As you've read the title, there are times when you find yourself resting in Christ and then it's gone.

What happened?

Or you might be wondering, well, what can rob me from my rest in Christ?

This is what today's podcast is about.

There are pitfalls that we can find ourselves either trapped in so we can't get to rest,

or once we're in rest, Satan will use them to trip us up and cause anxiety and

pain and suffering in ways that remove the very hope that we have, which is the sufficiency of

Christ. Justin and I want to walk through three different areas in life that cause us to lose

our rest in Christ. We pray this is encouraging to you. Stay tuned.

If you're needed a 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. Pietism 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 at our website. Just go to theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ. That's what we're going to do today. For those of you that are struggling, or those who want to be reminded and refreshed, stick around. We are here to talk about

the Christian life, and we want to do so from all of Scripture. And your host today is none

other than Justin Purdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

And I am John Moffat, the pastor of Grace Reform Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And I am John Moffat,

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