Gary Thomas on The Glorious Pursuit

Susie Larson Live

Faith Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Gary Thomas talks about the inspiration and intention of revising The Glorious Pursuit, originally published 20 years ago. He talks about the virtues we need to pursue so that we not only have the message of Jesus, we also have the manner of Jesus.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.
0:03.9	You don't have to mind. to ever since him of sense we've got you love welcome to
0:24.0	cissy larsen live always honored to get to spend this time with you in fact i look forward to bringing
0:29.1	you conversations every single day and hopefully inspire you in your faith walk the deep in your
0:34.5	understanding of god's word and that heightens your awareness of his
0:37.5	very real presence in your life. First of all, I got to say, so glad to be back in the saddle
0:42.1	again. I don't know if you noticed, but we had a couple of, well, we actually, I pre-recorded a
0:46.8	number of shows, then we dropped in a few replays because I've been on vacation for the last
0:51.0	week or so, celebrating the anniversary with my hubby getting some much needed
0:54.8	rest but boy did i miss you so good to be back in the live saddle again i want to ask you
1:00.7	question as we get this conversation started what is god requiring of you right now what is he
1:06.2	asking of you right now is it surrender is sacrifice? Is it humility to die to yourself? What is he using
1:16.1	in your life and what virtue is he bringing forth? You know, it's so interesting because sometimes
1:20.8	we think it's all up to us and we start striving in our own strength and it's not sustainable.
1:25.7	We get discouraged. Other times because of discouragement or because we don't maybe want to look at our hearts,, and it's not sustainable. We get discouraged. Other times, because of
1:28.0	discouragement or because we don't maybe want to look at our hearts, we want God to do it all.
1:32.6	But there's a synergistic cooperation between the Holy Spirit and us. That's where the transformation
1:38.9	happens. And remember, my dear hubby, he's been honest about this before as well, but he used to be a
1:43.6	workaholic,
1:44.3	good, good, godly man. But because of all the medical debt that I racked up, he got three jobs.
1:50.8	And even when the crisis settled down, he didn't slow down. And he was trusting himself,
1:55.1	not God. And we were all paying a price because even though work ethic is a good thing,
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