Cyd & Geoff Holsclaw and the God Who Likes You
Feb 01, 2024
Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw are Vineyard pastors in Grand Rapids, MI. Cyd is also a spiritual director and life coach, and Geoff is affiliate professor of theology at Northern Seminary. Married almost twenty years, they have two teenage boys love going on road trips together. Cyd and Geoff recently published Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be with Us. Today, they share the story of first encountering God, meeting one another at just the right time, and learning that God really wants to be with us. The road was a little different for Cyd and Geoff but ultimately led them both to awareness of God’s desire to be with them.
Listen to Cyd & Geoff’s story!
Stories Cyd & Geoff shared:
- Cyd growing up in Grand Rapids, MI and needing to leave a quickly as she could
- Geoff grew up as a “friendly fundamentalist”
- The covenant theology that made Cyd feel as if God was about the larger community not the individual
- How Geoff moved from a more legalistic faith to a personal relationship with God
- Teaching kids about Judges and how that shaped Cyd’s view of God
- Geoff going through the Sermon on the Mount and how the Lord spoke to him on the beach
- Cyd shared how losing her mom in her late 20s was a disorienting season
- When Jesus played hide and seek with Cyd
- How Geoff learned through pain and what God taught him
- Moving to Chicago to go to seminary
- Pastoring together in Michigan
- Cyd leaving her ministry position and learning to be not do
Great quotes from Cyd & Geoff:
How do I find this God that I’ve heard about but haven’t known? (Cyd)
Reading the Bible through the lens of “God always wants to be with us” changes the whole story. (Cyd)
Jesus can be fun! I had never known Jesus can be fun.
It’s not a sin problem; it’s a separation problem.
God is the one overcoming all the barriers keeping us from him.
Resources we mentioned:
- Does God Really Like Me?: Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us
by Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw
- Geoff’s website
- Devotional Classics: Revised Edition: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
by Richard Foster
- Outsmarting Yourself: Catching Your Past Invading the Present and What to Do About It
by M.D. Karl Lehman
- The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves
- Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships
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