Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer. This woman represents somebody who feels shame because of something

that has happened to her, a disease she did not choose, a suffering, but in the bigger picture,

she also represents the shame that we all feel because of our sin. The point is, whether our shame is

legitimate, shame that we have brought on ourselves, or whether it is illegitimate, shame

brought on by things done to us, Jesus is the solution.

Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and apologist J.D. Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. You're joining us today in the final couple days of our teaching series on difficult emotions titled Smoke from a Fire.

Or, to change the analogy, each one of these emotions we've been through, depression, anxiety, envy,

anger, and now shame, function like warning lights on the dashboard of our hearts,

indicating what is going on in the engine of our souls. Are you seeing a little smoke

under the hood of your life? Time to get a tune up. So grab your Bible and let's join Pastor Jady for our final

emotion, Shane. We're turning back to the book of Luke. Here's Pastor Jadie.

Luke chapter 8, if you got your Bible this weekend, and I hope that you brought it. We are on our

last, last weekend in our series called Smoke from a Fire.

And this weekend, I want to talk about a pretty heavy one, and that is the emotion of shame.

Now, all of us at some point know what it is to experience shame.

It can range from the simple embarrassment to something much more serious.

I read a book a while back where a guy told a story from his

childhood that I really identified with. Maybe some of you who are about my age can identify with

as well. He said, because of my family's financial status, growing up, I never had the coolest

name brand clothes. One year, my parents bought me two pair of Sears, tough skin jeans for school,

a brown pair and a blue pair. He said, all the cool kids had Levi's with the silver or red tabs.

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