What Is the Good Life?
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel behind in life? In a culture that endlessly calls us to hustle, climb, and improve, we’re bound to feel guilty for settling with “ordinary.” But is the good life built from all that striving? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Eric Landry, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller consider what kind of lives we should expect according to Scripture. How is our experience of the good life shaped by our own experiences as sinful humans who now live under God’s benediction in Christ? They examine goodness as something received from God, how the good life can be the given life, and how this all relates to loving God and our neighbors.
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| 0:00.0 | It's not wrong to look and enjoy the work that God has done in our life. |
| 0:07.0 | What we end up doing is we take these ordinary and good things and those are never enough. |
| 0:12.0 | There's always something else and that's the |
| 0:15.0 | distortion of ambition that is a weight on everyone's shoulders that's crushing |
| 0:19.5 | them and then we have to find other ways to bestow our identity to ourselves instead of receiving our identity from God. |
| 0:25.6 | We justify our existence and then we're all justifying our existence and then we're in this echo chamber. |
| 0:31.2 | We're just exploiting other people to justify our existence. We're playing the same |
| 0:35.0 | game. |
| 0:36.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe the masses would gather for discussion |
| 0:45.3 | and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. From one such meeting place a small |
| 0:51.2 | Cambridge inn called the White Horse, the Reformation came to the |
| 0:55.2 | English-speaking world. Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn. |
| 1:04.3 | Hello and welcome to White Horse Inn. |
| 1:06.8 | I was talking to a guy recently who said he felt guilty because he lacked ambition. |
| 1:11.8 | Other guys in his family were climbing the corporate ladder, but he looked forward to getting off work |
| 1:16.7 | and spending time at home. |
| 1:18.9 | Other people he and his wife knew always seemed aware of the latest gossip on Facebook, but he just wanted to catch up with a few |
| 1:25.3 | friends on his backyard deck with good food and drink. You know, in an almost confessional tone of voice, |
| 1:32.1 | he told me that he should probably try a little |
| 1:34.7 | harder to get involved, to be available, to be more, to do more. He was genuinely |
| 1:40.7 | surprised when I reminded him of the Apostle Paul's counsel to the Thessalonians, |
| 1:45.5 | make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. The ambition to lead a quiet life. |
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