Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Conservative, Calvinistic churches often hate the prosperity gospel—and still smuggle in a softer version. Jon Moffitt names "prosperity gospel light": the quiet assumption that disciplined obedience should yield comfort, stability, or an easier life. When suffering comes, that expectation breeds confusion about God's goodness. This episode offers biblical categories for hardship, faithfulness, and hope so weary believers are not crushed by false promises the Bible never made.
In this episode you'll hear:
- How a softer prosperity gospel hides in Reformed and evangelical churches
- Why "I lived for Jesus—why is my life falling apart?" is the wrong covenant math
- Suffering, providence, and the Christian life without transactional comfort
- Law-gospel clarity when hardship tempts you to read obedience as a bargain
- Pastoral relief for pilgrims who assumed faithfulness buys ease
- Hope that does not deny pain and does not abandon Christ
Who it's for: Reformed and Calvinistic listeners disillusioned by hard providence, sufferers tempted to prosperity assumptions, and pastors who need language for "prosperity gospel light."
Proposed / estimated chapters (auto-captions have no exact timestamps; adjust after publish if needed):
0:00 - Prosperity gospel light in Reformed churches
12:00 - When disciplined faith meets a collapsing life
28:00 - Suffering, providence, and false expectations
48:00 - Peter, persecution, and costly discipleship
70:00 - Grace-shaped homes and churches under pressure
90:00 - Closing: rest in Christ amid hardship
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Conservative, Calvinistic churches often hate the prosperity gospel—and still smuggle in a softer version. Jon Moffitt names "prosperity gospel light": the quiet assumption that disciplined obedience should yield comfort, stability, or an easier life. When suffering comes, that expectation breeds confusion about God's goodness. This episode offers biblical categories for hardship, faithfulness, and hope so weary believers are not crushed by false promises the Bible never made.
In this episode you'll hear:
- How a softer prosperity gospel hides in Reformed and evangelical churches
- Why "I lived for Jesus—why is my life falling apart?" is the wrong covenant math
- Suffering, providence, and the Christian life without transactional comfort
- Law-gospel clarity when hardship tempts you to read obedience as a bargain
- Pastoral relief for pilgrims who assumed faithfulness buys ease
- Hope that does not deny pain and does not abandon Christ
Who it's for: Reformed and Calvinistic listeners disillusioned by hard providence, sufferers tempted to prosperity assumptions, and pastors who need language for "prosperity gospel light."
Proposed / estimated chapters (auto-captions have no exact timestamps; adjust after publish if needed):
0:00 - Prosperity gospel light in Reformed churches
12:00 - When disciplined faith meets a collapsing life
28:00 - Suffering, providence, and false expectations
48:00 - Peter, persecution, and costly discipleship
70:00 - Grace-shaped homes and churches under pressure
90:00 - Closing: rest in Christ amid hardship
NEW FREE EBOOK: "ENOUGH IN CHRIST":
theocast.org/enough-in-christ
BOOK: "The Bible According to Jesus - How Jesus Teaches Us to Read the Scriptures":
theocast.org/products/the-bible-according-to-jesus
FREE EBOOK: "REST":
theocast.org/collections/books/products/rest-a-consideration-of-faith-vs-faithfulness-ebook
JOIN THE THEOCAST COMMUNITY:
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