I’m putting the final touches on our study leading up to Easter—From Hurting to Hopeful: The Path of Peter. We’ll eat with him at the Passover meal. We’ll climb the Mount of Olives. We’ll turn our heads in shame when we hear the rooster crow for the third time. We’ll feel all the hurt…
Nothing brings hope to the hurting like the Easter story. Every year when it comes around, I feel myself exhale. I remember I’m not the only one walking a hard road. I think about the characters we meet and how their life experiences brought them to the place they were at the end of Jesus’s…
It’s hard for me to remember life before Jesus. I remember turning to Him at a young age. I remember trusting in Him to forgive my sins, to keep me from dating the wrong boys, and to help me make major life decisions. But now that I’m in a fairly uneventful day-to-day routine, sometimes I…