Childhood Abuse & the CES Letter Destroyed Bailey’s Faith…Until Jesus Rebuilt Her from the Dust
“Those answers just don’t matter as much as my relationship with my Savior. It’s like a weight system, you know? I’m not gonna give up something that’s so important to me for the tiny weight of this one particular answer. I’m weighing my options, and I’m gonna choose Christ every time because He is who put me back together and it doesn’t matter if I really believe in polygamy or not. He was there, so I’m with Him.” Tickets to the Come Back to Christ Event: www.comebackpodcast.org 00:00 Abandonment and Doubt 00:57 Live Event Announcement 04:50 Family Upheaval and Abuse 08:06 Speaking Up and Silence 21:21 CES Letter and Marriage Strain 31:09 Years of Doubt 38:59 Scriptures Rebuild Faith 43:32 Healing and Hard Questions Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing…. If you have a story to share please submit here: https://comebackpodcas… For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Hank Smith on How to Keep Your Testimony Strong, Unshaken, and Rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Hank Smith’s remarks at our recent Come Back to Christ Event. Hank shares a message of the incredible redemptive power of our Savior, the secret to staying unshaken by the world, and the goodness of the fruit of the tree of life. “A person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with an opinion” ~ Hank Smith Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% offhttps://serveclothing.com/Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% offhttps://memorjewelry.com/If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.comFor inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.comCome Back Team:Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly StoneEditor: Cara ReedOutreach Manager: Jenna CarlsonAssistant Editor: Michelle BergerAssistant Editor: Britt SmallzeArt Director: Jeremy GarciaProduction Director: Trent Wardwell
Terryl Givens on navigating faith and doubt, the true nature of God, and the secret of Christianity
“Doubts don’t begin as a rejection of God or his gospel, they generally emerge as a rejection of ways in which God is being characterized… So what are the expectations we bring to the table? My personal take on this is, does my faith make God present to me? Does my faith give me access to the God of truth and love? Everything else is ancillary to that question or should be, and in my case, what I find is that yes, this church does.” —- Letter to a Doubter, by Terryl Givens: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1856&context=interpreter Book Recommendation: The Crucible of Doubt, by Terryl Givens — 00:00 Choosing Faith is Courageous 05:38 Letter to a Doubter 07:31 The Role of Doubt in Faith 10:30 The True and Living Church 16:25 The Importance of Community in Faith 23:30 Addressing Culture 24:44 The Genuine Question 35:01 Rebuilding Faith from the Ground Up 42:05 The Restoration of God’s Love Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% offhttps://memorjewelry.com/Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% offhttps://serveclothing.com/Mike’s Auto Shackhttps://mikesautoshack.com/ If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Jared Halverson on consecrating your faith crisis..”Jesus takes brokenness and turns it into beauty”
Recorded at our Fall Come Back to Christ Event in Provo, UT. “I’m grateful for all that Jesus does with our brokenness. He doesn’t believe in creation ex nihilo, creation out of nothing. We don’t believe in it. Jesus doesn’t do it that way. He takes stuff and if you have stuff then you have something to offer. If you have brokenness, if you have doubt, if you have concern, if you have questions, if you have sin, if you have struggle, if you have sorrow, if you have broken hearts and contrite spirits or even broken covenants, whatever you’ve got, it’s stuff. It’s matter. And if you will consecrate to God your crisis, he can create something beautiful.” 00:00 Mama Bear Moment 01:53 The Prodigal Party 03:25 Personal Prodigal Stories 13:12 The Role of a Judge 18:58 Gospel Tangents and Celestial Slingshots 32:05 The Fortunate Fall 35:45 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% offhttps://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% offhttps://serveclothing.com/Mike’s Auto Shackhttps://mikesautoshack.com/ If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Carla’s live podcast: How Jesus Christ ran into darkness to rescue a lost mother and save a family
“I was like, I’m doing this. And then I remembered, this is my mom’s church. I was like, oh no. Anything but that, she can’t be right! And then I looked at myself and I just thought how am I gonna sit in Relief Society looking like this? You can’t ask me to do that. That’s too much, they ask a lot of you in that church, and I don’t think I could do this. But if it meant saving my children then I was all aboard. I didn’t care. Nobody could push me away. Nobody could take away the fact that I was just heard and I was just saved and I didn’t deserve any of it. I was an awful, awful person all the things that I did. And there was my Savior there, running into the flames to rescue me. And not only just me, but he was there to help me save my family. And so from that day on, I just vowed. I was like, that’s it. This is what I’m doing. I’m doing it all and I’m gonna do it full force.” 00:00 A Desperate Prayer 04:49 Carla’s Rebellious Youth 09:28 Struggles with Addiction 13:42 Family Turmoil and Separation 20:12 A Mother’s Desperation 21:13 A Prayer for Help 23:50 A New Beginning 25:24 First Steps in Faith 30:12 A Son’s Redemption 38:19 Gratitude and Reflection Cozy Earth code COMEBACK for 40% off https://cozyearth.com/ Mike’s Auto Shack Home Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – Come Back to Christ Event (9/5-6) – NEW SPEAKER Added Saturday
September 5th & 6th COME BACK TO CHRIST EVENT Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.comebackpodcast.org/come-back-to-christ-event-september-5-6-utah-valley-convention-center-provo-ut-3/ Come Back to Christ Event Sponsors:https://templeboundsaints.org/ Home https://www.latterdaymatchmaker.com/ https://www.matthewbraidleypianos.com/ Home If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team:Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
LIVE EPISODE WITH BAILEY
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised. “ Reading the Book of Mormon that week, I really sat down and actually studied the words of the Book of Mormon, and it was powerful. It was so powerful. It was undeniable. And I had been reading about how this genius farmer, right, we always were like, ‘He’s such a genius. That’s how you get away with it,’ wrote this book out of nowhere. And as I’m reading it, I’m just like, there is no way. There is no way. I remember so many scriptures, I couldn’t get enough because there were so many things, and it just felt like God was just waiting for me to open the door and He would just feed me, you know. Like I was starving and He would just feed me.” Come Back Team Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Brick House Recovery