What do we do with painful stories?

July 17, 2017

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“Sometimes the story God writes is not fun,” says Jeff Vines, Lead Pastor of Christ’s Church of the Valley, San Dimas, Calif. How do we continue to let God write our story when life hurts? Discover how he responds to painful stories and the perspective Jesus calls us to. (Excerpted from the NACC conference in 2016.)

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