GBC Podcast

There’s a lot of feelings going around these days and there are just times to feel angry, to feel sad, to feel happy and to feel all the things. In this episode Courtney and Shane dive into our myriad of feelings, specifically what’s bubbling up during the pandemic and everything happening over this past year.

Looking deeper into the feeling of anger and when we feel it and what triggers it, Shane and Courtney talk about anger in our relationships and even within marriage and what causes a spouse to feel angry. It often has to do with the expectations of the other person. Talking through these expectations and these feelings can not only bring us closer to the other person, but it ultimately brings us closer to God as he believes in restoration and relationships.

Today Shane and Courtney talk about 2 Corinthians 12 and boasting. In the middle of verse 5, Paul says I will not boast about myself except about my weaknesses. Paul knows who he is in Christ and is confident in himself, yet chooses to write about his weaknesses and what God has to say to him. Instead of bragging about what God has done through him, he brags about what God has done in spite of him.

Shane and Courtney talk about the idea of pride and how it affects our lives as well as how pain can be used for something positive even if we don’t see it in the moment. In a year in which so many people have experienced deep pain and may not see a purpose, Paul reminds us that God uses our weaknesses and even our pain for a greater good.