Hi, this is Justin. Today on Theocast, John and I are going to attempt to bring some clarity to a conversation that's quite heated regarding the war going on in Israel.

There's a lot of theological arguments being made. There are a lot of questions being asked.

And so for our part, we want to try to bring some hope and we pray some light from God's word and ultimately

talk about the plan of God through Christ and all of these things. Stay tuned. We hope you're

encouraged. If you're new to 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.org.

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

Your hosts today are John Moffitt, who is pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee. And I am Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

We're recording in an afternoon window.

So may the Lord give us grace, stamina, and we've got good coffee to help us out.

With those afternoon doldrums that most everybody experiences, don't lie if you, if, yeah,

anyway, I think you do. And maybe that,

yeah, we can talk about circadian rhythms and all kinds of fun things, but I don't think it's,

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