In today’s episode, “Resilience: Turning Your Past Into Power for Your Future,” you’ll hear Josh reflect on how he slowly rediscovered confidence in the voice of God, and how the experience of being canceled, while deeply painful, became something God used over time to bless and strengthen him.
He’ll also share his dreams for the future—both literal and figurative—and how the image of a tsunami has become a way of naming what God can do with the force of what we’ve been through.
We’ll explore a theology of resilience: How does God meet us in hardship and form strength over time? What role does courage play in allowing crisis to shape character? And how can you move beyond survival toward hope and a future that feels possible again?
This season has been about storms and dark nights—about loss, grief, and costly faithfulness. But it’s also been about a quieter truth: even overwhelming experiences can be redirected into something life-giving.
There is hope. What you’ve been through does not have the last word on your story. The God who loves you does.
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Blessed Are the Canceled is a podcast about how being rejected, mocked, and discarded can become a pathway into the presence of God.
Through personal stories, Scripture, and theology, the show explores shame, betrayal, forgiveness, exile, and spiritual formation.
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Edited by Ryan Biermann
Theme music by Tents
Intro music by Orchid Rainbow
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What is Blessed Are the Canceled?
Blessed Are the Canceled is a podcast about how being rejected, mocked, and discarded can become a pathway into the presence of God. Through personal stories, rich theology, and cultural reflection, Brenna Blain and Josh Butler explore themes like shame, outrage, betrayal, suffering, forgiveness, resilience, and spiritual inheritance. Together, they ask what it looks like to encounter God where pain isn’t wasted, exile becomes formation, and the places you feel most abandoned may become the places of your deepest encounter with God.