Trials, as inconvenient and as painful as they are, are a journey of discovery of who you're dealing with.

Dr. Tony Evans says the storms of life are there for a reason and talks about the resources God's given us to weather them.

Your salvation and your Savior was built with your struggle in mind. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Sometimes life gets so stormy that we wonder if we're going to make it through.

But Dr. Evans says even when things are at their worst,

there's something more powerful at work than the storm. Let's join him as he explains.

Jesus has been teaching all day. He's been teaching the crowds, preaching the big sermon,

and then he takes his disciples aside, and he gives them a private word.

He says in verse 33 of Mark 4,

with many such parables he was speaking the word to them

so far as they were able to hear it

and he did not speak to them without a parable,

but he was explaining everything

privately to his own disciples. So he calls his disciples aside after teaching the big

crowd and says, let me speak to you and let me give you some stories that will give you

spiritual truth for you to apply to your life.

And he gave them some inside information.

But like any good teacher, he wants to see whether you got it.

He wants to see whether you were just saying, amen,

hallelujah, praise the Lord, ain't God good,

or whether you really, really believed it.

And so he gives them a pop, but not a quiz.

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