Praying for Healing or Ending the Suffering?
Navigating prayer for healing and trusting God’s will can be challenging. Here’s how to balance faith, compassion, and understanding.
Navigating prayer for healing and trusting God’s will can be challenging. Here’s how to balance faith, compassion, and understanding.
What have you had to endure throughout the pandemic? How might you be hurting or suffering as we hit the 2-year mark? What wounds might you be carrying?
It’s common to hear us church-goers get into a heated debate over church politics, leadership structure, etc. Every once in a while, I’m reminded and humbled that the Church doesn’t just exist in our Western world circles. The Church is alive and active all over the world. Much of it, experiencing terrible persecution for their faith. In our Western culture, I wonder if and/or when we will experience persecution.
Job kept his integrity when his friends tore him down. Here’s what we can learn about staying righteous when people push us toward bitterness.
Job shows us how faith survives sudden loss, and James teaches us how endurance grows as we walk through suffering with God.
Will the Western church truly suffer for Christ—or are we just facing discomfort and cultural pushback?