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Combine all the authority that kings, presidents, and dictators have had throughout history, and it pales in comparison to Christians ruling with Christ in the world to come.

Combine all the authority that kings, presidents, and dictators have had throughout history, and it pales in comparison to Christians ruling with Christ in the world to come.

Mosquitos kill millions, massive floods destroy cities, earthquakes destroy countries. With the chaos of creation harming us, do humans really have dominion?

God conquers his foes by weak babies and rules the world with weak men. He is more likely to use your weaknesses for his glory than your strengths.

God conquers his foes with babies and rules his world through the frailty of man, all to demonstrate the splendors of his majesty.

Wars rage, cancer lingers, and suffering remains so that we all might know how horrible sin really is.

For God’s children, all suffering is light compared to the weight of the glory coming, and all affliction is temporary compared to eternal bliss.

Satan loves to lie to us in our suffering. He tells us that God must be against us if he would allow us to experience pain, the experience of discipline really proves that we are children.

If you who are evil know how to embrace your children when they cry, how much more will your heavenly Father embrace those who run to him in their pain?

When we suffer, we often cast ourselves as the victims. When Jesus was asked about suffering, he called a world of sinners to repent.

The final chapter in any book is often the best, and yet many Christians do not rejoice in Revelation because it can be hard to understand. In this lab, Pastor John helps us read the last pages of Scripture.

Revelation can be difficult to interpret. In this lab, Pastor John illustrates how to begin to understand the symbols, and apply them to life today.

We can lose our love for one another. One comment, one moment, one interaction can put out the flame of our affection. But can our love for God be extinguished?

Every Christian tastes and sees that God is good. Then we suffer and witness to a dying world, hoping that they might taste and see the same.

Heartache, brokenness, and death may mark our biological families, but God’s grace creates a new family that death, disease, and disaster cannot shake.