PTP.013: The Two Best Ways To Solve Your Identity Crisis
PTP.013: The Two Best Ways To Solve Your Identity Crisis
In Episode 013 of the Pathway to Promise Podcast Dr. Brad Miller explores the issue of identity crisis. In particular, Dr. Brad teaches a lesson adapted from the book “The 8th Habit” by Steven Covey about the problem of personal identity crisis that is prevalent in the life of many people and a two-fold solution to this issue.
The solution centers on establishing your personal voice to find your identity and claim your destiny.
The first part of the solution is to find your “voice.” Your voice is your unique personal significance. This is found when you choose greatness over mediocrity. You can discover your “voice” by reclaiming your birthrights of the power of choice, claiming the power of ancient wisdom and cultivating natural intelligence. finding your voice is choosing the creative nature of ourselves as an important first step in solving your identity crisis.
The second part of the solution after you find your voice is to share your voice. Expressions of with others are manifested in vision, discipline, passion, and conscious action.
Dr. Brad uses stories from his personal life to illustrate the two-fold solution of finding and sharing your “voice” to establish one’s identity and claim your destiny.
Following Dr. Brad’s teaching, Scott Maderer from Christian Stewardship.com makes a guest appearance teaching about a claiming the promise of financial freedom.
The Pathway to Promise Podcast exists to serve people looking to overcome adversity to achieve success in life. It is based the belief that every person has a God-given promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose and that you must follow a proven pathway through adversity to arrive at that promised life.
Dr. Brad Miller is passionate about life transformation is the creator of “The Forty Day Way to Change Your Life” and blogs and publishes his weekly The Pathway to Promise Podcast at www.pathwaypromise.com.
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PTP.012: Intentional Powerful Relationships with Cliff Ravenscraft
Dr. Brad Miller talks intentional powerful relationships to build a mindset for success with Cliff Ravenscraft in Episode 012 of The Pathway to Promise Podcast. Cliff is a successful coach and product developer in helping people create and grow successful online businesses and is known as the “Podcast Answer Man” to many.
Success didn’t come easy for Cliff and he tells Dr. Brad about how he made a difficult transition employee to business owner. For Cliff, this transition centered on a change in mindset and the most important factor in his change of mindset was intentionally creating powerful relationships with people more successful than him in business.
Cliff outlines how he intentionally recruited 12 successful business leaders and who guided, corrected and directed him in the initial stages of building his business.
Cliff assures Brad that the essential element to overcoming obstacles in business is powerful relationships.
People struggling to overcome the myriad of problems associated with starting a business, particularly those transitioning from being an employee, will recognize the power of Cliff Ravenscraft words of encouragement in Episode 012 of The Pathway to Promise Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller.
The mission of The Pathway to Promise Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is to provide a guide and resource for people to overcome adversity in their lives to discover a new pathway to discover their God-given promise of a life of peace, prosperity, and purpose.
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April 4, 2018
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PTP.011: The Power and Promise of “Bonus Time” – Scott Swan
Scott Swan is an award-winning television news anchor, reporting from around the world (including the last several Olympic games), whose life was moving along swimmingly until he found himself fighting for his life with an internal bleeding disorder. How Scott faced his life being on the line and what he does now with his “bonus time” is the focus of his conversation with Dr. Brad Miller in episode number 11 of the Pathway to Promise Podcast.
Listen it with Dr. Brad is he and Scott discuss his life and career as a television anchor and more importantly his current purpose and promise in life which is to share his story of what he calls his “bonus time.” in April 2017 Scott felt what he thought was a stomachache as he was coming off the set of WT HR television and Indianapolis following a newscast. it wasn’t long thereafter that Scott found himself in the back of an ambulance being rushed into emergency surgery. He was diagnosed with a rare disease which causes internal bleeding and he had to receive four units of blood to save his life. during a critical period when his lifetime and the balance is bleeding inexplicably stopped. Scott believes he had a healing from God and that is purpose and promise now is to celebrate his “bonus time” by sharing his story of healing and the power of prayer.
Scott outlines for Brad is prayer discipline which he calls the A. C. T. S. + L. Process. Scott shared his practice of driving the work listing to praise music and following this plan which involves:
• A-adoration and worship of God
• C- Confession of his sins
• T-Thanksgiving for the blessings of his life.
• S-Supplication which is asking humbly for God’s blessings on his life
• +L-Listening for God’s voice in his life.
Scott also shared his practice of establishing a theme word and a theme verse of Scripture to focus on each year is present word being “thoughts” and Scripture Romans 12:2 “be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” He sets alarms three times a day as reminders to set aside time for prayer and thoughtfulness during the day.
Scott shares how his “bonus time” is enhanced his marriage and relationship with his grown children and helping put in perspective his career objectives. this involves a key decision he made on how to handle his health scare. He believes people basically make one of two decisions at such a time the negative approach of “I almost died” or the positive approach of “God healed me for a purpose.”
It is obvious in telling his story to Dr. Brad that Scott Swan has found his purpose and claimed his promise life by sharing the joys and the opportunities of celebrating his “bonus time.”
The Pathway to Promise Podcast is all about telling the stories of people like Scott Swan with the belief that every person has a promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose which is achieved when you follow a pathway through your adversity with the proper people to guide you.
Dr. Brad Miller shares teaching and conversation about overcoming adversity and achieving the transformed, promised life, each week on The Pathway to Promise Podcast.
Dr. Brad Miller has 35 years experience in pastoral ministry and holds a doctoral degree in transformational leadership. You can find out more about his “40 Day Way” to overcome adversity and achieve your promise life process at pathwaypromise.com.
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March 2018
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PTP.010: “Going Beyond Desperation by Going Deeper” with Author Frank Viola
Helping people go beyond their desperation by seeking a deeper journey in their inner spiritual life is the theme of Episode 010 of the Pathway to Promise Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller.
In Episode 010 Dr. Brad talks with Christian author, blogger, podcaster Frank Viola. Frank Viola is the author of over 25 books including the “Jesus Manifesto,” “From Eternity to Here”, and the upcoming release “Insurgence-Reclaiming the Gospel of The Kingdom”
Dr. Brad and Frank go deep on a number of topics including the hunger and thirst for meaningfulness in life that many people have; where many people asked the question “there must be more?” The conversation that Frank and Brad have about this question of meaninglessness responds by offering various means of which people can go deeper in their search for a meaningfulness in their life.
Viola contends that many people see the spiritual life as supplemental to their everyday life much like many people supplement their everyday life with music or sports. This pattern of being content with superficial spirituality is often supported by the preaching and teaching of many pastors and spiritual leaders from which many people repeat as a comforting form of spirituality which works much of the time. Viola compares this to “taking swimming lessons on dry ground.”
The rub comes when people face crisis moments, moments of desperation, in which superficial spirituality is inadequate. It is in these moments of desperation that Viola tells Brad that people will either turn away from the Lord and spirituality or seek a deeper experience or journey toward the Lord. It is at this point that personal revelation can take place. It is no longer a matter of learning theoretically about the spiritual journey it is experiencing personally the incoming of Christ living in the person as described in Galatians 2:20 “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”
Viola shares that his ministry is all about desperate souls who are exhausted and hungry and seek a deeper journey of meaningfulness in their spiritual life.
Viola goes on to describe his own battles with overwhelm, lack of focus and lack of direction and how he took a systematic approach to deal with these challenges and become a prolific producer of content related to the deeper spiritual life. Indeed, Viola has created an online course prolificcourse.com which outlines in detail his processes and practices on productivity.
Frank tells Brad about how much credence he puts on the incoming of the spiritual power of God in his life to achieve an abundant life. This supersedes “the good life” which many people aspire to based on the acquisition of worldly things and puts primacy on seeking “the abundant life” (John 10:10) which Viola states “blows this soot out of the good life.”
Frank talks to Dr. Brad about the importance of emotional human relationships as the habitat in which the deeper connection to the spiritual realm takes place. The deeper journey cannot be acquired solely on its own; a connection with other people is indispensable. This includes spouses and family members as well as mentors both living and historically through reading and learning about influential people from the past. Moreover, Viola introduces the concept of “vital editable relationships.” An “editable relationship” is deeper than an accountability partner and is a person who can speak into your life to help correction to take place.
Another form of vital relationship building that Viola introduces us to in this podcast is the use of mastermind groups for the kingdom of God. Mastermind groups are relatively common in the entrepreneurial world but much less so in the world of ministry leaders and pastors. Viola has led several ministry mastermind groups and has found these small group experiences are dramatically effective in helping these leaders achieve breakthroughs in their ministry and in their personal lives. He finds there is a certain synergy and crowdsource wisdom in ministry masterminds which helps the participants to identify how they want to be different and how they can solve their present problems to achieve their goals. Viola leads ministry mastermind groups on a regular basis and offers the listener a way to connect with this opportunity at ministrymind.org.
Dr. Brad Miller and Frank Viola present a myriad of practical tips, strategies, and inspiration for the person desperate to break disparaging patterns in their present life and seek out their promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose by going on a deeper journey in their spiritual life. This is an important episode of The Pathway to Promise Podcast which can be used as a great resource for those willing to take the plunge into the deeper life.
The Pathway to Promise Podcast is designed with the understanding that every person has a God-given promise life of peace, prosperity, and purpose and that implementing a planned pathway with the proper guidance can help people to overcome profound life challenges and achieve that promise life.
Dr. Brad Miller teaches on the transforming life and interviews great transformational leaders like Frank Viola weekly onThe Pathway to Promise Podcast.
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March 21, 2018
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PTP.009: “Making A Bargain…Keeping A Promise” with Carole Sanek
PTP.009: “Making A Bargain…Keeping A Promise” with Carole Sanek
She made a bargain with God and then had to keep her promise and that has made all the difference for Carole Sanek. On Episode 009 of The Pathway to Promise Podcast Dr Brad has a great conversation with Carole Sanek (carolesanek.com). An award winning blogger and writer, podcaster and social media consultant Carole faced a major challenge in her life alone when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As a registered nurse she knew the gravity of her situation. Brad talks with Carole about how she dealt the adversity of this terrible disease by seeking medical care, drawing on knowledge from books and teachers, developing new support groups of people and getting spiritual guidance and direction.
Carole came to a point of spiritual introspection where she bargained with God that she would become an advocate for breast cancer patient should she overcome her cancer. The result is that Carole has devoted her life to keeping the promise, of her grand bargain, by working diligently for women’s health issues, particularly focused on breast reconstruction surgery. These efforts have led her to write award-winning blogs in the medical field and write and ghostwrite a number of books. Going even deeper in keeping her promise to her grand bargain Carole is now researching and writing a book on telling the story of the victims of suicide and attempted suicide. This is an important episode of The Pathway to Promise Podcast that you will want to share with people dealing with the challenges of disease and suicide.
The Pathway to Promise Podcast is all about the view that every person has a God-given promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose and you arrive at that place by following a planned path with the proper people as a guide. The Pathway to Promise Podcast, is your antidote to adversity, your guide to finding your personal pathway to your promised life of peace prosperity and purpose.
Dr. Brad Miller, DMin
March 2018
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