World Challenge Stories

The Saturday When God Was Silent

Rachel Chimits
April 9, 2020
The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is an odd break in the resurrection story, so how do we understand God’s apparent inaction here?

I have a love-hate relationship with space movies. Stars and planets and comets are fantastic, and yet so much can potentially go horribly wrong when we humans throw our fragile little bodies out into space. All it takes is one tiny part of a spaceship or spacesuit to malfunction, and everyone is either fried or frozen.
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Good Friday and the Death of a Lamb

Rachel Chimits
April 8, 2020
This holiday, which is uncomfortable and frequently half ignored, is one of the most important for believers, so what do we miss by skipping over it to Easter?

Autumn has a certain smell.
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Passover: Social Justice and the Holy Judge

Rachel Chimits
April 7, 2020
We all want the world to be a better and more just place, but how do we handle the fact that we’re part of the world’s worst problem?
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The Final March of Holy Week

Rachel Chimits
April 6, 2020
Everyone looks forward to Easter morning, but how should we spend our time waiting for the Sunday celebrations?

A pastor stood up before his church and stated, “Christ has come to us through Adolph Hitler.”

The year was 1933.
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Palm Sunday: The Grand Set Up for Disappointment

Rachel Chimits
April 3, 2020
When we really get our hopes up for God to do something, we occasionally set ourselves up to be badly disillusioned, so how can we avoid this?

The story of this Sunday is very familiar.
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Loving in Deed and in Truth

Rachel Chimits
April 2, 2020
World Challenge believes that caring for people’s most basic needs like food can be the most loving thing we do when they cry out for help.

The Bible speaks regularly and strongly about how God’s people are to care for those who are less fortunate, and it’s clear that we are meant to care for each other in times of need.
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What Blooms From the Ashes

Rachel Chimits
April 1, 2020
In the middle of a crisis or suffering, God’s goodness remains but why does he so frequently choose to use pain to unveil it?

Emily Dickinson is credited with saying, “Beauty is not caused. It is.”
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Coronavirus and the Church in India

Rachel Chimits
March 31, 2020
Many people, especially the working poor in Central Asia, are faced with an impossible conundrum of safety versus provision as COVID-19 quarantines freeze cities.

Social distancing and quarantine in India may be what’s ordered, but for many families, it’s simply not possible.
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Not Showing Up for the Miracles

Rachel Chimits
March 30, 2020
Often we turn to God for healing, a miracle or divine protection; but when God says “No,” how do we make sense of his answer?
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The Glorious Crown of Suffering

Rachel Chimits
March 27, 2020
How are we supposed to cling to God’s love in our suffering when it often brings our own failures and shameful past to the surface?

During the 1846-1860 cholera pandemic that claimed over one million lives, Charles Spurgeon wrote a brutally honest and illuminating passage in reminiscence of that time.
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World Challenge Stories

The Saturday When God Was Silent

The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is an odd break in the resurrection story, so how do we understand God’s apparent inaction here?

Good Friday and the Death of a Lamb

This holiday, which is uncomfortable and frequently half ignored, is one of the most important for believers, so what do we miss by skipping over it to Easter?

Passover: Social Justice and the Holy Judge

We all want the world to be a better and more just place, but how do we handle the fact that we’re part of the world’s worst problem?

The Final March of Holy Week

Everyone looks forward to Easter morning, but how should we spend our time waiting for the Sunday celebrations?

Palm Sunday: The Grand Set Up for Disappointment

When we really get our hopes up for God to do something, we occasionally set ourselves up to be badly disillusioned, so how can we avoid this?

Loving in Deed and in Truth

World Challenge believes that caring for people’s most basic needs like food can be the most loving thing we do when they cry out for help.

What Blooms From the Ashes

In the middle of a crisis or suffering, God’s goodness remains but why does he so frequently choose to use pain to unveil it?

Coronavirus and the Church in India

Many people, especially the working poor in Central Asia, are faced with an impossible conundrum of safety versus provision as COVID-19 quarantines freeze cities.

Not Showing Up for the Miracles

Often we turn to God for healing, a miracle or divine protection; but when God says “No,” how do we make sense of his answer?

The Glorious Crown of Suffering

How are we supposed to cling to God’s love in our suffering when it often brings our own failures and shameful past to the surface?

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