Grace For Today With Shayne Holesgrove

...You may feel like your suffering is “your cross to bear” - but that’s simply not true. Jesus suffered on the cross for you so that you would not have to suffer. You may feel like “it’s your thorn in your flesh” and that God is trying to teach you something, but that simply isn’t true either. God wants to use His Word to teach you and perfect you (2 Timothy 3:16-17) not hard knocks. Paul’s thorn (suffering) wasn’t sickness but persecution (we’re redeemed from sickness, but not from persecution [2 Timothy 3:12]). You may feel like a modern-day Job, who is experiencing extreme suffering and losing everything because God allows it – but that is not the case!... READ MORE

...Paul had the right perspective and that enabled him to not only get through and survive, but to thrive and make a massive impact in the world for Jesus. Paul saw his difficulties and suffering as “light afflictions” – he didn’t magnify them and talk about how bad things were. He saw that the challenges that he faced were only temporary and wouldn’t last forever... READ MORE

Many people mourn the death of a loved one as though it’s final, but it isn’t. We are created for eternity, and death in this world simply helps us pass from this life into eternity with Jesus, or eternity without Him... READ MORE

... To deal with grief and disappointment we need to have a biblical perspective about things, because perspective largely determines your experience and the outcome of these situations... READ MORE

...Disappointment and grief will hold us captive and prevent us from fulfilling our potential and reaching our destiny - if we allow it to. One of the ways that we move on from disappointment and grief is by taking our focus off of the situation and placing it onto what lies ahead... READ MORE

...There are some things that we should purposefully remember, and then some things that we should purposefully forget! If we fail to forget the disappointments of the past we will fail to embrace what God has for us today... READ MORE

We have a great promise from the Word that things can work out together for our good. When things go wrong we should take a stand and be expectant of things to turn around and work out for us... READ MORE!

Why do many Christians not experience peace? Because they do not know what Jesus has said! READ MORE!

Ryan Rufus (https://www.newnatureministries.org/) and I chat about your new nature and living in holiness. You can live a holy life because of your new nature as a believer in Christ. This is going to bless you!

Join me as I chat to a couple of the students about the last day of Church Planting School. I know that you will be encouraged as you listen!Thanks again to each and every person who sowed into this! 

Had a great chat with some of the guys from Church Planting School: Christiaan and David (South Africa) and Dylan and Jared (USA). Hear what some of their highlights from the school were!

Jared Moffit is a Jesus-loving guy attending the Church Planting School. You'll be inspired and encouraged by this interview with him.

Meet Dylan! He's a graduate of Charis Bible College and is currently doing the Church Planting School. He's passionately in love with Jesus and has a big vision to plant churches and make an impact for Jesus. He's become a close friend and I know that you'll be blessed by this podcast with him.

Today, we chat to Mark Machen, Pastor of Life of Faith Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Meet Ben Conway!

To fear God is to fear nothing or no one else... listen in as I chat to David Lourens from GraceLife South Africa about his experience at Church Planting School so far.

Today is filled with opportunities for great things to happen! But it’s also filled with opportunities for negative things to happen. For example, you will probably have a few opportunities to be disappointed and discouraged. We can’t stop these opportunities - but we don’t have to indulge in them. READ MORE

Unbelievers are rightly concerned about these things and seek after making ends meet - but you have a loving heavenly Father who knows your needs and who wants to supply more than enough to meet your needs... READ MORE

The Christian life should be worry-free! We shouldn’t be anxious about provision - or anything else for that matter. READ MORE

 When confronted with having to pay the temple tax, Jesus told His disciples to go fishing. He said that the first fish they caught would have money in its mouth.  READ MORE