FRIDAY February 11 Further Study: Read and reflect on Matthew 26:36–43. Jesus was overwhelmed with sorrow " 'to the point of death' " (vs. 38, NIV). Visualize the agony of Jesus, with lack of social support and betrayal from His disciples, seeming separation from God, and the load of guilt from humanity. His suffering exceeds any depressive [...]

Thursday’s Lesson -Hope Against Distres What was the prophet's way out of the surrounding social and interpersonal problems? Mic. 7:1–7 As the prophet is speaking you can almost hear the frustration in his voice. The prophet feels as if all the righteous have perished from the land and only the evil persist. In vivid detail their evil is described [...]