Three Powers, Pt. 15: Three Powers, Trauma, and “Redeeming Heartache”

Michael unpacks how the three powers relate to trauma by drawing from the book Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling, by Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel. Allender and Loerzel helpfully categorize trauma into three biblical categories: the traumas of orphan, stranger, and widow. They then go on to connect these trauma categories to the three offices of prophet, priest, and king, claiming that the path to healing your core trauma is by pursuing the redemptive calling that trauma reveals. Michael integrates and clarifies their insights with three powers categories, revealing in this integration what Michael thinks are gaps and mistakes in Allender’s and Loerzel’s mostly productive analysis.

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Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling, by Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel

The Allender Center

Brian Regan, Standing Up, “Kids” (~7:25–8:14)

The Prayer of St. Francis