[BONUS EPISODE] Loss, Grief and Redemption: The Story of How Pastor Chip Judd's Life Was Saved Artwork

The Seacoast Podcast: Things You Won't Hear On Sunday

The Seacoast Podcast: Things You Won't Hear On Sunday captures meaningful – and often challenging -- conversations that happen off the stage amongst the people of Seacoast. Hang with us and guests we love to learn from, including authors, artists, pastors, and many others who share their stories of struggle and oftentimes, how God's grace brought about peace and redemption. We hope listening in to our discussions revolving around church, theology, and culture will feel like slowing down and hanging with friends. You'll be encouraged, laugh, find solidarity with someone else's story, or see things from a new point of view. What if listening to other perspectives was the first step in loving people with a different point of view? We're giving it a shot.

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The Seacoast Podcast: Things You Won't Hear On Sunday

[BONUS EPISODE] Loss, Grief and Redemption: The Story of How Pastor Chip Judd's Life Was Saved

December 04, 2025 • Seacoast Church

[This episode originally aired on Mental Health and Mission of the Church Podcast w/ Chip Judd. You can subscribe to his YouTube Channel here, where you will find a video version of this conversation]

Hey, Seacoast.

You’re about to meet Lauren, the woman whose decision changed my life forever.

After 8 years of battling lung disease, I was running out of breath—literally. I was nearing the end of what my body could handle. Then came the call: “We have a match.”.”

Those lungs belonged to PJ, Lauren’s husband.He had died by suicide. And in the middle of her heartbreak, Lauren made an unthinkably selfless choice to give others life through her husband’s passing.

In this conversation, Lauren and I sit down to talk about what came next: how you rebuild after loss, how faith holds when everything falls apart, and what it really means to find hope in the darkest places.

It’s raw. It’s redemptive. And it’s real. If you’ve ever faced grief, struggled with mental health, or wondered where God is in the middle of tragedy, you'll likely connect deeply to this one.

-- Pastor Chip Judd

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