Amanda Held Opelt: What Good is God When Life Hurts?

Episode 56 November 05, 2023 01:00:26
Amanda Held Opelt: What Good is God When Life Hurts?
Becoming Church
Amanda Held Opelt: What Good is God When Life Hurts?

Nov 05 2023 | 01:00:26

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Hosted By

Kristin Mockler Young

Show Notes

Are we allowed to admit when life is hard? When there are so many other heavy things happening, when other people are experiencing widespread devastation, when our lives on paper are pretty privileged…are we allowed to say we aren’t exactly finding the joy of the Lord as our strength?

In this interview, Amanda Held Evans talks about the emotional prosperity gospel: the belief that if we have enough faith, God will make us happy and give us emotional abundance in our careers, marriages and lives. She challenges some religious platitudes to show how we may be missing something as we chase after God’s perfect will or calling in our lives.

Grab a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup or Sour Skittles out of the Trick-or-Treat bowl and get ready to lean in to a real conversation with real women who have real hurts. We hope you feel seen in your not-so-perfect life and we really hope you find permission to embrace your feelings without rushing through them to reach eternal positivity on the other side of your season.

Faith, after all, is choosing to say yes to the right question.

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Holy Unhappiness
https://tinyurl.com/holyunhappiness

A Hole in the World
https://tinyurl.com/58uztd64

 AmandaHeldOpelt.com

 RachelHeldEvans.com

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SCRIPTURE TO EXPLORE:

Genesis 3
John 11

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Kristin’s message on Gratitude
https://tinyurl.com/4em6suth

TEDx talk: Fear and Beauty
https://tinyurl.com/bdebujma

What’s an Enneagram?  
https://www.yourenneagramcoach.com/

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HANG OUT WITH US:

Amanda on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/amandaheldopelt/

Kristin on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/kristinmockleryoung/

Mosaic Church on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/mosaicclt/

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