Tag: trials

  • 2026-03-17 YAM: Your Custody (Passion 7/12)

    2026-03-17 YAM: Your Custody (Passion 7/12)

    My Father pauses the trial / 
Steps down from the bench / 
Picks me up / 
And holds me close to His chest…

  • Poem: Toll Taken

    So all this world’s schemes 
Are but fuel for our dreams 
What our foes think will staunch us 
Become rockets to launch us

  • Limerick: Heart for Hard Tests

    When we find ourselves failing life’s test Seek out One who knows us best

  • Poem: Uncomfortably Grateful

    We say that God is good When we dine on comfort food Much harder to confess When we feel under duress

  • Redemption: A Vision in Many Pieces

    Redemption A Vision in Many Pieces Ernest Prabhakar June 8th, 2001 “God, its too big for me to carry!” “I know, my son.” We sat at the bottom of my heart, facing the dark, concrete-like slab which was my need for love, my desire for human intimacy to the fill…

  • Song: No Longer Alone

    This is a song I wrote back in 1996 in my post-college, pre-Apple days in Pasadena, California. It was for a girl I knew — heck, it fit pretty much all the girls I hung out with and/or was interested in during that decade. I also sang it during a…

  • LEAD! B.9 From Sloth to Fruitfulness

    The dangers of laziness, and the rewards of perseverance.

  • LEAD! B.3 From Mockery to Hope

    The mockers must have the pride crushed out of them through suffering, to realize the limits of their earthly wisdom. To endure, their souls need to hope in God’s goodness.

  • LEAD! B.2 From Simplicity to Faith

    The simple need faith to trust that wisdom is possible, even though it is unseen, and pursue it with their whole mind.

  • LEAD! A.10 Soul’s Sanctification

    In Which We Are Set Apart For Obedience to Jesus, And Suffer For It — Becoming Holy in The Process This week we round out our discussion on salvation and conviction by focusing on sanctification, or holiness, words that include being both “set apart” and “made righteous.” The overall idea…