Interview with Linda Newton on Finding Blessings

Linda Newton will be joining us Nov. 13th to share about her new book!

Last year  I read this Christian counselor’s book 12 Ways to Turn Your Pain into Praise: Biblical Steps to Wholeness in Christ and was very blessed by it. She has written for HopeKeepers Magazine and was a guest on my radio podcast, Hope Endures. I know she has blessed many of you with that interview.

If you have not had the opportunity to hear our interview yet, I thought you may be interested before reading our interview on Friday. She talks about how we can find the blessings even in the pain.

Podcast: Starting a HopeKeepers Group

Have you ever been to a support group?

If you have, you likely found some parts of it helpful and encouraging. But perhaps you also found some of it depressing, of little benefit, even too much to ear.

Although they may be helpful at first, they can have the tendency to become a place where people get together and vent their frustrations and then everyone goes home.

One woman says, “I began to feel like I should have just stayed home and taken a nap!”

Although secular support groups have benefits, they are rarely a place where you can talk freely about your faith and your spiritual walk.

For the Christian, support groups can be frustrating because they rarely encourage a person to share their spiritual struggles, growth or questions. Oftentimes everyone’s hope is placed on the next drug approved or a new alternative treatment. HopeKeepers groups are different!

Listen to our 1-hour program on starting a support group and why Christian HopeKeepers Groups are different!