Seeking Answers to Devastating Loss with Mark Roser—Father, Missionary, Author

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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With one phone call, Mark Roser’s life was flipped upside down. After spending years as missionaries in Africa, Mark and his family were back in the states, where his youngest son, Ethan, was studying to be a pastor. But when a freak accident took Ethan’s life, Mark was left seeking answers to every parent’s worst nightmare. He shares what he’s learned about loss, suffering, and God—and how to get back up again when life blindsides you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life. You know, one of the things I say regularly is we're going to do something a little different today. Well, we're going to do something a little different today yet again. Actually, Dirt, if we ever did the exact same thing twice in a row, I'd probably say we're going to do something different today. You know, the aggressive life is about moving forward, taking advantage of opportunities, and going for it. When it's something you do
0:42.6	all the time, it tends to be aggressive. It tends to be something that you just know how to do
0:47.8	really well, which is wonderful. Let's all do things we know how to do really well, and let's do them
0:52.7	frequently. You could probably make a lot of money that way. But the aggressive life is always about that first step that you're unsure of.
0:59.6	It's virgin territory for you. It's awkward. It threatens pain. And so the reason I keep saying,
1:06.9	well, it's something different we're going to do is because by giving us a wide
1:11.2	menagerie of guests and topics, we can start to see how to get our way into going for it,
1:21.8	being aggressive, pushing things, starting things. The problem is sometimes we've got to do that aggressively
1:31.4	with something we just don't want to do. We actually get blindsided. Something comes out of
1:39.0	nowhere and we're just not trying to push our life forward. We've got to actually recover in life because life has just thrown us a curveball.
1:47.5	It's thrown us a joker that's hit us straight in the forehead.
1:52.1	And then we've got to make aggressive moves that we really don't want to do
1:56.0	because it's surrounded circumstances that we really don't want at all.
2:00.8	Our guest today is an expert in this field.
2:04.5	His name is Mark Rozier.
2:06.5	It is a book that he wrote that has gotten us connected with one another.
2:11.9	It's called Blindsided.
2:13.6	Welcome to the Aggressive Life, Mark Rozier.
2:16.7	Thank you, Brian.
2:17.8	All right. Well, let's talk about you, Mark.
2:20.5	What's your background?
2:21.7	What brought you to be who you are today?
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