Living Grace Lutheran Church - Omaha Nebraska

Blessed in Stress

If you are alive and breathing, you experience stress. Stress can come when you face a job interview, have a fender bender in your car or even ride on a roller coaster. Stress can be a positive and motivating force in your life when it pushes you to make some needed changes and face some nagging issues you've been ignoring. But when stress paralyzes you and causes you to want to 'check out' of life, work, or relationships, you need to address it.

There are certain things you can do physically and emotionally to deal with stress, but you also have spiritual power and resources at your disposal to deal with it. It's when you face stress that you need God to provide you clarity and truth about your situation, resources to handle your stress and his calming presence during those anxious times. Let God help you transform your stress for your growth.

Let God help you be blessed in stress!

In this five week sermon series we'll look at some stressful situations the Israelite people faced and how God helped them. We can learn from the experiences of these ancient people how God can also help us face our uniquely modern stressors.

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Here are the stories in this series:

• Sunday, October 30 - "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
  The Israelites Cross the Red Sea - (Exodus 14:5-22)
• Sunday, November 6 - "Scarcity Stress"
  Manna from the Lord (Exodus 16:1-30)
• November 13 - "Facing Frustration"
  Water from the Rock (Exodus 17:1-16)
• November 20 - "When You're Just About to Wear Yourself Out"
  Jethro Visits Moses (Exodus 18:1-27)
• November 27 - "Golden Calves Make Expensive Hamburgers"
  The Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1-6)