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- Invites others to speak into our lives

- Encourages persistence in finding the right help

- Affirms counseling as a tool for spiritual growth

- Teaches the FIT framework for healthy conflict

- Shifts focus from facts to relational impact

- Guides us to correct relational direction before damage grows

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- Uncomfortable scripture

- Gifts and how we pray for them

- The Familiar Stranger Book

- Ryan Bibb and Radiant Life

- Holy Spirit is in the preparation

- Obedience is Hard and the key

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- A childhood shaped by addiction, loss, and resilience.

- Grandparents provided stability, love, and direction.

- College grief after losing her grandmother to cancer.

- Community support prevented isolation and collapse.

- Finding a safe church led to faith and baptism.

- Learning to make space for the Holy Spirit’s work.

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- Teresa shares her journey as a survivor of significant childhood and adult trauma.

- She describes how prayer, counseling, community, worship, and Israel shaped her healing.

- Teresa highlights how the Church often misunderstands trauma and its effects.

- She explains her calling to become a trauma recovery coach to equip pastors and churches.

- The episode explores how trauma intersects with spiritual formation and ministry.

- Teresa invites the Church into deeper compassion, safety, and Spirit‑led care for the wounded.

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-We are urged to encourage one another and be stirred toward a deeper life of prayer.

-Prayer is easily crowded out by busyness and distractions, not just sin.

-There is a spiritual battle resisting your commitment to prayer.

-Building a prayer life requires burning conviction, unshakeable resolve, joyful sacrifice, and love.

-Prayer must take priority over productivity, even on the busiest days.

-God is inviting each of us into a personal, realistic next step in prayer that can transform church culture over time.

Take a trip down memory lane with us this Monday!

Want to see God move more deeply through your church's worship team? In this episode, Josh Brown, Worship Pastor at Radiant Life Church in Sturgis, Michigan, emphasizes the impact he has seen by intentionally discipling his worship team. 

Josh emphasizes the vital importance of this discipleship process and shares what has worked for him, from initial onboarding to teaching the true meaning of worship and establishing what a culture of worship on and off the stage looks like. 

Notes From the Show & Resource Links: 

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-Importance of Leadership

-Mike Foster’s Insights

-Seven Primal Questions

-Gary Tomson’s Scared Pathways – 20,000 Hours of Work

-Connecting Best with God

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-Leadership is a gift—use it wisely.

-Multiply your talents instead of burying them.

-Growth comes from learning and serving others.

-Mentorship is essential for future leaders.

-Faith shapes decisions and leadership actions.

-Take action: connect, mentor, and elevate others.

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- Exploring mentorship beyond one voice.

- Navigating boardroom dynamics and strategy.

- Breaking barriers for women in ministry.

- Faith-driven leadership and answered prayers.

- Insights on church planting challenges and culture.

- Encouragement for women to embrace their calling.

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- Largest study ever on Wesleyan women in ministry—4,000 pages of data.

- Churches grow less egalitarian as structures increase.

- Persistent barriers: titles, communion, and closed doors.

- Education and mentoring are essential, not optional.

- Women face intense scrutiny and need safe preaching spaces.

- Leadership must affirm and open doors for women in ministry.

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