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How to Handle Hardship

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Scripture: Acts 14:19-23

Life is filled with many challenges.  The question is, “How do we handle them?”  That’s where the life experience and the wise words of Paul in Acts 14:19-23 give us direction on navigating choppy waters.  Steve McCoy speaks on  how to handle hardships in life.

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How to Handle Hardship

1. Encircle yourself with support (Acts 14:20).
2. Consider whether you should stay or leave your location (Acts 14:20b).
3. Strengthen your heart with the truth (Acts 14:22).
4. Embrace your hardship as an experience that needs to be endured (Acts 14:22).

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Great Missionary Training

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Scripture: Acts 14:1-18

Dr. Luke, the author of Acts, gives us a thumbnail sketch of the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas as found in Acts 13-14. In this lesson, Steve McCoy focuses in on 14:1-18 where we learn key truths on how to be effective witnesses for our Lord Jesus Christ in a challenging cultural context.

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