Week #20 - Understanding Trials

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter, various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.    James 1:2-4

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. Hebrews 5-8

 

Greeting and introduction from Men at the Cross Founder, Joe White.

 
1. In 1983, a young man was born with no arms and no legs. Some wondered IF he would live. Some wondered HOW he would live. Nobody imagined the passion with WHICH he would live... What trials have you faced of late, and have you allowed them to propel you forward or draw you back? How have you seen God at work in those times?
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2. Wesley has a fear of the water because he's never learned how to swim. Mattie uses a less than conventional method to help him solve the issue. When has God ever used a trial to give you the nudge you needed to realize that your fears were unfounded or irrational? 
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3. How does what you're going through right now remind you of this depiction of Superman? Describe your source of strength that is taking you through the fire.   
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4. Like a grain of sand causes the irritation that makes a pearl, how can you use the crisis or challenges that are or have attacked you in your life to move you forward and be a benefit to others, as Gary Smalley references in this video?


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