131. Jesus, Be My Peace (with Sharon Hodde Miller)

Guest Bio: Sharon Hodde Miller, PhD, is teaching pastor at Bright City Church in Durham, North Carolina, which she cofounded with her husband, Ike. Miller is the author of Free of Me and Nice, she has blogged at SheWorships.com for over ten years, has been a regular contributor to Propel, Her.meneutics, and She Reads Truth, and has written for Relevant, Christianity Today, (in)courage, and many other publications and blogs. She lives with Ike and their three children in Durham, North Carolina.

Show Summary: Have you ever tried to control a situation or outcome? Have you caught yourself trying to control a person? In this episode of God Hears Her, author Sharon Hodde Miller shares how we can take situations into our own hands and how that negatively impacts our mental health and relationships. Join the conversation with hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy as they discuss the cost of control with Sharon Hodde Miller.

Notes and Quotes: 

• “The one thing that was clear and troubling to me is that by and large, it did not appear that Christians were drawing on the millennia of spiritual resources that have been passed down to us by Christians passed.” —Sharon Miller (10:37)

• “We were taking all of our fears, all of our anxieties to the internet. That to me signaled a huge gap in discipleship.” —Sharon Miller (11:30)

• “We reach for control to rescue us, to alleviate our anxiety, to give us a sense of security.” —Sharon Miller (11:55)

• “We are in this age of technology where we are promised increasing mastery over our world.” —Sharon Miller (12:08)

• “Whenever I reach for control to empower me or to fix this situation, I am not just reenacting Genesis 3 but also its consequences.” —Sharon Miller (17:27)

• “God doesn’t give us control but He does give us agency.” —Sharon Miller (24:07)

• “We were created for Genesis 1. We were created for peace and security and wholeness.” —Sharon Miller (28:59)

Verses: 

• Genesis 3

• Genesis 1

Links: 

• The Cost of Control by Sharon Hodde Miller: https://sheworships.com/the-cost-of-control/

• Proverbs 31 Ministries website: https://proverbs31.org/

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/

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