Ask Pastor John When Your Best Years Are Behind You
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Jun 2, 2025 Discover the challenges of aging and the emotional struggles that come with it, including grappling with chronic pain and loss. Learn how to maintain faith and joy amid life's trials, even in the face of physical decline. The conversation shares inspiring examples of resilience and emphasizes lasting fulfillment beyond this life. Explore how a shift in perspective can help find hope in aging, focusing on the eternal joys promised by God rather than societal pressures.
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Trust God's Word Over World's Voices
- Trust God amid loss by fixing your attention on God's word instead of the world's messages.
- Avoid despair by rejecting media focusing on our physical and vocational decline in old age.
Earthly Life Is a Faith Test
- Our earthly life is a test of faith and not our ultimate home.
- Thinking old age is our last best life chance is unbelieving and shortsighted.
Great Ministry Through Great Loss
- Fanny Crosby was blind but composed over 8,000 hymns.
- Beethoven went deaf yet continued composing great music, showing loss can inspire great ministry.
