Do you ever feel like you're required to try harder to be good?

A friend of Nancy Damas Walgamoo feels that way.

I received an email from a woman recently who expressed a struggle that I think you'll agree is common to our fallen human condition.

Here's what she said. I've gone through many battles trying to be good enough,

trying to earn God's grace and walking on eggshells, thinking God was going to

throw me overboard if I did something wrong. How many of you would be honest enough to say you have experienced something of that same battle in your own life?

Let me see some hands.

Okay, quite a few in this room.

Learn to find relief from that battle here on the Reviver Hearts

podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of Incomporable. From March 18th

2024 I'm Dana Gresch.

With Easter, less than two weeks away,

we're in the middle of a series called Incomporable.

Here's Nancy.

You know, most world religions attempt to deal with issues of sin, guilt, alienation from God

by telling us what we must do for God in order to earn his favor. Christianity on the

other hand and uniquely Christianity deals with those issues by telling us

what God has done for us to provide forgiveness

for our sins and to make it possible for sinful humans to be reconciled to himself. God's answer, and the only answer for our failure and sin and guilt, is not in trying harder,

but it's found in the atoning work of Christ on the cross.

And this session on the atoning work of Christ is where everything else that we've seen

thus far about the Lord Jesus over the past

...