What it Means to "Preach the Gospel to Yourself" | Ep. 87
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As mommas, we all fall short of the glory of God. What we need when that happens is to preach the gospel to ourselves again and again. But how do we actually do that? In this episode, Emily and Laura share how reminding yourself of the gospel is an important part of the Christian walk – but it requires some practice. To preach the gospel, we have to know the gospel. It's the only thing that keeps us from being defined by the time we yelled in the car or hid in the pantry stress-eating dark chocolate. Momma, your true identity is secure in Christ – offering peace, hope, and joy in every moment.
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- For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. (Hebrews 8:12)
- A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God's Love - Milton Vincent
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- Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life - Jeff Vanderstelt
- "Faith Hacking: Preaching the Gospel to Yourself" - Tim Challies
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- "How to Preach the Gospel to Yourself" - An interview with Jerry Bridges
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood, Emily and Laura here. Hey guys, and we first |
| 0:44.1 | off just wanted to ask you guys if you haven't yet, consider jumping on iTunes and leaving us a |
| 0:51.2 | review. It just really helps other moms find the podcast and it's a huge blessing to us. So |
| 0:58.2 | there is a short tutorial for that on our website that we'll link to in our show notes if you need |
| 1:03.0 | to know how or there's some troubleshooting there, but it should just take a few minutes of your |
| 1:07.4 | time and it would be a huge blessing. So consider doing that. And then today we are going to talk |
| 1:14.2 | about something that is like a little bit of a Christianese term. So Christian language that |
| 1:23.0 | gets thrown around a lot and it's one of those you're like, can I say that I don't really know |
| 1:28.3 | what that means? And it's preaching the gospel to yourself. Yes, exactly. It's totally one of |
| 1:34.8 | the things that we see as a hashtag on Instagram or people say a lot that and it sounds really nice, |
| 1:40.9 | but you're like, that sounds kind of theoretical or ambiguous. Like does that really look like on a |
| 1:46.0 | practical level? So that's something that Emily and I are going to talk through today is what does |
| 1:50.3 | it look like for a mom or really any human? But what does it look like for us as believers to |
| 1:55.7 | preach the gospel to ourselves? And Emily, you were telling me about a funny, funny picture I think |
| 2:00.7 | that you always have when you hear it. Well, whatever I've heard, preach the gospel to yourself. |
| 2:05.8 | Okay, I'm just a kind of literal, I just imagine that you go shut yourself in your room and |
| 2:10.6 | you're like, okay, Lord, I need to remember that my identity isn't Christ. So we're like, we're |
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