Pastor Al Barth preached from John 4:1-30 about Jesus’ encounter one hot day with a foreign woman who had a checkered past. As it turns out, we have much in common with that woman and the same need for what Jesus had to offer her.
In a second vision, Daniel saw into the future when the Jews would need to remain faithful under terrible persecution.
God grows his church usually by ordinary and sometimes extraordinary means.
Although Christians may suffer much, and many things are against us, we will end up being hyper-victorious in Christ.