"How Can I Be Joyful When I’m Grieving This Christmas?" With Dr. Joel Muddamalle

The Proverbs 31 Ministries Podcast

Proverbs 31 Ministries

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If your year has been anything but "merry and bright," it's hard to put on a smile when everyone is celebrating the holidays.

Welcome to this episode of "Ask a Theologian" — a new series of conversations with Proverbs 31 Ministries' Director of Theological Research, Dr. Joel Muddamalle, and Content Manager for Lysa TerKeurst, Shae Hill. In every episode, Joel and Shae will tackle everyday questions with theological insight and practical takeaways.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast where we share biblical truth
0:14.8	with any for any girl in any season. I'm your host Shay Hill and I'm here with my
0:19.7	friend and our resident theologian here on staff here at Proverbs 31 Ministries, Dr.
0:26.0	Joel Munamale.
0:27.0	Joel I'm so happy to be here with you today.
0:28.6	I'm so excited Shay, super excited for this one.
0:30.4	We are doing something a little different today.
0:32.0	I know, it's wild we're
0:33.0	kicking off something it is exiting the slack channel and here we are we are making it
0:38.8	happen yeah well you tell our friends what we're what we're doing today. Yeah, so I'm really excited
0:44.1	Shay because every now and then I mean I've been on staff here for seven going on eight years
0:49.0	And one of the things that frequently happens is we'll be walking we'll be sitting
0:53.8	having lunch as a team we'll be having theology study days and every now and then people
0:57.5	just be like huh I had this question about the Bible I had this question about
1:00.9	theology I had this question about scripture and they were like,
1:03.4	Joel, what do you think? You know, and one of my favorites, and it actually pops up consistently now. We would just
1:08.6	talk about this, maybe once a quarter. Our dear friend, Mad at Greenfield, every now and then we'll just get a message from her or she'll be in a conversation with us and she'll be like, Joel, why didn't Moses, why didn't Moses make it into the promise land and it just really bothers her you know and we have to like
1:24.1	think about these things and so one of our hopes and I think our goals for this
1:29.6	conversation the conversations to come is to think honestly about the Bible to share from our hearts
1:36.0	honestly things that we're thinking through and we'd love to have answers for and to start
1:41.6	with I would just say like what is theology?
1:43.6	She said there was a 17th century astronomer.
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