Author and podcast host Sadie Robertson Huff is encouraging her fans to shine the sunshine of Christ within the midst of a dark culture, emphasizing that the church holds the answer to the world’s problems. The host of the award-winning WHOA That’s Good Podcast and the creator of Live Fearless and Who Are You Following? told Crosswalk Headlines that Christians are called to deliver hope to a broken world.
“Jesus said to us that we’re called to be the sunshine of the world,” Huff told Crosswalk Headlines. “We’re called to be a city on a hill — to not dim our lights and conceal under the sand, but actually shine them in order that God gets the glory.
“So I believe it’s really tempting when the world gets darker to wish to hide. But in case you want the world to be brighter, you’re literally called to be a light-weight. We are the answer because the church. Take on Jesus’ words.”
Huff is a two-time winner of the K-Love Fan Award for Podcast Impact and a significant presence on social media with 5 million followers on Instagram and nearly 2 million on Facebook. But Huff also has been open concerning the pressures social media can bring with “cancel culture, the meanest comment being probably the most liked, [and] even the deals that come when the algorithm goes your direction,” as she wrote in a February post.
“You’re in command of your social media,” she told Crosswalk Headlines when asked what advice she gives fans about social media. “… You get to make a decision what you post; you select what you take a look at. And so I believe you will have to take ownership and say, okay, I’m going to follow the people who find themselves leading me to Christ, and I’m gonna post the things that lead others to Christ as well.”
Huff cites the words of Christ: “Cast your anxieties on Him.”
“And that’s something that every of us are gonna need to do every day to receive that grace and that strength from God to get through,” she said. “But God is so good. And His presence in your life can truly get you thru those hard times.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of religion and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
