Hope and Hopelessness (Part 2)

Restore The Glory Podcast

Jake Khym

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jake and Bob continue their series on working through hopelessness to find hope. When we feel hopeless, we often avoid God because we feel ashamed, guilty or unloved. In these times we only see God as a judge, pointing out our failings. But God is also our Savior who loves us even in the places we feel unloveable. We can try to find hope through things or people but this will let us down. God is the only one who can provide us with the hope we desire. Our hosts walk us through how to find hope again through an Encounter with the God who loves us.

Key Points

Hopelessness closes our hearts to the Encounter with God.
When the sickness of our lives becomes evident to us, we often only see God as Judge and not as Savior.
Jesus loves us in the places we feel unloveable.
Healing is a real encounter that brings us into wholeness, truth and communion.
If you lose sight of the Savior, Christianity is meaningless.
When we put hope in things or people that aren’t God, they become idols, and idols will always disappoint us.

Resources

Spe Salve by Pope Benedict XVI (Encyclical)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Restore the Glory Podcast.
0:07.0	My name is Jake Kim.
0:11.0	And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two Catholic therapists sharing what we've learned personally and professionally to help you on the journey of restoration.
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0:35.0	Go to Patreon.com slash restore the glory and join the mission of experiencing the restoration of our God-given glory.
0:44.3	Hey Bob, good to be back with you once again. We are in part two of this series
0:51.0	we're doing on hope and hopelessness.
0:53.7	So as always, listeners, if you're wanting context for what we're talking about,
0:57.0	we encourage you to go back and listen to part one.
0:59.9	Last episode, we kind of set the stage of how we got here and it's not just randomly like
1:04.6	there's been a flow about arriving now at Hopeless Hope and hopelessness about judgment
1:10.0	mercy etc all the forgiveness etc And so today we really want to link and draw out two primary
1:18.0	things with regard to hope and hopelessness. One is how important this is connected to Advent, that the season of Advent is the season of Hope,
1:30.0	and we're going to break that down and in the midst of that, how that's healing and as well how that's very practical.
1:39.8	So it feels like as I say it out that feels like like a bold like we're asking a lot of ourselves. I don't know are you ready I'm ready. I think I'm ready. I hope so. Yeah. That's your second dad joke Bob. You're killing it. I actually shared the other dad joke that you said I can't
1:55.6	remember what it was but I said to like three people Bobb of the best dad joke so it's
2:00.9	like two or three episodes ago but but anyway, sorry, that just made me have a little flashback again.
2:06.0	Oh, squirrel, look at the squirrel. Okay, so I want to read Bob a quote or a little section out of Pope Benedict's document space salve and that's a document on hope and it's from paragraph 47 it's a section we all love I'm thinking sister you and me whenever we're speaking
2:24.1	separately or together we this regularly seems to come up but man does it ever
2:27.9	apply right now I think sets us up well so listeners this is from Space Salve, paragraph 47. It says or Pope Benedict says, some recent
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