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Hardship:
Contributed by Gordon Pike on Nov 1, 2020 (message contributor)
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1. What
Contributed on Nov 1, 2020
When you put your faith in Christ, you will experience pressure and you will be tried but you will also have God who will not only give you the strength to persevere but us them tomold you, to make you more righteous.
For the next couple of weeks, I thought we would take a close look at what has been called the “Achilles’ Heel” of Christianity. What is our “Achilles’ Heel,” you might ask? It is the question of pain and suffering. The Barna Group, founded in 1984, is a marketing research firm focused on the ...read more
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2. How
Contributed on Nov 8, 2020
How do you go from deep despair to the heights of joy? Psalm 22 holds the key.
“ … when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered [Jesus] wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when He tasted it, He would not drink it. And when they had crucified Him, they divided His clothes among themselves by casting lots; then they sat down there and ...read more
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3. Why
Contributed on Nov 8, 2020
When we face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy? Really, James? Find out how how that's possible.
One of my favorite songs or mantras that I often repeated when I was a young man was: “Why me?” “Why does this always happen to me?” Every time there was a problem … any time something threw off my day or my plans … I would launch into an endless chorus of “Why Me?” One day I was singing the ...read more
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4. Purpose
Contributed on Nov 22, 2020
You can either accept your trials and they will become heavenly blessings or you can fight your trials and they will become heavy burdens.
Over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a Biblical look at hardship … what the Bible says it is … why we experience hardship … and how we should respond to the trials and challenges of life from a Biblical perspective. God uses the trials and hardships of life to teach us … to help us grow ...read more