Daniel remained faithful to God throughout his entire life, and he was still met with a culture that was hostile toward his faith, his values, and his God. How did he respond when his lifetime of faithfulness was rewarded with rejection and betrayal?

We live in a culture that's spiritually starving, just like Daniel did when he lived in Babylon. God was able to use him in incredibly influential ways as he provided answers to many of the spiritual questions Babylon was asking. How will God be able to use us?

We've all experienced moments where we've had to choose between our values and doing what's "easiest." In these times, how do we pray and what do we believe God for? Daniel and his friends faced the exact same situation, and there's a lot we can learn from their response to it.

As followers of Jesus, we're not immune to the crises and problems life throws at us. Instead of responding to them with fear, we can learn from Daniel's example and begin to respond to life's struggles with courage and faith.

Our culture is continuously shifting, and it can be tempting to define ourselves, our success, and our actions by what culture looks like. Daniel faced the same struggle but he chose to live a life built on something much more stable than the culture that surrounded him.

We can choose to base our hope on any number of things, and in an election season it's easy to put hope in politics and policies. When we put our hope in Jesus instead, we have hope that can't be swayed or overcome.

Finding hope can be difficult when we're looking at our financial lives. By changing our perspective when it comes to money, we can find hope in te knowledge that God is our ultimate provider.

Suffering is unavoidable, and it's easy to feel hopeless in our suffering. But God is able to use our suffering to produce amazing and beautiful things not just in our lives, but in the lives of the people around us.

God created marriage to be a picture of the kind of relationship He wants with us. He intends marriage to be a restorative and transformational experience, but for many of us that vision doesn't match up with our reality. Through Jesus, we have hope that we can begin to change that trend.

Saying "yes" to God's call for our lives means saying "no" to something else. How do we stay the course of pursuing our callings in the face of the loss that we can experience because of it?