The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
The Bible is filled with bounce back stories. These and many other Bible characters had foibles, weaknesses, and failures; however, they chose to get back up when life threw them a punch.
Simply put, God is in control! At times this may be difficult to see; however, His faithful know that how things appear on the surface does not bespeak spiritual reality. Eternally speaking, right will reign victorious because God is its Champion.
Life comes with struggle and suffering. Solomon said that for everything there is a season. Life has its ups and downs, but especially when we’re personally in “a down” it can feel like life is mostly made up of downs.
There are important lessons here. God’s people should always be a blessing to the world in which we live. We should be a blessing to our neighbors, to our community, to our city and nation.
God is consistently good, and is faithful in all that He has promised. He can answer our prayers.
There is one thing that successful people have in common: no debilitating fear of failure. From the baseball diamond to the boardroom, those who succeed build on mountains of unsuccess. The resilient Christian does well to learn valuable spiritual lessons from these secular schoolmasters.
Just when you thought 2020 could not get more intense, a vacancy opens on the Supreme Court. There is a silver lining found amidst the dark cloud of politics. As we watch the wrangling over this nomination, it provides a good opportunity to reflect on what it means to serve a Judge who exercises true justice.
We have had those troubles, various and difficult, that leave us lying awake at night. When we try to think, it only makes us moan. When we try to put it to words, we fail. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ felt similarly when he cried out on the cross, “My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?”
Things that seemed so important in the early years of life take on a different perspective as one grows older. One soon realizes that “life” is not the things that held sway over thoughts in the early years; instead, it is primarily the little things that can seem so mundane at the time.
