#342: The Good Gift of Courage (And Why You Need It)
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We talk often on Java with Juli about our culture’s confusing messages around sexuality. But today’s guest, Russell Moore, contends that we’re not so much confused about what is true or right as we are fearful; fearful of standing alone, fearful of swimming against the tide of culture. In this episode, hear how the gift of courage is not about bravado, performance, or getting on one's soapbox. Instead, courage is born in the unseen moments when we are utterly dependent on God—moments where He shapes us for His glory and also for the benefit of generations to come.
Guest: Russell Moore
Show Notes:
- The Courage to Stand* (book)
- Onward* (book)
- www.russellmoore.com
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have to look far to see pain and brokenness all around us. |
| 0:07.0 | I feel like the bravest things I see are some of the things that would never be on the news, right? |
| 0:15.0 | Like a woman who gets out of bed who's clinically depressed or somebody who's had such severe trauma that they choose to go and get help. |
| 0:25.8 | That's brave. |
| 0:28.4 | At some point, I may have to come to grips with, I'm married to a spouse who has no interest |
| 0:34.2 | in doing the hard work of marriage. |
| 0:36.7 | And so many people just say, gosh, if that's the case, then I'm doomed. |
| 0:41.2 | You know, my life is over. |
| 0:42.2 | And we want to say, no, no, no, you can thrive, really passionately thrive despite a difficult |
| 0:47.3 | marriage. |
| 0:48.3 | Life without God still has the same amount of suffering, but it has no meaning. And what we really need more |
| 0:56.3 | than an absence of our pain is we need the assurance of a presence in it. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Julie Slattery, host of the Java with Julie podcast. Our healer Jesus is the one who's |
| 1:08.1 | always with us in our pain and brokenness, and that includes our sexual |
| 1:11.9 | brokenness. |
| 1:13.2 | That's something that every one of us needs to be reminded of. |
| 1:16.9 | Will you help us to continue to proclaim this message on Java with Julie? |
| 1:21.1 | One listener commented, Java with Julie is a unique and valuable voice in today's crazy |
| 1:26.7 | sex-s sex saturated culture. |
| 1:28.3 | Another said, I've found freedom and wholeness in my sexuality that I haven't known before. |
| 1:33.3 | I truly cannot recommend this podcast enough. |
| 1:37.3 | Can you say that same thing? |
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