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What do you do when you're desperate? Continuing our study through 1 Samuel, Pastor Doug Sauder unpacks 1 Samuel 22-24, where we find David is on the run! Learn how to fight spiritual battles in the face of fatigue and depletion and how to walk through these hard seasons in a way that honors the Lord and doesn't lead to moral compromise.

As we wake up in this universe, we’re in an unfolding story. From Genesis through Revelation, God's grand narrative presents six acts: Creation, Fall, Israel, Redemption, Church, and Renewal. In this message, Pastor Philip Miller illuminates how understanding God’s story helps us discover our own place within it. What’s your place in the story?

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Sri Lanka is the teardrop-shaped island nation in the Indian Ocean in South Asia. Seven of 10 Sri Lankans identify as Buddhists, and other prominent religious affiliations include Hinduism and Islam. In the aftermath of the country's civil war that claimed thousands of lives, people are looking for real answers to life's challenges.

And even though the Christian community makes up only a small percentage of the country's population of 22 million, God is truly at work through Bible League programs and believers like Amir Gideon who is reaching others for Jesus Christ. Hear how this remarkable church planter personally leads three churches and eight Bible studies and has the vision for even more.

Join host Michael Woolworth and his Bible League colleagues -- Jason Lauthers, Bobby Thomas and Ryan Castillero -- to learn more about their recent trip to Sri Lanka. Subscribe and invite others to listen with you. Length: 24:45.

“Do you want to see my scar?” My friend Bill had been paralyzed from the chest down after falling off a ladder years ago, and now he was in the hospital for a severe infection acquired during a surgery. As we discussed his new challenge, he lifted his blanket to show me the long incision made to treat his infection. “Does it hurt?” I asked. “I can’t feel it at all,” he said.

As soon as he said it, I felt convicted. During all the years I’d known him as a friend, I’d been unaware that his injury prevented both his mobility and ability to feel. I was embarrassed that I hadn’t had more empathy for him and his injury to better understand what he faced daily.

My lack of thoughtfulness about my friend reminds me of something King Hezekiah of Judah did. When the prophet Isaiah told him that everything in his palace would one day “be carried off to Babylon,” and his own descendants “taken away” (2 Kings 20:17-18), Hezekiah was pleased. “For he thought, ‘Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?’ ” (v. 19). Even though he was a good king, Hezekiah was focused more on himself than on what others would face.

How different is God. “This is love,” John wrote, “not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son” (1 John 4:10) to save us. God cares so deeply for us that He suffered for us, so that we might live in His love forever.

Marriage struggles. Parenting problems. Singles issues. It’s all up for discussion on this Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman. Once a month we open the lines for your questions for this trusted author of the New York Times Bestseller, the Five Love Languages. The problems discussed may help you with a struggle you’re facing. Don’t miss the questions and answers on Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman. 

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A brand new teaching series starts today on Moody Presents.  Join Dr. Mark Jobe, president of the Moody Bible Institute as he takes us right to Jonah 1:1 to reflect and learn from a man that desired to run from God!  But...the chase is on because, God has a heart for rebels.  Do you have someone in your life that is running from God, perhaps it's you!  Let's join Pastor Mark and run into the storm.

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Series: "Give us Life - Revival"

- Psalm 42 / Are we thirsty to know God better? To know His Word? To make his Gospel known to those around us? Dr. Crawford Loritts shares five ways to cultivate a thirst for God in the second half of his message, “Thirst – It’s a Matter of Life and Death.”

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Anxious about a health issue my teenage niece had, I was relieved when I heard of a promising natural remedy. My sister, however, felt it might cause side effects, based on her daughter’s medical history. I wanted to argue but refrained. No matter how concerned I was about my niece, I had to defer to her mom’s authority.

Later, a doctor told us, “That natural remedy would’ve caused a strong allergic reaction.” When it comes to my niece’s welfare, her mom truly knows what’s best for her─in ways that I don’t.   

I remember this incident when I’m anxious about other loved ones, asking God to help them the way I think they should be helped. I remember that God, who loves them and knows them infinitely more than I do, knows best.

In Isaiah 55:9, God says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.” The Hebrew word for ways means “journey” or “manner.” God’s wisdom and manner of doing things aren’t just different from ours; they’re infinitely greater. The journey He plans for a loved one may not be what we want, but we can trust Him to work in their lives as He sees best.

Let’s keep entrusting those we love to God by “present[ing our] requests to God” (Philippians 4:6). He alone is perfect in love, mercy, wisdom, and sovereignty (Isaiah 55:3, 7-11).