ARE YOU LIVING WITH A CHRONIC ILLNESS?
Are you, or someone you love, living with a chronic illness?
Has it completely changed the way you live and are able to interact with the world around you?
Do you feel frustrated by the way it limits you? How it limits your ability to live the life you wanted to live? The way it limits your ability to serve in the Kingdom?
Listen as Home with the Boys (Erin Mohring) and Brooke McGlothlin interview Erin Headley Warren, head of Women’s Ministries at First Baptist Orlando, about how her family has walked through her husband’s chronic illness and sought to glorify God in the midst of it.
Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss
>>How do you find hope in chronic illness, when there’s not an end in sight?
>>How do you persevere when there is a diagnosis and life doesn’t stop?
>>How do you live through all the hard stuff, without becoming negative?
>>How do you adjust when you get a diagnosis and things are not okay?
>>God gives us more than we can handle so that we will go to Him!
>>We live in a culture that doesn’t rest. Is it okay to rest when things get harder?
>>What is hope NOT?
Check out these highlights:
Welcome and Introductions.
{51:44} Intro of Enjoy the Word Conference and a free resource
{45:21} Introduction of Erin Warren and her husbands diagnosis
(38:47) Erin talks about the difficulties they faced because of her husbands chronic illness, and how they dealt with it.
{35:24} Brooke asks Erin “Were there times when you really struggled” during this health crisis?”
{36:38} Brooke asks, “How do you make that adjustment and find a new normal, when things are not okay?
{30:39} How is God’s Word helpful when you are in a crisis?
{26:45 } Erin talks about the adjustments they made, as a family, after the diagnosis.
{25:43} Brooke asks, “How did those around you respond when you had to make adjustments and cut back on commitments?
{24:00} Erin talks about the adjustments that had to be made in order to protect their family life
{21:18} Erin asks, “How has God shown you that it is important to share your story?”
{12:54} How do you have hope when you know that what you are going through may not end?
Scripture Passages Mentioned:
Romans 5: 3-5
Philippians 4:6,7
Psalm 40:9,10
Romans 5:2
Romans 12:12
Hebrews 2:1
Philippians 4:8
Ephesians 6
Isaiah 26:3-4
Hebrews 4:14-16
Links Mentioned:
Instagram: erinhwarren
Erin’s blog: erinhwarren.com
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Thank you so much Susanne!! Lot of kisses