May 15, 2023
May 21 | Discovery
Questions for group discussion for use with this week’s lesson titled “Wounded” (Lamentations 1:1, 10-18; 2:5-14, 17, 20-21).
Articles for tag: Hope in Suffering
February 14, 2022
Feb. 20 | Application
Psalm 44 puts into words the failure and frustration we often feel. As such, it provides an important backdrop for Romans 8.
March 4, 2014
Brighter Days Ahead?
By Mark A. Taylor For the person enduring dark times, the biblical story of Joseph can be an inspiration. As a young man he went from favored son to captured slave to a position of authority to years in prison and then, finally, to his place as the second-in-command to the Egyptian pharaoh. When my men”s Bible study looked at his life, we focused on the happy ending to Joseph”s many years of recurring disappointments and confusion. What”s the lesson for our lives today? Our study guide pointed us to a verse Christians love to quote: “In all things God
March 31, 2010
This, too, Shall Pass
By Mark A. Taylor After one of the roughest winters in memory for many Christian Standard readers, Easter and the promise of spring couldn”t have come too soon. Even as we finish preparing this issue the first week of March, the lawns of our city are still half-covered with snow. Huge hills of the stuff””dirtied by car exhaust and gravel””still tower on the edges of many parking lots. It”s difficult for us to imagine little girls in pastel dresses posing in front of daffodils and Easter lilies as we hurry about our business still trying to shrug off the cold. But we
