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Overcoming Shame and Walking in Biblical Assurance
Struggling with shame or doubts about your salvation? Discover how Scripture points believers away from past failures and toward assurance, freedom, and confidence in Jesus Christ.

Pastor Braden Pedersen
Oct 16 min read


Dry Bones: What Ezekiel's Strange Vision Says About Spiritual Deadness
Feeling spiritually dry or disconnected? Discover what Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones teaches about trusting God for renewal when your faith no longer feels alive.

Arnie Cole
Sep 293 min read


Finding Strength in God: Staying Rooted in Hard Seasons
Feeling spiritually exhausted or distant from God? Discover how Scripture can help you stay rooted in truth, persevere in prayer, and find strength in hard seasons.

Pastor Braden Pedersen
Sep 245 min read


When the Future God Promised Feels Far Away: A Word From Jeremiah for Hard Seasons
What does Jeremiah 29:11 really mean in hard seasons? Discover how its original context offers lasting hope when God’s promised future feels far away.

Arnie Cole
Sep 223 min read


When You’re Too Tired to Keep Going: What Isaiah Says to the Exhausted Believer
Too tired to keep going? Discover how Isaiah 40 encourages exhausted believers to stop relying on their own strength and wait on the God who never grows weary.

Arnie Cole
Sep 153 min read


When God Disappoints: How to Trust Him When Life Breaks Your Heart
How do you trust God when life breaks your heart? Discover how biblical lament, God’s steadfast character, and surrender can anchor your faith through disappointment.

Pastor Braden Pedersen
Sep 106 min read


How to Stop White-Knuckling Life and Find True Surrender
Tired of white-knuckling your way through life? Discover how biblical surrender can break the cycle of control, self-reliance, and exhaustion and help you trust God.

Back to the Bible
Sep 45 min read


Finding Strength in the Storm: How God’s Word Anchors You When Life Feels Overwhelming
Feeling overwhelmed? Discover how God’s Word provides strength, lasting joy, stability, and hope when life feels too heavy to carry on your own.

Pastor Braden Pedersen
Sep 35 min read


How to Overcome Fear and Find Strength in God's Word
Discover how God’s Word helps you overcome fear, trust His presence, face overwhelming challenges, and find strength when life feels uncertain.

Pastor Braden Pedersen
Aug 276 min read


Living in Hope when God Says, “Wait”
Why does God sometimes make us wait? Discover eight biblical truths that can strengthen your faith, deepen your trust, and give you hope in God’s timing.

Chuck Lawless
Aug 264 min read


Perseverance, Faith, and Real Change
Comedian Reno Collier opens up about addiction, faith, and the daily grit it takes to keep going. Here’s how trust in Jesus, honest community, and persistence shape real lasting change.

Back to the Bible
Nov 21, 20256 min read


Trusting God When Nothing Makes Sense (A Faith That Works)
If you’ve lived long enough on this Earth, you are well aware of this one fact: life doesn’t always follow a script we like or can even understand. Each one of us faces loss, confusion, disappointment. And in the silence, we often wonder where God is. In these moments, trusting Him can feel less like a firm conviction and more like clinging to a rope in the dark. But here’s the vital takeaway from those moments: the rope is real. And it holds. The Call to Trust Consider Pr

Arnie Cole
Oct 20, 20253 min read
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