because it was a sense of like, I'm not doing enough or I'm not loving God enough.

I'm not infinitely satisfied in him.

And so there was kind of this low-grade guilt.

And that would be particularly pronounced whenever some earthly good would be really good.

When those passages go on to describe what is meant by the world or the things on the earth,

it's always universally sinful stuff. Put to death what is earthly in you, covetousness, sexual immorality, enmity,

strife. It's, it's sin. The sin's not in the stuff. The stuff's not the problem. The sin's in your

heart, which sometimes there are cases where you need to get rid of the stuff in order to kill the sin, like that happens. But more often what God does is he puts to death a sin,

and then we actually are able to use and enjoy the stuff rightly. Howdy folks, welcome back to

the podcast. Before we jump into today's interview with Dr. Joe Rigney, we wanted to tell you about

a couple things.

Actually, first and foremost, because we don't cover each book specifically that we've read

of Dr. Joe Rigney's, but we do highly recommend all the books of his that we have read,

the things of earth, treasuring God by enjoying his gifts, gifts, yeah, the sin of empathy,

which we talk about in today's episode, and then

strangely bright. These are three of, I think he's written seven or eight or nine books. These are

three of those. And Katie and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I tell you what, I feel like the things

of earth, and then with what you shared about strangely bright, I feel like they were written

directly to me. Like the conflicts that he addresses that go on in the christian's brain

are so mean it's how i grew up and so anyways highly recommend his books we'll link below where

you can find those uh but i'll kitty do you have anything to say about strangely bright

oh i mean i'll say it in the episode.

...