The Miracle Hill Podcast
Dignifying humanity through the power of story and education. Striving together to support society's marginalized. A podcast from Miracle Hill Ministries. If you like story, then this podcast is for you. If you care about educating yourself and grappling with complex issues like homelessness, addiction-recovery, coping, toxic charity, justice initiatives, true healing, and similar topics, then this podcast is for you. Hosted by Ryan Duerk, President and CEO at Miracle Hill Ministries. Produced and edited by Michael Livingston, Digital Storyteller at Miracle Hill Ministries. If you have a story to tell, would like to see a topic covered, or simply want to connect, email podcast@miraclehill.org.
Episodes
Season 5 - Episode 8
Provision and Prayer
Guest: Tom Callahan
As we move along on our journeys of faith it becomes easy for us to become jaded, quickly losing sight of how God is moving in our lives and the lives of others. This is a testimony of Provision and answered Prayers, how God moves in often surprising ways. Tom Callahan joins us to share his personal stories and anecdotes of how God often shows up in the...
Season 5 - Episode 7
Young's Story
Guest: Young Jin Ghun
On our last episode we spoke with Young Ghun about Real Change in recovery. Instead of talking about his own story and past we focused more on his present, and how he helps people now. Young’s story is one that we documented at length in a prior episode, and we thought it would be a great time to re-share that story, so that all can see just how much God...
Season 5 - Episode 6
Evangelism
Guest: Young Jin Ghun
You've met Jesus, now what? In this episode, we are joined by Young Ghun to talk about the deep and ongoing work of sanctification. We will discuss how surrendering our will is for life, and how we must often dig deep into the recesses of our soul before we can move forward.
Get the Book:
Counterfeit Peace by Ryan Duerk
Get in Touch:<...
Season 5 - Episode 5
Evangelism
Guest: Bill Slocum
Breakthroughs are often the labor of patience and persistence. In this episode we are joined by Bill Slocum to discuss how patient evangelism, listening, and presence can lead to life change.
Get the Book:
Counterfeit Peace by Ryan Duerk
Get in Touch:
Email podcast@miraclehill.org to get in touch with us.
Miracle Hill Ministries:...
Season 5 - Episode 4
A Life of Addiction
Guest: Curtis Pitts
In this episode, we are joined by Curtis Pitts to discuss what often happens in early recovery... Manipulation. Many times, people enter a recovery facility or a shelter, and still haven't surrendered their will. The guests will often do everything they can to appear like they are working on themselves, while still fooling their friends, counselors, ...
Season 5 - Episode 3
A Life of Addiction
Guest: Andy Wood
In this episode, we will discuss what a life of Addiction looks like, from the perspective of those actively in addiction. Ryan and Michael sit down with Andy Wood, a close friend of Ryan’s and an Overcomer graduate himself, to help shed light on the lifestyles that are inhabited by those in active addiction and to discuss ways to break through to those in t...
Season 5 - Episode 2
Why Rescue Missions Matter?
Guest: Brandan Thomas
In this episode Ryan and Michael talk with Brandan Thomas (Director of Leadership, Learning, and Program at CityGate Network) about Why Rescue Missions Matter. We discuss what a Rescue Mission is, who they serve, and why they meet an important need both nationally and locally.
Get the Book:
Counterfeit Peace by Ryan Duerk
Season 5 - Episode 1
What is Counterfeit Peace?
The end of ourselves is a lonely place to be, but it is often where miracles take place. Counterfeit Peace is a story of redemption. Ryan Duerk details the story of his life from childhood, into the ravages of addiction, and ultimately through the front doors of a rescue mission. He describes in intense detail what can happen to a life with no direction.
Our Digi...
Season 4 Episode 11: Today Ryan Duerk is joined by Lee Anne Cavin, Board Chair and Executive Director of Front Porch Houseing. On This episode Lee Anne and Ryan's focus is on the Power of Community which is the focus of step 12 of the Twelve Steps.
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Season 4 Episode 10: Today Ryan Duerk is joined by Steve Vicari, Executive Director of Men's Workforce Development at Homes of Hope, Inc. On This episode Steve and Ryan's focus is on Prayer and Meditation which is the focus of step 11 of the Twelve Steps.
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and...
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Today Ryan is joined by Dave Crooks, Executive Director of Evans Training Center, to discuss the Tenth Step in the Twelve Step Process.
About our Evans Training Center:
Evans Training Center is a safe place for Prodigal Son's to come home and be restored.
ETC serves men who come from a lifestyle of chemical...
Today Ryan is joined by Mike Carlton, Former Program Manager at Overcomers, to discuss the Eighth Step in the Twelve Step Process.
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
About our Guest:
This episode was recorded before Mike's passing earlier this year. Mike Carlton was with Miracle Hill for over 20 years serving in many areas but finishing his tim...
Today Ryan is joined by Mike Malone, Senior Program Director of FAVOR Upstate, to discuss the Sixth and Seventh Steps in the Twelve Step Process.
Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
Step 7: We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings
About our Guest:
Mike Malone is the Senior Program Director at FAVOR Upstate. FAVOR provides free addiction recovery servic...
Today Ryan is joined by Jason Cochran, Clinical Director of Canterbury Counseling, to discuss the Fifth Step of the Twelve Steps; Confession.
Step 5 of the 12-Step Program is: “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
On this episode Ryan and Jason discuss the importance and also the challenges to confession.
Jason graduated from Columbia International Uni...
Komron Saadati has been with Miracle Hill for 23 years and currently serves as a Counselor at our Overcomer's Center. Today he joins Ryan to discuss the fourth step, taking a moral inventory.
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
(Lamentations 3:40 “let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.”)
This fourth step can often be difficult for anyone goi...
On this episode Ryan talks with Bryan Braddock about step 3 of The Twelve Steps.
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
Bryan is the Chief Executive Officer of House of Hope of the Pee Dee in Florence, SC. He discusses with Ryan his own history of struggle, what surrendering His will to God looks like, sanctification and what it's like to work ...
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (aa.org)
On this episode Ryan sits down with Sarah to talk through step 2 of The Twelve Steps.
Sarah is a graduate of Miracle Hill's Renewal Center. Renewal is Miracle Hill's women's recovery program. Before coming to Miracle Hill Ministries, Sarah had experienced homelessness due to her addition to drugs. With ...
Welcome to Season 4 of Miracles from the Hill Podcast: a survey of The Twelve Steps.
In this season, we will take a closer look at The Twelve Steps and how Miracle Hill Ministries incorporates this resource into our recovery programs.
When people think about "The Twelve Steps" they may associate this resource with Alcoholics Anonymous or another similar recovery group. While these steps have their hist...
If you've ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at Christmastime at Miracle Hill Ministries, this episode is for you.
On this episode, Ryan is joined by Chief Development Officer Jacob Edmisten and their conversation centers around what the holidays look like for our staff and guests.
This season can be difficult for many experiencing homelessness or addiction because often these individuals are alie...
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