Share this emailCopy the public link or share it on your favorite channel.
logoFICrealNewsletter
View in your browser
YOUR WEEKLY E-NEWS
sun rise with man standing arms outstreached with broken chains around his wrists

Strength to the weary

Have you ever felt stuck? Have you ever reached the end of your rope and recognized your solutions, intuition, resources, and reserves were all tapped out? Have you painted yourself into a corner and realized there was no way out? Have you ever let your shoulders slump and thought, I just can’t?

That’s a scary place to be, yet sometimes God lovingly leads us there.

Explore more from the January issue:

Q&A: How can I be okay with whatever God thinks is best?

Q&A 2023 Dave Scharf
I struggle with God’s will and the disappointing things that happen in my life. I have difficulty praying, “Your will be done,” because I don’t want to give up control. How can I be okay with whatever God thinks is best? Your struggle is a common one on some level . . .

Let your light shine: Doug Tabor

Doug Tabor in Seoul, South Korea
“Give me people and give me the words to say.” Doug Tabor prayed that prayer when he landed in Seoul, South Korea, to serve as a lay missionary with Friends Network. God has certainly answered his prayer. Tabor was a happily retired salesman living in his . . .

Mapping Paul's journeys

group of people on trail wearing hats stone trail
At a scholarly conference in ancient Ephesus in 2008, Dr. Glen Thompson, an early-church historian then serving as professor at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, Wis., met Dr. Mark Wilson, a New Testament scholar living in Turkey. They began . . .

january FIC web ad 2025
custom custom facebook instagram custom 
forwardinchrist.net
wels cross linking to wels.net