody else to try to tell me who I am…At the end of the day, if you want to know who you are, you should ask the One who created you, and He will tell you that you're not a throw away, that you're not a lost cause, that you're not too fat, that you're not stupid, that you're not worthless. He'll tell you that you are loved beyond measure.” - Joseph Rojas
“Faith has been a huge element of our homeschool experience, mostly because we've been able to live out the Deuteronomy chapter six idea of talking about God's commands as we get up, as we walk along the road, as we lie down.” - Monica Swanson
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| 0:00.0 | Join Hoda Kottby for a brand new season of her podcast Making Space. |
| 0:05.0 | For season 5, I am making space to talk to people who are providing a sense of hope and |
| 0:09.9 | inspiration when life changes course. |
| 0:13.2 | Uplifting conversations with inspiring individuals like NFL legend Drew Breeze, |
| 0:19.2 | singer-songwriter Ziggy Marley, and today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie as you have never heard her before. |
| 0:26.0 | I found faith more viscerally not because the bad thing didn't happen but because it did. |
| 0:31.7 | I promise you like me believe these conversations with |
| 0:34.9 | some wisdom for your own journey, empowered and inspired to make space in your own |
| 0:39.4 | life. New episodes of making space with Hodaocopy are released every Wednesday. |
| 0:44.0 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.0 | This episode contains mature content. |
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| 0:53.0 | Join us on YouTube for The Jesus Listen's Stories of Prayer web series hosted by Susie McIntyre Eaton. |
| 1:00.0 | This series features interviews with guests sharing how prayer made an impact in their lives. |
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| 1:06.3 | I got invited to go to a third day an all-star united concert and they put on a great show but that's |
| 1:16.4 | not what excited me. Mac Powell did an altar call and when I saw the people come forward and give their life to Jesus, give |
| 1:26.1 | their hearts to the Lord, I said that's what I want to do. |
| 1:30.9 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 1:33.0 | This week's stories are set an ocean apart, |
| 1:35.0 | but share a common thread of two individuals placing their trust in God |
| 1:39.0 | to be a lighthouse in the dark |
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