Dark seasons don’t just test what you believe, they expose what you’ve been leaning on. In this message, Pastor Kaitlyn Stegall walks through Isaiah 50’s stark warning: in suffering, you’ll either trust God’s guidance in the dark or grab a torch and try to control the path yourself. One road is faith. The other feels safer, but it only deepens the torment.
With 2 Corinthians as the backbone and Pilgrim’s Progress as a mirror, Stegall reframes pain as formation, not abandonment. Trials aren’t a detour from discipleship, they’re part of it, refining endurance into character and character into hope. If you’re carrying unanswered questions, this is a call to stop lighting your own way and start trusting the God who never wastes suffering and never leaves His people.
Up Next in Season 1
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Art of Broken Pieces | Dan Barkley
Broken doesn’t mean discarded, it means God has something to restore. In The Art of Broken Pieces, Dan Barkley takes David’s raw confession, “a broken and contrite heart… You will not despise,” and pairs it with the imagery of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing shattered pottery with gold. T...
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The Other Side of Broken | Michael Brian
When it feels like God showed up after the moment passed, hope starts to feel like a cruel word. In The Other Side of Broken, Michael Brian takes you into the tension at Bethany, where Mary and Martha whisper what we’ve all thought: “Lord, if You had been here…” Lazarus is four days gone, the hou...
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Divine Reversal | Dustin Hanson
When the scoreboard doesn’t look hopeful, it’s easy to assume the ending is already written. In Divine Reversal, Pastor Dustin Hanson walks through Hannah’s pain, persistence, and prayer in 1 Samuel 2 to show that God is never boxed in by what we see. What feels like delay, loss, or barrenness ma...
