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Pursuing Soul Care - Part 2

God offers rest and renewal that's independent of our external circumstances. In this conversation from 2016, Craig McConnell and Allen share the importance of daily soul care.

01 – A Reason to Celebrate

Session 1: A Reason to Celebrate – Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

03 – Greener Grass

Session 3: Greener Grass – Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

05 – Cultivating Joy

Session 5: Cultivating Joy – Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

04 – Expectant Hope

Session 4: Expectant Hope – Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

02 – Godly Interference

Session 2: Godly Interference – Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

Unwavering Group Discussion Questions

Discussion questions for the 6-part series Unwavering: Living With Defiant Joy, a companion study to Stasi Eldredge's book Defiant Joy

06 – The Ultimate Victory

Session 6: The Ultimate Victory –Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world. Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver. Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY—a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world. In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

130 | Morgan Snyder: Mentoring and What You're Actually Asking For

This one feels like the title is the description. So, there you go.

Pursuing Soul Care - Part 1

Soul care is essential - yet often neglected in the busyness of life. In this podcast from 2016, Craig McConnell and Allen discuss how beauty, rest, and joy can replenish our weary souls.

129 | Dan Allender: The Glory We Bare

It's too easy to focus on the damage of our story. Too easy to focus on what needs healing, or whats been stolen. We all have an innate glory in the image of God that we bare, which on its own should be enough to get our attention. But there's more: we bare a unique glory all our own, and we are called to witness the glory in the lives around us.

A Way Of Life

In this final session from October Boot Camp, John Eldredge shares how to stay in this message of freedom, heart, and intimacy with God.

128 | Holding on to the Epic

It's a common experience: we have a breakthrough moment with God, we see miracles, we get a taste of the life we wanted, and the next week, it's gone. In this episode, Sam and Blaine unpack practices that anchor your heart to the reality of the epic. From contemplation to the ancient practice of "tending," journaling tactics to cultures of remembering, this is an episode to keep the past present.

Wilderness and the Soul - Part 2

There's a huge difference between relief and restoration. In this series conclusion, discover the power of taking time away from your everyday to pursue stillness and wholeheartedness.

127 | The Books inside Vol 2

Inside the covers of the print magazine are things that we believe are important and somehow connected to the masculine journey, if sometimes loosely. The books inside Volume 2 are a little more obvious in that aim. They also demand a little unpacking.

Wilderness and the Soul - Part 1

John, Sam, Blaine, and Alex share stories from recent hunting trips that reveal the heart's need for simplicity, stillness, and beauty.