The days ahead may well be days of more uncertainty and financial instability. How do you handle deprivation when all you’ve known is abundance? In this message, Pastor Lutzer compares the 3 kinds of…

Where do you turn when hardship hits? When God wants to deepen your spiritual maturity, He sometimes takes away all the comforts to which you’re accustomed. It’s possible for God to lead His people i…

Imagine you’ve gone through incredible personal loss in the midst of a nation-wide famine. That’s what happened to two widows in Scripture: Naomi and Ruth. Even if you can only see the immediate cris…

Sometimes you can go directly from great blessing to times of great trial. That’s what happened to Jesus when the Spirit led Him into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. When He was most vulne…

One day, everything that gives you any false sense of security will vanish. On the day of final judgment, your relationship with God will be all that matters. The ultimate day of calamity will come w…