Leaving the 99 in search of the 1: Welcome to the Hope for the Journey Podcast.
Trials can be found all throughout Scripture, yet you would think it was unbiblical the way many believers react to them. The prevailing culture that we’re in now, that champions comfort and ease, has distorted our way of seeing trials for what they are and what they are meant to accomplish. We’ve become so focused on temporal, earthly happiness, that trials have become an extreme inconvenience. They aren’t supposed to happen, and when they do we get frustrated and agitated. Trials have begun to bring out the worst in us rather than build in us the necessary traits to live a life worthy of the calling that we’ve been called to by God.
Hosts this week:
- David Skinner @dskinner44
Resources:
Contact us (or all the myHopeJourney’s):
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Hope for the Journey: Walking Through the Valley of Darkness For and With Your Prodigal on AmazonJoin the discussion at http://EmbraceTheTrial.com
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Newsong for their use of their song, “Faithful” (Amazon, iTunes)
Photo by seanfoneill via Flickr
Kevin has been married to Heather for going on 21 years and is father to Jeremiah, Tiffany, Danielle, Rachel, Elisabeth, Malachi and Amelia Joy.
He spent over 15 years in student ministry before finding himself in the fight of his life for his own son. After discovering their son was addicted to meth, Kevin and Heather felt a lot of things: fear, shame, doubt, anger and most of all alone. However, as they shared their story, they found many people who were secretly going through the same struggle as well.
This gave birth to the Hope for the Journey blog which was geared at giving encouragement and hope in Christ for parents of prodigals as well as practical advice and prayer. The blog quickly grew in the a podcast of the same name where Kevin partnered with friends and fellow ministers David Skinner and Nick Jenkins to be a prodigal podcast serving up prodigal hope with “a little levity and a lot of hope.”
Kevin has also written a book “Hope for the Journey” which shares his family’s testimony of God’s faithfulness through this Journey. Click here to check out Kevin’s testimony of God’s work in his son and family.
- Temptations to Compromise When Parenting a Prodigal – Hope for the Journey Podcast, Episode 61 - September 11, 2016
- “A Call to Rescue” – Hope for the Journey Podcast, Episode 60 - September 4, 2016
- So You Got Yourself a Prodigal: If Tomorrow Never Comes – Hope for the Journey Podcast, Episode 59 - August 26, 2016
