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Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Circumstances Fail, But God Doesn’t: How To Be Truly Content In Him

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9710 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Transformed Podcast Episode 146 | October 23, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford explores how contentment is learned, not found. Through biblical wisdom and relatable insight, he reveals how trusting and obeying God changes both your actions and your heart. Discover how to experience genuine peace and delight in God’s plan for your life. ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0

What is?

0:01.0

What is?

0:02.0

What is?

0:03.0

What is Biblical counseling?

0:04.0

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

0:07.0

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

0:10.0

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

0:14.0

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

0:19.0

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word.

0:23.1

This is Transform.

0:25.1

And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's University

0:30.1

and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford.

0:36.3

Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford and I am your host and today we're

0:40.6

talking about contentment. Wow. And the means to contentment and what does it actually mean

0:46.8

in and of itself? How do you pursue it? You know, I read. You know I read. Many of you

0:53.1

are like, I'm not so sure you do, man. I do read.

0:56.0

Even last night, I was reading an article by Freya India, and it was about us becoming the frittering that we watch.

1:06.5

And her basic argument is that the trivialities of social media, the trivialities of the influencer

1:15.5

realm where people are just kind of recording their life and potentially using their

1:19.3

family as a means of creating content, that that is a new phenomenon.

1:26.3

But the challenge is that as long as you go back

1:30.0

i remember in the 90s where reality tv was a thing and watching that in 2000s it was the hit

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