by OakAdmin | Jul 25, 2025 | Comfort and Grief, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Persecution, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, The Holy Spirit
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.” Romans 8:18-19 Suffering and sorrow are simply...
by OakAdmin | Jul 18, 2025 | Assurance of Salvation, Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Identity, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Persecution, Prayer, Repentance, Scripture, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, The Holy Spirit
“But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not...
by OakAdmin | Jul 11, 2025 | Church News, Comfort and Grief, Discipline, Identity, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, The Holy Spirit, Theology, Unity
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 After extended teaching on spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 12) and a beautiful poem about love (ch. 13), Paul summarizes the key Christian virtues as...
by OakAdmin | Jul 6, 2025 | Comfort and Grief, Discipline, Identity, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, The Holy Spirit
Image made with ChatGPT “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” John...
by OakAdmin | Jul 4, 2025 | Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual Growth, Theology
“Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.” Psalm...
by OakAdmin | Jul 1, 2025 | Assurance of Salvation, Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, Theology
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Suffering is not optional in this world. All of us will have our share (and then some) of sorrow and...
