Episode 9 | Shalom Unfinished
Restoration is rarely neat. And peace is not what we’ve been taught to protect.
In this episode of The Restoration Series, we confront the false version of peace that prioritizes comfort, control, and appearances, and we return to the biblical meaning of shalom. Not calm. Not avoidance. But wholeness in the middle of what is still being repaired.
Building from the previous episode on image-bearing, this conversation explores what it means to carry God’s ways in the chaos, including His peace. We look closely at YHWH-Shalom, the God who reveals Himself not after the battle, but in the middle of it, and we examine how restoration often begins by dismantling the peace we’ve been managing.
Through Scripture, the story of Gideon, and a personal testimony from the Mental Health Portrait, this episode calls out the ways we confuse self-preservation with peace and invites us into a deeper, truer restoration. One that does not rush healing, silence grief, or bypass surrender.
If you’ve been striving to keep it together, avoiding disruption, or calling survival “peace,” this episode will challenge you and ground you at the same time.
Shalom is not finished because restoration is still underway.
And God is still working.
