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“God calls us to preservere in faith, not because He is a reluctant Father who is slow to meet the needs of His people, but because He wants us to step out in greater dependence and deeper trust in His ability to accomplish far more than we can ask or imagine ‘according to His power that is at work within us’ (Ephesians 3:20).”

“By giving up his life, John shows himself to be a model disciple. Herod, by contrast, loses his soul by caving to the pressure of others in pride and cowardice.”
The epidemic of male passivity is not new.

“When the pressure comes - whether through persecution, illness, accidents, loss of job, betrayal by a friend, a broken relationship, or the death of a loved one - God calls us to turn to Him in hope and faith, recognizing that He has a purpose and that, in the end, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”