Podcast Blog: S6, E2 - David Gregory, How God Makes Faith Easy

I've had a lot of guests on the Practical Faith Academy podcast talk about how hard it can be to practice your faith each day. But I'm not sure anyone before David Gregory has been so confident that daily faith practice can be easy.

David Gregory is a New York Times best-selling author of award-winning books. In this podcast, Gregory shares his view on how faith can be easy when we realize the truth of Jesus’s statement, “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Gregory explains how the Father, Son, and Spirit all offer pathways to easy faith. He also shares insights into his latest book, "One of Us," and into how the church can address the next generation.

I came away from this podcast renewing my commitment to let Jesus live through me with the help of the Holy Spirit. Although Gregory and I didn't talk about Romans 8, I view that chapter as a high point of the Bible, because it shows how Father, Son, and Spirit actively reach out to bring us into relationship.

Highlights of the podcast:

3:25 Why Gregory thinks it’s important to put faith into practice

6:14 Why faith is easy because of something Jesus told us

10:08 Three factors that make for a life of faith

16:21 Why Gregory wrote his “One of Us” novel with Jesus originally coming to earth today as a Latino from South Texas

21:34 How his novel still mirrors the gospel

23:36 Would Gregory have written this 2024 book differently today given the clamor over immigration?

25:49 How fiction helps make key points difficult to make in nonfiction

28:20 What is the church today missing from the life of Jesus?

33:13 How our “new heart” enables us to be faithful

35:49 What the gospel offers to a new generation

38:32 How to find Gregory’s books and resources

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