Charis Podcast #378: Finding the Life Within - Carrie Pickett
Mar 5, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Carrie Pickett, a speaker at Charis Daily and passionate advocate for the Word of God, explores the transformative power of Scripture. She challenges listeners to move beyond passive Bible reading and embrace personal engagement with the Word. Carrie shares insights on discerning truth from opinion, emphasizing the importance of divine guidance in decision-making. Her anecdotes highlight how anchoring life in biblical teachings brings stability and purpose, encouraging a deeper relationship with God's truth.
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Pinky Finger Anecdote
- Carrie Pickett shares a childhood lesson from her Sunday school teacher mom using the example of a pinky finger to illustrate how opinions can distort truth.
- She explains how holding opinions against the Word of God reveals that personal perspectives can be crooked, unlike God's straight plumb line.
Word as Divine Standard
- The Word of God serves as a divine measuring tape to provide accurate standards in life.
- It offers a fixed standard to measure truth and reality, unlike human opinions which often conflict.
Words as Spirit and Life
- Jesus said His words are spirit and life, not flesh or opinions which profit nothing.
- The Spirit through the Word brings life and truth that surpasses human understanding and fleshly concepts.