Each of us, regardless of our upbringing, must make a decision to follow Jesus. For Shawna it was the moment she prayed, “Even if my family turns away, I will keep following you Jesus.”

Perry shares, “The only reason I love Jesus and want to share him with others is because he loved me at my worst. I need to come back to the simplicity of that.”

Perry says, “the feelings of shame once told me, ‘what you’ve done wrong is who you are and who you’ll always be.’ I now know for certain that’s a lie; and that’s a gamechanger when I still feel shame.”

When we’re going through hard times, we often question God’s goodness. We stand at a crossroads and are forced to choose what we believe about God. Why do some people come through the hardships stronger?

There are times when we are so weak, so afraid, that we struggle to even pray. In those times you can pray a powerful one word prayer that Shawna learned when she was afraid.

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E.Z. has endured his own spiritual battles in life. By 15 years old, he had been expelled from two schools, joined the Crips gang, was a rap artist who struggled with substance abuse. He later attempted suicide in front of his family.

In 1991, he underwent a profound transformation after hearing the gospel and turned his life over to Christ. By twenty-one, E.Z. was an ordained pastor attending a Christian university, married, and had started a family.

Emeal “E.Z.” Zwayne is the president of Living Waters (with Ray Comfort), and author of Fight Like a Man: A Bold, Biblical Battle Plan for Personal Purity that presents biblical truths and strategies to combat the enemies of purity.

Whether the battle is with lust, pornography, sex outside marriage, or adultery and despite how many times we’ve failed to overcome sexual sin, E.Z. assures us that hope is available through the love, forgiveness, and grace of God, which were demonstrated through the death and resurrection of Christ.

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Why is everyone so angry all the time?

Dr. Jim Wilder of Life Model Works and author of Escaping Enemy Mode: How Our Brains Unite or Divide Us offers that it’s because we are in enemy mode.

There are different types of enemy mode.

Simple Enemy Mode is when our brains see the person in front of us as a problem to be solved. In that moment, we are not loving others like Jesus does.

Stupid Enemy mode is when we respond out of the heat of the moment in a way doesn’t represent who we truly are – we do something “stupid” that we later regret.

Intelligent Enemy Mode is when we strategize how to make others lose. We are so focused on #1 that we plan how to use others hurts to hurt them as a means of self-protection.

We can easily slip into enemy mode but must intentionally work our way out of it. The good news is, we can learn how to do that! And if we learn to do that, we could change the world!

And in this episode...

If you are a Christian who battles to live into your God-given identity you’re not alone. Shawna shares how her girlhood dream was to sing the world into love relationship with God. She knew how to package her dream to look good to Christians but it was much more about desiring the praise of others than praising God.

Last, Perry’s coming back to the heart of worship. He prays, “Lord I’m sorry for making it about me so many times. Forgive me. Like the Grinch, enlarge my heart. Baptize me again in your love and break my heart for a lost world.”

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