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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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In today's episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron interviews Melissa Dougherty, author of "Happy Lies" and Christian apologist with over 285,000 YouTube subscribers. Melissa shares her remarkable journey from New Thought spirituality to biblical Christianity after being deceived by metaphysical teachings that masqueraded as Christian wisdom. Now through her ministry, books, and videos viewed over 18 million times, she helps believers identify and reject what she calls "a stealthy message of encouragement to live your truth, seek happiness, find your identity through sexual freedom, and think your desires into existence—often with the name of Jesus attached as an endorsement."
In this enlightening conversation, we explore:
Whether you're questioning beliefs you've unknowingly adopted, supporting someone caught in deceptive teachings, or simply wanting to strengthen your discernment against what Melissa calls "happy lies," this conversation offers biblical wisdom and practical steps for recognizing truth in our self-obsessed world.
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KEY WORDS: Marriage After God, Aaron Smith, Melissa Dougherty, New Thought, New Age, biblical discernment, spiritual deception, Happy Lies, law of attraction, manifestation, prosperity gospel, Christian apologetics, biblical truth, spiritual warfare, testing spirits, divine image, metaphysical Christianity, toxic positivity, progressive Christianity, self-empowerment, spiritual counterfeits
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0:31.6 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the marriage effort God podcast. Today I have the author |
0:35.2 | Melissa Doherty. She wrote the book Happy Lies. It's out now. |
0:40.7 | But she, I'll read the subtitle, How a Movement you probably never heard of, shaped our self-obsessed |
0:46.1 | world. She came out of the new age and something you may never heard of, or new thought movement. |
0:53.7 | And it's something that has permeated the church in a major way. |
0:56.6 | Some of us that are listening to this might have some of these new thought or new agey ideas ourselves. |
1:01.7 | And it's something that we need to surrender to the Lord and ask him to check our hearts and reveal to us. |
1:06.9 | But we had an awesome conversation talking about how these happy little lies that have permeated the church, what they look like, how to identify them, and also how to get back to the Word of God and to challenge them, challenge those lies against the truth. |
1:20.6 | And it's something that each one of us as believers should be doing. |
1:23.2 | As David said in the Psalms, he says, search my heart to Lord and see if there's any wicked way in us. |
1:27.3 | We are weak people sometimes and we could believe things that we shouldn't be believing. |
1:31.8 | We could be operating in a way we shouldn't be operating. |
1:34.4 | And so my conversation with Melissa is really awesome. |
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