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You Can’t Fix a Crisis, But you can Bring Something to it.
No Longer Stuck: Faith, Neuroscience, and the Path to Integration
A young boy drowned. I was the chaplain who showed up. And when his mother arrived, I didn't have a single word that could fix what had happened.
So I did the only thing I've learned to do in forty years of crisis work — I held her, and I prayed for her, and I blessed her. The family was Muslim. I prayed in the name of Jesus. And in that moment I understood something I'd been circling my whole ministry: people in their worst moment don't need more words. They need a presence.
In this episode, I talk about what I call the ministry of presence — and the deeper truth underneath it: that when we pray, we're not just wishing. We're carrying something into the room. Not our own strength. His.
We'll look at Mark 1, where Jesus teaches and acts with an authority that stunned the people around him — and what it means that he shares that authority with ordinary people like us, mostly through the quiet, unglamorous act of showing up and praying.
This isn't about having the right words. It's about carrying the right presence.
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Chapters: 00:00 The call I knew would be bad 04:00 "I need to give them more than words" 09:00 Mark 1 — authority that stops a room 14:00 What "in Jesus' name" actually means 19:00 Praying over a family who didn't share my faith 23:00 Carrying presence into crisis
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