Teaching by Tag: Pain
In the Beginning, Part 33: God Intended It for Good
You can trust God with the pain in your life, knowing that even though you may not see it now, God is working a good work beyond what you could imagine.
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Psalms: Getting to Know the Ways of God, Part 5 (Psalm 103)
Regardless of what I think, feel, or am experiencing, God is worthy to be praised for what He has done, is doing, and will do.
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A Better Peace
The worship of God leads to the peace of God.
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James: Living Out Our Faith, Part 1
The world’s currency is pleasure. God's currency is pain. In His grace, God leverages pain for our good and His glory.
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A Better Sight
There is a sight better than sight and a blindness worse than blindness. The greater miracle in John 9 is not the opening of the blind man’s eyes but the opening of his heart to Jesus.
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Depression and the Gospel
Until we see ourselves as emotionally & cognitively broken, we cannot empathize with the brokenness and suffering of others.
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Rooted: A Study of Deeper Faith in Colossians, Part 15
Everyone has a platform to proclaim the "mystery of Christ." What gospel inroads has God given you?
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Black Water
In the dark times of life, we are never alone – God teaches us things in the darkness that we would never have learned in the light. God is present and purposeful in our pain.
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The Missing Peace, Part 3
To wrap up our series on peace and peacemaking, Erik Palmer moderates a session with Jason VanDorsten and Jason Goetz to answer some of the questions that were submitted over the course of the series, including the topics of persecution, being salt and light, making peace with non-Christians, and more.
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Ruth: A Story of God’s Redemptive Love, Part 2
Both Ruth and Naomi experienced seasons of famine, departure, harvest and return – but one returned full of faith, the other full of bitterness. The mystery of pain and suffering in the hands of a sovereign and good God should lead us not to bitterness, but to greater faith in Him.
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Baggage: Carried On for a Reason
Whether from bad choices we’ve made or from circumstances beyond our control, we all have baggage. While our tendency is to want to “check those bags” and move on, Christ has a greater purpose for the pain in our lives. How might He use the baggage in your life for kingdom purposes?
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The Problem With Pain
Suffering is a given – it is a common bond we all have as human beings. The question is not if we will suffer, but how we will respond in suffering.
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