Series — Refined by Fire: Walking Through Suffering with Christ — Post 6 When we think of worship, we often picture raised hands in a church service, or sweet music flowing through peaceful moments. But Scripture gives us a deeper, more powerful image: worship rising from a dungeon. The Midnight Hour In Acts 16, Paul and Silas had…
When God Brings Beauty from Brokenness Series — Refined by Fire: Walking Through Suffering with Christ — Post 5 He Restores What the Fire Consumes There are times in every believer’s life when the pain feels total — when the loss is so deep, the devastation so real, that nothing looks redeemable. Hopes are burned…
Series — Refined by Fire: Walking Through Suffering with Christ — Post 2 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”— Philippians 3:10 Introduction There is a kind of knowing that only comes through suffering. Paul did not seek suffering…
Series — Refined by Fire: Walking Through Suffering with Christ — Post 1 “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.” — Psalm 107:29“But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” — Job 23:10 Introduction Some storms pass quickly….
(Job 16–17 | Chapter XII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…” —Job 13:15 (KJV, echoing the tone of Job 16–17) Job opens with words that should humble every would-be comforter: “Miserable comforters are ye all.” (16:2) He’s no longer hoping his friends will help.He…