Redeemed Podcast

When You’re in the Pit: Finding Purpose, Healing, and Hope Through God

Redeemed Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail What do you do when life takes a turn you never planned for? In this special re-release of The Redeemed Podcast—one of our most-listened-to episodes—host Lauren Burns revisits a powerful, Scripture-filled conversation about finding purpose in pain and trusting God through life’s hardest seasons. Lauren shares vulnerably from her own story—wrestling with father wounds, trauma, anger toward God, and the long road toward healing and forgiveness after being kidnapped as a child a...

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