S4 38: What to Do With Unmet Longings With Rachel Miller
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Living with unmet longings often feels like suffering. Rachel Miller knows, from experience, that our longings confront us with an opportunity to struggle toward God and community, rather than away from them. Her latest book is When It Hurts to Hope: Honest Conversations about Living with Unmet Longing. She joins us this week to talk about wrestling with longings and desires, and correcting the bad theology that worsens our suffering.
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As Christians, we’re called to love God with all our minds, and be transformed by the renewal of our minds. Without a mind that’s shaped by God’s Word, we’ll struggle to champion the truth, beauty, and goodness of God’s Kingdom in this time and place. To address this problem, Michael Craven, Vice President of Equipping and Mobilization at the Colson Center has written a brand-new, free e-book called The Christian Mind: Its Necessity to Christian Relevance and Renewal. It’s a primer on developing a thoroughly Christian mind for the sake of the Kingdom. If you want a more robust faith that actually shapes how you live in the world today, or if you’re wondering why cultivating a Christian mind really matters, you should read this book. You can grab your free copy by going to colsoncenter.org/book.
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| 0:00.0 | As Christians, we're called to love God with all our minds and be transformed by the renewal of our minds. |
| 0:09.0 | Without a mind that's shaped by God's word will struggle to champion the truth, beauty, and goodness of God's kingdom in this time and place. |
| 0:18.0 | To address this problem, Michael Craven, Vice President of Equipping |
| 0:22.4 | and Mobilization at the Colson Center, has written a brand new free e-book called The Christian |
| 0:28.1 | Mind, Its Necessity to Christian Relevance and Renewal. It's basically a primer on developing |
| 0:34.3 | a thoroughly Christian mind for the sake of the kingdom. If you want a more robust faith that actually shapes how you live in the world today, |
| 0:42.3 | or if you're wondering why cultivating a Christian mind really matters, |
| 0:46.3 | you should read this book. |
| 0:48.3 | Again, it's called The Christian Mind, |
| 0:50.3 | and you can grab your free copy by going to colson center.org forward slash book. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women |
| 1:12.8 | to participate in his story. We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow |
| 1:18.7 | definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk |
| 1:24.6 | out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:31.8 | Welcome back, listeners. I'm so glad you've joined us. Our guest today is Rachel Miller. |
| 1:37.5 | She's an author and speaker who teaches on faith, creativity, and communication. She works with |
| 1:43.5 | best-selling authors and speakers to help them |
| 1:45.5 | craft compelling messages. She's written for a lot of different places, including Lifeway and |
| 1:51.1 | U-Version and Proverbs 31 ministries, and I could go on. She's also the co-founder of the Writers' Room, |
| 1:58.0 | which is a community of writers that offers annual conferences and gatherings. |
| 2:02.4 | She and her husband Jeff loves stand-up comedy, being outside, and planning global adventures |
| 2:07.9 | from Base Camp, their home in Franklin, Tennessee. So I'm so glad that you've joined me today, |
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