The Christian life boils down to one thing Jesus called Peter (and all who would follow Him) to do: Follow Me!

Paul went through a storm that left him shipwrecked on an island. If that's not enough, he was then bitten by a deadly poisonous snake. However, Paul simply shook the snake off into the fire and went about his business. Paul's ordeal teaches us some important lessons for when we're going through storms in life.

Every time a new year rolls around, people begin thinking about how they would like to be different in the future. We make all kinds of resolutions, only to abandon most of them by mid-March. In Philippians 3, Paul tells us how to strain toward a future filled with hope and how to pursue God's eternal plans rather than our earthly, temporary plans.

Many people struggle with believing in God because they can't reconcile a God that is good and all-powerful, yet allows evil to remain in existence. However, the problem of evil is an even greater dilemma for those who don't believe in God.