Nancy Damaswagamu says, when you're facing a new challenge, you grow more alert.

The opposite is true as well.

And when there is no persecution, when there's no opposition, when there's no adversity,

it's even true in our lives, it's easy to get lulled to sleep.

To become comfortable, content, complacent.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy Damaswagamu, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For September 14th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you need a wake-up call?

Do you ever find yourself sort of posting through life just existing rather than really

living?

Nancy's beginning a series today that's part of the larger series we've been working

through this year about the letters of the churches in the book of Revelation.

In this particular letter, the people were physically alive, yet spiritually dead.

And I wonder how many of us can relate.

Here's Nancy.

We live in a culture that is obsessed with appearance, how we look to others, matter supremely to

a lot of people.

I came across an article recently about how a lot of people today are making advance

arrangements to have extensive plastic surgery after they die.

And this has become big business for what this article called Plastic Surgeons of the

Dead.

People are so concerned about their final appearance that they want to look their best for their

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