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What does faithful giving look like when your paycheck barely covers groceries? And does God simply know your choices in advance, or is something deeper going on? Pastor Mike Fabarez grapples with both, plus a question about the temple veil, in another edition of Ask Pastor Mike Live. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Anyone who’s driven through road construction knows it gets worse before it gets better, and sometimes life feels like that stretch of torn-up pavement. Pastor Mike Fabarez pleads with believers to let others in when everything inside has been rattled loose. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

After 39 years on the throne, King Asa fell gravely ill, and sent for his physicians, but never once sought the Lord. Pastor Mike Fabarez untangles the tools God uses from the God who supplies them, and maps out the kind of deliverance he really promises. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Leave one ingredient out of your favorite lasagna, and the whole dish falls flat. Pastor Mike Fabarez says comfort is a lot like that, and lists five essentials from 2 Corinthians chapter 1, beginning with the one most of us skip: letting fellow believers know we’re struggling. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Job’s three friends came to comfort him, and wound up making everything worse. Pastor Mike Fabarez contrasts failed comfort with the kind that truly helps a hurting friend get back on their feet, and insists that, for the Christian, no season of pain gets the final word. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

If a worship song gets the words right, does it matter who wrote it? And when a husband files for divorce because he’s simply not happy anymore, what does the Bible call that? Pastor Mike Fabarez weighs both questions with candor and care, in another edition of Ask Pastor Mike Live. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

When hardship shows up, “why me?” is usually the first question out of our mouths. But there’s a better one to ask: Lord, what are you doing in this? Pastor Mike Fabarez names five reasons God may be allowing your present trial. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Some verses never make it onto a greeting card, like Isaiah 45, where God says, I make well-being and I create calamity. Pastor Mike Fabarez confronts the hard truth behind our broken plans, and why the purpose of the Lord is the one that stands. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Most of us only hear a eulogy at a funeral, when kind words are spoken over someone we’ve lost. But Paul opens 2 Corinthians with a eulogy of a different sort, one addressed to the living God. Pastor Mike Fabarez traces why gratitude is where real comfort takes root. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Just one chapter after calling down fire on Mount Carmel, Elijah sat alone under a desert shrub, asking God to take his life. Pastor Mike Fabarez sounds an alarm about pulling away from God’s people when life knocks you flat. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

If God already knew an angel would rebel, why did He let it happen anyway? Will you truly know your spouse once you reach heaven? And why do Christians still lose ground to a sin they thought they’d already beaten? Pastor Mike Fabarez wades into all three in another edition of Ask Pastor Mike Live. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

When life knocks you flat, is your instinct to pull back from everyone around you? Pastor Mike Fabarez begins a brand-new study on real comfort, and starts with a warning most of us need to hear: isolating yourself only makes it worse. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Some of us are still carrying a brand we’ve burned onto someone else, an old debt we won’t let go of. Pastor Mike Fabarez closes out our study in Philemon with the two best reasons to finally let it go. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

When you hold on to a grudge, who’s actually paying for it? Pastor Mike Fabarez names three people affected by your unforgiveness that you’ve probably never considered, including one you’d love to disappoint. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111

Ever had someone you trusted let you down, maybe even walk off with something that was yours? Pastor Mike Fabarez opens a study in the tiny book of Philemon, where a runaway slave and a wronged master force a hard question about forgiveness. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/266/29?v=20251111