Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It’s only a matter of time.

Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.

What if God doesn’t keep his promises?

Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

Can I really take God at his word?

Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?

We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.

Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.

We are all tired of the stress.

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?