The Purpose of Trials

Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you. But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His gory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed,…

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The Parable of the Sower Part I/Going Through Trials and Depression

In the parable of the sower found in Matthew 13 and Luke 8, Jesus talks about four different types of soil that describe four different conditions of a person’s heart.  He says the seed is the word of God and the first type of soil he describes is the traveled road (or hardened ground; this…

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