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The Family Discipleship Podcast

Joy

The Family Discipleship Podcast

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0597 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Adam Griffin, Chelsea Griffin, and Cassie Bryant have a conversation about how we can have gladness of heart despite our circumstances.Questions Covered in This Episode:
  • What is the difference between happiness and joy?
  • Do you struggle with joy?
  • What is the opposite of joy?
  • When people think joy and happiness are the same thing, what happens?
  • What comes to mind from the Bible on joy?
  • What is your advice for a parent who is struggling with joy?
Helpful Definitions:
  • Joy: Gladness of heart despite your circumstances. Rooted in the promises of God fulfilled in Christ.
  • Attributes of God:
    • Wise: He knows whats best.
    • Generous: He does whats best.
    • Loving: He gives whats best.
    • Good: He is whats best.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.

0:12.4

No matter the circumstance, the circumstance is good.

0:15.8

Right.

0:16.2

No, the joy is rooted in, no matter the circumstance, God is good.

0:20.4

He's sovereign. He's is good. He's sovereign.

0:21.7

He's always good.

0:23.7

It's using another person's circumstance to make you feel better and try and find your joy

0:28.3

through that, which is so fleeting because their circumstances can change or yours can change.

0:32.3

Yeah.

0:32.6

It's not lasting.

0:34.7

I think of Psalm 51, where the psalmist says, restored to me the joy of my salvation.

0:39.6

If there is anything circumstantial or what ultimately gives us gladness of heart

0:44.7

is ultimately the fact that it is a miracle that God took any hellbound sinner

0:50.1

and pluck them off the wide pack that leads to destruction

0:53.5

and put them on the narrow one that leads to life.

1:01.6

Welcome listeners to another episode of the Family Discipleship podcast. I'm here, this is Adam Griffin,

1:06.8

first of all, and I'm here with my two usuals, my two usual co-hosts. Usual suspects.

1:13.1

Oh, sorry. Here with the usual suspect, Stephen Baldwin and... Wow, I'm so proud of you right now.

1:18.7

You're a film guy. Not huge film guy, but I did meet Stephen Baldwin once. Do you remember this?

1:23.6

When he came to the offices with Steve Hart? You I think we're together and we were having a meeting.

1:28.0

That was a Baldwin, brother. And he starts showing me pictures of how beautiful his daughters are and asked me to pray for his beautiful daughters. Now hard it is to have beautiful daughters. And then, you know, very soon after one of them marries Justin Bieber. It was a very surreal. Oh, I didn't know that was his daughter. Oh, yeah. You don't remember that?

1:43.8

I did not know that.

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