Embracing Brokenness Ministries Steve and Colleen Adams

Get familiar with The Other Side Academy.
Ex-felons and Ex-drug addicts thrive at TOSA.

Colleen & Steve visited TOSA Denver and share their insights on this radically successful classic therapeutic community, on this special episode of the Embracing Brokenness Podcast.

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00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview

00:39 Preview of the Other Side Academy

00:49 Challenges of Traditional Rehabilitation Models

01:45 The Other Side Academy's Social Enterprises

02:23 Accountability and Responsibility03:58 Therapeutic Community Principles

06:36 First Impressions of the Other Side Academy

07:32 The Bench and Denver the Dog10:55 Living and Working at the Academy

17:20 Success Rates and Program Structure

21:44 Accountability and Behavioral Challenges

23:05 Crucial Conversations in Action

24:17 Therapeutic Community Dynamics

27:54 Core Values and Principles

28:39 Personal Responsibility and Overcoming Trauma

33:39 Peer Support and Community Learning

36:35 Final Thoughts and Encouragement


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As if raising kids isn't hard enough, the world's distractions and the noisiness of this age make it even more challenging. Katie and Colleen sit down to talk about the realities and difficulties of navigating the responsibility of parenting in a fallen world. But peace in the midst of it all is possible.

00:00 Introduction to Embracing Brokenness Podcast
00:44 The Puppy Training Analogy
02:16 The Overwhelming Noise of Parenting Advice
08:24 Seeking Divine Guidance in Parenting
12:15 The Challenges of Parenting in a Postmodern World
15:47 Finding Peace Amidst Parenting Noise
24:02 Conclusion: Embracing Obedience Over Perfection

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The competition for our attention is deafening. The world deals us decibel levels of chaos that we weren't created to handle. But God... has a plan to cut through the noise and deliver peace in His presence. Our team discusses the challenges of dealing with the noise of this age and prescribes a few remedies to neutralize it all. 


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Does your work matter for eternity? We asked this same question a couple of weeks ago. Sadly, most believers don’t think so. Sure, the 1 percent of the time they spend sharing the gospel with their co-workers matters. But most Christians view the other 99 percent of their time as meaning very little in the grand scheme of things. But that’s not how God sees it.



As a follow-up to Steve's interview with Jordan Raynor, we assembled our team to dig deeper into the Sacredness of Secular Work. Join us!


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Does your work matter for eternity? Sadly, most believers don’t think so. Sure, the 1 percent of the time they spend sharing the gospel with their co-workers matters. But most Christians view the other 99 percent of their time as meaning very little in the grand scheme of things. But that’s not how God sees it.

Jordan Raynor joins Steve in this week's podcast as they uncover why secular work is a sacred assignment.

“The Sacredness of Secular Work does an extraordinary job of being both personally relevant and, more importantly, biblically faithful.”—Randy Alcorn, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven

The Sacredness of Secular Work

Jordan Raynor is a leading voice of the faith and work movement.

Through his bestselling books (The Sacredness of Secular Work, Redeeming Your Time, The Creator in You, etc.), keynote speeches, podcasts, and devotionals, Jordan has helped millions of Christians in every country on earth connect the gospel to their work.

In addition to his writing and speaking, Jordan serves as the Executive Chairman of Threshold 360, a venture-backed tech startup that Jordan previously ran as CEO following a string of successful ventures of his own.

Jordan has twice been selected as a Google Fellow and served in The White House under President George W. Bush. A sixth-generation Floridian, Jordan lives in Tampa with his wife and their three young daughters. The Raynors are proud members of The Church at Odessa.


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Sentenced to life in prison, Greg Womack shares his story of salvation, redemption, and restoration. How God met him right where he was, behind bars, with no hope of seeing anything other than prison walls until the day he died. But God.... 28 years later, had something else in store.

In this week's podcast, Steve interviews Greg as he shares a miraculous intervention by a God who had something else in mind in his new-found freedom in Christ.


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