Digital Social Hour
How Faith Transformed My Battle with Anxiety and Depression | Bryce Crawford DSH #1198
Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Discover how faith transformed Bryce Crawford's battle with anxiety and depression in this powerful episode of Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🙌 Bryce opens up about his darkest moments, including overcoming a life-altering encounter with Jesus, the struggles of mental health, and finding redemption. ❤️ His raw and inspiring story dives into forgiveness, love, and what it truly means to live a life of purpose. Get ready for an eye-opening conversation as Sean and Bryce also tackle heavy topics like suffering, spiritual challenges, and even address misconceptions about Christians, psychics, and other belief systems. 🌍 💬 This episode is packed with valuable insights and lessons for anyone searching for hope, healing, and meaning. Don’t miss out! Tune in now and join the conversation. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more heartwarming and thought-provoking stories. 📺✨ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Bryce's Experience with the Fires 02:20 - Suffering and Human Experience 03:41 - Jesus' Second Coming Explained 05:22 - Understanding Judgement Day 09:04 - Coping with Depression and Anxiety 14:15 - Sean's Mission and Purpose 17:00 - Importance of No Sex Before Marriage 20:33 - Abuse of Forgiveness in Faith 22:19 - Micromanaging Your Spiritual Life 26:10 - Overview of Islam 29:41 - Insights into Buddhism 30:40 - Jesus' Sacrifice for Humanity 32:44 - Wes vs Billy Carson Debate Highlights 35:12 - Existence of Demons Discussed 39:29 - Understanding Psychics and Mediums 45:27 - Where to Find Bryce Online APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Bryce Crawford https://www.instagram.com/brycecrawford LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #joycemeyer #mentalhealth #mentalhealthacceptance #harmonygrillo #joycemeyerministries #faithtransformation #mentalhealth #faithoverfear #anxiety #depression
Chapter 1: How did Bryce Crawford escape the Malibu fires?
All right, guys, we got Bryce here today in Las Vegas. Thanks for coming on, man. Thanks for having me, man. I'm excited. Absolutely. You just got out of the fires, man. It's getting crazy out there.
Yeah, bro. It was really crazy because I flew in the day I flew in. I think that was when the big one broke out in Malibu. Malibu is my favorite place in Los Angeles. And it's just so tragic to see the whole place going down. Yeah. It's really sad.
Praise Jesus that we were able to get out and come and love on some people here in Vegas and just kind of like pray for LA and the firefighters and stuff like that.
I don't know if you've seen these viral videos, but there's a woman that was like prophesizing about these fires like a week ago on the streets of LA.
Oh, no, I haven't seen that before.
Oh, you haven't seen that?
No, no, no, no. I'm actually really disconnected from social media. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't really watch a lot of social media, so I don't know. I've been watching the news more because of the fires, but I've never seen any of these clips.
And there was one of Rogan three weeks ago talking about this. So it's super weird. Interesting. Yeah, bro. So weird. Yeah, people were predicting it.
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Chapter 2: What role does faith play in overcoming suffering?
Whoa. Yeah. Dude, what the heck? I know. Yeah. I don't know. Like, I think I did see the clip of the Rogan one and you know, it, I don't know what to think about it from a practical stance, but from like the reality of it is like, man, suffering exists. There's a lot of track, this tragic what's going on. And a lot of people can view that and become hopeless.
And it's like, Jesus is the hope in every circumstance. Like there are moments in my life where, you know, I haven't, you know, our house hasn't been directly affected by the fire or things like that. But when I reflect in my life on moments of suffering, Jesus has given me what scripture calls a peace that surpasses all understanding, just like a peace that doesn't make sense.
But in these moments of suffering and hardship, Jesus has been that peace. So it's been, I love it. It's been really interesting. So that's what I'm praying over these people that are just going through it. It's like, man, God, give them peace through this hard time, through this suffering.
Yeah. Yeah. I've gotten with some friends and we're donating as much as we can. It's tough right now. That's awesome, man. Yeah, it's really hard what's going on. Yeah. When it comes to like suffering and hardship, like do you think that's a universal thing everyone experiences?
Yeah, bro, I believe it. I mean, you know, I was just talking to my girlfriend about this the other day. Sin isn't just an action. It's like the condition of the world. And so when you look at sin and suffering, you have to recognize that like we live in an evil world. I mean, even down to like a baby, you know, you don't even teach a baby to get angry. It just naturally gets angry.
Babies are naturally selfish. I remember when I was in pre-K, I had a hard time sharing toys. And no one told me to not share my toys with people. I was just naturally selfish. And so sin, it's a condition of the heart. We're all born with it. And we can recognize that we live in an evil world. And so it's inevitable in this lifetime that suffering exists.
But I think it's the beauty of Jesus Christ is that because of our sin, like any justice system, you do wrong, you deserve a punishment. Our sin...
is wrongdoing we deserve death but jesus loves us enough to take that punishment that we deserve and because of that we can have a relationship with him and then when jesus returns a second time he's abolishing it all for good so there will be a day where if you're someone that puts your faith and trust in jesus christ there will be no weeping and gnashing of teeth there will be no suffering
Like it's just going to be joy and perfection because we're just with him for eternity. So I think it's a very beautiful thing to look forward to. You know, this life is just one big mission trip, man.
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Chapter 3: What is Bryce Crawford's view on Jesus' Second Coming?
That's an interesting take, man.
We're here to serve Jesus, love him and tell people about him, you know?
Yeah. So coming back a second time, I have heard that. So do you see that within our lifetime or how do you see that playing out?
You know, I can't say yes or no because I feel like every generation always says, man, Jesus is coming back in this lifetime. Right.
Um, but, but like, I gotta like clear the air on the end times because there's, there's like a lot of people that say, if you ever hear anyone say Jesus is returning like October, 2027, never listen to that person because, uh, no human being is going to know the day or the hour.
Now the Bible tells us that there will be signs, but the end times is described as the period that we wait for Jesus to return a second time. So even the apostles were in the end times. As soon as Jesus ascended into heaven, they were in the end times. So we've always been in the end times. So I think the hard posture shouldn't be like inserting fear into people's lives.
Like when I preach the gospel, I'm not selling fire insurance to people. I'm not saying believe in Jesus or you're going to burn in hell. I mean, the reality is, is that whatever we choose in this lifetime, Jesus wants everyone to follow him, but he's not a dictator. So he gives us the option to, if we choose to follow Jesus, he's happy. He grants that wish. We're with him for an eternity.
If we don't choose to follow Jesus, it breaks his heart, but he respects that free will decision. And then we're separated from him for an eternity. So I think we have to understand that with the end times, we've always been in this end times, and the hope for it is we wait for him to return a second time. And as for the believer, that's a beautiful thing because he's destroying sin forever.
And on the judgment day aspect, it's an interesting thing because for those that aren't right with God, which man, God is so interesting because when on judgment day, right? I can't look at God in the face and say, I didn't do X, Y, and Z because my life and my actions build a case against myself. My words mean nothing.
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Chapter 4: How did Bryce Crawford find peace from anxiety and depression?
So most everything was closed. And so I grabbed this like random guy and I was like, if we're a party of two, we'll sit down faster because there are booths. There are booths. And so we sat down and he's like 30 something years old. And the second I sit down, he's dumping all of his life issues on me. my wife's divorcing me, she's taking my kids, I'm broke, all these issues.
And I'm sitting there thinking, man, you know, I came here to escape my problems one last time and you're dumping all your issues on me. I'm like, you have no idea what I'm about to do when I leave here. And so he's talking to me and I'm just eating, getting ready to get out. And then he just goes, doesn't say anything about Jesus. That has nothing to do with Christianity.
He just goes, I love my wife, but she does not feel the same about me. There's no growth in a relationship if the love isn't mutual. And when he said that, it was like time stopped. And all these scriptures that I had learned going to my private Christian school, growing up in church for a little bit, they all started to make sense.
And we can learn things in our head, but it was like the 18 inches between my head and my heart finally connected. And for the first time, the gospel made sense to me because it was all love.
why would an innocent man take a guilty man's punishment like myself why would someone innocent like jesus want to take the punishment that i deserve because of all my knucklehead decisions because of my rebellion because of my nature that is in total disobedience to god why would he want to do that all love
And so I sat there and I began to cry and I thought, maybe I just don't know God's love because I've never given myself a chance to love him back. Right? Like we wouldn't know our love for each other. Like you could say, man, Bryce, I love you. I love you. But I would know that you love me as a brother. If we spent time together, we got meals together.
We may play basketball together, you know, whatever. And so I was like, I need to spend time with Jesus. So I run into my car and I cry out to Jesus. I don't say law. I don't say Gandhi. I don't just cry out universe, mother nature. I say, Jesus, if you're real, take away my anxiety and depression. And since that day, I haven't had anxiety or depression.
Yeah, I cried out to Jesus and haven't had anxiety or depression since that day. And so that was like a moment where I was like, okay, Jesus is really real. And people believe in Jesus for two reasons. So logical evidence, just facts, history, but also experiential evidence, like their relationship with him.
And that's why, you know, before, you know, I hated Christianity because of the people that said I'm Christian, but their actions didn't reflect that. They were big talkers, but their actions didn't say that. So, and that's what a lot of people do. A lot of people say, oh man, I hate God, but they don't really hate God. They just hate a misrepresentation of God.
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Chapter 5: Why is there a stigma against Christianity in some communities?
And so my challenge to those people that I wish I took upon myself was, okay, if you hear all these things about Jesus, why don't you just go to Jesus yourself and ask him who he is? Because that's what I did that night in my car. Okay, Jesus, if you're really real, take this away. And then I went to him for the source. Because we live in a crazy world. People can gossip about me and you.
People can say nasty things. And even your closest friends, they could fill in the picture about Sean Kelly. But I won't really know Sean Kelly the best or to the fullest picture unless I meet Sean Kelly myself. And I talk to Sean Kelly. So it's okay, let's meet with Jesus ourself and ask him. So that's what I did that night.
And ever since that day, I've been telling people about Jesus because he transformed my life. And I believed if he could take away the very thing that I thought was incurable in my life, he could do it in anyone else's life. Because I'm the dirtiest human being on the planet. I was, I am, and I needed someone outside of myself to save me.
And so if Jesus could save me, I really believe he could save anyone.
That's beautiful, man. And now you're on this big mission, getting millions of views on social media, talking with all sorts of life. That's what I like about your content. You'll talk to a witch, you'll talk to a gay person, you know, who go to pride parades. You went to furry con. You seem to be really trying to push this message on people.
Yeah, well, like a lot of those people, like, you know, in the gay community, for example, they have a bitter taste about Jesus.
and uh and all these communities do and aside from their perspective of jesus my perspective is if these guys are so extreme about something other than jesus how much more confident and how much more extreme and excited could they be about jesus if they actually knew yeah and so where some people would write them off in society i say No, no, they're actually eager and hungry.
Jesus says that the harvest is ripe. So he says, actually, many people are ready to give their life to Jesus. It doesn't matter what they're doing with their actions, what they're saying. Oh, if they say, oh, I hate Jesus, I hate Jesus. They could just be saying that. They could be putting up a facade. Jesus says that many people are ready. The harvest is ripe.
But then he says, the laborers are few. The issue is that there's not enough people telling people about him. And so I look at those people and I say, man, God loves you. He sees you. He's for you. Now, everyone lives in sin. All sin is equal in the sense that it separates us from God. Now, from a moral standpoint, lying is definitely not as bad as stabbing someone.
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Chapter 6: Why is sex before marriage discouraged in Christianity?
And so when they have sex with them, and it's not a beautiful gift inside of marriage, but it's just a transactional thing. You made me feel good according to my body, and I got what I wanted from you. So now I'm going to move on to the next person. That hurts your feelings. It breaks your heart. And it's not just like this spiritual thing of like, God's a cosmic buzzkill.
We got to look at the practicals here. You can get STDs. You can get really sick. Some STDs are harmful. They can kill you. Um, and then even let's, let's say not just a man and woman, let's look at, let's look at a homosexual intercourse. Um, you can get STDs that kill you. It's not good for your body. And on top of all this, like I just said earlier, break your heart.
You bind yourself to someone. They got what they wanted from you. Okay. Then you just ditch and leave. oh man, that's got to hurt. That really has to hurt. Now, praise be to God, I've never had sex outside of marriage. When I was young, I was too afraid to have a child before I was married. So outside of Christianity, that's why I never had sex.
But when I became a Christian, I looked at it and I go, okay, wow, praise Jesus, I never did this. This is a beautiful gift from God. And You know what to those people that feel like that they're too far gone and that you know Oh i've had sex outside of marriage. So god doesn't love me.
That's not true I mean the beautiful thing about jesus christ is when we ask for forgiveness and we receive the gift of forgiveness He wipes our slate clean as if we've never done it Wow, so if you're someone that has had sex outside of marriage and you're looking to jesus and you ask for forgiveness He will forgive you And the act is okay I made a consequence.
I did something I didn't know was wrong. I came to Jesus. Okay. Sex is a beautiful thing in marriage. It's not something I do outside of marriage. So now God forgive me. I'm going to wait until my husband's here. That's a beautiful thing. That is redemption. And I think that's a beautiful thing because there's no sin too far gone from Jesus. No one's too far gone.
And people think that they got to clean themselves up before they get to Jesus. No, Jesus died for the dirtiest, most broken version of yourself. So Jesus is the one that cleans us up. And I think that's beautiful.
Do you feel like that system of just asking for forgiveness can be abused though? Because there's people that can just keep asking, right? Or like there's no limit to it.
Yeah, so it's called hyper grace. And I would argue that hyper grace, I mean, I don't argue, it's just truth. Hyper grace isn't receiving a real forgiveness. So hyper grace is essentially saying I can go sin as much as I want because God's going to forgive me. That's not grace. That's not asking for forgiveness. That's abusing his grace. And essentially there's just no forgiveness for that.
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Chapter 7: Can the concept of forgiveness be misused?
Or, well, it's because I did a bunch of good things. Screw you. I don't give a rip if you've done a bunch of good things. These are courtside tickets. Why do you get in? You say, because Bryce gave me these tickets. That's why. It's a free gift. He goes, absolutely. And then you let him because you got given tickets. And with Islam, it's about how good you do.
Buddhism, Hinduism, how much good you can do. And when I looked at my life, how broken I was, how lost I was, how hopeless I was, I said, if I'm a broken human being living in a broken world, how could I ever work to perfection? It's possible. What is enough? And then I look at Jesus, who is perfection, where every religion, it's climbing up the mountain, how well I can get to God.
How can I get to God by what I do? So climb the mountain, climb the mountain. Jesus is the only God that comes down from the mountain and meets humankind where they're at. It's powerful. So it's not about what I can do to get to him. Perfection humbled itself, came down, lived a perfect life.
So because perfection took on flesh and lived a perfect life, that means that he doesn't just tell me how to live my life. He showed me how to live it. I have deep respect for that. When someone tells me what to do in my life, but they don't do it, it's hard for me to do it. But when someone shows me how to do it, it makes me more prone to do it. He showed me how to live my life.
Jesus says, I didn't come to be served, but to serve. He's the example. Then he lived in the same wicked world we live in, except didn't fall to temptation. So he lived perfectly. So when I go through struggles, if anyone knows me better than myself, it's Jesus. If I feel alone in my struggles, Jesus understands how I feel. So that's a beautiful thing. We're reconciled to him.
He empathizes with us. It's beautiful. Then he dies the death that I deserve. An innocent man taking a guilty man's punishment. And that's what Tariq in that video, he had an issue with me. He goes, you know what? It just doesn't make sense to me why an innocent man would take a guilty man's punishment. And you know what? It doesn't make sense to me either.
But that's why I love Jesus, because it was all out of love. The Bible tells us that we look to Jesus Christ as the author and perfecter of our faith in Hebrews 12. And it says, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross. What was the joy? What was the reason that kept Jesus on the cross? Because if he was God, he could have gotten down. But why did he stay? What was the joy?
You and I were the joy. And that's a beautiful thing to understand that we were the reason that he stayed on the cross. Meaning that if I was the only human being on the planet to be sinful and a knucklehead, Jesus would have came and died for me. It's a beautiful thing. Now, every human being dies. We all die. So what separates Jesus from us? He resurrected from the dead.
Paul's account in the scriptures tell us that he appeared to over 400 people, 400, 500 people, and in the flesh. And for 40 days, he roamed the earth teaching, and then he ascended into heaven in the flesh. So he defeated the very thing. That is my punishment that separates me from God. Sin separates me, death is my eternal punishment. He defeated the very thing that is going to bound me forever.
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Chapter 8: How does Bryce Crawford manage his spiritual life?
Yeah. I think chasing perfection is dangerous.
It is very dangerous. Have you ever tried to chase perfection?
I have too. It never ends.
It's awful. Even if you don't chase perfection, chase something like money. Money's a dangerous one too. Money's dangerous. And Jesus talks a lot about money. And it's just interesting, man. Like you can make anything your God, but perfection is a dangerous one because if you chase perfection, you'll never achieve it.
Perfection and money, it's never, and no amount will ever satisfy you.
No, man, never. Crazy stuff.
Yeah. I know you said earlier, you're not on social media often, but did you watch the Westhoff-Billy Carson debate at all? I loved it.
I watched it the whole time I drove over here.
Oh, nice. It was amazing. Did you see it? I did. What'd you think? Well, I think they took it down now, but yeah, I watched it. They took it down? I think so because Billy sent him a seasoned assist.
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