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Kaleb's Corner: Finding Jesus in the Wilderness of Your Soul 006| 439

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kaleb Allen and Seth Baumgartner  talk about what it means to follow Jesus through  difficult seasons. They reflect on the life and journal of missionary David Brainerd—a man who deeply struggled with sickness, depression, and loneliness, yet remained faithful to the end.

 What You’ll hear:
• Why Brainerd is considered a model of gospel perseverance
• What it means to be honest with God in seasons of doubt and dryness
• Why hardship doesn’t disqualify you from ministry
• How friendship and shared spiritual rhythms shape your faith
• What it looks like to run your race well, even if you feel empty
Feeling weary, isolated, or unsure how to keep going. You’re not alone—and God isn’t finished with you.


Episode  Resources: 

  1.  Hebrews 12:1 
  2.  James 1:2–4 
  3. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, friends.

0:14.5

All right, friends, we are on our last episode of the Wilderness series, and I wanted to have one of my closest friends in the world, Seth

0:23.7

Baumgartner on with me. This is Seth. Seth, say hello. Hello, everybody. Do you want to say

0:28.2

anything about yourself? Seth's a Montana boy. Born or raised. He's not a dad yet, so

0:33.3

no. That's why you never met him. Um he's engaged, and so we're excited about that.

0:42.1

I've been praying for years now for Seth to have a wife, and here it comes.

0:44.9

He's in for a blessing and a trial.

0:50.5

Speaking of blessing and trial, I wanted to have Seth jump on with me.

0:54.7

One of the things I believe about friendship, in particular particular having friends that walk with the Lord with you and spur you on is that like, dude, it's so

1:00.6

helpful to the past books back and forth and to, uh, be disciple at a particular area, read a

1:07.3

biography and then, and then pass it and have a friend push back and forth. And so as we

1:12.0

kind of wrap up the idea of wilderness, I wanted to talk about a book called The Diary, the Life and

1:16.9

Diary of David Rayner that we read, how long ago do you think we read it five or six years ago?

1:21.9

And I had it first, and then I passed it to Seth, who had it and passed it to our friend Zach.

1:29.3

And we do this thing where we write our name in the book, and then you scratch it out.

1:32.8

And now it said Caleb, and then it said Seth.

1:35.1

And then I think Zach has it now.

1:37.1

But since then, Seth has bought us...

1:39.5

So whenever you hit a really good one, then you have to go back and buy everyone a copy.

1:43.4

So now Seth has bought us hard copies. And here he has it. But the season of life where we were reading the

1:50.5

life and diaries of David Brannard were really interesting for me because his life was super

1:57.4

messy. And so I wanted to lay out just kind of quickly his life. And then he kind of is,

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