This Life We Live in the Body: A Podcast about Gospel Centered Weight Loss

The Gospel can feel slippery at times. It can be easy to slip to the legalistic right or the antinomian left. What can be done? How can we pursue a righteous life without boasting in our own strength? What can we “do” when we are supposed to rest in what he has done? This week we invite our favorite pastor (and dad) John Dubois to talk about it.

...if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. Colossians 1:29

A different kind of episode today. This week we feature a sermon from our favorite pastor (and dad) John Dubois. 

This week Katie and I spend a fair amount of time acknowledging our “hot mess” status. After a while of whining just a bit, though, we turn our attention to  the gracious gift of the Lord’s armor that is described as “the sword of  the spirit” in Ephesians 6:17. Sarah is on maternity leave for the  episode, but does edit this one for us!

In a somewhat loopy and scatterbrained late night recording, Becki and Katie discuss the Helmet of Salvation.

This week Becki, Katie, and Sarah talked about the Shield of Faith, with which we can extinguish the fiery arrows of the evil one.

We turned our attention to the “feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace” this week. This part of the armor of God does not have the most catchy name… for the sake of the podcast we shortened it to “readiness from the gospel.”

This week we turned our attention to the “Breastplate of Righteousness,” and were once again helpfully reminded that this is God’s armor, not our own. We do not clothe ourselves with our own righteousness, but that which Jesus earned.

This week’s episode kicks off a new “season” or “series” in the podcast. Becki, Katie, and Sarah start going to the Bible first to see what scripture says about body image and weight loss.  We start this episode by studying the Armor of God as described in Ephesians 6 and, more specifically, The Best of Truth.

Yay! After our last few weeks of hiatus, here is our first episode back. This episode was actually recorded back in August, back before our break, so if we sound tired, you know why! In this episode, Becki and Sarah talk about the topic of comparison, and how and why it is a destructive tendency. 

Just a quick announcement that we are taking the month off as a mini summer break. We will, Lord willing, begin dropping episodes again in the fall!