Jesus endured the pressures of sin, and we can learn from him how to do the same.
God doesn’t want any of us to go through storms alone.
In our moments of frustration and failure, we need to turn to God and his Word to find the strength to keep going.
We have a God who always keeps his promises, and we can find those promises in the Bible.
We need to acknowledge what is wearing us out, especially the ways in which we become focused on rules and behaviors.
We have dreams we want to see happen and visions we want to accomplish, but it takes a lot of energy to keep running toward them.
We all experience feeling stuck at times, whether it be in hardships, relationship conflicts, failures that follow us wherever we go, or guilt that feels too big for us to carry on our own.
It helps to remember an important quality of Jesus — that he is always with us.
Jesus can teach us how to break free from a frustrating, unsatisfying, and rule-dominated experience of Christianity to find a real relationship with God.
What the Parable of the Great Banquet teaches us about God’s invitation is to be part of his Kingdom.
What the Parable of the Persistent Friend teaches us about how to think about God and prayer.