Adversity Archive

  • Such is Life

    Such is Life

    Sometimes life gets rough. 1 Peter 1:6, In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, greatly rejoice means to be exceedingly glad, exuberantly jubilant. This kind of joy is not based on changing, temporal...

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  • You Can’t Hook Leviathan by the Nose

    You Can’t Hook Leviathan by the Nose

    Excerpt: In the pride and presumptuousness of our humanity, we all feel like that there must be some way to tame the evil that both surrounds and permeates us. We all cling to the hope that there must be some method, if not to avoid...

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  • Great Moments at Torrey Pines

    Great Moments at Torrey Pines

    **UPDATE** Because Tiger sank that incredible twelve footer, tickets went on sale for the Monday 18-hole playoff. Yep… I grabbed three and will take my boys! What a Father’s Day gift from Tiger!! Watch for me on TV. I will be the guy wearing a...

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  • Calling a Spade a Spade

    Calling a Spade a Spade

    “The Gospel According to Job” Blogpost #4by JasonThe fact is everybody has a breaking point, the end of his rope. He abandons all restraint. He doesn’t necessarily abandon his faith; he just gets thoroughly sick and tired of trying to put a good face on...

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  • Job’s Wife

    Job’s Wife

    “The Gospel According to Job” Blogpost #3by Jason Job lost everything. So did his wife. Have you ever thought about Mrs. Job? She too had experienced the same loss as her husband had. She too experienced the pain of losing her wealth and lively hood,...

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  • Facing a Church Split — as the Pastor

    Facing a Church Split — as the Pastor

    Listen to “Certainties that Drive Enduring Ministry, Pt.1″ preached yesterday at the Desiring God Conference. Listen to Dr. MacArthur speak of church splits and even eldership splits within his church over the years. Dr. Mac tells of the things he learned by reading about Paul’s...

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  • Lesson of the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

    Lesson of the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

    Jesus said in Luke 13:4-5 – “Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will...

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