You Are More Than a Statistic

You are more than a statistic. I know that’s easy to say, and hard to believe when a doctor has just handed you a number. This week on the podcast, my friend David Carpenter told us about the day his odds came back under fourteen percent.The Number Everybody Remembers Almost everyone I talk with on this

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Dan’s Story, Part Four: I’m Not a Prayer Warrior

If you have ever wondered how to pray when you have cancer, this episode is the most freeing thing you will hear all week. I asked Dan Green whether he and his wife had become prayer warriors through all of this, and the first words out of his mouth were, “To be honest with you,

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Letting the Weeds Grow

When God does not remove the hard thing, most of us eventually land on one of two explanations. Either He is not listening, or we did something wrong. This week on the podcast, our guest Brittany Plourde shared something extraordinary in Brittany’s story, part three. And I want to write to the person who heard

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The Ordinary Years That Were Not Ordinary at All

How God prepares us for hard times is almost never obvious while it is happening. In fact, most of the time it looks like nothing at all. It looks like a job. A season. A few ordinary years you would not think to write down anywhere. This week on the podcast, our guest Brittany Plourde told

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Brittany’s Story, Part Two: You Can’t Put a Timestamp on My Life

When doctors give you a timeline, something inside you goes very quiet. However, what my friend Brittany Plourde said back to a room full of doctors is something I have not been able to stop thinking about since the day we recorded this conversation. This is part two of Brittany’s story. It holds the hardest moment

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Finding Peace in the Valley of Cancer

When you’re walking through cancer, you don’t need someone to pretend the valley isn’t real. You need to know you’re not walking it alone. That’s the quiet promise tucked inside the most familiar psalm there is — and it’s where I’ve found a peace in the valley of cancer that I could never have manufactured

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Living Hope in Jesus: Are You Turning to Him First?

Calise’s story left me with a question I could not shake, and it goes straight to the heart of living hope in Jesus. When I walked through my own cancer journey back in 2017, I already believed in Him — but I did not always turn to Him first. And that one habit, or the

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When You’re Waiting on God During Cancer — What Silent Saturday Taught Me

If you are waiting on God during cancer right now, this is for you. Waiting for results. Waiting for healing. Waiting for the treatment to work. Waiting for strength to return. Waiting for an answer to a prayer you have been praying for weeks, maybe months. Waiting on God during cancer is one of the hardest

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What happens when your cancer diagnosis and prayer collide?

I can tell you exactly what happens. Because it happened to me. On January 4th, 2017, my doctor called before 7am. There was good news and bad news. The good news: no kidney stones. The bad news: a tumor the size of an orange in my bladder, appearing cancerous. Just like that, my world changed. But

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When Hope Feels Impossible – This is the Moment to Choose it – Dr. Michelle Bengtson’s Story

Choosing hope during a cancer diagnosis may be the hardest and most important decision you ever make — and Dr. Michelle Bengtson’s story will show you exactly how it is done. Let me ask you something — and be completely honest in your answer. The moment you heard the word “cancer,” what did you feel deep inside? For

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