SL Podcast

Embracing Emotional Regulation: Navigating Life's Turbulence

Join us in the latest episode of the SL podcast as Brayden Brown, Courtney Crenshaw, Luke Crenshaw, and Jeffri Foster explore the intricate relationship between emotional and spiritual health. As we conclude the first half of season four, the team delves deeper into understanding emotions from a scriptural perspective.

This episode tackles the challenges of regulating intense emotions and provides a framework for achieving emotional peace and unity with God. Through heartfelt discussions, the hosts share personal anecdotes and practical strategies for emotional regulation, emphasizing the role of community and spiritual practices.

Whether you're grappling with overwhelming emotions or seeking the peace that transcends all understanding, this episode offers valuable insights and tools to foster emotional resilience and spiritual growth. Join us for a transformative journey towards emotional wholeness, empowered by faith and community.

Emotions and the Body

Welcome to another episode of the SL Podcast, where our hosts dive deep into the intricate connection between our emotional and spiritual health and its manifestation in our physical bodies. Join Brayden, Luke, Courtney, and Jeffri as they explore how emotions influence our relationship with God and each other, how they affect us physically, and the importance of acknowledging and processing these feelings to attain holistic health.

This episode delves into biblical examples, like David and Elijah, highlighting God's intentional design of our bodies and emotions. The team discusses Jesus's own emotional journey and physical experiences, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and embodying our emotions as part of our spiritual practice.

Additionally, listen to personal stories from the hosts and their insights on recognizing physical manifestations of suppressed emotions, the dangers of disconnection, and the steps towards healing through therapy, community, and an embodied relationship with Jesus. 

Emotions: A Biblical Foundation

In this episode of the SL Podcast, we embark on a deep dive into the intricate relationship between emotions and spirituality. Join Brayden Brown, Luke Crenshaw, Courtney Crenshaw, and Jeffri Foster, as they explore how emotional health is inseparably linked to spiritual maturity from a biblical worldview. The discussion anchors on the thought-provoking insights of Pete Scazzaro, who highlights the impossibility of being spiritually mature while emotionally immature.

The episode delves into understanding emotions not as baggage to be suppressed, but as significant indicators of our heart's condition and catalysts for deeper intimacy with God. Through the poetry of the Psalms, we learn the importance of expressing sorrow and anger, even towards God, as a way to foster a real and vulnerable relationship with Him.

Listeners are encouraged to see emotions as gauges that inform us about our inner state, prompting necessary conversations with God and others. The episode concludes with actionable practices such as writing one's own Psalm and meditating on the delight God takes in us.

Emotions: A Journey to Spiritual and Emotional Health

Welcome to a brand new season of the SL Podcast! Join Brayden Brown, Courtney Crenshaw, Luke Crenshaw, and Jeffri Foster, as they kick off an exciting journey into the world of emotions. This season, the team will delve into the biblical worldview of emotions and how they play a crucial role in our spiritual walk with Jesus.

In this first episode, the hosts discuss the importance of emotional health in spiritual practices, our view of God, and the relationships we build. They challenge the common misconceptions about emotions and encourage listeners to find a balance between logic and feelings in their faith journey. With engaging discussions and personal stories, they aim to offer a third way to integrate emotions into our friendship with God.

Tune in as they explore the profound connection between emotional and spiritual health, while sharing insights and practices to help you navigate your own emotional journey. Whether you're a student, staff member, or a curious listener, this episode sets the stage for a season full of growth, healing, and deeper connections with God and others.

Faithful

Faithful...a word we often use in the Christian world but what does it actually mean? Join Courtney & Luke Crenshaw, and Gigi Plisga as they do a deep dive into the fifth way God describes himself, share personal stories, and reflect with one another on what this God is actually like.

 

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Loyal Love

L-O-V-E! What is love? (baby don't hurt me) and what kind of love is God using to describe himself? Join Jeffri Foster, Brayden Brown and Emma Duininck as they do a deep dive into the fourth way God describes himself, share personal stories, and reflect with one another on what this God is actually like.

 

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Slow to Anger

What do we do with the anger of God? Is God an angry old man in the sky waiting to zap you with a lightning bolt or is anger even part of who God is? Join Luke Crenshaw, Brayden Brown and Tristan Williams as they do a deep dive into the third way God describes himself, share personal stories, and reflect with one another on what this God is actually like.

 

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Gracious

Goodness gracious! How does it effect my life and heart that God is gracious? Join Luke Crenshaw, Jeffri Foster, Barrett Land, and Anna Claire Kristynik as they do a deep dive into the second word God uses to describe himself, share personal stories, and reflect with one another on what this God is actually like.

 

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Compassionate

What does it mean that Yahweh is "compassionate"? Join Brayden Brown, Luke Crenshaw, and special guests CJ Witten and Skylar Zingelmann as they do a deep dive into the first word God uses to describe himself, share personal stories, and reflect with one another on what this God is actually like.

 

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Season 3: Who God Says He Is

Brayden Brown, Jeffri Foster, and Luke Crenshaw introduce Season 3 of the podcast, talk about the context of what they will dive into, highlight some misconceptions, and share a final takeaway for each of our listeners.

 

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