The CrossCounsel Podcast
Welcome to the CrossCounsel Podcast! Since 1997, we've been finding a better way to experience healing, growth, and maturity in Christ.
Join our co-founder, Rev. Steve Freitag, and special guests as they explore how the Spirit of Jesus transforms us into people who are strong, steady, sturdy, secure, and appropriately compassionate.
Diving into our MELT Process isn't easy, but it's well worth it. Those who are willing to engage with both their present and historical pain—and confront their "demons"—can discover unimaginable freedom and peace.
Much of this may feel surprisingly simple, yet deeply transformative—strangely normal.
Together, let's do all we can in the work God calls us to do.
The CrossCounsel Podcast
203 | When Jesus’s Love Drives Away Terror
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The episode begins with a remarkable statement:
“I don’t know how to put it. It’s just crazy. After just one session, I didn’t have nightmares again. No night terrors.”
Her story includes addiction, destructive relationships, resentment, and a deep sense that she was unlovable. She knew intellectually that God loved her, but as she put it, “I knew deep down that God loved me, but I just didn’t feel it.”
During one session, she returned to a memory from when she was sixteen and desperately waiting for a man to call. She experienced Jesus putting His hand over hers and saying:
“You don’t have to do that anymore.”
What stands out is that Jesus wasn’t simply giving her a behavioral command. Something deeper had changed. She later said, “That’s not how I have to do things anymore.”
We also talk about why knowing biblical truth and deeply receiving it are not always the same thing—and why we never promise that a particular symptom will disappear, even though in her case the night terrors stopped after that first session.
Near the end, I introduce an idea I’ve wrestled with for years: instead of thinking only about putting God “first,” what if Christ is better understood as the hub of a wheel, with every part of our lives directly connected to Him?
That’s something we’ll explore more in the podcasts ahead.