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Pilgrim's Problems: Turn Your Troubles Into Triumphs on the Road to God's Front Door
We are all spiritual pilgrims on a journey to God's front door. And if you're honest, progress on that journey often comes slowly! Stuff gets in the way and trips us up. Stuff like greed, failure, loneliness, anger, guilt, and pride. If you're a pilgrim with problems, Pastor and author Karl Haffner has good "The battle is not in trying to stop sinning. The battle is in trying to keep trusting. God does the changing. We do the trusting." In Karl's engaging and colorful style, he provides us with a spiritual GPS that shows us the way to triumph over our troubles. His practical advice helps us put "feet" to our faith so that every moment is an experiment in trusting Jesus.
143 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2004
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December 9, 2012
This book has several lessons in it. The first lesson this book describes is failure, it helps you think how you can deal with failure. It also helps with how you can learn from all your failures so you may not repeat it.
The second lesson is loneliness, some people in this world feel so lonely that they commit suicide. What they don’t think about is that Jesus is always with them so that you are never alone. He will help you with all your problems and he’s all you need.
The third lesson is anger, sometimes when you’re angry you say things that you don’t mean. And what some people would give for a second chance to take back what they said. Anger can break lives and tear them apart. God ask us to let go of the anger and learn to forgive.
The fourth lesson is dealing with loss. A short story I heard goes like this; an old man roughly in his early 60's went to a group of people and told a funny joke. Everyone laughed, and once the laughter died down he said it again and again till it was no longer funny. He then went to say just as laughing at a joke too many times gets old, so does crying over the same person, just move on.
The Fifth lesson is Resentment, God says you should not be bitter for what you may have and not have but be thankful you do have something.
The Sixth Lesson is Fear, we all get scared, but what determines the scariness? For children it would be the small things maybe a spider or a bug, but what happens as we get older? The same things have different affects, or maybe it doesn’t we can just hide the emotion. But in a case of fear God is always there listening to our prayers.
The Seventh Lesson is Pride, a saying a heard from a wise man is “Pride is man downfall”. Being prideful is probably I think the worst things a human could ever have. Pride can get in the way of anything and everything if you do not know how to control it. It gets in the way of simple things like saying sorry for something you had done.
Overall i think the book was pretty good. It had some good lessons that you need to read for yourself more in depth to get the bigger picture for.
I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Especially people who are doubting things in life.
Why? because sometimes people can find inspiration in these types of book. Especially since this book refers back the bible with the Book, Chapter, and Verse.
The second lesson is loneliness, some people in this world feel so lonely that they commit suicide. What they don’t think about is that Jesus is always with them so that you are never alone. He will help you with all your problems and he’s all you need.
The third lesson is anger, sometimes when you’re angry you say things that you don’t mean. And what some people would give for a second chance to take back what they said. Anger can break lives and tear them apart. God ask us to let go of the anger and learn to forgive.
The fourth lesson is dealing with loss. A short story I heard goes like this; an old man roughly in his early 60's went to a group of people and told a funny joke. Everyone laughed, and once the laughter died down he said it again and again till it was no longer funny. He then went to say just as laughing at a joke too many times gets old, so does crying over the same person, just move on.
The Fifth lesson is Resentment, God says you should not be bitter for what you may have and not have but be thankful you do have something.
The Sixth Lesson is Fear, we all get scared, but what determines the scariness? For children it would be the small things maybe a spider or a bug, but what happens as we get older? The same things have different affects, or maybe it doesn’t we can just hide the emotion. But in a case of fear God is always there listening to our prayers.
The Seventh Lesson is Pride, a saying a heard from a wise man is “Pride is man downfall”. Being prideful is probably I think the worst things a human could ever have. Pride can get in the way of anything and everything if you do not know how to control it. It gets in the way of simple things like saying sorry for something you had done.
Overall i think the book was pretty good. It had some good lessons that you need to read for yourself more in depth to get the bigger picture for.
I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Especially people who are doubting things in life.
Why? because sometimes people can find inspiration in these types of book. Especially since this book refers back the bible with the Book, Chapter, and Verse.
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