by Patrick Lai | May 31, 2021 | Challenges
Suffering, loss, affliction, pain. Job is a man who as much as any experienced the depths of loss and pain. Though a man of God, Job, experienced many losses, including the death of his 7 sons and 3 daughters, a large number of his slaves, the death and loss of his...
by Patrick Lai | May 11, 2021 | Challenges
This post is contributed by a former worker in Turkey. Master, we are perishing… And Jesus said to them, “Where is your faith?” (Luke 8:24–25). When I read the account of Jesus calming the sea in Luke 8, I was struck by his response to the disciples. They express to...
by Patrick Lai | May 3, 2021 | Challenges, Excellence, Success
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Have ever felt like Paul in this passage? Disappointments, obstacles, failures, conflicts, struggles...
by Patrick Lai | Nov 9, 2020 | Challenges
Last week Phillip Walton was kidnapped by a gang of Muslims in Niger and held for ransom. This gang had been terrorizing families in the region for at least one year. U.S. Navy Seals killed the 6 Muslims who held Phillip and safely rescued him. Here’s another...
by Patrick Lai | May 18, 2020 | Challenges, Success
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who [ i ] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformedto the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many...
by Patrick Lai | Apr 13, 2020 | Challenges
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, 2 will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” 3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; 4 he will...
