Frustrated by Life? It Could Be God’s Gift.

Stephen is senior pastor of Trinity Worship Tabernacle, a non-denominational church in Nakuru, Kenya. His story is full of examples of trials giving way to triumph. Here, Stephen reflects on his first semester as a student in the United States. It was January, amid an unforgiving midwestern winter.  Looking out, it was all white–the ground, […]

God Meets You in Your Confusion

*Editor’s Note: Just days before, Jacob had been comfortably living at home, safe, and with his brother not actively wanting to kill him. But ever since Jacob had cheated his brother Esau out of his dying father’s blessing, Jacob had been on the run. When Joseph Shulam became a follower of Jesus, he discovered what […]

Immanuel

What’s in a name? Sometimes a great deal! Take, for instance, the name Immanuel. Joseph had taken Mary as his betrothed fiancée. Upon learning that she was pregnant with a child not his own, Joseph determined to divorce her. At this point the angel of the Lord stepped in to explain that the child was […]