Just As I Am: Lisa Harper and Point of Grace
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode touches on themes of acceptance and how God loves us just the way we are. Lisa Harper is a Bible Teacher and a speaker. She shares about how she moved past the shame and trauma associated with early sexual abuse in her life by being able to view herself as worthy in God’s eyes. Shelley Breen, Leigh Cappalino and Denise Jones join us from award winning contemporary Christian singing group Point of Grace. They share their joy and honor at being able to bring messages of hope and acceptance to the world through music for over 20 years; plus their thoughts on favorite hymns and worship songs that are part of their new record “Beautiful Name.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Our guests today are Bible teacher and speaker Lisa Harper and the members of popular contemporary Christian singing group Point of Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | First up, we speak with Lisa Harper. |
| 0:15.2 | Lisa has written 12 books including her latest which she discusses with us today |
| 0:19.6 | called The Sacrament of Happy What a Smiling God God brings to a wounded world. |
| 0:24.4 | Lisa shares on her early journey to becoming a Bible teacher |
| 0:28.2 | and is candid about being a survivor of sexual abuse. |
| 0:31.6 | Dealing with the shame and feeling that she was damaged goods because of this early trauma, |
| 0:36.0 | Lisa recounts how over time she was able to embrace the scripture that says, |
| 0:40.0 | Therefore, there is no condemnation or shame for those of us who are in Christ Jesus. |
| 0:46.7 | My name is Lisa Harper, I'm a Bible teacher, an author, not a very good one, very mediocre |
| 0:51.5 | author, but my mom keeps all of them in her |
| 0:53.9 | basement and a bit of a wind bag storyteller I love words used too many and I am a mom |
| 0:59.8 | an adoptive mom to the most amazing kid in the university except for yours of course. |
| 1:05.0 | I grew up in Central Florida. |
| 1:07.0 | I had a good family life although my parents divorced and that just kind of cast a |
| 1:11.9 | Paul over everything. |
| 1:13.9 | I love, dad left us for another woman and her child. |
| 1:17.2 | And that kind of marked me. |
| 1:19.6 | And I thought it must be at least partly my fault. |
| 1:22.7 | And so that sense of having an orphan spirit |
| 1:26.9 | kind of took hold when I was a little girl. |
| 1:29.1 | Mom remarried two years later to my stepfather John, but there was definitely that shadow of feeling fatherless |
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