In today’s world, the booming self-help and self-discovery industries indicate that, although we place value on finding ourselves, we struggle to know who we really are. In this session, Sam Allberry examines various methods of defining ourselves and suggests that our identities need to be anchored in something with lasting security.
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00:00 // Introduction
00:09 // Finding Ourselves
01:28 // Do our minds make us human?
02:33 // Are we just animals?
04:03 // Are we fundamentally resources?
05:17 // I am a self
09:18 // Consequences of creating our own identity
11:36 // What does Jesus say?
12:56 // Look to Christ
16:01 // God made us and is mindful of us
18:30 // We're both amazing and a mess
20:59 // Finding an identity in Christ
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