Hi, this is John. Today on Theocast, we're going to talk about the struggle that everyone has.

I know I'm a Christian, Christ by the power of the spirit lives within me, and yet I keep sinning.

The struggle between the flesh and the spirit. You may have heard it this way,

saint and sinner at the same time.

We want to speak into this because it's the reality of everyone,

and yet at times we feel like the sinner wins,

and the saint is helpless and hopeless.

We want to speak into that.

Stay tuned.

If you're neat a Theocast,

you may not have heard of this word. It's called pietism. You ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy? That you

wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done

for you. It's dread versus joy, really. That's pietism. Piatism causes Christians to look in on

themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing. And we have a little

book for you. It's free. We want you to download it. And we're going to explain the difference between

pietism and what we call confessionalism. Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ,

and when Jesus says, come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it on our website.

Just go to theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ conversations about the Christian life from a reformed, confessional, and pastoral perspective.

Those perspectives.

That's right.

We each week try to clarify the gospel and reclaim

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