At the Intersection with Doug Newton
How can you engage our culture with influential wisdom, character and grace? In each episode Doug Newton offers one observation about our contemporary culture, one biblical insight that speaks to that issue and one creative take-away to help listeners pursue and practice character traits that help them make a positive impact in their corner of the world. He's a 45-year pastor, national award-winning magazine editor and author of 24 books. In this podcast he puts all that experience and communication skill together with one goal: helping good people become better.
At the Intersection with Doug Newton
Handling Pain in a Bubble-Wrap Culture, Part 2
Part 2: HOW TO BENGAY YOUR BRAIN
HOW DO YOU HANDLE PAIN in a culture that has declared all out war against pain? We have marshalled everything from medicine, to technology, to government to help us experience pain-free living. With so many ways to protect us from discomfort, we have had much less practice handling pain and we want to avoid it at all cost. However, pain has its benefits. It makes our character stronger, our empathy more tender, our compassion more responsive and even God seem closer. So rather than avoid pain altogether, why not learn to handle it better. In this second episode of the mini-series “HANDLING PAIN IN A BUBBLE-WRAP CULTURE” you’ll discover the first step in handling pain: the use of distraction. It works. It’s like BenGay for your brain.
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/2MdXw9ow8wE
In this episode Doug referred to a free reflection/interaction guide called "CROSSWALK" to help you process what he was talking about. Here's the link: https://fresh-impact.com/crosswalk-episode21