How Will You Respond to Trials?
Trials give us the chance to show how we respond to trials with faith.
Trials give us the chance to show how we respond to trials with faith.
Family devotions aren’t a home run every morning; they’re a patient, intentional rhythm that you pray will shape your family.
You can continue to do the hard work of dry land farming, day after day – and maybe year after year.
This is often where the asking why questions lead us – it leads us not to specific answers but to God. And that is a very good thing.
How did I get here? This certainly isn’t how I imagined my life turning out. In fact, it’s more than that - this isn’t how it ought to be at all!
“Cast your cares on the Lord because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
The temptation when you engage in spiritual discipline is to emphasize the will. But it doesn’t have to be that way; in fact, if it is that way, our efforts are doomed to fail because our best efforts will run out of steam.
Take the initiative in moments of doubt, and consider Abram’s experience: Return to the character of the One who promised. And remember that he never fails.
When we are born again, we are given new spiritual sight. In fact, all our spiritual senses are awakened to see, take in, and feel things in a brand new way - a way that is defined by the gospel.
The temptations of money can make us feel safer as wealth grows.