Thank you for this episode (the first of this series that i have listened to besides your episode w/ Beth Moore), Steve. Tears again in this one. I so appreciate the experience w/ and perspective from trauma chaplaincy, pastoral work, and the rest of your life that you bring to this ministry - including a heart to live well and authentically before God and others. The work that you and your wife do seems amazing. I resonated w/ what you shared of your experience w/ chaplaincy as I just completed my first unit of CPE in Vancouver, BC (Canada) this summer. I plan to graduate w/ my Master of Christian Studies from Regent College in Dec, and then move back to the US and continue my journey toward chaplaincy, God-willing. I also resonated w/ all you shared about your mum's illness as my Mum was also diagnosed w/ (pancreatic) cancer in 2018, and she died 3 years ago this week. Not being able to be with her for 15 months while she was dying during the pandemic (our family was very strict about covid precautions) - or with her in the hospital during her last 2 months of life - was more painful than I can put into words. And yet...God was merciful and allowed me to be with her at the end. So I thank you for all that you shared, and I pray grace and comfort over you and your family as you continue to grieve. May God's presence and mercy enfold you, your wife, and your whole family, Pastor. I look forward to learning through this podcast series, and I thank you for this ministry.
Well done, Steve. As a fellow Family System Theory buff, it is great to see how you systematically integrate faith and health in the context of one's intergenerational family.
I am so excited to see this happening! I've been listening to your podcast for years now and it has set me on a path that has been incredibly formative for me. It really is true that the way we show up is so much more important and impactful than what we actually do or say, especially as leaders, but also in everyday life. So, it's great to see these ideas hopefully get introduced to a wider audience. And what an intro episode it is! Well done!
I find your notion of being human-sized very creative and compelling. It seems analogous to the idea of being more than human (divine) or being less than human (demonic), but either keeps us from connecting with God, Source of genuine human life. Anyway, thank you for your thoughts.I look forward to future episodes. Christ be with you in your grief and your ministry.
I’m currently watching Steve’s Expectation Gap video series and am blown away with the insight but also the effective use of metaphors that really stick. The “unreliable narrator” is brilliant and the term makes me giggle, as when he first said the term, I went another route and was thinking about times I’ve seen programs wrongly translated in Sweden, so the CC text doesn’t match what’s either being said or spoken. As a native English Speaker, I see these mistakes more often. I had also imagined a narrator who blatantly just gave their opinion of what a documentary is showing us versus factual tidbits. But when Steve explained the term, I’ll let you discover that when you read, listen, or watch the series, it cemented the concept. I don’t think I’ve watched a series where each lesson there was always a deep lightbulb moment for me. I actually moved back to Sweden, my country of origin, from Denver Metro (Parker) and wished I had known about his ministry when I was living there. I appreciate the honesty and realness Steve brings to each talk. Very profound and very very very applicable to life as a human. Wished these were discussed and talked about in school. I would’ve easily picked up a yearly course in school days that helped you learn how to be a better human and to understand our “unreliable narrators”; just imagine the impact on all of our lives had talks like these been available as part of a mental health (human health) education as part of standard curriculum.
👍 now you gotta share (at least?) one cricket explainer link in the show notes, to tweak the curiousity of the unfamiliar 😉😅 (Aren't there some parables you can take from any form of the game?)
Thank you for this episode (the first of this series that i have listened to besides your episode w/ Beth Moore), Steve. Tears again in this one. I so appreciate the experience w/ and perspective from trauma chaplaincy, pastoral work, and the rest of your life that you bring to this ministry - including a heart to live well and authentically before God and others. The work that you and your wife do seems amazing.
I resonated w/ what you shared of your experience w/ chaplaincy as I just completed my first unit of CPE in Vancouver, BC (Canada) this summer. I plan to graduate w/ my Master of Christian Studies from Regent College in Dec, and then move back to the US and continue my journey toward chaplaincy, God-willing. I also resonated w/ all you shared about your mum's illness as my Mum was also diagnosed w/ (pancreatic) cancer in 2018, and she died 3 years ago this week. Not being able to be with her for 15 months while she was dying during the pandemic (our family was very strict about covid precautions) - or with her in the hospital during her last 2 months of life - was more painful than I can put into words. And yet...God was merciful and allowed me to be with her at the end. So I thank you for all that you shared, and I pray grace and comfort over you and your family as you continue to grieve. May God's presence and mercy enfold you, your wife, and your whole family, Pastor. I look forward to learning through this podcast series, and I thank you for this ministry.
Peace to you, Lauren and thank you so much for listening.
Well done, Steve. As a fellow Family System Theory buff, it is great to see how you systematically integrate faith and health in the context of one's intergenerational family.
Thanks Ed.
I am so excited to see this happening! I've been listening to your podcast for years now and it has set me on a path that has been incredibly formative for me. It really is true that the way we show up is so much more important and impactful than what we actually do or say, especially as leaders, but also in everyday life. So, it's great to see these ideas hopefully get introduced to a wider audience. And what an intro episode it is! Well done!
Thank you Alex.
Good to see you here Steve! Your work is a wonderful expression of faith and how systems offers us discipleship lenses to more wholeness and holiness!
Thanks Brian, I'm thrilled to be sharing on YT and the new format.
Good One!
Wow !
I find your notion of being human-sized very creative and compelling. It seems analogous to the idea of being more than human (divine) or being less than human (demonic), but either keeps us from connecting with God, Source of genuine human life. Anyway, thank you for your thoughts.I look forward to future episodes. Christ be with you in your grief and your ministry.
Yes sir, thank you.
I’m currently watching Steve’s Expectation Gap video series and am blown away with the insight but also the effective use of metaphors that really stick. The “unreliable narrator” is brilliant and the term makes me giggle, as when he first said the term, I went another route and was thinking about times I’ve seen programs wrongly translated in Sweden, so the CC text doesn’t match what’s either being said or spoken. As a native English Speaker, I see these mistakes more often. I had also imagined a narrator who blatantly just gave their opinion of what a documentary is showing us versus factual tidbits. But when Steve explained the term, I’ll let you discover that when you read, listen, or watch the series, it cemented the concept. I don’t think I’ve watched a series where each lesson there was always a deep lightbulb moment for me. I actually moved back to Sweden, my country of origin, from Denver Metro (Parker) and wished I had known about his ministry when I was living there. I appreciate the honesty and realness Steve brings to each talk. Very profound and very very very applicable to life as a human. Wished these were discussed and talked about in school. I would’ve easily picked up a yearly course in school days that helped you learn how to be a better human and to understand our “unreliable narrators”; just imagine the impact on all of our lives had talks like these been available as part of a mental health (human health) education as part of standard curriculum.
Thanks so much for this wonderful feedback and encouragement! I'm so glad it has been helpful to you.
Thank you.
Good one Steve.
Kim! You got a spontaneous shoutout on this episode.
👍 now you gotta share (at least?) one cricket explainer link in the show notes, to tweak the curiousity of the unfamiliar 😉😅
(Aren't there some parables you can take from any form of the game?)
Haha, I feel that in order to explain cricket, you have to watch it with someone. I haven't found decent explainer videos.