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September 10, 2024
Trusting God with All My Feelings
When your heart is aching and crying out for answers, “Where are you?”, “If you love me, then why?” and “How long, oh, Lord?” where do you go with those feelings? With your anger? With your disappointment? With your despair?
Author and speaker, Sharon Garlough Brown, in her new illustrated children’s book Not Finished Yet encourages us to go to the God who loves us.
Sharon tells several stories of God meeting her in her questions, and her anger, speaking the truth to her heart about His faithful love. In doing so, she leaves the door open for you and I to do the same and to find the healing power of lament in being honest and vulnerable with God.
Also, as kids we all dreamt of what we’d be when we grew up. Do you ever dream about what you’ll be like as you mature in your faith? As a grown-up Christian? God wants us to become like Jesus.
We never know what God might do with our “Yes”. Station manager, Dodd Morris, shares an inspiring story of what God did with a puny, hesitant “Yes”.
Lastly, there are phrases that are part of Christian culture that have become so familiar that we rattle them off without really thinking about their meaning. “God is good all the time. And all the time God is good” might be one of them. What does it really mean?
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Sharon Garlough Brown
Sharon Garlough Brown is a spiritual director, speaker, and cofounder of Abiding Way Ministries, providing spiritual formation retreats and resources. She is the author of Shades of Light, the Shades of Light Study Guide, Remember Me, and the bestselling Sensible Shoes Series, which includes the spiritual formation novels Sensible Shoes, Two Steps Forward, Barefoot, An Extra Mile, and their study guides. Her latest work, Feathers of Hope (third in the Shades of Light series) released in April 2022. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Sharon has served on the pastoral staff of congregations in Scotland, Oklahoma, England, and West Michigan, where she co-pastored with her husband, Jack, for many years. She and Jack have now returned to the UK and reside in Dundee, Scotland. In March 2013 her book Sensible Shoes was named one of television personality Kathie Lee Gifford's "favorite things," and in December 2018 An Extra Mile was awarded Christianity Today's "Fiction Book of the Year."
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Perry LaHaie's passion is to know Jesus and make Him known. “I’m all in with Jesus but not all put together. I need Jesus right now as much as I did when I first started following Him!” Perry says. In addition to co-hosting Perry and Shawna Mornings, Perry is a singer, songwriter, recording artist, and advocate for those who haven’t yet heard the gospel, especially those in the Muslim world. Born and raised in northern Michigan, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications and a graduate degree in Cross- cultural Communications. Perry also serves with Frontiers, a worldwide ministry to Muslims. Perry and his bride, Teresa, call Holland, Michigan home. They have two adult children, Kali and Taylor, and Taylor’s bride, Bri.
Shawna Beyer
Shawna Beyer has a way of telling stories that create personal connection— to her, to one another, and to God. She has been a homeschool mom, church planter, project lead for a consulting company, and church staff member. Though she’s been involved in ministry with her husband (Dan) in Iowa, Arizona, and now Michigan, she was born and raised in Southern California and as they say, “You can take the girl out of California . . .” She is mom to four grown kids (Bryn, Drayson, Eden, and Haven) who no longer need her but humor her anyway. Shawna is passionate about the rhythms we weave into the fabric of our lives to fall more in love with God each day. Healthy foods are her go-to, but she will abandon that whole track in a heartbeat for a homemade cinnamon roll like Grandma used to make.
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