Cold winters and outdoor activities go together well as long as participants are properly equipped. Find gear suitable to your climate and you can depend on it to protect from the elements and facilitate your every move. But step out into harsh weather with only the protection of a cheap substitute or wishful thinking about how the cold doesn’t matter, and you may wish you had typed out your search for frostbite remediation beforehand, while your fingers could still feel the keyboard.
As Christians, we talk about faith and what can be accomplished if we have it. Yet too often it seems that little progress has been realized—and it’s not always because we need to “wait on God’s timing.” Could it be that we regularly charge ahead, confident in our own strength? Have we failed to understand and do our part? And just what is our part? Have we substituted something else for genuine dependence on God?
We need to understand biblical faith, true God-dependence. To that end, John R. Van Gelderen has written The Faith Response, unpacking what dependence is and outlining how to apply faith to one’s daily walk. Before you freeze your fingers, navigate to the Revival Focus webstore where you can secure your copy of a genuinely helpful book.
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