Posts in Season 2
season two: identity + parkinsons disease

Kurt Peters is a pastor, church planter, counsellor and ministry supervisor. He has walked alongside Pete and the Restore Ministries team since it’s inception and from 2019 has served on the board. He is passionate about providing honest and loving spaces for people to encounter Jesus and be transformed. In this episode, Kurt does just that as he shares with Peter his experience of Parkinson’s Disease from diagnosis to now. This is a powerful episode of the raw reality of significant health diagnoses and how they impact both our identity and the questions and ways we relate to and understand God.

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season two: identity + trauma with Ed Welch

Trauma. Some of us have experienced it, some of us have watched people we love experience it, some of us have just watched it effect our community and people we know from a distance. No matter what our engagement with trauma has been, we have all seen the effects that this type of “death” has had on people and the world we live in.

Listen to Peter’s interview with Ed Welch as he shares about trauma and how the experience of trauma can intersect with our identity.

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season two: identity + personality

Have you ever wondered about the intersection between our identity and our personality? In Peter’s conversation with Tim Lane (author, speaker & counselor) they break down both the helpfulness and unhelpfulness of personality tests, how our identity and our personalities differ and how the two intersect.

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season two: identity + obsessive compulsive disorder

In the latest episode of the Restore Ministries Australia podcast Peter Sondergeld sits down with Pastor Steve Nation to talk about his experience of living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how it intersects with identity.

Steve has been a pastor for 17 years in Sydney, Brisbane and now Canberra, Australia. He is currently serving at the Canberra Austral-Asian Christian Church. He is married to Keiyeng and they have three delightful kids.

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