The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

PARENTING SERIES PART FOUR   When we grow into adulthood, our relationships with our parents naturally shift. For some, our parents are still close. We view them as confidants, and guides or perhaps even friends of a sort. For others of us, those relationships can become strained or even broken entirely. No matter the situation, these relationships always take work. Our relationships with our parents will never be as healthy as they could be unless we invest in them and fight to make them better. Blythe Daniel and Dr. Helen McIntosh are modeling this. When Blythe approached her mother, Helen, about writing a book about healthy mother/daughter relationships, it was clear that they had the opportunity to help a lot of people. To continue our Parenting Series, Blythe and Helen sit down with Davey to share some of their story and the wisdom they’ve learned about repairing and maintaining healthy relationships with our parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PARENTING SERIES PART THREE   As we heard on our last episode, Ron and Nan Deal have walked through incredible pain in their lives, and gleaned wisdom and a deep understanding of God from that journey. But apart from their story of loss, Ron also shares his wisdom with others in his job as a marriage and family therapist, specifically focusing on blending families. Ron’s own story isn’t one of a blended family, but his work with these families throughout the years combined with his own experiences of walking with God through struggles have made him one of the foremost experts on this topic in the Christian world. Ron sits down with Davey to share some practical wisdom about blending families in this installment of our Parenting Series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PARENTING SERIES PART TWO   Ron Deal is a bestselling author, therapist, and speaker who specializes in family ministries and especially in blending families. But before Ron was as successful as he is today, he and his wife Nan walked through an unimaginably painful season. Twelve years ago, Ron and Nan took their son Connor to the doctor after he’d been complaining of a headache. What seemed like a minor illness turned out to be much more serious, and not long later, Connor was gone. Through incredible pain, Ron and Nan learned firsthand what grieving as a family looks like. To continue our Parenting Series, Ron and Nan sit down with Davey to share the story of losing their son and what they’ve learned through the long, hard healing journey they’ve walked through in the years since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PARENTING SERIES PART ONE   There are few, if any, challenges as difficult and important as being a mother. From conception to adulthood, moms are tasked with raising their children, taking care of them, and making sure they grow up in a loving, safe home where they can become the best people they can be. This task is simultaneously incredibly rewarding and unimaginably challenging. Every mom knows that being a mother comes with pains and trials that none of us would ask for.   To kick off our Parenting Series, Aubrey Sampson and Kristi Blackburn sit down for a special conversation about the joys and pains of motherhood. Aubrey and Kristi’s motherhood stories are very different, but they are both intimately familiar with the challenges and pains that come with this responsibility. And more importantly, they both know how God has met them in the midst of these challenges. Aubrey and Kristi share some of their mothering stories and the wisdom they’ve learned along the way in this special conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week marks the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast! In the last four years, we’ve seen God move in incredible ways through this ministry and this podcast in particular. To celebrate the occasion, Kristi joins Davey and Aubrey to answer some of your questions, and we update you on some big events in Kristi and Aubrey’s lives as well as in Nothing Is Wasted Ministries as a whole.   Thank you for listening to and supporting the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast over these last four years. Whether you’re a brand new listener or you’ve been listening since episode 1, we couldn’t do this without you. Your listenership and support are what makes the healing that so many people have experienced in the last four years possible, and we really believe that this is only the beginning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For many of us, our pain is a one-time event. We experience something truly terrible, and then we begin the process of healing. While we may carry the scars of that experience forever, we won’t spend the rest of our lives in the same valley where we've found ourselves in our worst moments. But what if that’s not the case? This is the questions that Liuan Huska faced when she discovered that she was dealing with chronic pain. Forced to come to terms with the realization that she would never be without this pain, Liuan had to wrestle with what meant to trust that God was good in the middle of a trial that no one would have asked for or imagined. Liuan sits down with Davey to share some of her story and what she’s learned about who God really is by walking through a painful season with no clear end in sight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most of us, forgiveness is a tricky subject. We know in our minds that it’s the right thing to do, and we probably try to forgive minor offenses as best we can. But when we are wronged in a much larger sense, forgiveness feels like the last thing we want to do. Lysa Terkeurst is all too familiar with that feeling. Not only is she a hugely successful ministry leader and bestselling author, but Lysa has walked through incredible amounts of hurt in her own life. Through this journey, Lysa has learned what forgiveness really is and how it unlocks the door for us to heal from our own wounds regardless of whether or not we are reconciled with those that wounded us. Lysa sits down with Davey to share some of what she’s learned about forgiveness and reconciliation, and the ways they factor into bringing healing in each of our stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we’re in the middle of a trial, sometimes the idea of joy can seem ridiculous. It’s a concept that’s all over our worship songs and quotable Bible verses, we hear about it constantly in stories and sermons. But in the midst of pain, how are we supposed to be joyful? That’s the questions that Shaunti Feldhahn was attempting to wrestle with when she sat down to write her newest devotional. Shaunti filled the pages of Find Joy with words that she believed the Holy Spirit had given her to help others, but little did she know that she would soon find herself in need of the very things she was writing. Shaunti sits down with Davey to share some of what she’s learned about holding onto joy no matter what circumstance we find ourselves in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No matter how successful we are in life, all of us are just one piece of bad news away from our entire world shifting into something we can’t imagine. That’s what Robb Hiller experienced when he was diagnosed with not just one form of cancer, but three. With his prognosis extremely negative and unsure how much longer he’d be alive, Robb embarked on the most difficult journey of his life. But in the middle of the pains of cancer treatment and the fear of death, Robb learned lessons about the nature of God and all of our lives that couldn’t be learned except through the fires of unbelievable pain. Robb sits down with Davey to share some of his story and what he learned about how we can thrive by helping others even in the midst of our own valleys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We often think of our lives as sectioned off in different parts, each one wholly independent from the other. Our mental, physical, and spiritual lives have nothing to do with each other, or so we think. But in reality, our selves are nothing like that. The physical, mental, and spiritual sides of ourselves are all interconnected, and when one suffers or thrives, so do all the others. Anne Kertz Kernion has made it her goal to share the intersection between neuroscience, theology, and psychology, and how each of these affects the others and holistically impacts our lives. Anne sits down with Davey to share some simple spiritual practices we can do to help our mental and emotional health even in the midst of trials. Episode Resources: Buy Spiritual Practices for the BrainCheck out Anne’s website - Cards By AnneFollow Anne on Instagram Scripture Reference:Matthew 22:39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices