Emily Robison Adams on Mark 9 and the journey of helping our unbelief (week of April 10, 2nd to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kerry and Emily explore the story where a father tells Jesus he believes, but also asks for help with his unbelief. The discuss what it means to believe and how we all need to increase our faith, and the many ways it can look like when we are on a journey of increasing belief. They also talk about how when we are on that journey we often have to rethink how we conceive of our relationship with God. This is a discussion that is important for everyone, for if you are not on this journey right now, you will know someone who is. This discussion can be such a blessing for so many people.
Emily's book that is discussed is called Divine Quietness
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and also for Alexia Muhlestein, who edited the episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become real to us because we believe that helps us apply them in our lives better, |
| 0:20.9 | and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Carrie Meilstein, and I'm so thrilled to have with me a guest today that I really |
| 0:26.9 | don't know very well, but I've quickly become an admirer of Emily Robeson Adams. |
| 0:32.3 | Did I say it right? |
| 0:33.6 | You did. |
| 0:34.6 | Wonderful. |
| 0:35.5 | So I should have asked that beforehand, but Emily Robeson Adams, who I recently listened to her |
| 0:41.3 | book, Divine Quietness on Desireaubuque Plus, and just I usually have some books that I'm listening |
| 0:51.6 | to that are fiction and then others that are nonfiction but uplift me. And I usually listen to those that kind of a slower pace. And this one, I just couldn't stop. And I'm listening to that are fiction and then others that are nonfiction but |
| 0:54.4 | uplift me and I usually listen to those that kind of a slower pace and this one I just couldn't |
| 0:57.6 | stop and I got it done in probably about three days because it was gripping to me and I could see |
| 1:04.6 | how powerful it was for so many people and how applicable it was for people and I've had students |
| 1:09.2 | that are already telling me that it's helped them. |
| 1:11.0 | And so we're just thrilled to have you on with us. |
| 1:14.1 | All I know about Emily is that she lives in Bountiful and she is an author and the story that she shares in the book. But welcome, Emily. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, Carrie. I'm happy to be here. Okay. before we get going, let's just kind of give a brief preview of what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:28.2 | We're going to talk about today. |
| 1:28.4 | We're going to talk about Emily's book, but about faith and belief and ask some of the hard |
| 1:34.4 | questions about God and what we believe about God, how we believe in God, what do we do when our beliefs are challenged and and kind of why might God take longer to |
| 1:48.0 | help some people than others why we don't hear God sometimes and and hit on some very real |
| 1:53.8 | elements of this question and what I think is a really powerful way the way that Emily talks about |
| 1:59.5 | this yeah please tell us a little bit more about yourself. |
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