Your outlook on life is one of the biggest factors in deciding the quality and success of your work. But should Christians be optimists? And what does biblically-based optimism even look like?
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Show Notes:
- 0:00 – Welcome
- 2:18 – Optimism vs. Pessimism
- 3:20 – The Right Kind of Optimist
- 5:16 – Evangelical Eeyores
- 7:52 – Every Believer Should Be an Optimist
- 10:19 – Reasonably Happy
- 12:53 – Eternally Optimistic
- 16:27 – Joyfully Long-Suffering
- 17:17 – More Than a Personality Trait
- 19:17 – Optimism Is True and It Gets Results
- 22:18 – Conclusion
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