It's all about lemons this week! Biblical concepts like "rejoicing in suffering", "counting it all joy in trials", and "the testing of faith producing steadfastness", stand in stark contrast to popular worldly concepts of "self-help", "living your best life now", and "the power of positive thinking". Can lemonade be made from the lemons of life? Well, the Gospel of Jesus is the ultimate Lemonade story. Hope is very real and lemonade can be made, but it is our creator, Savior, and sustainer who makes it. Romans 5:1-5 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."