What’s Coming is Better Than What Has Been
“For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.” –Romans 8:18 How do we live in the tension of the hard things we go through in life and the beautiful hope and expectation of what’s to come? The...
What’s Coming is Better Than What Has Been
“For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.” –Romans 8:18 How do we live in the tension of the hard things we go through in life and the beautiful hope and expectation of what’s to come? The...
A Purpose to Suffering
Over the last few months, many of our friends and family members have walked through intense loss and suffering. The last few years have been difficult for many, and my guess is that you’re in a similar situation. There are very few who have been left unscathed....
Great is His Faithfulness
“But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope: The Lᴏʀᴅ’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end. They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant! “My portion is the Lᴏʀᴅ,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.”...
The Holiness of God
Lament is a powerful practice. As we express our pain to God, we also declare our faith in Him. When we cry out to Him, we recognize the way sin has caused pain and suffering in the world He created. Lament is a way to express our faith in Him, even while experiencing...
How Long, O Lord?
We packed the car in sunny South Florida before lunchtime and started the long drive to visit Aunt Beth in the mountains. Not long into the drive, I heard a loud voice growling out of a tiny body strapped into the car seat in the rear. “This is taking too l-o-n-g!” ...
Our Source of Strength
I recently asked a group of teenagers whether they thought the life of a Christian was easier and more trouble-free. Without hesitation, one of them answered, "Yes!" Unfortunately, this is not the case. I took the opportunity to share the truth that we all face...
An Important Calling
The Lord called my family to Myanmar to be missionaries. After we moved there, I quickly learned how difficult the language was, and I doubted my ability to learn it. However, God placed a desire in my heart to reach the women of Myanmar with His Word. I began...
Remembering Truth
“Then I said, I will appeal to this, to the years of the ’right hand of the Most High” I will remember the deeds of the Lᴏʀᴅ, yes, I will remember your wonders of old.” – Psalm 77:10-11 I have cried out to our Lord more in the last two years than any other time in my...
Introduction
No matter where we turn, suffering seems to be all around us. If we turn on the TV, it’s there in the nightly news stories. Each day we hear of more deaths, more fighting, and more discord—no matter the country, city, or people. If we go online, we see suffering in...
Trusting God Translations
The Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering study journal is currently available in 20 languages, with more in process! Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering for Kids is available for download in 12 languages! Help us spread our translations around the world by...
Materials Now Available!
We are one week away from our next study, Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering! We begin our Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering Bible study on Monday, May 2, and we couldn’t be more excited to dig into God’s Word with you! We're thrilled you've joined us to...
So Much More
It’s been quite a while since I was in high school, but I still clearly remember my English Literature teacher emphasizing the importance of how to start a piece of writing, and how to finish well. She insisted that we had to capture the readers’ attention, and then...
Life in His Name
“But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” –John 20:31 Friend, I am always in awe of God’s thoughtfulness and love for humankind by sending Jesus and inspiring His...
Go and Tell
Change and loss are a few of life's realities that I have become very familiar with over the last ten years. I remember the moment I received the call about my dad passing away, but I remember even more clearly the moments leading up to taking that dreaded phone call....
Why Good Friday is Good
“Why do we call it Good Friday? Jesus died, dying isn’t good?” I was asked this by a 7-year-old a couple of Easters ago. How would you have answered? So much of today’s reading is difficult, it's cruel, unfair, gruesome, it doesn’t seem good at all. However, we have...
The Cost of Eternal Life
As I sat down to read our passage for today, I knew I should read the whole chapter to get the context of Jesus’s words, but the enemy was distracting me and pulling my desire and attention away from God’s Word. Anything else seemed to be a better use of my time....
The Vine
“I can do it myself. Don’t worry about me.” These words have set the tone for more of my days than I'd care to admit. I like to consider myself a strong, independent woman. And although there is nothing wrong with this mindset, these thoughts of determined...
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” –John 14:6 Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m living in what my girls would call, “opposite days" when they were little. An “opposite day” was a day where everything that was...
Jesus the Servant
This passage of Scripture might be a familiar passage, recording when Jesus washed the disciples’ feet. But maybe it’s new to you. Either way, there’s something about reading the Word of God with fresh eyes to see what God is saying through the Word. Just before this...
Choices Matter
"But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in the One who sent Me, and the one who sees me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me should not remain in darkness.”...
Look for Christ and Find Him
In his noteworthy book Mere Christianity, theologian C.S. Lewis said: “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” ...
The Resurrection and the Life
Have you ever been in a situation that felt so dark and heavy, where there was little or no hope? For me, I just returned from overseas and some of the situations I saw with my own eyes felt hopeless. I sat across from brothers and sisters in Christ, praying for God...
Our Future is Secure
“My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.”–John 10:27–28 Though not originally from here, I live in a beautiful corner of the world called Northern...
The Door and the Shepherd
“I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good...
Now We See
If you lived in America in the 1980s and 1990s, you may remember when we rented movies (VCRs in my childhood) at Blockbuster. Many of the stores had posters that, on the surface, looked abstract or geometric, but they contained hidden 3D images. I’d stop to stare and,...
