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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…
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“So it was not you who sent me here, but God…” Genesis 45:8, ESV Sold into slavery by his own brothers, who moments before had plotted to murder him, thrown into prison by a false accusation, and forgotten by those he helped… Joseph’s faith was hard fought. Joseph’s journey to fulfill the dream the Lord…
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Episode 2 Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6825bp3PAch9QS9JreJI4m?si=9DtEDGYsRPqkwqAf2LrQJg Called by the Lord to traverse the jungles and remote villages of the mission field, Pastor Glen followed Jesus to the vulnerable and lost. The Lord brought about the incredible salvation of hearts in oppressed and unreached villages. Despite a diagnosis contracted from the toxic waters of the mission field,…
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“Then he was afraid…” (1 Kings 19:3, ESV) Elijah, who’d confronted kings, stood in singularity as the Lord destroyed the prophets of Baal, prayed over the lifeless body of a child until his breath was restored… was afraid. Elijah’s faith witnessed God’s incredible intervention. But here he was, afraid. “I have had enough, Lord,’ he…
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Episode 1 Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jcgHUi2spviLUTKVsIOVs?si=fZM7LO6ZRwa4zgqdJ8Vlpg