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Episode 46 • June 4, 2026 • 42 min

How to Rebuild Your Faith When It’s Been Shaken

Bill Thrall
Scott Boyd

How can sharing your reality with a trusted person strengthen every area of life? In this episode, Bill and Scott explore the consequences of hidden struggles, and how secrecy affects trust, relationships, and leadership.

They explain that people cannot fully honor the trust of others while hiding significant parts of their reality, because hiddenness creates distance and false perceptions.

They give us hope by encouraging us to find trusted people that we can share honestly with, creating opportunities for deeper trust, authentic love, and healthier relationships. 

In this episode

00:40

How hidden struggles create separation from others and cause people to trust a version of someone that is not fully real.  

04:06

Trust carries hope and people who remain hidden ultimately rob others of that hope and connection.

09:22

Human beings possess an innate, profound need to both receive love and be trusted by others.  

11:41

A reference from Ephesians about how openness and grace allow relationships to fit together properly and grow.  

13:16

Whatever a person attempts to hide will ultimately define them until they choose to break the cycle by trusting someone.

“As long as we keep our stories hidden, whatever
we are hiding will one day define us.”

— Bill Thrall

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