Thrive Teaching Discussions

Death by 1000 Cuts Part V

Busyness / We Can't Afford To Rest

Why We Can't Afford To Rest

24:01

Introduction: The Cut That Wears a Halo

We have to be honest about what busyness actually looks like, because it rarely looks like ambition and it rarely looks like sin. It looks like love.

It looks like signing our children up for soccer camp and T-ball practice and dance and travel league, because we want them to have every opportunity we didn't have, or every opportunity we did have and loved. It looks like saying yes to the nursery rotation, the meal train, the committee, the second job, the third volunteer shift this month, because the church needs hands and we have hands. It looks like staying up after everyone else is asleep to finish the thing nobody else will finish, because someone has to, and it might as well be us. It looks like self-sacrifice —…

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

Part Five: Unbelief

Teaching Manuscript

Stop_Calling_God’s_Hand_a_Coincidence

25:02

I. Naming the Cut — Unbelief as Erosion, Not Explosion

There is a kind of death that does not come by the sword. It does not announce itself with violence or drama. It comes quietly, one small wound at a time, until a soul that once walked in confidence finds itself paralyzed, wondering how it arrived at such a place. We have called this death by a thousand cuts, and we have walked together through complaining, through critical spirit, through perfectionism, through entitlement. Today we come to a cut so common, so familiar, that many of us wear its scars without ever having named it. Today we speak of unbelief.

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

Part Four: Entitlement — A Thrive Teaching Manuscript

Stop_keeping_a_ledger_with_God

19:30

Teaching Outline

Central thesis: We cannot be grateful for anything we feel entitled to.

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

Part Three: The Cut of Perfectionism

Thrive Teaching Series

Perfectionism_Is_Fear_Wearing_a_Costume

20:02

Where We've Been