Shawna’s granddaughter Selah is here, and Shawna’s smitten! When Shawna became a mom she felt like her heart opened up to love deeper than she ever had. Now that she’s a grandma there’s an even deeper love she’s experiencing for her granddaughter. This is just a sliver of how much the heavenly Father loves you!

If you’re anything like Perry and Shawna you’ve looked up in awe at the heavens. The universe is SO vast, and yet our awesome Creator took time to remind Shawna to lock her car door.

Shawna’s in Australia helping her daughter and son-in-law adjust to being first-time parents and they make a great team! We were created for community – to do life together. We’re invited into community with Father, Son and Holy Spirit and with others who are following Jesus.

It’s easy to waste time on things that are worthless. For Shawna it’s scrolling at something to buy online. For Perry, it scrolling through Google news. But God keeps on rescuing us from worthless things to fill our hearts with goodness.

Last, Perry and Shawna love getting up (most mornings) to encourage you! But they also love it when listeners like you encourage them. Like Ron, a Perry and Shawna listener who sent a text before the show even started to encourage Perry.

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If we’re going to not just survive, but thrive in life’s journey, we need, from a Lord of the Rings perspective, an Aragorn out in front of us, calling out in us what we can’t see. We need a Sam, that friend at our side who carries us when we can’t take another step. And we need a Pippen, someone who really doesn’t yet believe they can do it.

Then, Perry admits, “I’d much rather come off all put together than show my scars.” But showing our scars is the only way to heal our world. Just ask the man who still has scars in his hands, feet, and side.

Next, you can’t have faith without risk. And you can’t have risk without fear. Which means that if the kingdom dream God’s put in your heart is going to become more than a dream, we’re going to have to fall into our fears.

Then, Perry was 19. His life was still dirty. Messy. But he longed to be more than who he was. That’s when Jesus said, “Follow me, I believe in you. I will make you into the man you long to be.”

Last, if you’re going through deep waters right now, and life is so hard, God is at work in you. Writing a song, giving you a message to share after you come out the other side. And when you do share it, “Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.”

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That’s what Peter realized as he began to move into his adult life. That the emotional and physical abuse from his dad and mom was not normal.

Dr. Peter Newhouse CEO of Winning At Home joins the podcast to share his journey from trauma to healing and to bring hope for healing to you!

The trauma made Peter really angry, but he shares about the first steps he took toward healing. He also shares the three phases of recovering from trauma: bondage, change, and freedom.

A Perry and Shawna listener shares with Peter, “Last year I shared some painful memories with my mom of her physically abusing me as a child. Mom had turned her life around and was not that person anymore. A few days after I shared that, mom died.

I have such deep regret that I ever shared that with her. I can barely breath when I think about it.” Peter offers some hope.

Last, healing from trauma is not a quick fix. There’s not a silver bullet that makes everything better overnight. It’s a journey, sometimes springing forward, sometimes setbacks. But there is hope! Check out Peter’s new book, Healing Through Trauma.

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Shawna’s in Australia, waiting for her first grandchild to be born. Here luggage didn’t make it. She was cool with it at first, but got more impatient as the dayswent by. She was done waiting for her luggage. That’s when she surrendered.

In Perry’s senior year of college he became overwhelmed by the shame of his teenage years. And the same thing happened last week! But there’s a massive difference between then and now in how he responds to those painful feelings.

Then, Jesus doesn’t just rescue us when we start our journey with him, he keeps on rescuing us! Perry experienced another rescue just last week.

Next, our relationship with Jesus is like a fire in the fireplace. If we don’t stoke the flame, our passion will fade. It’s a conversation about how we can keep our flame of love for Jesus red hot.

Last, the great lie of the enemy is, “The more of God, the less of you; real life is found when everyone and everything revolves around you.” But that lie is a rip-off!

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That’s what happens we make prayer a ritual, something we have to do. Something we feel we’ve got to get just right, or it won’t count. That’s religion, and religion always gets in the way of experiencing the love of Jesus.

Wife, mom, author, and speaker Asheritah Ciuciu joins the podcast to help us jettison religion and learn to delight in Jesus!

Perry shares how he deeply connected with Jesus last Saturday evening but wonders with Asheritah how he can experience that more often.

Perry and Asheritah share about how prayer can get in the way of delighting in Jesus. When we look at prayer as a to do list.

Then a huge barrier to delighting in Jesus is burnout. What do we do when we have zero energy for prayer?

And Lucy, a Perry and Shawna listener asks, “When I stop doing, doing, doing, how do I get past the feeling that I should be doing something?” Asheritah reminds us of the truth that frees us from our frenzy!

Also in this episode, Perry shares, “I have learned through my journey how to forgive myself, how to accept the forgiveness that Jesus offers that has no fine print.”

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Dr. Jeremy Grinnell joins us to answer your Bible questions. Here are the questions he takes on in this episode.

If all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, how is it that the OT kings were divided into two groups...the ones that pleased God and those that didn’t. Does this mean the good ones weren’t sinners? But then, all have sinned, right?

Perry and Shawna listener Stephanie is doing a word study on "remnant." In some passages God says he’ll never forsake his remnant, in others he says he’ll forsake them and in others he says God will protect and save the remnant. Can you explain??

1 Corinthians 11 talks about instructions for public worship, head coverings for women, no head coverings for men. Was this just for that time and culture or is it for today as well?

In Exodus 3:18, God directs Moses & Aaron to lie to Pharaoh about why they want to leave Egypt. And in 1 Samuel 16:2 the Lord directs Samuel to lie to David’s father Jesse about coming to anoint David as King. Is God telling them to lie?

Rev. 20 talks about those who are raised from death to reign during the Millennial reign of Jesus. And then it says that at the end of that reign the rest of the dead are raised? Who are the ones reigning in the Millennium and who are the rest of the dead?

Last, Shawna had some anxiety when she thought about traveling alone to Australia for the birth of her grandbaby. She joins us from Australia to share how God met her in incredible ways emotionally and relationally!

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He’s a pastor, author, and apologist. And he still has doubts about the tough questions of faith. But he’s learned how to leverage doubt to propel him forward and not cause him to spiral backward.

JD Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in NC joins us to talk about his latest book, 12 Truths and a Lie: Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions. JD takes on some of the toughest questions he’s fielded over the years and that he’s also wrestled with.

In the podcast, JD shares how he wrestled with doubts about his salvation, how to unhinge politics from the gospel. We also take on other tough questions: If God’s really in control, why so much suffering? How could a loving God send people to hell?

And surely the biblical sexual ethic is bigoted. Or is it? Listen in to a conversation between Perry and JD that gives you permission to doubt and insight on how to grow through it. If this encourages you, please share!

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Mitch grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn. The only people who survived Hitler from his grandparent’s generation was his grandparents. He was raised to believe that Christians murdered and hated Jews. Today, he’s a follower of Jesus. Wait, what?? Yep.

Dr. Mitch Glasser, President of Chosen Peoples Ministries joins the team to share how Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel and of the world found the “least likely guy to follow Jesus.”

We also talk about the spiritual awakening to Jesus that’s happening across the world as Jews embrace Jesus as Messiah. And how that’s connected to The Second Coming of Jesus!

And we drill deep into the reasons for the rise in antisemitism and find that it’s rooted in the enemy’s hatred of God, and of his plan to repair the world. This is a riveting conversation. Please share!

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