#522 The Paradox of Hope and Brokenness: Jesus, Depression and SSA
Christian Sexuality - Java with Juli
Authentic Intimacy®
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In Jesus there is hope for healing and transformation, but that doesn’t mean that in this life we won’t experience hardship and brokenness.
Brenna Blain, renowned speaker and new author, knows this better than most. Experiencing same-sex attraction and fighting her own mental health battle from around the age of 14, Brenna joins Juli to explain how coming to the very end of herself led her to a place desperate enough to long for God Himself, and not just His healing.
Guest: Brenna Blain
Brenna’s Website: brenna-blain.vercel.app/
Brenna’s Instagram: @bunonmyhead
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie. I'm Julie Slattery and this podcast is |
| 0:07.1 | listener supported and it's an outreach of the ministry authentic intimacy which is |
| 0:11.6 | dedicated to helping people make sense of God and sexuality. |
| 0:16.4 | There's a tension that we as believers often run into, and it's the reality that in Jesus |
| 0:22.2 | there's hope for healing and transformation and yet at the same time we live in human bodies and a fallen world and so we still experience a lot of hardship and brokenness. This reality means that you can love |
| 0:35.3 | Jesus and still be continually tempted by sin. You can love Jesus and still experience |
| 0:41.1 | doubt and depression. You can love Jesus and feel profoundly weak. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, my guest today is such a sweet and ongoing testimony of God's goodness and hope in the |
| 0:51.9 | midst of the messiness of walking out some of these |
| 0:54.8 | really hard things. Brenna Blaine is the author of the new book entitled Can I Say |
| 1:00.1 | that? She's my guest today and Brenna's life in ministry really is a testament |
| 1:04.9 | to God's faithfulness and presence with us even as we walk through very |
| 1:09.0 | difficult things. Now my conversation with Brenna gets very real. We cover everything from her wrestling with same sex |
| 1:16.3 | attraction to her ongoing battle with mental health struggles and you're going to hear her |
| 1:20.8 | speak with incredible honesty in her pursuit of Jesus. |
| 1:25.2 | Please be aware that we do talk about sexual assault and suicide during this episode. |
| 1:30.8 | Okay, here is my conversation with Brenna Blaine. |
| 1:34.0 | Well Brenna, I'm so glad to have you on Java with Julie and to get to know you. |
| 1:41.0 | Thank you. I'm really excited. |
| 1:43.0 | Are you? |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | You and I connected through Preston Sprinkles Ministry, Theology and the Raw, and I first heard you on there and you actually, I don't even know if you know this but you |
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