Affliction: under pressure.  The writer of 2 Corinthians wrote about being afflicted.  He was “burdened excessively beyond” his strength.  So much so that he “… even despaired of life…” This was the actual experience of people who lived during the days of Christian persecution under the Roman Caesars.  They faced physical death.  They chose […]

  Where do we place our trust?  If we place trust in ourselves, we are defeated before the battle begins, we are “dead in the water.” (NASB) 2 Corinthians 1:9 “indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;”   […]