Overcoming Life Sorrows Pt 5: Persistence in Trials and Hope

How do we persist through the tests or trials of life in this broken world? Rev. Dr. Reed Lessing, author of Overcoming Life’s Sorrows: Learning from Jeremiah, joins Andy and Sarah for Part 5 of our series on Overcoming Life's Sorrows to talk about overcoming through persistence, where we see this theme of persistence in Jeremiah's story, the difference between persistence with commitment to God’s calling and being stuck in a rut, how our perspective impact our persistence, how we persist through the tests or trials of life, and what it means to be persistent in hope.

Rev. Dr. Reed Lessing is Professor of Theology & Ministry, Director of the Pre-Seminary Program, and Director of The Center for Biblical Studies at Concordia University St. Paul, and author of Overcoming Life’s Sorrows: Learning from Jeremiah available from Concordia Publishing House. Find all episodes in this series at kfuo.org/tag/overcoming-lifes-sorrows.