2 Keys to Surviving God’s Refining Fire
Every believer enters a season when God turns up the heat. Here’s how to keep the goal of the refinement process in view when going through the flames.
Every believer enters a season when God turns up the heat. Here’s how to keep the goal of the refinement process in view when going through the flames.
At the end of an exhausting day at work in a small Wisconsin town, diesel mechanic Bruce Van Natta needed to take one last look beneath the logging truck he was fixing. Little did he know it could have been the last thing he did—ever.
Faith Driven Consumer — The organization’s Faith-friendly film reviews, which use five specific criteria to measure the compatibility of entertainment products for Faith Driven Consumer audiences, finds that the new Sony/TriStar film HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, the story of a little boy’s journey to heaven and back, rates a solid faith-friendly 4 out of 5 stars.
Before I became a parent, I was pretty sure that training and disciplining a child would be easy. My child would do A, I would calmly respond with a well-thought-out and right-on-target B, and I would get result C—cheerful obedience or successful completion of the task. For the more stubborn issues, the process might repeat itself once or twice.
“Why am I doing this anyway?” I muttered under my breath while moving about my day. I was irritated. Not just a little, but a lot. Some days in ministry, serving other people is not really appealing. I have days like that less often now, but every now and then, I find myself asking this question again.
Let’s get right to the facts. A little under three years into my marriage, it was anything but roses.