Episode 10

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Published on:

31st Oct 2022

Come As You Are with Claude Williams -

Guest:

        Claude Williams

                     35 years in ministry


                     Master’s degree – Christian

Counseling


                     Doctorate in Theology


                     Assoc. Min. Community

Baptist Church of Greater Milwaukee


                     Youth Ministry since –

since 1986


                     Women Prison Ministry - since

1992


                     Juvenile Detention - since

1996


 


Topic:          Come As You Are          


 


When

a long-time inmate is released from prison, another sort of misery may be

looming. How is he or she supposed to cope? We asked minister Claude Williams,

who has been involved in youth and women’s prison ministries for decades. Among

the highlights: his conviction that giving your life to God is key—no need to

clean yourself up first.

 


 


Show

Highlights:


 


·       Bringing everything

even our mess to God


·       Lack of

humility


·       Prisoner’s

not knowing what to expect in world


·       Family

support and difficulty re-establishing those relationships


·       Church

support


 


Takeaways:


1.)           

Be Humble


2.)          

Due to time being imprisoned, lack of knowledge for

society norms for example knowledge of current technology


3.)          

Criminal record hindering their reputation and

progress


4.)          

Not knowing how to re-establish broken relationships

with family members especially with children


 


 


 

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About the Podcast

Prisoner's Pardon
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A Prisoner’s Pardon, through storytelling, describes how prisoners are set free from physical and/or spiritual prisons (ex. Domestic & Drug Abuse) only via a pardon and not a reform program.

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Michi - J

Michi J is a Chicago native who now lives in the Milwaukee area. By day, she works as an energy-industry analyst; she spends her remaining hours pursuing her lifelong passion of exploring and proclaiming the coming Kingdom of Christ. Her fiction and non-fiction writing explores, through storytelling, the parallel existence of physical and spiritual laws. Her favorite authors include Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, A.W.Tozer, Dr. Tony Evans, Erwin Raphael McManus, and Kitty Foth-Regner.