Abandoned to Loneliness

Have you ever felt like Job in the Bible where your world is crumbling around you and it seems like everyone has abandoned you? Maybe like Job, your friends want to analyze why there is so much calamity in your life. Perhaps you can identify with Job when he told his friends, “Why do you […]

Stitching Together a Remnant

The world may see remnants as discarded scraps, but God often has a different purpose in mind.

Waiting Through Trials

Waiting on God can be difficult. When we are in the middle of our struggles, when all hope is lost, we want immediate relief. It’s hard to trust God’s purposes in the pain we now experience. Job is often looked at as someone with patient endurance. He remained faithful to God even after he lost […]

Surviving Life Storms

You set out for your day and then it hits. Menacing clouds appear on the horizon of your life and quickly overtake you with an unexpected trial. The powerful winds of uncertainty threaten to overtake you. Tears fall like rain. Doubts rise as to if you will pull through. Storms have a way of challenging […]

Exchanging the Familiar with the Unfamiliar

Trials have a way of disrupting your present way of life. They can turn your familiar routine, your way of life, into a wilderness of grief and lost hope. It can make you yearn for the past and the familiar. Yet the disruption of what you knew can also turn you toward something new. In […]

But Wait!

Waiting. It is what stood between Job’s calamity and the later chapters of his life. In Job 2:9 we see him at the low point of his life when he has lost everything including his health. To top it off, his wife told him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die […]

Enduring Life’s Burdens

Trials can feel overwhelming, but through faith and endurance, we can learn to rely on Jesus. He teaches us ways to increase the strength of our faith in ways we don’t always understand.

Quiet Waters—Praying Through Psalm 23

In the midst of turbulent times in our life, grasping onto Jesus can be a calming force.

Wednesday Walk—Just a Touch

In our journey through physical and emotional pain, we can find healing and hope in faith and connection with Jesus.

The Eternal Anchor

There are many things in this life we can hold onto for security. Yet when the storms of life hit us with stress and trauma, it has a way of sifting out what has lasting surety. The things of this world are no match to the eternal presence of God in our life. He is […]