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Spoiler Alert

God's Plan, God's Promises, God's Will, Happy Ending, Hope, Spoiler, Story, Trials

The Christian life is not one without heartache and trial. You will not get to skip all of the conflict in your life’s story,…

The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament

Death, Evil, Hope, Lament, Lamenting, Pain, Patience, Perseverance, Reward, Sorrow, Suffering

In her book The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament, Aubrey Sampson shares her story of chronic, degenerative illness, the…

The Light of the Gospel

Darkness, Good News, Hope, Light, The Gospel

While someone may feel stuck, hopeless, and headed nowhere, the message of Jesus always changes lives. It doesn’t matter who the person is, where…

Like There’s No Tomorrow

Christ's Return, Ephesians 5:16, Hope, Purpose, Urgency

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, the main character (played by Bill Murray) is stuck in a time loop, doomed to experience the same…

A Lesson From The Crocus

Faith, God's Promises, Hope, Romans 8, Seasons, Trusting God

If you have ever lived in a place with harsh winters, you know that the coming spring is welcome with great anticipation. In some…

Tension

Already And Not Yet, Grief, Hope, Joy, Perseverance, Perspective, Suffering, Tension, Trials

Living with joy and hope amid pain requires an ability to live in tension. We can’t just deny the pain and pretend like all…

A Foretaste

Church, Community, Eternity, Foretaste, Hope, Now And Not Yet, Waiting

Christian communities are a place where we can have a foretaste of heaven here on earth. What’s a foretaste? Have you ever cooked bacon…

Waiting On God

Challenges, God's Timing, Growth, Hope, James 5:11, Micah 7:7, Overcoming, Proverb 3:5-6, Romans 12:12, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:25, Romans 8:28, Spiritual Growth, Testimony, Trials, Waiting, Waiting on God, Waiting on the Lord

Waiting is part of our ongoing walk with Jesus. We aren’t comfortable with waiting, because we feel like it’s pointless—or worse, that we are…

Restless In Waiting

Anchor, Colossians 1:11, Disappointment, Galatians 6:9, God's Character, God's Goodness, God's Promises, God's Sovereignty, God's Timing, Hope, Impatience, Isaiah 40:31, James 5:11, Lamentations 3:25, Micah 7:7, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 27:13-14, Psalm 33:20-22, Psalm 35:4-5, Restlessness, Romans 8:25, Timing, Trusting God, Waiting, Waiting on God, Waiting on the Lord

There’s a certain restlessness that comes in those times we find ourselves waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled. In the article, “Hope For…

Body and Soul

Body, Deuteronomy 4:29, Ephesians 1:7, Faithful, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 3:13, Hope, Joshua 22:5, Matthew 16:26, Matthew 22:37, Psalm 62:1, Redeem, Resurrect, Soul

“Not everything you read on the internet is true,” Abraham Lincoln is often quoted as saying. It’s a ridiculous claim intended to remind us…

Tested And Proven

1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 5:10, Attitude, Challenges, Endurance, Faith, Fire, genuine, Hope, James 1:12, James 1:2-3, James 5:10, Job 23:10, Persecution, Purity, Refinement, Refining, Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:18, Suffering, Tests, Trial

Our faith is not only tested, but it is tested to the point of being proven genuine. Persecution and suffering may feel like they…

Blessed Are The Unsatisfied

Desire, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Fallen World, Future Hope, Hope, Hunger, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 65:17, John 6:35, Material Things, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 5:6, Psalm 63:1, Redemption, Revelation 21:1-7, Romans 15:13, Romans 8:22-24, Satisfied, Thirst, Unsatisfied, Wealth

Writer Amy Simpson told a story a lot of us can relate to when she declared, “Blessed are the Unsatisfied.” She explained that for…

Tamed

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 1 John 5:4, Already And Not Yet, Conquer, Fallen World, Genesis 4:7, God's Love, Hope, John 16:33, Protection, Romans 8:37, Romans 8:38-39, Spiritual Attack, Tamed, Victory

Until Jesus comes again, we will still face threats of spiritual attack. But there’s an important way to distinguish these continued threats from the…

18 Faith Sermon Illustrations

Belief, Believing, Faith, Hope, Trusting God

Are you preaching on faith? Check out these great illustration ideas that bring biblical truths to life through word pictures, stories, and everyday examples….

God Restores

God's Work, Hope, New Life, Restoration, Salvation, Sanctification, Transformation

In Ephesians 1, Paul emphasizes God’s sovereignty and his work as a master planner who can restore a lost world back to right relationship (vv….

Seeing With New Eyes

Advent, Anticipation, Beauty, Christmas, Glorious, Hope, Isaiah 11:1-10, Isaiah 40:9-11, Isaiah 52:7-9, John 1:1-8, Psalm 89:1-4, Truth, Waiting, Watching, Wonder

Margaret Philbrick, author of Back to the Manger, shares about how seeing the Christmas season through the eyes of her children has opened her…

He’s Done Enough

Blessed, Debt, Ephesians 2:7, God's Kindness, Hope, Love, Prayer, Psalm 17:7, Psalm 36:7, Psalm 63:3, Repay, Source, Titus 3:4-6, Trust, Worship

“Sometimes I go to God and say, ‘God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still…

Miraculous Intervention

Belief, Change, Closer to God, Diagnosis, Fate, Hope, Intervention, Luke 18:27, Luke 9:16-17, Mark 10:27, Mark 6:49-50, Miracles, New Life, Psalm 139:13-14, Solitude

Though films about miracles and the miraculous abound, one example is Henry Poole Is Here. Henry, played by Luke Wilson, is diagnosed with a…

Persevering Through Darkness

1 Kings 18:21, Assurance, Choosing Christ, Darkness, Difficulty, Easy, Faithless, Galatians 1:10, Hardship, Hope, James 4:4, Matthew 6:24, Romans 8:7, Security, Trial

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We know that to choose Christ is not…