10 Ways to Support Christians in Trouble
When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #7 This is the last post in my series of what to do when life doesn’t go as you expect. Christians go through trials all the time...
Category: trials
Keep Pressing Toward the Goal
When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #6 This is the next to last post in my series of when life doesn’t go as you expect, and I wanted to make it on keeping...
Take Responsibility – When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #5
After I shared my story of learning to trust God through not getting into my university course, my dad pointed out that I wasn’t without blame. And he was right. I was so keen to...
Prayer Changes Things! – When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #4
I know it probably sounds obvious to say, “Pray” when trouble hits – but I think most of us don’t pray half as much as we could, and are worse off because of it....
Hold On to What You Know – When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #3
I’m a bit slow in posting at the moment because we are still settling in at our new house, so there is lots to do! I wanted to carry on the series I started...
Trust That God Has a Plan – When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #2
In my last post I wrote about how we need to expect that bad things will happen in our lives, as they do at some point for most people, and how we can prepare for...
Being Prepared for Trials – When Life Doesn’t Go as You Expect #1
My friend recently asked me to post something about what you do when life doesn’t go as you expect. Since there are many different aspects to this, and it affects so many people, I thought...
Dealing with Stress Biblically
We are moving house this week (well supposed to be anyway!). It wouldn’t be so bad if everything was happening as it should do, but as usual with house moves, it’s not… so everything...
A Song of Surrender: Teach Me Thy Way
‘Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord’ is a song that I love. I memorised it a long time ago, and sang it as I was cycling to work, to school and to university. It brought me...
Important Bible Verses for Difficult Times
This week I read Greg Laurie’s blog where he talked about strength in troubled times. He and his wife lost their son to a car accident not very long ago, so he knows what...
