Give Me All the Gurus: Where To Find True Answers to Our Motherhood Questions | Ep. 136
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have our favorite "experts" or "gurus"—the voices we turn to for tips, tricks, and how-tos. We love the ability to learn something quickly by scrolling through our social media feeds. But should Christians solely depend on the "experts" of our culture to learn how to live a faithful life? In this episode, Emily and Laura examine why we like our gurus so much. While they are often be helpful, we're called to unconditionally follow only one expert: Jesus. In Christ, God gives us the Holy Spirit to teach and train us in wisdom according to God's word. We can still enjoy the gurus, but we know the source of all wisdom is God alone.
We're grateful to Crossway for making this week's show possible. Consider grabbing a copy of Jen Wilkin's Women of the Word to learn how to study God's word with your heart and mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Crossway, a not-for-profit ministry that publishes |
| 0:04.1 | gospel-centered resources to serve the Church. Crossway recently published a second edition |
| 0:08.8 | of Jen Wilkins' book, Women of the Word. Women of the Word is a book that offers a clear plan |
| 0:13.6 | for studying, scripture, and a way that trains your mind and transforms your heart. The second |
| 0:17.9 | edition of this best-selling book includes new study questions with each chapter. Learn more |
| 0:22.8 | about this book at crossway.org-for-d-slash-r-m. We're so thankful for Crossway's support. |
| 0:34.1 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, and the next we feel like |
| 0:39.3 | the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel to be repeated |
| 0:45.1 | over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether you're sipping cold coffee |
| 0:51.5 | or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true encouragement and laughter here. |
| 0:57.6 | This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I have my sister-in-law, Emily here. |
| 1:10.7 | Hey, and we just want to start off by saying thank you so much for your guys' support of the |
| 1:16.1 | Risen Motherhood book. As you know, it released last week just about a week now. It's been out. |
| 1:21.8 | On Laura's birthday. On my birthday, it released. Yes, it was quite the dual celebration. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, we are just really, really grateful, as Laura said. It was so amazing to see all of your |
| 1:32.1 | pictures on social media as the actual hard copy arrived to your door. And it's just been fun to |
| 1:39.0 | read the reviews and to hear the feedback about how God is just using this book and his gospel |
| 1:46.4 | to encourage you and to just help you look to Christ wherever you're at. And so we are again so, |
| 1:53.1 | so thankful. If you haven't left a review or a rating on Amazon, that would really help. If you |
| 1:59.2 | guys love this book and you want to get this in the hands of other moms and have them read the same |
| 2:06.1 | hope filled words, definitely leave a review that's super helpful. Yeah, and speaking of the book, |
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