What causes some people---in spite of incredible challenges---to be more alive and content than others? When Shane Stanford discovered he was HIV positive at the age of sixteen, he knew he had a choice: he could feel sorry for himself, or he could live as passionately and boldly as possible. Now, more than twenty years later, Stanford speaks nationwide about what it means to turn a positive diagnosis---or any difficult circumstance---into an opportunity for positive living.
If you want to appreciate life to the fullest, this unabridged audio download of A Positive Life reveals nine basic yet powerful lessons for living well. What does it mean to be satisfied with never being satisfied? Why is simplicity a key to finding joy? Most importantly, what does it look like to live, laugh, and love in community as Jesus did---with dirty hands and feet and a love of adventure?
Stanford reminds you that even struggles offer glimpses of grace. Choosing how to live out that grace is the key to making life matter---and to being more alive than ever before.
Are you living in crisis or in Christ? Deanna Favre, breast-cancer survivor and wife of NFL legend Brett Favre, and Shane Stanford, an HIV-positive pastor, have something in common. Both have battled life-threatening illnesses, and both have overcome chronic hopelessness to discover the transforming strength of God. Deanna and Shane understand those everyday struggles that cause us to feel our life is in a crisis, whether it’s something as simple as an ache or a bad attitude, or as complicated as a broken relationship or a debilitating disease. In The Cure for the Chronic Life, Deanna and Shane show listeners how Christ’s redeeming love will speak to the deepest of our struggles and hurts, answer the deepest of our questions, and put us on a new path toward healing and grace.