Today Lilly and I jumped back into chapter one of “Can God be Trusted In Our Trials?” By Tony Evans.

Today we talked about “Adding It Up” and “This Will Be On The Test” sections of Chapter One.

Adding it up was digging into what some of the specific words in our ” Theme verses”  for basically this whole book.

James 1:2-4 – “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” 

That word “consider” is a divine mathematical term for adding up what your trials are doing and come up with the true answer, which is “all joy”.

We also talked about the word “encounter” in this verse and how it means to run into something, not something to bring you down on your own head.

Overall, in this section, we learned that we will encounter trials just by being alive.  In fact, Jesus said in John 16:33 “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world”

This will be on the test was about how God uses trials like tests in school to help us prepare for the next spiritual level! God is taking the time to grow us into who he wants us to be!

Today we gave away not one, not two, but THREE sets (That is six tickets) to the MVNU spring musical “Leader of the Pack” with there opening night being – well tonight!

Congratulations to Saunja from Mount Vernon, Doug from Mount Vernon and Monica from monica who won the tickets to “Leader Of the Pack”!!