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Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZhAgUKdNE7tmLzDsq9Pvl?si=B5kG-_URSWuVuDbNQFY3GQ THE HARD FOUGHT FAITH PODCAST 7 Sometimes hard hurts because it feels like a punishment. Why does it keep coming if God loves me? Tammy is no stranger to what it means to live through pain. Abused by her father, dealing with self-image, falling in love with her husband only to watch…
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Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters And the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.…
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Listen Now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6unTj6SM2vFX7dysfvUcb9?si=L_NCjNppRvqXtqL458dI_w THE HARD FOUGHT FAITH PODCAST 6What if the thing you’re holding on to is actually the thing weighing you down? Anthony, after losing his mother at a young age, spiraled. He lived his life chasing the things that felt good and living by his own rules. Life was fast… and “aimless”. Wrestling…
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“Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13, ESV I’ve watched many depictions of the horrors of the battlefield. The ones of men crawling across the beaches of Normandy…
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Episode 5 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1W3ZoMx60H0f7oA3GJQmxa?si=BQIU3FW6RPmRLMQhPMzHKw “But I get to see them all again.” What do you do when you, the child, become the one caring for your ailing parent? Dana’s hard-fought faith wasn’t a single season of endurance, but being a caregiver to both her father and mother—while walking alongside both her brother and husband’s…
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This week, I wanted to sit with you and share something I have been learning about the hard-fought faith: The hard-fought faith isn’t always forged in the fire of the long and difficult seasons, but also in those moments where we have to intentionally take our eyes off the distractions… the lies of the enemy……
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“…But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” Luke 15:20 ESV The wilderness is disquieting. When walking in that season of pain, I penned lyric after lyric describing how it felt trudging through high waters, the sting of fire burning around me,…
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Episode 4 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iaGAAc26LRD7JIz58uMEF?si=LQB4Pyb4RNeBfo1_NPzdFQ Trapped under a burning truck… hearing the crushing news that a friend had died without ever telling him about Jesus…leaving behind a lucrative job for the unknown in ministry…finding out that the housing his family needed was going away- God used each of these moments to call Pastor Jason to…
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“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19, ESV Wilderness wandering. Desert land. Valleys. We draw pictures of hardship during seasons of testing, refining, and persecution through images of entangled vines, endless…
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Episode 3 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1f926yGCyuDNJZ5XOXPpSh?si=dIRbJDFST32q2zhnFowPKw Just as her family was stepping out in faith to attend Bible college, Tianna’s unexplained symptoms culminated in a life-changing diagnosis—one with no cure. A rare illness, constant hospital stays, blood transfusions, and ultimately a transplant marked the years that followed. As a wife, mother of three, and believer facing…