Overcoming Trauma: Episode 893
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Make your Bible reading more meaningful, plus identifying and addressing trauma in your life, and what did Paul mean by his “thorn in the flesh”?
Featured musical artist: Phil Wickham
Roundtable: Beyond Bible 101
You grew up in church, but is the Bible still a bunch of stories and moral lessons to you? Do you want to go deeper and not just know facts, but really get to know God himself? The possibilities for personal study and devotion are endless and sometimes overwhelming. Our guests share their favorite ways to study God’s Word, how they’ve experienced transformation through it, and what has helped them dig deeper along the way.
Culture: Understanding the Effects of Trauma
Trauma has many forms, and many of us have experienced it on some level. Whether neglect, violence, abuse, injury or tragedy, trauma can be difficult to identify and even harder to process and heal. Licensed professional counselor Eliza Huie joins us to define trauma, demonstrate how to name it, and explain how Christians can respond appropriately to ensure we or others get the help we need.
Trauma Aware: A Christian’s Guide to Providing Help and Care
Inbox: A Thorn in the Flesh
In 2 Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul describes his metaphorical “thorn in the flesh.” What exactly did he mean by that and subsequent phrases like, “When I am weak, then I am strong”? Counselor Jerry Jones weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:12.4 | Well, friends, welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.6 | And here's a little preview of what's coming up on the show. We are squarely in the |
| 0:22.8 | middle of March. And so I hope you are excited about growth and opportunity because we talk about |
| 0:28.5 | all the things here and we love for you to be part of it. So later on, in the Bible, Paul talks about |
| 0:34.1 | his thorn in the flesh and also says, when I am weak, then I am strong, |
| 0:38.7 | what exactly do those phrases mean? One of our listeners is wondering. And so one of our |
| 0:43.4 | counselors who actually knows a few things about the Bible is going to answer that question for us. |
| 0:48.0 | We're excited to have him weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, |
| 0:52.1 | Eliza Huey is a professional counselor. She was on the show actually a few months back talking to us about stress. Well, today she is back for another interview. If stress isn't enough, this time she's going to talk about trauma. So including, and I still, I love the way that she says this. She talks about how to even identify trauma in your own life. |
| 1:12.3 | And it's super helpful and very practical. |
| 1:14.8 | So you'll be excited about that. |
| 1:16.8 | And then here we are for our roundtable. |
| 1:19.1 | This topic actually was requested by one of you listeners. |
| 1:23.0 | And so John took that and put it to us here for today's roundtable. |
| 1:29.6 | And so we have got Georgia, we have Tommy, |
| 1:36.3 | we have John here. Hey guys. Hello. Good. Good to have you here. So, you know, I often like to say that we pick people for the round tables because we, you know, usually we're talking about like |
| 1:40.9 | terrible issues in people's lives. And then we're like, this totally reminds me at you, so you need to be on the show. |
| 1:46.8 | And I have no shame and just plucking people out and being like, oh, we're talking about |
| 1:51.1 | pride. |
| 1:51.9 | You're the one that came to mind. |
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