E147: Striving- Why Grace Changes Everything

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of grace and its significance in the Christian life, contrasting it with self-help ideologies.

When Self-Help Isn’t Helping (Part 4) In this final episode of the series, we bring everything together. Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at how good ideas like discipline, mindset, emotional regulation, and belief can slowly turn into pressure when we move Jesus out of the center. We’ve talked about stoicism, hustle culture, manifestation, and the subtle pull toward self-sovereignty. Today we land on grace. What is grace, really? Where does desire fit in the Christian life? How do...

People in this episode

Host: Jill M. Lillard

Topics covered

• grace
• self-help
• Christian life
• desire
• pressure
• stoicism
• hustle culture

Keywords

• grace
• self-help
• Christianity
• pressure
• stoicism
• hustle culture
• manifestation

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