What We Chat about in Today’s Episode:
~Alisa’s newest book, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect
~How these cultural lies are actually burdensome and debilitating
~God’s Word as providing a much better, much more freeing answer
~Addressing the lie that God just wants us to be happy
~Teaching a good theology of suffering
~The gifts to be found in suffering; how we have experienced this ourselves
~The truth of Romans 8:28
~Understanding self-care biblically, with a balanced perspective
~Gnosticism and a refusal to care for oneself
~How understanding who we are in Christ is the ultimate self-care
~Putting others’ needs in front of our own while also taking care of ourselves
~Living for a different kingdom as a child of God
~The faith-builder it is to honor right priorities and rely on the Lord to make it all come together
~The proactive action behind the Golden Rule compared to the neutral iterations of the Golden Rule that were handed down by other teachers
~Understanding what true biblical love is and the reality that we can and should love everyone
~Being careful to course-correct according to Scripture when we are course-correcting
~And more!
Resources Mentioned
Offer for a free audiobook and 30 day trial membership from Audible: www.audibletrial.com/HomeandHearth
My previous podcast episode with Alisa
Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity
Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible by
INSPIRING QUOTES TO REMEMBER:
“The message of repentance is a mercy. If we smooth that over by just telling people how great, how enough they are in and of themselves, we are robbing them of the freedom that is to be found in Christ and are putting the burden of self-sufficiency on their shoulders.”
“It’s not just that God’s Word is against these cultural lies. It is that God’s Word provides a much better answer, an answer that is more freeing than anything the world has to offer.”
“When we have a good theology of suffering, it doesn’t matter what we are going through, we can have that deep, abiding joy knowing that we are connected to our Creator and being made more into His image day by day.”
“We have so much beautiful truth in Scripture, and so often we fail to realize it.”
“The older I get, the more I find that Romans 8:28 is profoundly true. God does work everything together for good, and when you see Him do that in your life, you then have the faith to get through the next season of suffering.”
“Ultimately, God does want you to be happy – His eternal goal is for us to have no more sin, no more suffering, and no more tears in eternity. But sometimes I think we forget that right now we are in a preparation season for the enjoyment of that time. Our sufferings here are setting us up to enjoy God then because we have experienced suffering in this world.”
“It’s important that we have a balanced view of self-care. Christian theology teaches that we are body and soul. We are not called to selfishness, but caring well for our bodies is something we are called to.”
“There are iterations of the golden rule form people like Confucius and other teachers. But the difference with Jesus is that every other iteration has a negative connotation – don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you. So, you don’t have to actually do anything at all. But with Jesus, it’s different – you are to actually go out there and do something. You are to do to someone else what you would want them to do to you.”
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ALISA ONLINE:
Website – Alisa Childers
Instagram – @alisachilders
YouTube- Alisa Childers
Podcast- The Alisa Childers Show
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