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Good Samaritan

Awareness, Good Samaritan, Living Like Jesus, Love, Parable, Patience

In 1971, two Princeton psychologists staged an experiment. They took forty seminarians and told them they were going to record their sermons. Half were…

Unwanted Gift

Gifts, Patience, Seasons, Waiting, Waiting on God

As we wait, it sometimes feels like our groom has given us a blender, like fiancé Brian gave his betrothed for their eight-month anniversary…

Waiting Time

Patience, Technology, Time, Waiting, Waiting on God

Generally speaking, we are bad at waiting. Our tech usage is one way we recognize our growing inability to wait for anything, but as…

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…

Patience Is A Fruit

Fruit of the Spirit, Impatience, Patience, Technology, Waiting

A recent study of two thousand British people found that our pursuit of more knowledge has made us impatient. The availability of information at…

Practicing Patience

Loving Others, Patience, Practice, Selfishness, Selflessness, Spiritual Growth

Patience is hard work. Just consider your own driving practices—how it’s hard to wait for the slow person with their turn signal on to…

Plot Twist

Care, Loving God, Patience, Psalms, Relationships

Have you ever seen a good plot twist in a movie? This is when you think the plot is heading one direction, when all…

Rate of Success

Effort, God's Plan, God's Will, Growth, Patience, Preparation, Process, Quick Fix, Sanctification

Isn’t it incredible to think that, in our day, we have access to just about anything and can get just about anything we want…

Boiling Point

Anger, Disobedience, God's Character, God's Sovereignty, God's Wrath, Mercy, Patience, Slow to Anger, Wrath

Imagine a pot of water, full to the brim, boiling on the stove. The water in the pot goes through several stages of heat…

Fishing For You

1 Corinthians 10:13, Bait, Ephesians 4:27, Ephesians 6:11, Fishing, Hebrews 2:18, James 1:12, James 4:7, Lure, Mark 14:38, Matthew 26:41, Patience, Spiritual Life, Temptation, The Devil

Have you ever been fishing? Patience is a key virtue to good fishermen. It’s hard to be a good fisherman and have “fisherman’s ADD.”…

A Worthwhile Suffering

1 Peter 4:12-19, 1 Peter 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Endurance, Eternity, Glory, Pain, Patience, Priceless, Revelation 21:4, Reward, Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:18, Romans 8:28, Suffering, Trials, Value, Worth

“Would you go through all the pain of childbirth again, just to be able to have that beautiful child of yours?” For most mothers,…

The Gospel Is Love

Christ's Love, Ephesians 2:4-5, Fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 2:20, Gospel, John 15:9-17, John 3:16, Kindness, Love, Lover Our Enemies, Loving Others, Patience, Psalm 136:26, Psalm 86:15, Romans 5:2-5, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:37-39

At the heart of the gospel is love. God so loved the world he sent his Son, Jesus, to die on the cross (John…

Invitation To Wait

1 Corinthians 1:7, Hebrews 9:28, Humility, Isaiah 30:18, James 5:7-8, Luke 12:35-40, Patience, Preparation, Psalm 123:2, Psalm 25:5, Psalm 27:14, Psalm 37:7, Romans 8:23, Training, Waiting on the Lord

When a collegiate athlete is recruited to redshirt for a team, it means that the freshman athlete will have to wait to officially get…

Think Before You Tweet

Colossians 4:6, Ephesians 4:29, Evidence, Example, Humility, Leadership, Listening, Matthew 15:11, Patience, Proverbs 15:4, Proverbs 29:20, Temperance, Thoughtful, Wisdom, Witness

In an editorial for Christianity Today, Richard Clark writes of the tendency for everyone to weigh in on social media after tragedies occur, for…

Dramatic Irony

2 Peter 3:10, Acts 1:10-11, Faith, Faithfulness, Hidden Things, Judgment, Luke 21:34-36, Matthew 24:36, Patience, Revelation 20:11-15, Studying Scripture, Surrendering, Thanksgiving, The Second Coming, Trusting God

The video below provides a great definition of dramatic irony—when an audience is in on a secret that the characters in a story don’t…

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