1160. Blessed Suffering | The Connecting Podcast Ep. 061

God doesn’t simply command us to obey; He gives us promises so compelling that obedience becomes a joyful response to His grace. This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the promises woven throughout the Beatitudes and how trusting God’s lavish promises gives us the motivation to follow Jesus, even when obedience requires sacrifice.For more episodes of The Connecting Podcast, visit PaulTripp.com/Connecting.

This week, Paul explores how the fear of God can overcome our fear of others, giving ordinary and timid Christians the courage to obey God and become instruments of His transforming grace.Join us for a weekly narration of Paul Tripp's popular devotional. You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your inbox each week, or read online at PaulTripp.com/Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp App.Paul Tripp's 5-Minute Bible Study on the book of Acts.If you’ve been enjoying the Wednesday’s Word podcast, please leave us a review! Each review helps us reach more people with the transforming power of Jesus Christ.

Faith in God doesn’t give you a ticket out of hardship, but it does give you a remarkably different way of facing the hardships that come your way. Today, we continue our sermon series from the archives on Hebrews 11, the Bible’s great “Hall of Faith,” as Paul examines fear, faith, and treasure through the lives of Moses and his parents and the choices they made in Egypt.To hear more sermons from Paul, visit PaulTripp.com/Sermons.

The cross was never God’s Plan B—it was the plan all along. Today, we continue our year-long Bible study in the book of Acts. In this episode, Paul continues unpacking Peter’s sermon in Acts 2, highlighting God’s sovereignty over Christ’s death and resurrection and the powerful work of the Trinity in our redemption.To hear more studies from the book of Acts, visit PaulTripp.com/Acts.

What if the hardest moments of your life are actually secure in the hands of a God who has already secured your eternity? This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the promise of heavenly reward, showing how confidence in our eternal destiny gives us peace, patience, and hope in the midst of present hardship.For more episodes of The Connecting Podcast, visit PaulTripp.com/Connecting.

This week, Paul explores how God’s rescuing grace frees us from slavery to sin and lovingly makes us slaves to Christ, protecting us from returning to the false masters that can never give us life.Join us for a weekly narration of Paul Tripp's popular devotional. You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your inbox each week, or read online at PaulTripp.com/Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp App.Paul Tripp's 5-Minute Bible Study on the book of Acts.If you’ve been enjoying the Wednesday’s Word podcast, please leave us a review! Each review helps us reach more people with the transforming power of Jesus Christ.

Faith is not irrational, but it will inevitably take us beyond the boundaries of what we can fully understand. Today, we continue our sermon series from the archives on Hebrews 11, the Bible’s great “Hall of Faith,” as Paul examines Abraham’s test to sacrifice Isaac and the four elements of faith that shaped his rest-filled response.To hear more sermons from Paul, visit PaulTripp.com/Sermons.

God’s invitation is far more radical (and far more hopeful!) than we often realize: whoever calls on His name will be saved. Today, we continue our year-long Bible study in the book of Acts. In this episode, Paul unpacks Peter’s first sermon after Pentecost, showing how Joel’s prophecy points to the outpouring of the Spirit, the building of God’s global church, and the free offer of the gospel to anyone who comes to God in faith and repentance.To hear more studies from the book of Acts, visit PaulTripp.com/Acts.

The greatest danger to your spiritual life may not be what’s happening around you, but what’s happening within you. This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the biblical call to purity of heart, exposing our inability to cleanse ourselves and pointing us to the transforming grace of Jesus.For more episodes of The Connecting Podcast, visit PaulTripp.com/Connecting.

This week, Paul highlights how God’s grace transforms and empowers unlikely people to boldly proclaim Christ.Join us for a weekly narration of Paul Tripp's popular devotional. You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your inbox each week, or read online at PaulTripp.com/Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp App.Paul Tripp's 5-Minute Bible Study on the book of Acts.If you’ve been enjoying the Wednesday’s Word podcast, please leave us a review! Each review helps us reach more people with the transforming power of Jesus Christ.