Teaching | Joy: Part 01 | Unhurrying With a Rule of Life E06
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
How do we experience more joy in our everyday lives? John Mark talks about how the common human desire to be happy isn’t the problem, but that we’re searching for joy in the wrong places. He encourages us to examine what beliefs might be blocking us from experiencing the joy that Jesus offered to all who follow Him.
Key Scripture Passages: Luke 1v39-45; Luke 2v8-11; Luke 4v14-21; Luke 10v17-21;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:06.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the |
| 0:10.8 | unhurrying with the Rule of Life series. |
| 0:13.2 | Close your eyes for just a moment and I want you just to take a deep breath and draw to your mind an image of Jesus. |
| 0:32.0 | This is not a test so just relax on the details, but by way of |
| 0:37.0 | reminder Jesus was a first century Jew from the Galilee in the north. he likely had brown skin, dark hair, a scrubby beard, and simple dress. |
| 0:49.9 | Just take a moment and imagine Jesus in your mind's eye. |
| 0:55.8 | Now, open your eyes. |
| 0:57.6 | Question, how many of you in your mental picture of Jesus |
| 1:02.0 | was he smiling. |
| 1:05.4 | Okay, so about 20 of you, well done. |
| 1:08.2 | You win the theology extra credit award tonight. |
| 1:11.6 | Well done, you must have a good teacher somewhere at the church |
| 1:14.2 | you're part of. But, you know, like how I just take credit for that was a joke. I'm not serious. |
| 1:19.6 | So forth, should I just walk off stage? Bethany, are you out for tonight? |
| 1:24.0 | You're on your game tonight. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm not. |
| 1:28.0 | But for most of you, the other however many hundred of you in the room, |
| 1:31.0 | most of us, when we imagine Jesus in our |
| 1:34.7 | minds I, we don't picture him with a wide, deep, genuine grin on his face. |
| 1:40.3 | And if you're one of the several hundred, not one of the ten or twenty, don't feel bad, you're not alone. |
| 1:46.0 | Think of most paintings of Jesus down through church history. |
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