Spiritual dullness affects all Christians at some point. Some symptoms are wanting to hear what we want to hear, coming to the word with our own presuppositions on how things should be and being wooed by the world. But we must pay careful attention lest we drift away. Today we're going to talk about backsliding, but also how we flourish and grow as

Christians every day.

Welcome to the Sheproos Faithful Podcast, episode number 126, truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hello, and thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today. My name is Lauren, and I love air

conditioning. I do. Today, I'm going to talk about dullness and not like, are you a boring person dullness?

There's no quiz to test if you are enthusiastic or exciting enough to just be around.

No. Although, Dr. Gordon Wilson from The Ride in the Dance has an awesome quote about being boring.

He says, to be bored in this world is to be boring. But that's not

where I'm going today. Although it could be an interesting topic, you know, like how and why to

not be boring. It would be really short because it would probably could be a boring topic.

Maybe it'd go something like this. How to not be boring. Marvelled at God and

what he's made and done and share it. Boom. Done. Well, the dullness I'm going to talk about today

is actually related to spiritual dullness and that this can come upon Christians really

throughout the Christian life. But it's a dullness and that this can come upon Christians really throughout the Christian life.

But it's a dullness that affects our spiritual maturity, stunts our growth, but it's remedied

by something sharp. And we're going to talk about that today. But first, I have a non-dull life

hack for you. Now, I don't know how many of you out there watch YouTube. I enjoy YouTube. I like

listening to sermons on YouTube. I enjoy good commentary on YouTube. And sometimes I find a mom who has

basically homemaking figured out. And I enjoy watching those too. And I found a new

mom. Her name is Dawn with a minimal mom. Maybe you've heard of her. I watched a few of her videos,

but I wanted to share her life hack on meal planning and a shopping list sheet. Basically, you should

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