This week on A Little Better, we’re talking about the first maker and marker of spiritual maturity–Pain. No one likes difficult, painful experiences, but in God’s redemptive process, rupture and repair are inevitable in a broken world. Special guest Christine Jean-Jacques, an experienced Christian psychologist, joins Calum Shaw and Matt Sones. Together, they talk through some of the reasons we react to pain differently, stemming back to our childhood experiences. They discuss how we can heal and redeem those painful experiences so we don’t allow them to stunt our maturation.

Resources:

Be Mature by Warren Wierrsbe

https://a.co/d/19UUid5

Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

https://a.co/d/6KFicow

Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are by Lysa TerKeurst

https://a.co/d/0rKKBzI

Relational Spirituality: A Psychological-Theological Paradigm for Transformation by Todd Hall

https://a.co/d/hxVPg79

Maturity: Growing Up and Going on in the Christian Life by Sinclair Ferguson

https://a.co/d/dF5Fybq