Ride With Purpose

8. How can difficult trials grow your faith? - Dr. Joe Jackson


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Dr. Joe Jackson is the Pastor at Community Baptist Church in Lansing, Michigan. As a pastor and a Christian Counsellor, he has grown in knowledge understanding. Yet, through the difficult trials in his life is where God helped him truly learn wisdom and dependance on Him.

Throughout this episode, we uncover the story of Pastor Joe's testimony and the most challenging parts of his faith.

And for this episode only, we are giving away his book called, "Helping a starving soul." This book, which was inspired from his PhD Thesis, examines the need to stop filling our souls with junk and instead fill them with true nourishment.

0:00 Introduction


0:32 Joe's Family Life & Finding Christ Early in Life


6:39 Trial 1 - Degenerative Arthritis & What Joe Learned


12:40 Trial 2 - Joe's Mother's Passing & What Joe Learned


16:12 Complaining is Toxic


18:39 Joe's High School Life & Struggles


23:20 How God Reminds Joe to be Grateful


25:09 How Joe Met His Wife


32:28 Knowledge vs Wisdom


33:15 Trial 3 - COVID & Near Death Experience


42:00 God is The Best Author


44:16 Helping A Starving Soul


55:32 Filtering What You Mentally Ingest


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Ride With PurposeBy Elie Samaha