In this episode we start to explore how your own experiences and beliefs about yourself have influenced how you see yourself. We naturally interpret our experiences through a lens of identity and our struggles most certainly impact how we think and experience ourselves. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for …

In this episode you will start to think about the memories that have contributed to your struggle and how you see yourself in that struggle. This is an important step in acknowledging the depth and wide spread impact of your struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, b…

In this episode we discuss the central features of your own struggle and how that informs your identity. When we struggle, we can take our failures and use those to shape who we are rather than who God says we are. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable vers…

Today we will think on 3-5 reasons we have been unable to hand our struggle over to Jesus. This will help us identify some obstacles and give us the opportunity for specifically addressing those obstacles through prayer and bible study. Before that, we need these 3-5 reasons to help us really understand the depth of why our struggle is so hard for …

Welcome to episode 3! You will start to work on narrowing your focus on one struggle to address first. Often, this may be hard to choose just one struggle. In this process, you will use your own physical and mental response to discern which struggle may be best to start with. A note is that in prayer, you may feel convicted towards a certain strugg…

Welcome to episode 2! Defining your struggles that cause distance between you and Jesus is a good place to start. This gives you the opportunity to work on your struggle you want to hand to Jesus and the way this struggle affects your relationship with Jesus at the same time! In this episode, we want to start the process of putting words to your st…

Welcome to episode 1 of "Handing it to Jesus!" We are excited to start this journey with you. Join us, Craig Foust and Matt Tilley, as we start asking the hard question of how do we turn over to Jesus the "thing" that we most struggle with? What is it that is most harming our relationship with God, self, and others? Please follow along with us in t…

Noah had to wait for some time to wait for the flood then again for the flood to recede. There is so much unknown that happens here and often in the Bible. Today we talk about how the unknown affects anxiety and some hints we see of how the Bible seems to want us to deal with that. Lessons to Ponder How does dealing with the unknown affect your men…

In this episode we see how God provides deliverance though one of the most famous de-creation events recorded in the Bible. God provides a way for Noah's family escape the destruction of a wicked people. This is a story of pain, responsibility, and renewal amid destruction and connect well with the struggles we face even now. Lessons to Ponder How …

We continue to explore the story of Noah in Genesis and work to glean some traits from Noah that may be helpful for us to consider for our own mental health. Lessons to Ponder Do you feel the pressure of society affecting how you live? How can we separate ourselves and stand out from those that are doing wrong? How does violence in the world impact…

We are starting to explore the flood and how the part of the world that the bible is focusing on is full of sin and suffering. God decides to do something about it but will create a way of safety for the family of the one righteous person around, Noah. This story helps us understand how listening to our own impulses and body can pave a way to sin i…

The story of Cain and Abel sets us up to see the tragedy of how jealousy, shame, and guilt can cause us to protect ourselves in harmful ways. Anger, frustration, rage and upset feelings are all protective type of feelings that normally show up instead the vulnerability in our heart. Cain demonstrates this by striking his brother down and giving int…

In this episode we start to explore relationships and how they are to look before and after the fall. This has an impact on all relationships and will set the foundation for further books of the bible. Lessons to Ponder The ideal is in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are working in unison with God Complete intimacy and vulnerability is the id…

In this episode we start to explore the fall from Eden that occurs in Genesis and the consequences that give us a glimpse into mental health issues that generations to come will struggle with. Lessons to Ponder Knowing Good and Bad/Evil without God's wisdom leads to death God's mercy leads to exile from Eden rather than the full consequence he warn…

In this episode we explore food, work, rest, resource allocation and how all of this is a reflection of our identity. This will filter into our mind looking at the world as a scarce place that does not have enough or a world of abundance. Our specific view on this has a profound impact on how we operate in the world. Lessons to Ponder Food, work, a…

Thank you for joining us on this journey! We go over Genesis one and start to unpack some of the biblical lessons from before the fall occurs in the biblical narrative. This is one of the most powerful examples of what life as a human would look like before sin and exile from the Garden of Eden occurs. Lessons to Ponder We are an image of God Menta…

In this episode we continue to explore Genesis and what purpose God made us for. The more we align our purpose with what God has called us to do the more fulfillment we will experience in our life! Lessons to Ponder Dominion impacts our mental health. Exert control over some of your environment in responsible ways Cooperation in our rule over our d…