Tag: trials
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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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When Is It Okay To Give Up?
Sometimes life feels like a long drawn-out game that’s not much fun anymore. Sometimes we feel like saying, “I give up!”
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Faith As A Mustard Seed
With predators you don’t have to win; you just have to be more trouble than you’re worth.
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Fear Of Fire
When I was a girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, the house behind ours caught fire in the middle of the night. Our whole family got out of bed and watched it from our sliding glass door. We knew the neighbors were safe, but I still cried because I was afraid the fire would…
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Test Time!
Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. James 1:2-3 NASB There’s a scene at the end of one of the Harry Potter movies when the headmaster announces that all finals have been cancelled. Of course everyone gives out a massive…
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When Burdens Turn Into Blessings
I once overheard a conversation that has stuck with me for close to 30 years. Two women were talking about God, and one of them said something like this: I don’t like God. He plays favorites.
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How’s the Weather?
A thorough study of the Israelites in the Old Testament will make a person wonder why God ever chose them to be His “special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth,” (Deuteronomy 7:6).
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The Purposes Of Suffering- Part 1
What if we could give God a victory over Satan? He certainly doesn’t need our help in order to be victorious, but perhaps in our suffering God invites us to participate in the great spiritual battle that goes on unseen by human eyes. What if, like the blind man whose eyes were opened by Jesus,…
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