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Theology Of Suffering #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #inchrist #suffering #theology

Worthy Walk #RTTBROS #Nightlight

Nobody Noticed #RTTBROS #Nightlight "For who hath despised the day of small things?" — Zechariah 4:10 On May 14, 1804, thirty-three men quietly pushed off from a muddy riverbank in Illinois and started paddling west. No crowd gathered to watch. No newspaper covered it. No one gave a speech. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark simply looked at each other, gave the order, and the Corps of D...

The Seventh Look #RTTBROS #Nightlight "Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly...and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." — James 5:17-18 There's something in this passage I've never been able to shake loose from my heart. James makes the point that Elijah was no superhero. He was a man of "li...

The Spirit Of Fear #RTTBROS #Nightlight

Who Are You? #RTTBROS #Nightlight You Are Not Your Diagnosis (On identity and mental health, drawing on Tim Clinton and the Soul Care Bible's core message) You Are Not Your Diagnosis "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate...

Held By What You Cannot See #RTTBROS #Nightlight

Silencing the Accuser #RTTBROS #Nightlight "Neither give place to the devil." — Ephesians 4:27 I came across something recently that stopped me cold. A woman on a Christian video channel called Praise & Pastries with Amber Mercad. She was sharing something most of us have felt but rarely say out loud, the voice that whispers doubt into your ear at the worst possible moment. You know...

pastoral prayer for anxiety and depression #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

Joni's Secret #RTTBROS #Nightlight (Biographical, based on Joni Eareckson Tada's contributions to the Soul Care Bible and her life story) "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." — 2 Corinthians 12:9 In the summer of 1967, a seventeen-year-old girl dove into the Chesapeake Bay and in an instant, her life changed forever. The water was shallo...

The Prophet Under the Juniper Tree #Nightlight #RTTBROS #Depression #Sadness #Prayer (On depression, drawing on Charles Swindoll's pastoral insight and the Soul Care Bible) "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die." — 1 Kings 19:4 If you had to pick the last person you'...

The Walking Dead #RTTBROS #Nightlight #Faith #Grace #Eternity

SHOW NOTES Episode Title: When the Music Stopped Nightlight with RTTBROS Episode Description: Tonight on Nightlight, we look at the life of Ira Sankey, the great gospel singer who couldn't see what God was doing until everything fell apart. If you've ever been in a season where nothing made sense and the path forward was hidden, this practical biblical wisdom from Proverbs 3 is for you. We...

RTTBROS Nightlight Devotion Praying for Our Children — Relinquishing Control "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." — Psalm 55:22 There is a moment every parent knows. The house goes quiet, the children are in bed, and you lie there running through everything you couldn't fix today. The conversation that went sidew...

Remember The End #NIGHTLIGHT #RTTBROS #Christ #Eternity #Heaven

The Ache That Won't Go Away (Inspired by Larry Crabb's insight on the soul's deep longings) The Ache That Won't Go Away #RTTBROS #Nightlight "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death." — Matthew 26:38 You know, one of the most honest things I've ever heard a Christian counselor say stopped me right in my tracks. Larry Crabb, one of the contributors to the Soul...

Power Supply #RTTBROS #Nightlight #Holyspirit #Power #God

A Light of Hope #RTTBROS #Nightlight "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:5 KJV You know, sometimes life just piles on the shadows, doesn't it? You can be in a stretch of days, or a season, where the weight of things feels so overwhelming, it’s like the sun forgot to rise, and the darkness is a tangible thing all around you. I was thinking...

The Besieged Besieger #RTTBROS #Nightlight "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." — Galatians 5:17 In 52 BC, Julius Caesar laid siege to the Gallic fortress city of Alesia, trapping chieftain Vercingetorix inside with a massive inner wall. But then came the intelligence report that must have turned his bl...

Joyful Surrender Prayer By Praise and Patries a FB creator who makes content primarily for women. I wanted to invite you to pray with me to invite the Holy Spirit and his ministry and his leading into our day. And so as I pray, I'm praying this for you too, but I encourage you to save this so that you from your mouth can pray these scriptures into your day. Good morning, God. I thank you for t...

The Sound of Silence #RTTBROS #Nightlight "Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10 You know, I read something recently that stopped me cold. In 2011, a Finnish tourism board was trying to attract visitors to their country. After all the research and focus groups, you know what they landed on? Their slogan was simply this: "Silence, please." They ran ads showing vast, e...

faith is the root works are the fruit #Truth #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #works #Grace

The Truth That Sets You Free #RTTBROS #Nightlight "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." — John 8:32 You know, in my years in ministry, I've sat with a lot of people who were carrying something heavy, something they couldn't quite name. And one of the most common things I've noticed is this: the thoughts that trouble us most are the ones we never le...

Easter Prayer #RTTBROS #nightlight

What Really Held Him There #spiritualwarfare #RTTBROS #Nightlight #goodfriday #Cross What Really Held Him There D.A. Carson wrote something that stopped me cold the first time I read it. He said, "It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will - and it was his love for sinners like me." (...