Category weakness & strength

Five Signs Your Cancer Struggles Are Normal

My response to Pauline F.’s question was a no-brainer. During the 12 years since my cancer battle, and seven years with Stronghold Ministry helping people fight cancer, it’s the question I’m asked most frequently. I too had the question during my…

"beating" cancer, battling cancer, cancer support, depression and cancer, emotions, facing death, handling trials, helping cancer patients, melanoma survivors, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
July 17, 2015
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Do You Have an Ideality Gap?

So I questioned, and still question today, my inner slave driver. “Do you seriously believe you can out-think, out-plan and out-produce the God of the Universe?" After all is said and done and re-done and re-said, He gives to us even in our sleep!

battling cancer, cancer support, caretakers, handling trials, rest, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
June 11, 2015

Keep Calm and Cry Out to Jesus

Sometimes life's pain can be so physically and/or emotionally draining that something needs to give... quickly. When even the best of human efforts makes little difference, there is always something we can do - "cry out" to the Lord.

battling cancer, cancer support, comfort, depression and cancer, emotions, handling trials, helping cancer patients, power of God, Stronghold Ministry, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
May 14, 2015
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Never Separated From Birth

I can draw near NOW! No manipulation, no formula, no rituals, no devotion can make me any closer than I already am. His work did it!

12 Steps, grace, guilt, Terri Fornear, weakness & strength

Terri Fornear
April 29, 2015

Power to Spare AND Share

And the beauty of Christ’s resurrection power is that He showed it in order to share it!

battling cancer, cancer support, caretakers, facing death, faith and unbelief, fear, handling trials, power of God, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
April 4, 2015

Just. Be. Held.

If your eyes are on the storm You'll wonder if I love you still, But if your eyes are on the cross You'll know I always have and I always will.

battling cancer, cancer support, emotions, faith and unbelief, goodness of God, handling trials, In His Grip, Stronghold Ministry, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
March 20, 2015
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Those Annoying Bible Verses on Suffering with Joy

To me, joy and suffering seem mutually exclusive - I have one or the other - never both at once. Yet, joy is the response to suffering which God consistently encourages in His Word.

emotions, goodness of God, handling trials, melanoma survivors, power of God, rest, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
September 24, 2014

Three Responses to Adversity

Enlisting trials won’t make them easy, but it will cut them down to manageable size.

battling cancer, cancer support, caretakers, goodness of God, handling trials, melanoma survivors, power of God, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
September 11, 2014

Five Life-changing Outcomes of Suffering

Fortunately for us, the Lord never meant suffering to be just a cruel and bitter pill to be dutifully swallowed. Suffering is a path, never a destination.

battling cancer, cancer support, comfort, dependence, goodness of God, handling trials, melanoma survivors, power of God, rest, surrender, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
May 2, 2014

Unpacking Guilt

-Joe Fornear During a high stakes health crisis, the last thing we need is to carry around a bunch of guilt. Yet during my own cancer battle, I never felt as guilty in my entire life. I had a nagging…

battling cancer, cancer support, guilt, handling trials, sickness and sin, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
April 25, 2014