Jan 6, 2022 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Suffering, Surrender
Will Anyone Miss Me? If you have ever felt like that, then you can relate to Hagar’s heartbreak. After Hagar is used by Abraham and Sarah to conceive a son, it doesn’t take long before conflict arises. Hagar is disrespectful toward Sarah; Sarah bullies Hagar,...
Sep 8, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Character of God, Suffering
“And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. . .” (Genesis 38:7) Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. She lived in a society where girls were married young and expected to begin producing children shortly thereafter. As if that were not...
Apr 2, 2021 | Evil & Satan & Sin, Poems, Suffering
If you’ve watched the news or scrolled through social media lately, you know that we live in a hurting world. A world where Christians are persecuted and imprisoned for their faith. Where adults and children are enslaved in human trafficking. Where innumerable...
Apr 1, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Follow Christ (Count the Cost), Sacrifice, Suffering
On a moonlit night at the garden of Gethsemane many years ago, blood, sweat, and tears poured forth from Jesus’s body as He prayed – but something else penetrated the veil of darkness that night: the sweet aroma of Mary’s perfume … In Old...
Jun 21, 2019 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Evil & Satan & Sin, Perseverance, Suffering
(This article is also featured on CBN.com) Abuse? Alcoholism? Bullying? Do you believe God can’t use all the broken pieces of your past? Think again. During my seminary studies, I was fascinated by a story of a missionary named Mary Slessor. In the jungles of Africa,...
Oct 10, 2017 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Courage, Perseverance, Suffering
Sometimes God leads us down a hard road not in order to make us stronger, but to bring us into a deeper and more intimate dependence on Him. He knows that it is only in Him where we find true strength. For Hagar, it is at the end of a hard road in the middle of a...