178: Finding Freedom from Cultural Lies with Alisa Childers

Alisa Childers runs an apologetics blog, podcast, and YouTube channel dedicated to helping believers grow in and better understand God's truth. Today on the show we talk about her newest book, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed. We hope you come away from this episode feeling far better equipped to guard against the lies of the culture.     What We Chat about in Today’s Episode: ~Alisa's newest book, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect ~How these cultural lies are actually burdensome and debilitating ~God's Word as providing a much better, much more freeing answer ~Addressing the lie that God just wants us to be happy ~Teaching a good theology of suffering ~The gifts to be found in suffering; how we have experienced this ourselves ~The truth of Romans 8:28 ~Understanding self-care biblically, with a balanced perspective ~Gnosticism and a refusal to care for oneself ~How understanding who we are in Christ is the ultimate self-care ~Putting others' needs in front of our own while also taking care of ourselves ~Living for a different kingdom as a child of God ~The faith-builder it is to honor right priorities and rely on the Lord to make it all come together ~The proactive action behind the Golden Rule compared to the neutral iterations of the Golden Rule that were handed down by other teachers ~Understanding what true biblical love is and the reality that we can and should love everyone ~Being careful to course-correct according to Scripture when we are course-correcting ~And more!   For full shownotes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast