Living with Contagious Joy (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Life is hard, but God is good. And author Brant Hansen reminds you that you can make a conscious effort to choose joy in your life. You can have joy because your hope is in Christ, and He holds the future. You’ll learn to laugh at yourself, serve others better, and practice gratitude, as you trust the One who gives eternal life. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In that you're anxious about something, go back to some moment you had in life, |
| 0:06.0 | that you're really thankful happened. |
| 0:08.0 | They just camp out there. |
| 0:10.0 | It could be sometime you were just laughing really hard with friends or when you had your baby or |
| 0:15.3 | the first time you met that friend. I just camp out there. You can feel your blood pressure |
| 0:20.2 | dropping. I'm telling you this is not pie in the sky stuff. That's |
| 0:23.7 | Brand Hansen and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim |
| 0:27.1 | Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John it's very easy even as |
| 0:31.7 | Christians to develop a negative attitude about the world around us. |
| 0:35.5 | I mean just flick on cable news and you're going to get you know all good and discouraged. |
| 0:40.3 | People are concerned about so many things the evils of government |
| 0:45.1 | and justice poverty wars and fantasite and it just keeps coming at us |
| 0:49.6 | pretty much 24-7. Brent Hanson has a great way of breaking through that clutter and pointing us back to the truth that the gospel and the joy we get from the gospel is what we should have in Jesus. |
| 1:02.0 | And people should be able to look at us and see a difference right? |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah and I am thrilled to talk with Brant today about how we get there because we should be different |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, Brant is a best-selling author. He's a radio home because we should be different. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, Brant is a best-selling author. |
| 1:14.4 | He's a radio host. |
| 1:15.7 | One of the books he's written is called, |
| 1:17.1 | Life is Hard. |
| 1:18.3 | God is Good, Let's Dance. |
| 1:21.4 | Experiencing real joy in a world gone mad. Get a copy of it from us here at |
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