Category: suffering
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The Undiscovered Country
Sometimes change is painful. We may get so miserable in our current state that we take a step or two toward change. But then we feel that resistance. We feel those uncomfortable feelings of unfamiliar territory. And so we retreat. We “change back.”
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Spiritual Growth In Easy Times
Sometimes the storms of life cause a faith to crumble away. When Jesus talked about storms, he describes them as a testing, a proof as to whether we’ve built our house on the rock or on sand. In Jesus’s analogy, what you do before the storm matters. It matters a lot.
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Carrying On When We Don’t Understand
We can always think of some tragedy horrible enough that it just doesn’t seem fair for God to allow Satan to take it that far.
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Persecution
Whether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.

