How do I know what God wants me to do? | Episode 89: Alan Noble

Join us at The Bright Side for your daily dose of positive news and inspiration: https://livethebrightside.com/ What if God is less interested in giving us the one perfect answer and more interested in forming us into people who can choose wisely? In this episode, Elliot Sands talks with Alan Noble, author of To Live Well: Practical Wisdom for Moving Through Chaotic Times, about decision-making virtue, contentment, justice, faith, doubt, and what it means to live faithfully in a chaotic world. Connect with Alan Noble Alan Noble website: https://www.oalannoble.com/ Book: To Live Well — https://www.ivpress.com/to-live-well Substack: https://newsletter.oalannoble.com/ Oklahoma Baptist University profile: https://www.okbu.edu/directory/alan-n... Connect with Live Faith First https://livethebrightside.com/ Join the Email List: https://www.livefaithfirst.org/contact   / livefaithfirst     / livefaithfirst     / livefaithfirst   Connect with Host Elliot Sands Website: https://www.elliotsands.me/ Instagram:   / fool.4.grace   Chapters: [00:00] Big decisions and wanting God to “just tell me what to do” [01:08] Introducing Alan Noble [01:49] Alan’s story: homeschool, Francis Schaeffer, literature, and culture [02:56] Virtues in an optimized world [05:00] Social media, inadequacy, and inhibition [08:35] Hearing God’s voice in a visual culture [10:37] Elliot’s prudence story [12:14] Prudence as practical wisdom [15:54] New information and changing direction [16:40] The myth of the “one right choice” [19:49] The sunk cost fallacy [22:15] Contentment, marriage, and regret [26:43] Why this life is not all there is [28:18] Communal justice and God’s justice [30:42] Debtor, creditor, and reestablishing justice [35:17] Prodigal justice: grace beyond technique [38:15] Friendliness, smiles, and kindness as justice [42:21] Relationship as the Church’s superpower [45:39] Healthy and unhealthy deconstruction [50:49] Faith, doubt, and unanswered questions [57:45] What to do when we fail to live virtuously [1:03:08] What’s exciting Alan right now [1:05:58] Seed question: What prudent decision do you need to make?