There is no guarantee that once we place our faith in the hands of Jesus, that our lives will suddenly, magically improve. In fact, we often find that it's quite the opposite. But a life following Jesus is not built on the outcome of our circumstances, no matter how shaky and unstable they may become. And in part six of our series I Don't Know What I Believe, we explain how to keep our confidence when our circumstances are under attack.

God is our provider and gives us power to create wealth - for our needs and his purposes.

Most of us would feel more confident about what we believed if all we had to do was memorise the right vocabulary and understand the right concepts. But God never intended for life to be an exam we passed just by simply knowing the right things.

A lot of us wish that our lives as Jesus followers were a constant stream of never-ending blessing... like God is some sort of celestial Ellen, giving away all His favorite things. We get the parking spot. We get the tax refund. We get green lights and clear skies. But if that's our view of God, then how are we supposed to deal with everything that doesn't turn out just right? When we hurt, and grieve, and suffer. How are we supposed to find God there? In part four of our conversation I Don't Know What I Believe we look at the issue of suffering, and how God ultimately intends to use it in our lives for our good and His glory.

In addition to our first ten percent giving, God calls us to give to spaces and places. Our expression is Building The Future.

Paul's instruction to the early church gives us a great pattern to follow with our giving to God - Priority, Proportional, Prepared

God is in control. It sounds nice and it makes a great bumper sticker - but do we really believe it? How can God, and all His infinite power, love, and grace, coexist in a world with cancer, divorce, human trafficking, and genocide? How can God possibly be in control when life often feels very much the contrary? Here we explain how God and His sovereignty give us a hope to cling to during the most tumultuous seasons of our lives.

Our first ten percent giving is both a goal and a minimum. We first resource our local church, and stretch our faith and generosity beyond that to impact people beyond our four walls.

If we truly believe what the Bible says about God's love, what Jesus did for us, and who we are in Him - why then so often do our lives not reflect that? We believe our salvation is secure, but what is keeping us from experiencing the life-changing sanctification that God has called us to? Today we examine areas of our lives that can easily derail us from living a Holy life.

God loves us. He has rescued us and He has a plan for us. These are some of the foundational statements our faith found in scripture. And when we read these words, it fuels our faith. We want to believe God is good. But we don't live in a perfect vacuum. So what happens when the circumstances of our lives don't align with what God says? How do we keep our faith in the midst of struggles and pain and trials? Here we talk about how to establish a deep-rooted confidence in Jesus, able to withstand lives that can shake us at our foundation.