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Monday, May 1, 2023
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Welcome to Monday! Our own Kerby Anderson hosts today’s show. During the first hour, Kerby speaks to Carmen Joy Imes. She brings us her newest book, Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters. You can pre-order it now. Kerby’s guest in the second hour is Jonathon Seidl.  Jon joins Kerby in the studio to share his latest book, Finding Rest: A Survivor’s Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life.

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Kerby Anderson
Kerby Anderson
Host, Point of View Radio Talk Show
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Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (government). He also serves as a visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and has spoken on dozens of university campuses including University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Princeton University, Johns HopkinsRead More

Guests
Carmen Joy Imes Show Page
Carmen Joy Imes, PhD
Author | Speaker | Assoc. Professor of Old Testament - Talbot School of Theology, Biola University
Carmen Joy Imes (PhD, Wheaton) is associate professor of Old Testament at Biola University. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, she is the author of Bearing YHWH's Name at Sinai, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters, and the editor of Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends.

Imes is a regular contributor to The Well, a fellow of Every Voice, and serves on the advisory council for the Bible Literacy Conference. She is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature and serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Biblical Research. Imes and her husband, Daniel, have three children and enjoy camping, hiking, and playing pickleball.
Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters
What does it mean to be human? This timeless question proves critical as we seek to understand our purpose, identity, and significance. Amidst the many voices clamoring to shape our understanding of humanity, the Bible reveals important truths related to our human identity and vocation that are critical to the flourishing of all of creation.

Carmen Joy Imes seeks to recover the theologically rich message of the creation narratives starting in the book of Genesis as they illuminate what it means to be human. Every human being is created as God’s image. Imago Dei is our human identity, and God appointed humans to rule on God's behalf. Being God’s Image explores the implications of this kinship relationship with God and considers what it means for our work, our gender relations, our care for creation, and our eternal destiny. The Bible invites us into a dramatically different quality of life: a beloved community in which we can know God and one another as we are truly known.
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Jonathon Seidl
Author | Founder & President - The Veritas Creative
Jonathon (Jon) M. Seidl has spent over a decade in digital media and is the founder and president of The Veritas Creative, a digital media consulting and content creation firm. He previously served as the managing editor of Kirk Cameron's The Courage, where he oversaw content and material focused on faith, family, and culture, and as the editor-in-chief of I Am Second, which tells stories of incredible life transformation.

In 2016, Seidl opened up for the first time about his mental health experience: He was diagnosed with anxiety and OCD in 2014. He has become an ardent supporter of mental health awareness and is a strong voice for how the Christian church can better handle the issue. His book, Finding Rest: A Survivor’s Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life, released from Kregel Publications on September 28, 2021, and immediately hit No. 1 on numerous Amazon bestseller category lists and became a Top 100 bestselling book on all of Amazon.

Seidl wrote a companion resource, Finding Rest: An Invitation to Go Deeper, released Feb. 21, 2023, to invite anyone affected by mental health disorders to join him on an action-based, thought-provoking and therapeutic journey to find peace, hope and healing.

Seidl graduated from The King's College with a degree in politics, philosophy, and economics. Although he is a Green Bay Packers fanatic, he and his wife live in the Dallas, Texas, area with their daughter Annie Rose, son Jack Lewis and dogs Gus and Lulu.
Finding Rest: A Survivor's Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life
In the aftermath of the pandemic, even those who have never struggled with mental health have found themselves reeling, looking for answers they don't know how to find. For Christians, especially those who've despaired of help from a church that has too often stigmatized poor mental health as a lack of faith, the way forward can be particularly difficult to see.

Jonathon Seidl aims to fix that. Having fought his own way through crippling anxiety, life-altering OCD, and suicidal thoughts, he knows the value of concrete advice grounded in strong biblical truth. Instead of the trite or unsympathetic counsel that's too often given, Finding Rest is practical, personal, and productive. Full of compelling stories, humor from a guide who's still on his journey, and scriptural truths, this book offers real hope and help. It also provides a lifeline for friends and family who long for ways to help relieve the suffering of their loved ones. And it calls to account the church for its historical treatment of mental health and lays out thoughtful, needed paths for the body of Christ to become a refuge of hope for the anxious.

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