“We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” -Acts 14:22 God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom […]

In this episode, Debbie and Josh return to discuss “Peace”—after a very challenging month of their life. Drawing from Scripture and personal trials, they dive into the importance of peace, and what it means to have a peace that surpasses all understanding. Photo by Paul Gilmore on Unsplash

“Take up the cross, and follow me.” -Mark 10:21 You have not the making of your own cross, although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making; neither are you permitted to choose your own cross, although self-will would fain be lord and master; but your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, […]

“I will never leave thee.” -Hebrews 13:5 No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When he openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one starving man […]

“The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power.” -Nahum 1:3 Jehovah “is slow to anger.” When mercy cometh into the world she driveth winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red hot with speed; but when wrath goeth forth, it toileth on with tardy footsteps, for God taketh no pleasure in the […]

“His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” -Genesis 49:24 That strength which God gives to his Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but which ends in smoke; […]

“Understandest thou what thou readest?” -Acts 8:30 We should be abler teachers of others, and less liable to be carried about by every wind of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Ghost, the Author of the Scriptures is he who alone can enlighten […]

“He hath said.” -Hebrews 13:5 If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God’s covenant? Will […]

Let the gospel be preached and the Spirit poured out, and you will see that it has such power to change the conscience, to ameliorate the conduct, to raise the debased, to chastise and to curb the wickedness of the race, that you must glory in it. I say, there is naught like the power […]

In this episode, Debbie and Josh discuss the fruit of “joy.” There is, and will be, so much in life we have to endure,  joy is the fruit that allows us to be able to hold on. Joy is given to all believers for them to be able to love God even through the worst […]