Are you in a dry season when it comes to your walk with Christ?

If you're not in one right now, you've almost certainly experienced one in the past, or will experience one in the future.

What does it look like to pursue faithfulness in such seasons?

When life feels hard, when your time is limited, and when your passion for Christ seems

to have faded.

In our interview today, I'm talking with Glennon Marshall about the surprising power of ordinary

perseverance in the Christian life.

She shares why just giving ourselves grace isn't the answer, how scripture memory is changing her life,

and why being transparent with other Christians when we're struggling, is so incredibly

freeing.

In addition to being a pastor's wife and a mother, Glena is also the author of Everyday

Faithfulness, The Beauty of Ordinary Perseverance in a Demanding demanding world from Crossway. Let's get started.

Well, Glenn, I thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us today on the Crossway podcast.

Well, thanks for having me. It's an honor. So today we're going to discuss the topic of faithfulness,

faithfulness in our lives as Christians,

and especially in difficult or maybe dry seasons of life that we've all faced at times.

But I think that word faithfulness can sometimes suggest different things to different people.

It's kind of a loaded word that we maybe hear a lot of,

but it maybe is

sometimes it kind of goes undefined. So if you were to define faithfulness as simply as possible,

how would you define it? Well, you could break it down pretty simply as just being full of faith.

But when we're talking about the Christian life, we can sort of use the word interchangeably with

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