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• It’s Not About Death, It’s about God’s Glory – Would You Pray For Abby and Let Others Know About Her?

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  For the past few days, we have been asking everyone to ask everyone they know to join us in praying for Abby, and for God to be glorified through this troublesome journey. We aren’t trying to focus on death, or the negative aspects because we feel hopeless… we just wanted to use the four days leading up to this next phase to communicate how serious this time is, and bring people into the prayer group with us. Here is a video I did last night and where her journey has taken her:As we begin this new phase, we want to emphasize that we TRUST GOD and His will. We are not asking people to pray to coerce God, but rather to knit together a community [...]

   

• Abby: More Times For Faith Are Coming

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  

  (Abby slept peacefully after a very rough procedure on Friday that left her in much pain.)“Hell”… that is the word Abby’s doctor used to describe the 60 days of treatment that starts on Wednesday.Lamentations 3:22-23 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. As Christians, we cringe a little to compare anything in this life to the real Biblical Hell, but we understand what the Doctor is trying to communicate. This is a life-threatening, miserable time of suffering for Abby. Her smallest chance of survival will come during this phase of chemotherapy, and if she does get through it, she may have to do it twice.Over the next few [...]

   

• Video of Abby 2008 – Opportunity to Have Faith In God During Tough Times

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  I had the blessing of getting to share with our church family this morning about the many blessings God has showered on us during 2008.As I get older, as I write more, teach more, and hear from you more, I realize that very often God’s greatest blessings come during our times of greatest hardship. I had a few minutes allotted to convey this to our Christian family, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought a video might be worth a million. So I spent a couple of hours putting one together. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to view it, send me an email (brent@brentriggs.com) with your questions, advice or other feedback. PS: WHAT ARE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR ME? Ask [...]