Encouragement

Two disciples of Jesus were on a seven-mile journey of doubt and despair, becoming more hopeless with every step. Then a stranger joined them. “Why are you so sad?” He patiently listened to their woeful words about Jesus’ death three days earlier. They lamented...
“Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you [state your case] that you may be justified” (Isaiah 43:26). Looking over my sermon notes from 2003-2004, it’s easy to tell when I was battling with back pain, because my handwriting is hard to...