The Altered Podcast

You Promised You Were Done (with Heidi Austin)

Denial is a spiritual disaster of the worst kind. So what do we do when we find ourselves defaulting to denial in our suffering? In this episode, Eric and Heidi cover Chapter 2 "You Promised You Were Done" from their book, Altered, and discuss what we all can do to start the process of moving beyond our denial and on toward looking more like Jesus.

The Dream Is Over (With Heidi Austin)

Recapping chapter one of their book, Altered, Eric and Heidi talk about what it is like when God's dream for your life doesn't match the dream you have for your own. In a set up for following episodes, why does God seem to draw a big fat line through our ten-year plan? And why does He use suffering to do so?

Don't Mask-Up (It's not what you think)

We live in this tension of wanting to experience peace with God and peace with others, but we are afraid that being who we really are will result in us not truly being accepted or loved. So, we put on masks to dress ourselves up. Grace, though, will disarm our fear.

Joy in the Hustle

Are you tired of hustling around from one thing to the next; living in survival mode, juggling the calendar, kids, appointments, quarantine, all in a pandemic? Surviving is not living, it is surviving. It is struggling in hopes to live once the struggle passes. When life becomes unrelenting and has us hustling, how will you find life in the struggle? How will you find joy in the hustle?

Dragging On

A quick bible teaching to encourage those whose loss, frustrations, and hurts seems to continue to drag on and on. It is easy when there seems to be no end in sight to wonder what God is up to; to wonder if this thing, that is dragging on, is it actually dragging somewhere. Is there meaning?