Can we talk about a phrase that makes a lot of Christians squirm? Self-love.

I'll be honest, for most of my adult life, I thought self-love was worldly. Anytime I entertained the idea of self-love, I felt guilty. I wanted to nourish myself, and yet I thought the holy thing to do was the opposite: push myself aside, keep myself small, and call it humility.

Only recently, while reading the Bible through God's perspective, did I start to see things differently. I realized self-love is not only biblical. It's foundational. That opened the door to rethinking what humility means. In my latest podcast conversation, I unpack that with Blake Guichet, host of The Speakeasy podcast and author of Confessions of a Crappy Christian.

Blake is one of my all-time favorite people to talk faith with, because she goes straight to the questions most of us are scared to ask out loud. This one hits home.

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