Chris Staron

“What Does Being a Child of God Mean to You?” Bonus Ep. 40

When I think of who I am, before I think of being a Mom of 8,  a wife,  a daughter, a Grammy, a friend, a neighbor, I think first of being a child of God.  Being a child of God, has changed me, in all of the good ways.  And I am grateful.  Over the last episodes of Letters From Home, I have asked each guest, the question, “what does being a child of God mean to you?” I trust you will be encouraged by every single voice, and heart.

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Ep. 34″The Real Struggle of Being a Starving Artist” Chris Staron

Great Quotes:
“I wouldn’t characterize Hollywood as necessarily anti-God, it’s that they just don’t know who he is… it wasn’t so much that they were against you, it was that you were an alien species.”
“we often glamorize those things, and hold up the success stories, but there is nobody out there talking about the real struggle of being a starving artist in the Christian world.”
“In most staunch conservative reformed churches, prosperity is there. We believe that nothing bad can happen to you if you are a Christian. But if you look at the Bible, the central character of the Bible is a guy who gets crucified for being exactly where God wants Him to be.”
“Paul gets shipwrecked and bitten by snakes and beaten and thrown out of town for being exactly where God wants him to be. So I think our conception of what
success is and what money is, is way off.”
“Yellowstone is not even close to being the best part of Wyoming.”
“We can’t judge our success based on the numbers and people’s response. Success in God’s eyes is being faithful.”

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