Loving Reason in Beirut | Lukas Ruegger
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
I love the fact that the head of an atheists’ association in Beirut asked Lukas to take it on, as the person he most trusted! That further enhanced Lukas’ reach into the disaffected youth scene, with beautiful stories of radical Muslims being exposed to love in action and coherent debates softening antagonistic cynics.
From outgrowing his living room to establishing a coffee shop to which therapists unknown to Lukas refer their patients because ‘that’s where you’ll get better’, his reasoned and loving approach to anyone and everyone is bearing much fruit. It’s a great story!
Check out: steiger.org and livingroombeirut.com
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| 0:00.0 | He said, for the past two weeks, I couldn't even sleep one hour in full every night because my migraines were so strong I just could not sleep. |
| 0:10.0 | I've prayed several times for this. I've had other people pray for this and it just hasn't gone away. |
| 0:15.0 | As much as I would like to believe that it works, I don't believe it does. |
| 0:19.0 | But then, he said, George came to me and he prayed for me. |
| 0:22.7 | He said, I went home after that and I slept for 12 hours straight. Since then, I've slept every night |
| 0:30.8 | and I've stopped my medication. I have to admit, I have no other option but to admit that prayer |
| 0:37.4 | works. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome, everybody, this is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. |
| 0:44.8 | If you're new to us, Inspired is all about meeting different mates of mine from across the spectrum of human experience. |
| 0:50.8 | I've had really interesting, crazy, difficult, challenging journeys and |
| 0:55.1 | how faith has played a key role in terms of them getting through. |
| 0:59.6 | We're just so relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press and this barrage of gloom and |
| 1:05.0 | doom and it just induces fear and anxiety and depression and cynicism. |
| 1:08.3 | So at least one hour a week, we're going to counteract that. And I've got no doubt this week going to be inspired because we've got with us, Lucas Ruga. Hi, Lucas. Hi, Simon. Good to be with you. So good to have you, buddy. So I've been wanting to get this podcast for a long time. Lucas and I are paths first cross in 2010. And I'm just going to tell story here because it will encourage a whole bunch of you, I have no doubt. |
| 1:31.3 | Because often our lives just don't go according to plan. |
| 1:33.3 | And the reason I met Lucas was because our plans were going royally off-piece. |
| 1:38.3 | So we are in Burundi and we were planning to move to the States for a couple of years to launch our charity |
| 1:44.3 | Great Lakes Irish in the States and we got a visa for Lizzie, my wife and my two kids that were |
| 1:49.0 | out of the womb but she was pregnant with another one, Josiah. And when we got back to England |
| 1:54.3 | and applied the formality of getting a visa for him, we were told that all our visas were |
| 1:58.4 | illegitimate. So we had to go back to the drawing board, and it was just a horrible episode. You know, this is three kids on the age of four in my |
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