Truth With Ruth

Jacob and I chat about Honor. We process through the positional role we have placed Honor in and how we use it to control and manipulate people into doing and becoming what we need them to be and do.  We discuss the different ways we as a culture have chosen to give honor, and what the Bible actually says Honor is apart from what we have made it.  

Von and I process through our very different experiences in the evangelical church culture.  As black American man in a white evangelical world He talks about the culture shift, navigating major current events, the pitfalls of mis education and lack of conversation and understanding.  He shares some things to do as well as some things to avoid.  I am thankful for this conversation and the ability to ask questions, gain understanding and process through some of my own thoughts as well.

My long time family friend Samantha chats with me about her journey through mental health issues.  We talk about the natural process and the spiritual one around treating  mental health.  She shares her journey with doctors, psych wards, and eventually spiritual freedom.  We talk through breaking generational curses, and the power of declarations over your family and situation to bring in the living active word of God for our lives.

I am so thankful for the transparency and vulnerability of Samantha to journey with me in this conversation.

What are you to believe about yourself when all the cards seem stacked against you? Adoption, abuse, divorce, single parenting, lack, and the list goes on. The destiny you believed God had for you isn't on a road that is straight and narrow, but rather full of twists and turns.  Sophia and I process through the pitfalls and situations that throw us into a life of guilt and shame over what should have been but isn't.  We talk through and bring Gods renewed mindset and overcoming power to get us out of a life of related patterns, and into victory.

Jacob and I sit down and share our various stories behind staying and leaving church. I felt it was a topic that needed to be addressed especially in 2020 due to the mass exodus of people for organized church.  we talk about the pitfalls, and the freedom to make decisions to go in an honorable way.  Our goal in this conversation was to bring freedom and truth around a decision that for most leads to pain, and loss of community, and to show you the freedom that can come when hearing the voice of God and maturely moving in it.

I take this time to share with you the new format moving forward for my the Podcast, I share my thought process and my why for this podcast as well,  and thank listeners for tuning in and sticking with me as I have taken the year to experiment with and discover how to work it all out.