On the road to godliness, there are no shortcuts. Here's Nancy De Moss

Walthamuth. You know, we want to go to a retreat or a conference or you know, read a

book or go to a counselor, hear a message, or have some sort of mystical experience, get zacked.

We don't want to do the hard work to get the end result.

And that's why so many of us stay spiritually plaiting.

This is the Rever Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth,

co-author of Lies Young Women Believe

and The Truth that Sets Them Free January 29, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. Physical exercise does use some good, but there's something far more worthwhile.

Nancy shows you what it is as she continues in the series adding to your faith.

Some of you have heard me say before that since I was a little girl,

my goal in life has always been to be a godly old lady.

I have found that the old part comes easier than the godly part. But we

come today in our study of 2nd Peter to a discussion of that trait, that grace of godliness, what does it look like,

what does it mean and how do we get there and I'm not going to do justice to the

subject of godliness in 10 minutes or so but But let's look at 2 Peter, Chapter 1. We're in that paragraph

versus 5 through 7 where we're reading about 7 graces or qualities that we are to add to our faith.

The foundation is faith, and Peter says,

make every effort to supplement your faith

with virtue and virtue with knowledge

and knowledge with self-control and self-control with

steadfastness or perseverance and steadfastness with Godliness. So we come to

the fifth of these seven qualities and it's this word Godliness.

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