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Nov 2024
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Strahan Coleman: Thirsting for God

Barb Raveling
About this episode

We all experience low points in life; we try our very best to avoid them, but they come anyway! We recoil from the pain, the disappointments, and the difficulties that we face. However, what would happen if we viewed these trials as invitations to experience God? My guest today on the Christian Habits Podcast, Strahan Coleman, has learned to do just that through his many years of chronic illness. Moment by moment, God will meet us in our pain.

What We Discussed on the Podcast

  • The surprising reason that we have desires
  • A unique perspective on the essential meaning of life
  • The place where we find our greatest opportunity to love and to receive God’s love
  • The mindset shift that casts our pain in a new light
  • What to do with our negative emotions
  • A new way to think about repentance and confession
  • The “wound of love”

Resources We Mentioned on the Podcast

About Strahan Coleman

Strahan Coleman is a writer, poet, and musician living in Aotearoa, New Zealand with his wife and three young boys. Through years of chronic illness, Strahan discovered a friendship with God filled with vulnerability, honesty and unceasing prayer, and now spends his time teaching and providing spaces of deep, rich, Spirit-led prayer for others through his books, prayer schools and spiritual retreats. In his latest work, Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire, Strahan invites his readers to, like him, learn to transform the ache of our lives into our truest prayers, liberating the fire within us to become our greatest gift – our divine homing beacon. Connect with Strahan Coleman at commonerscommunion.com, on Instagram: @commoners_communion, @strahanmusic, or on Spotify.

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