Sermons on Trials
Locust Eaten Years Restored
God allows or even designs locust eaten years. Joel 2:23-27 – Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. “I will repay you for…
A Bible Story
Saturday AM at the 2020 New Life Summer Retreat in Cedar Falls. The story of Paul at the Fortress of Antonia and the Gate of Mercy.
God’s Promises in Suffering
God promises to intimately know our suffering, experience it with us, be in complete control, and that all of a Christian’s suffering is temporary Revelation 2:8-10: – Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who was dead but is now alive: I know about your suffering and your…
#2-Visionary Faith: The Purpose of Glorifying God
#2 – 1 Peter: Elect Exiles – Happiness in Hard Times
You can smile in every trial because of what you have in Christ. 1 Peter 1: 6-8 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith of greater worth than gold, which…