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Awesome Marriage Podcast

When God Meets Us Where We Are with Eric & Erikah Rivera | Ep. 559

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

When Eric and Erikah Rivera met and started dating as high school sweethearts, they sensed God's call on their lives. But they did not know how it would all unfold. Today they are church planters in their hometown of Chicago, and they graciously share their story of how God has met them in the midst of unexpected fear and pain, and the ways He has worked in each circumstance. Don't miss this encouraging conversation with the Riveras. 

 

We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage. 



Episode highlights include: 

  • How sharing their fears and grief with each other led to increased faith

  • Unexpected ways God can use our trials when we invite Him to 

  • Should the disciple be known as "Doubting Thomas" or "Ride-or-Die Thomas"?  

  • When God doesn't answer our prayers the way we hope  

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here! 

 

Application Questions:  

  1. What fears are underlying in your heart and mind today? What prevents you from speaking them? 

  2. Where do you need to see Jesus show up in your life today? In your marriage? 

  3. How do you need support in those things in your marriage today? 

  4. How can you better support your spouse in the things they are dealing with today? 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

0:10.3

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

0:17.3

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you

0:23.7

strengthen your most intimate relationship. Well, welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast.

0:31.5

So glad you decided to join us today. I think you're going to love the show today. Eric Rivera

0:35.9

and his wife, Erica, join us.

0:43.8

Eric is the author and the lead pastor and church planter with his wife, Erica, of the Brook Church in Chicago.

0:47.4

They're national speakers that contribute to the ministry of family life.

0:56.6

Eric's new book is Unexpected Jesus, How the Resurrection Christ Finds Us, Meets Us, and Heels Us. I think you're going to love this couple. Let's go to the studio now. Well, Eric and Erica, thank you so much for joining us today

1:01.4

on Lost Marriage Podcast. It's good to see you guys. Thanks for taking time to spend with us today.

1:06.1

Thanks so much for having us. We're really excited about it. Well, I'm excited to have you guys. So you guys are in

1:12.7

Chicago and your church is the Brook Church and that has been going on for how long now?

1:20.1

Yeah, for almost nine and a half years, we planted the Brook in 2013. So it's amazing how time

1:26.3

flies. Yeah, that's, that is amazing how quickly it's amazing how time flies.

1:28.0

Yeah.

1:32.5

That is amazing how quickly it goes in a church plant that's doing really well.

1:35.9

So tell us a little bit about the church and the ministry, how you guys do ministry together there because I know we have a lot of people

1:39.3

that listen to us that are in ministry together.

1:41.8

Yeah.

1:42.4

Yeah.

1:42.8

So we were part of another church before coming here and God put a real clear call in ministry together. Yeah. Yeah, so we were part of another church before coming here and

1:45.3

God put a real clear call in our lives to leave that church to plant a new church with their

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