When Our Best Efforts Fail
God’s promises speak to our children’s pain in ways our best efforts cannot.
God’s promises speak to our children’s pain in ways our best efforts cannot.
In talking with my students, I wanted to make clear that the source of this tragedy originates at the spiritual and heart level.
The desire to put a spiritual bandaid over every hurt hampers the spiritual development of many young people.
Daniel knew God had promised to deliver him and his people; he trusted God would be faithful to that promise; and he faithfully lived toward that end.
We hope you’ll be comforted by the Good News of Jesus, who knows what it is to live and serve in this broken world.
When we fix our eyes on the unseen promises of God, we can trust that no matter what happens on this earth, He is sovereign and He reigns.
Teaching in Matthew 11, Christina encourages parents and youth pastors to remember that Jesus’ work brings us rest.
Longfellow digs beneath his pain to something so engrained in him as a follower of Christ that it has to surface, even in the darkest of times: the Gospel.
If we over-fondly remember pre-pandemic “normal” as some kind of Eden we’ve been kicked out of, we risk sounding like the Israelites yearning for slavery in Egypt as they faced the privations of the desert.