Life is filled with challenges. Does God care? How can we carry on?

Brent talks with Bruce Strom about his new IVP book ‘Persevering Power: Encouragement for When You’re Oppressed by Life’.

Bruce is the founder and CEO of Administer Justice, a national legal aid ministry, where he invites attorneys, pastors, and God’s people to do practical justice in their community through church based gospel justice centers. He’s a pastor, speaker and the author of ‘Gospel Justice’. Prior to Administer Justice, he was the senior partner of a successful multi-office law practice in the Chicago suburbs.

• (1:00) Administer Justice;
• (1:40) Lawyers and the local church;
• (4:15) The church at a crossroads;
• (5:20) The purpose of justice;
• (7:00) Bruce’s personal situation;
• (10:00) Bruce’s experiences of God;
• (11:55) Letting go of control;
• (13:45) How do we know what our purpose is?
• (15:00) Looking back;
• (16:45) Learning from our past;
• (18:15) Looking in;
• (23:35) Not going it alone;
• (26:20) How to persevere.

Links mentioned in this episode:

brucestrom.com

www.amazon.com/Persevering-Power-Encouragement-Youre-Oppressed-ebook/dp/B0C31W6FK2

www.ivpress.com

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