I’m sure you’ve had a situation in life where hope has dwindled after the stormy trial tarries on. The burden weighs heavy and God’s promises seem so far removed. You pray and wait, but the longer it goes, the more doubt creeps in, making God’s word seem like a nice fairy tale. But deep within your heart lies the anchor of your faith, believing even if a little, that He will come through for you.

Are you on team Rachel, seeing Doubting Thomas as more of a negative response to Jesus, or team Sammy, seeing it as a positive? Would you consider yourself a “Doubting Thomas,” a Denying Peter, or a Courageous John? In today’s special Easter episode, Sammy and Rachel take a look at Jesus’ response to the disciples after His resurrection.

There are certain events in life that you never forget. More often than not, it’s usually the type of circumstance that ambushes your senses, a seismic disruption of the ground beneath your feet. The type of thing that you never see coming, but leaves you dazed and disoriented in its wake. Such was the day when I inadvertently discovered my earthly origin.

Are you in a season of suffering? Hold onto hope; this time is not wasted. There is great impact and reward in your pain! As you reflect upon Jesus’ death on the cross in today’s post, you’ll see why the Father didn’t remove Him from His own suffering, and the impact, and reward because of it.

We are currently in the midst of personal income tax season in Canada. While most of us understand that we need to get a tax return filed each year, do you really understand why and what things you might be eligible to claim? Let’s dive in to help educate ourselves on a personal Canadian income tax return.

There are many who experiencing a degree of sorrow right now for various reasons; perhaps you are one of them. How do you move forward when all joy and passion seem lost to you? Let’s visit the garden of Gethsemane and see what Jesus did in His time of sorrow.

On one hand, we’ve moved on and established other areas of our lives that we had put on hold. We’re enjoying the quietness of the nights to sleep and our mornings with the Lord. We appreciate the freedom to dedicate our time to work, our church, family, friends, and each other. We’re blessed with our sweet fur-baby, Mac. On the other hand, nothing has changed. We were without children at the start of our marriage and we still are today. Our family remains two. Or has it?

If you’ve followed along in this series of Jesus’ principles of ministry, you’ve learned the importance of training and action through teaching and healing. There’s one last component to observe that makes the other two able to thrive.

Find out where I took Michael for our tenth anniversary, and some of the highlights of our trip.

In a literal sense, you might be saying, “Rachel, I’m not equipped with the gift of healing.” There are some who doubt God still heals miraculously, or by way of the gift of the Spirit through humans. There have been many people who have professed this falsely and made it hard to believe the authenticity of this still exists. There are others who fully believe God still strongly uses this gifting around the world. For the sake of this study and for the purposes Jesus is modeling, let’s consider our conversation of healing in the more figurative sense instead of literal.