Nov 28, 2023
In the final part of this message series on Good Baggage, we ask the question, where do we go from here? We look at this through the lens of the biblical story of the lame man by the Pool of Bethesda. Jesus asks him a question we are all being asked today, "Do you want to be well?"
Jesus tells the man, "Get up, take...
Oct 10, 2023
A common way of coming to grips with the trauma of our childhood is to conclude, "Everything happens for a reason." This logic is well-intentioned, but we often say it without full awareness of what it implies about what we've been through or what it implies about God's role in it.
In this week's episode, we talk about...
Oct 3, 2023
This week we look at the good baggage the undergirds everything else this series and my book has to offer: our passion to see our relationships go differently than the relationships we saw in our childhood.
In this episode, we look at 3 things our childhoods taught us, and how we can leverage them for the health of our...
Sep 26, 2023
One of the most prevalent impacts of our difficult childhoods is codependency. When we think of codependency, we tend to think of people pleasing or approval seeking, but those are symptoms of the deeper issue. Codependency at its core, is a loss of self.
We do not have a clear sense of who we are and so we seek to...
Sep 19, 2023
For better or worse, one of the people most affected by our childhood difficulties, will be the person we marry.
In this episode we talk with my own wife, Sharon Miller, about her experience being married to an adult child of dysfunction. She shares how our relationship has been impacted by my childhood, how she has...