“Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.” (Isaiah 40:28) I am a control freak. Those words are not easy to hear and are even ...
Read More »Raw Faith: A Lesson in Staying the Course
“We are a family torn apart, but Jesus hasn’t abandoned us.” Those are the words boldly spoken by Naghmeh Abedini on June 2, 2015. She testified in front of a room of politicians as she has done many times before about the imprisonment of her husband, Saeed. This time it was ...
Read More »Two Reasons People Fail to Trust God
There are two reasons people fail to trust God. First, it can be born out of hardship when you are faced with a bad situation; you can’t see how it can possibly be good. The second way is when life is going really great; it can be easy to fall ...
Read More »Where to Find Real Happiness
I don’t think there is anything more unappealing to me than ungratefulness. There’s an image that has been floating around Facebook for some time–it’s a skeleton of a child, much too malnourished to live long, his mother giving him a drop, a single drop, of water. None of us have it that bad. More gumption ...
Read More »Why Should I Embrace My Failures?
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, ...
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