I recently ran into an old Christian friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. As we talked and got reacquainted, he shared that during the time we had lost contact, he experienced a period of intense depression. At one point, he confided that he was hospitalized and placed under the care of a doctor….
Do you have earthly sufferings? Yes…me too…way too many of them. Have you ever struggled with your earthly sufferings? Yes…me too…way too often. I have found that sometimes my struggles with my earthly sufferings play with my mind and hurt my spiritual growth. Sometimes questions creep into the edges of my consciousness like… God, do…
I have had and continue to have many trials in my life. A trial is a very difficult situation in our lives which is painful, and which we would rather avoid. Now if God is a loving God, why would He allow trials in our lives? He could eliminate them. He’s all-powerful, isn’t he? So,…
In 1st Peter 1:3-7, the Apostle Peter was writing to Christians who were experiencing hardship. Peter praised God because, “In His great mercy, God has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). Peter continues and identifies this living hope as an…