{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"197: Finding Joy in Life's Hardest Seasons with Kristen Rosener","description":"Kristen Rosener is a wife, working mom of 3,  and writer who recently launched an incredible book entitled  Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering, chronicling the story of the hardest season of her life and how God saw her through. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT ON THIS EPISODE: ~Kristen\u2019s new book, Where Joy Is: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering, what led to its release, and what readers can expect ~Kristen\u2019s backstory of how she grew up and what she was taught to believe ~Kristen\u2019s hard journey of walking through abuse and infidelity of her first husband ~How the legalism and perfectionism in Kristen\u2019s past did not serve her well during her season of crisis ~God\u2019s ability to redeem the things we do not think are redeemable ~The false theology of purity culture that says that if you check all the right boxes, you will automatically be guaranteed a fairytale marriage; how purity culture is linked to the prosperity gospel ~The faith crisis Kristen faced after finding the promises of purity culture to not be true ~The problem with making ourselves like someone else in order to please others; the \u201cspiritual disfigurement\u201d that this is ~The problem of idolizing your marriage ~The problem with viewing divorced believers as \u201csecond-class citizens\u201d ~How seasons of sorrow can be seasons of grace ~Understanding how a good God can allow bad things to happen ~How unsteady hearts are moved by circumstances instead of standing unwavering on what we know to be true; the importance of being led by truth, not emotion (as important as emotions are!) ~How our unbelief and wrong theology makes our hard seasons far harder ~The trustworthiness of God ~And more!   Go to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com\/podcast for full shownotes. ","author_name":"The Gospel-Shaped Life Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/api.substack.com\/feed\/podcast\/2761831.rss","html":"