Light Through Stained Glass

Southern Soul Chats

In this episode, Light Through Stained Glass, Dr. Ferguson and Leah Dyer will chat about brokenness not as defeat, but as a journey toward spiritual victory. Together, we explore how God’s light shines even through our most shattered places, transforming pain and surrender into pathways to growth. By examining how “losing” in worldly terms can be a win in the spiritual realm, we unpack the paradoxes of faith: where yielding in our battles, laying down our burdens, and surrendering fully to God can bring us closer to His strength and purpose.

Drawing onlast weeks battle metaphor, we discuss how spiritual victories often emerge through our moments of deepest surrender. We’ll touch on the value of embracing our struggles—viewing them not as hindrances but as steps toward something greater. This episode will encourage you to see your burdens and challenges as a means of refining your faith, helping to gain a new perspective on brokenness, healing, and the victories we find on this side of heaven.

Join us as we journey through the beauty of God’s transformative grace, where every crack and flaw becomes a place for His light to shine.

Biblical Rooting:

2 Corinthians 12:9-10:

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Show Resources:

• • Living IN Jesus, Christian Families Today

  • Gentle and Lowly, Dane Ortlund

  • The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

  • Hurting yet Whole, Liuan Huska

  • To Be Made Well, Amy Julia Becker

  • Desiring God Article https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/god-brings-us-suffering-for-others-sake#:~:text=God%20stands%20whole%2Dheartedly%20with,in%20the%20body%20of%20Christ.

  • www.chronic-joy.org/suffering-joy

  • Southern Soul Chats: Trusting in the Wilderness, Parts 1 and 2; Shine Bright; Digging Deeper

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