In this Resurrection Day Sunday Live broadcast we invite you into a real and honest journey of heart healing and mental health through a biblical lens. We open by sharing a very raw and traumatic story of Melissa experience a violent incident at Target, while sharing about how we processed it. I then shared a new episode of the Church Lady and the Church Gentleman, where they attended church together as a couple for the first time on Easter Sunday.
The heart of our biblical study in Philippians was on “Standing Together Without Terror,” where I bring out Paul’s exhortation for the believers to develop strong and healthy bonds together under the power of the gospel, while not letting fear, terror or frightening threats hold them back.
In the Q&A, I addressed a deep question about sexual addiction and pornography, explaining how lust often exposes places where the Father’s love and healthy nurture have not yet gone deep, but I talk about the journey that is needed to experience healing and renewal. We also looked at the tension of “Am I relying too much on my spouse or other people and not enough on God?” especially in the context of ROCD-like patterns. I pushed back on the unhelpful idea that “all you need is God,” and instead showed from Scripture and experience that we are created to need both God and people.
Another major topic we addressed was the destruction that a narcissistic father can bring to his family and world around him, but we first talked about the reality that one daughter witnessed of her father never experiencing consequences.
Finally, we spent time on parenting, OCD, and special needs—specifically postpartum OCD, intrusive thoughts about harm coming to a vulnerable autistic child (or that they might harm someone else), and the heavy weight of raising a special needs child into adulthood. Melissa and I shared personally from our life with our autistic son: the constant mental load, safety concerns, our need to overthink and re-teach, the grief of “this is not normal,” and why parents in this situation must be radically kind to themselves and realistic about what they can handle.
The whole broadcast wove together Scripture, real-life stories, humor, and practical mental health insights to help you stand firm in one spirit, grow deep relational bonds, face fear together, and experience more of God’s love and grace in your healing and freedom journey.
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