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Born Mary Flannery O’Connor, she’s best known as Flannery O’Connor, one of the American South’s most celebrated writers. Her stories brim with suffering and grace. When her beloved father died of lupus when she was fifteen, a devastated O’Connor threw herself into writing her first novel. Soon she herself was diagnosed with lupus, an incurable disease that took her life at thirty-nine. O’Connor’s writing reflects her physical and mental anguish. Novelist Alice McDermott said, “It was the illness I think that made her the writer that she is.”

We don’t know what the apostle Paul’s “thorn” was (2 Corinthians 12:7), though many have offered conjecture. We do know that Paul said, “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me” (v. 8). We also know God didn’t do so (v. 9). This humbled Paul. He notes how it kept him “from becoming conceited” (v. 7). Paul’s thorn formed him and made him the apostle that he was. But the thorn wasn’t all, for with the thorn came God’s sufficient grace and perfecting power, so the tormented apostle could declare, “When I am weak, then I am strong” (v. 10).

The thorns in our lives, whatever they may be, form us. They make us who we are. But the thorns aren’t all there is. As Paul and Flannery O’Connor and countless others have witnessed over the long arc of human history: God’s grace is sufficient for us.

Segment 1

• Do people have to hear the name “Jesus” to be saved—and how were Old Testament believers saved? – Anonymous

• Does the Bible actually teach anything on an “age of accountability”? – Skylar

Segment 2

• If baptism makes you a Christian, did Jesus become a Christian when He was baptized? – Anonymous

• What does it really mean to be made in the image of God? – John

Segment 3

• Can a disqualified pastor ever serve in the church again—and if so, how? – Jacob

Segment 4

• Is the church embracing AI tools too quickly? – Paul

• My adult son is exploring Catholicism. How should I respond? – Sandy

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Carl and Cathy share their childhood memories of Christmas and how they have been inspired by the generosity and hospitality displayed by their parents.

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