Welcome to episode 067 of Mud Stories!
Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.
In today’s episode I’m talking to Seth Haines, a writer, author, and attorney by trade, who has just released his first book entitled, Coming Clean: A Story of Faith
Coming Clean: A Story of Faith
Seth is a humanitarian and worship leader, who resides in Northwest Arkansas with his wife, Amber, and their four energetic sons.
In this episode we discuss:
- Seth’s childhood growing up in Texas
- How his young faith turned against itself and doubt set in
- And the process of relegating God to an intellectual exercise
Seth shares:
- How his doubt, isolation, and pain set the stage for addiction
- The health challenge his son Titus faced
- How he decided to give in to drinking alcohol instead of feeling internal pain
- And the crucial crossroad he came to, as he realized he had a drinking problem
Seth encourages us:
- To identify our pain, name it, sit with it, and get to know it
- To see sin and addiction as the symptom, not the problem
- To keep company with Jesus in the cave of our soul everyday
- To find healing in the environment of Christian community
- And to practice the act of forgiving again and again
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SCRIPTURE:
“Pray, then, in this way:Matthew 6:9-13 (NASB)‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’
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Book:
- Coming Clean: A Story of Faith
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LINKS:
- Mud Stories Podcast–Episode 54, with Amber Haines
- Five Ways to Reach Out to the Addict in Your Life, by Seth Haines
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Thank you for sharing your story, Seth. And for your heart for being an outlet for these inspirational stories, Jacque.
Nell
Thank you for listening along, Nell.