Joyful, patient, and faithful: Three qualities and an aged saint who had them all.

Their remarkable story gives us faith that God’s promises are for us, too!

His coming offers the promise of hope to everyone who will obey him, even those who feel Christmas is for someone else.

More than those in any generation, in spite of our unexpected burdens, we should have hope. All our experience with God tells us he will win in the end.

Morning by morning we remember our needs and repeat our prayers. With the psalmist, we go to God because only he can help.

“Fill my heart with joy,” the psalmist prayed. He knew the only source for the surest way to find what he needed most.

Before we take our laments to God, we need to give him ourselves.

The psalm follows a familiar pattern: lament followed by praise. But then it shows us something more: Include others in our laments.

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" What we have experienced, Jesus has said.

Only when the psalmist concentrates on what God has already accomplished does he find resolve to lay today’s problems before him.

The Psalms can help us discover the beauty of “but” for our everyday prayers.

I'll never regret the night I laid out my complaints to God. Now I realize I was practicing a key component of lament.

We may pray with the psalmist, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart?" And we may find from the psalmist a pathway to hope.

Pain and heartbreak and overwhelming grief are the perfect times to pray. Prayer has never been more real for some than in such moments of crisis.

Of the four Bible questions repeated n this short series, perhaps none came with more urgency than the Roman jailer’s.