Stay grateful in hardship by remembering God’s presence and past faithfulness.

What do you do when it feels like there just isn’t enough—enough money, enough energy, enough margin, enough certainty? Exodus 16 shows how easily need can turn into anxiety, striving, and trying to take control. But in the wilderness, God begins teaching his people a different way to live—one day at a time, learning to trust him.

What do you do when God seems to lead you straight into a hard place? In Exodus 15, Israel moves from celebration to thirst almost overnight — and the wilderness forces a question about trust. When you don’t understand what God is doing, will you grumble, pull away, or keep following?

Sometimes life leaves us feeling trapped—old armies behind us, impossible seas ahead. Exodus 14 invites us into one of Scripture’s most powerful pictures of rescue, faith, and a way forward. Where might God be inviting you to stop standing still and take your next step?

What is God doing when answers are delayed, progress is slow or the road ahead is harder than expected? When God led Israel out of Egypt, he deliberately did not take them by the shortest road. From Exodus 13:17–18, we’ll discover how the wilderness can become a place of God’s presence, provision and preparation—and how to keep following Jesus through seasons of waiting, uncertainty and difficulty.

Paul reminds the Ephesian elders that his life among them was a display of humility through proclaiming the truth and investing deeply in people's lives, even through hardship and opposition. Though he knows suffering and danger await him in Jerusalem, he remains surrendered to the Spirit’s leading and refuses to let fear or uncertainty determine his path. The mission of sharing the Gospel of Jesus is worth any sacrifice, and costly faithfulness leaves a legacy of transformed lives and deep Christ-centred love.

How should followers of Jesus live in a city that does not share their beliefs? Acts 17 takes us into the streets, marketplaces, and intellectual centre of ancient Athens, where Paul encounters a culture both impressive and spiritually lost. Join us as we explore what faithful Christian witness can look like in our own changing city.

Sometimes our plans are good, but God’s mission is bigger. In Acts 16, the gospel moves beyond Paul’s expectations and reaches people in completely different places: a seeking woman, a trapped servant girl, a shaken jailer, and a city that does not know what to do with the kingdom of God. God is still calling us to hold our plans loosely, watch for people he is reaching, press into worship when resistance comes, and love the people Jesus brings into his family.