Gary Thomas Newsletter
July 26, 2025
This week's Paid Subscriber posts:
You’re Not a Fool to Keep Hoping, Part 1
Parents who are heartbroken over their adult children's choices need to learn how to hope. Biblical hope is a learned skill, based on the history, character, and promises of God. It's vital for your soul to learn how to hope. You may not have an issue with any adult children, but hope as a learned skill can soothe the souls of those facing chronic illnesses, financial struggles, you name it. So we're going to take three weeks to excerpt one of the longer chapters from my book in progress, "When Christian Parents Hurt." As this is a work in progress, your comments are most welcome.
Read this blog HERE.
This week's Free Subscriber posts:
Are You More Focused on Losing Weight Than Losing Sin? Gaining Muscle Than Gaining Grace? Looking Younger or Looking More Like Christ?
The deception is that looking like you’re twenty-five when you’re fifty, or fifty when you’re seventy, is somehow worthy of more time and money and attention than growing in Christlikeness, whatever your age may be. But in all honesty, most of us as Christians can fall into seasons where we spend far more time and energy trying to look our best, lower our golf handicap, increase our social-media followers, lose weight, regrow hair, and increase the size of our financial investments far more than we think about growing in humility, surrender, discernment, and patience.
Read this post HERE.
Sacred Marriage Video Study, Revised and Updated: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
Your marriage is much more than a union between you and your spouse. It is a spiritual discipline ideally suited to help you know God more fully and intimately. Sacred Marriage shifts the focus from marital enrichment to spiritual enrichment in ways that can help you love your mate more. Everything about your marriage—from the history you and your spouse create, to the love you share, to the forgiveness you both offer and seek—is filled with the capacity to help you grow in Christ's character. This revised and updated edition includes all-new videos from Gary featuring new insights, illustrations, and teachings for the modern married couple.
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