Surrendered Shoots Produce Much Fruit 🍇: A Formational Model for Hope, Healing and Human Flourishing
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17) “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I...
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"Evil wields shame to destroy us." – Dr. Curt Thompson
Shame destories God's narrative of beauty and goodness in our lives.
"God restores us by restorying us." – Dr. James K. A. Smith
The Hope-Brained Way sets about the mission of mending emotional brokenness with the gospel
—catalyzing hope by resourcing restory—
to help people “reinterpret brokenness” in the content of their stories,
in the context of God’s story and in community with others’ stories,
for the purpose of communicating a better story of reconciliation, regeneration, redemption and restoration.
A four-day/five-night intensive retreat OR eight weekly sessions designed to engage all of the gospel, all of the mind and all of God in the work of trauma-informed spiritual formation.
A two-day/six-session professional growth opportunity to discuss the synchronization of theology with psychology, neurology and sociology in the work of emotional healing and identity reformation through gospel reframing and Spirit-filled transformation.
Hope-Brained Events
Hope-Brained Resources
The Hope-Brained Trust
Informed by a process (exilic-return-to-exodus as soul care), principles (12-step recovery discipleship), and practices (Rule of Life spiritual rhythms), hope-brained restory presents "hoping strategies"—trauma-informed spiritual formation rhythms—necessary to form a new pattern for wholeness, emotional healing and identity reformation through gospel reframing and Spirit-filled transformation.
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