Christs Saints

Are you looking to build a resilient ministry? Take the biblical resiliency quiz at the beginning of this book. Find your biblical type. Commit to spending five minutes a week on building your resilience. Each weeks reading covers in-context Bible passages that are important to you--like your calling, your leadership, your place in the kingdom, your work for God, and much more. It puts in context where you are in your journey with Christ. Are you a Paul? A Peter? Or maybe a Stephen? Take the quiz. Find a space in your week for this. You’ll thank God you did.

You can choose to see a trial as a roadblock or an expressway. If you see it as a roadblock, it will obstruct your way. However, if you see it as an expressway, you can use it to learn and grow. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan whereby we can become what God wants us to become. In fact, we become great people because of our trials, not in spite of them. This booklet reviews the nature, origins, and purposes of adversity and includes suggestions on how to patiently trust in the Lord and His eternal plan and how to use these trials to learn and grow stronger. You can benefit from your ...

On the sunday of all saints, is a sermon (Homily XXV in the surviving corpus) taken from On the Saints (2008), the second volume in the series, Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas, the purpose of which is to bring the life and teaching of this remarkable fourteenth century saint (1296–1359) to a wider readership, to all those who are interested in the rich Biblical tradition of the Church Fathers. "Truly “God is glorious in his saints” (Ps. 68:35 Lxx). Let us call to mind the martyrs’ superhuman struggles, how in the weakness of their flesh they put to shame the evil one’s strength, ...