Live Hard

From the outside, people seem to have everything together; but in reality they are a mess. They have been abused, hurt or need freedom from a situation. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Tracie reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. In fact, she will help you see that He was always working in the background on your behalf, helping to bring you out on the other side. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding.

Den familjen Creutz står inför ännu en förlovningsmiddag. Förra gången blev familjen en medlem mindre när Ebba sköts inför alla gäster. Mordgåtan har ännu inte lösts av polisen, det finns inga misstänkta och mysteriet blev bara tätare när det visade sig att hon skjutits av en silverkula. Tidningarna spekulerade i om hon var en vampyr som måste undanröjas. Hemkommen från hemligt uppdrag ramlar Ludvig Bleck rakt in i denna historia som han mest av allt vill slippa. Han har nämligen sin egen historia med den blivande bruden, en historia han inte vill gräva i.

The way to grieve God’s way is to model how Jesus grieved. The Bible teaches that Jesus grieved appropriately, properly, and with an eternal perspective. His grief was uncomplicated and forward-looking. Jesus’ motivation for all of life was pleasing His Father which influenced His perspective and response to the death of Lazarus, the fall of Jerusalem, and His own death. He knew and applied the principle of gain through loss.

God is the only perfect parent; it is appropriate that we should choose him as our mentor in parenting. A lot of the behaviors that irritate us in our child, God has experienced with us - tantrums, questioning, disobedience, defiance, crying, and begging. He has experienced them all with us and still calls us his children.

Johnny's wife Tina is in trouble. Big trouble. While walking their dog, she took a shortcut home through the neighbor's yard and accidentally trampled some of his flowers. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be a major crisis. But Johnny and Tina happen to live next door to quite possibly the meanest neighbor in the world - Aaron McDougall, a grumpy, perpetually angry old curmudgeon who is known to go ballistic at the slightest provocation.