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The Cutting Room Floor · Quarryville Church

2. Control

March 22, 2021·41 min·3 clips
They discuss Peter denying Jesus three times as a response to feeling out of control and fearful.
Rain opens the room. Chris and Eddie ease into losing control like people who know the subject does not need to be rushed. They start with ordinary life. A move to Pennsylvania has a plan behind it, until housing, work, children, and a new community begin pushing back. The pressure stays close to the ground. Losing control is not treated as a meltdown. It is what happens when outside circumstances start pulling at the inside of a life. Lazarus changes the room, moving the conversation from grief into joy, while the disciples seem to find their nerve again around Jesus. Then the ground gives way. Temple leaders are plotting, Roman soldiers will carry out the crucifixion, and the stability the disciples thought they had starts to come loose. The host sits with that feeling: circumstances moving faster than anyone can manage. Peter makes it personal. His confidence around Jesus, and his promise not to deny him, turn control into something painfully familiar. There is enough dry humor to keep the episode from getting stiff. Peter the punk gets a laugh, but the point still lands. By the end, the hosts widen the table. This is an open community conversation about human experience, not just two people talking privately. Control becomes less like a problem to fix and more like something people admit together, slowly, without pretending it goes away.

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A calm look at what happens when control slips away.

The episode looks at losing control as something that shows up in family life, ministry, and scripture, not as one dramatic break. Eddie opens with the move to Pennsylvania, the loss of familiar roles, and the strain of trying to keep a household steady while jobs, kids, and…

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For when your plans wobble and you want a reflective, faith-rooted conversation about losing control.

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