For those of us who are feeling anxious and depressed, dark, and discouraged, this is a conversation for you.

How do we take what we feel and put it in light of the gospel, an objective reality outside of

ourselves, and how our feelings tend to adjust and change towards the truth of the gospel?

Please stay tuned.

If you're new to theocast, you may not have heard of this word.

It's called pietism. You ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy?

That you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ

has done for you. It's dread versus joy, really. That's pietism. Piatism causes

Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ has done, but what they're

doing. And we have a little book for you. It's free. We want you to download it, and we're going to

explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism.

Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ,

and when Jesus says, come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it at our website.

Just go to theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.

Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed, pastoral, and confessional perspective.

Today, if you're new to Theocast, the simplest way for us to put this is we want to clarify the gospel, remove all of its clutter, and then talk about the joys of the

kingdom, the real purpose of the kingdom. And today is definitely going to be encouraging to the

weary saint and the weary soldier. And your host today are Justin Purdue

pastor of Governor Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And I'm John Moffitt. I'm the pastor

of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Morning, Justin. Good morning, John.

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