Hard-Pressed but Not Crushed (Part 1 of 4)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Alone, a basketball player is just someone throwing balls at a hoop. A game requires other players and teamwork. Similarly, while faith is personal, it’s not meant to be practiced in isolation. Learn why when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	A superstar basketball player.
0:29.2	He's all by himself, can never win a championship.
0:33.2	Even the best needs other players around him to form a team.
0:37.2	Everyone has to work together to win a game.
0:40.2	In the same way, each person's faith may be personal but is
0:44.2	will here today on Truth for Life.
0:46.2	Alistair Begg explains that our faith is not meant to be practiced all alone.
0:57.2	I invite you to take your Bibles once again and we'll turn to the section of Scripture
1:01.2	that we read a week while ago from Nathamaya.
1:04.2	And as you open to the page, that's come before God in prayer.
1:11.2	Spirit of God descend upon my heart.
1:15.2	Wean it from the earth through all its pulses move.
1:23.2	Speak to my weakness, mighty as thou art.
1:30.2	And make me lovely as I ought to love.
1:36.2	We listen for your voice, Lord Jesus Christ, and your voice alone,
1:42.2	you the living word through your written word to which we now turn with expectant hearts.
1:51.2	As we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
1:57.2	In embarking on these studies in the book of Nathamaya,
2:00.2	we are essentially seeking to answer one question.
2:04.2	The question is straight forward, what does it mean to do God's work in God's way?
2:11.2	We are not studying Nathamaya because we are about to begin to build once again
2:17.2	but the real nature of the building upon which we find ourselves focusing
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