If we are to live like Jesus, we need to pray like Jesus. While it is easy to say we need to pray more, it is difficult to actually do it. Pastor Trent offers some practical steps to make prayer a priority.

God called Gideon to eliminate the reasonable options so that He would get the glory. In week 2 of The Hidden Option, Pastor Trent reminds us that there are times when God calls us to trust Him to do things that seem impossible.

When Jesus seemed to be trapped in an impossible situation, he found the hidden option. Pastor Trent calls us to go beyond binary thinking to see our decisions from God's perspective.

In the final scenes of Esther, we see God reverse what the enemies of his people intended to achieve, and we see him grant rest and relief for his people. Moreover, we see his people rejoicing and seeking to remember their great deliverance.

Much like Paul in Romans 9, Esther, has unceasing pain and anguish at the thought of her people perishing; therefore, she pleads with Xerxes for their preservation.

May we be like Esther, confronting sin and calling for justice, rather than like Haman, who continued in sin and got caught in the consequences.

Through the ordinary means of insomnia in Xerxes and an insatiable desire for honor in Haman, God will turn the tables on the enemy of His people, initiating Haman’s downfall and his people’s deliverance.

As we act on plans we discern from God’s Word rather than plans we devise from our wills, the Lord will use us for the development of His kingdom and not its detriment.

As God entrusts us with positions of opportunity and empowers us for obedience, may the stewardship of faith lead to our participation in his plan and away from the selfishness of passivity.

In God’s (sometimes perplexing) providence, our doing what is right may lead to our being in circumstances that feel wrong, but we can trust that God is working all things for our good and his glory.

We live in a dark world, and sometimes we are part of the darkness; nevertheless, God in his grace does not discard us but delivers us, even from ourselves, and deploys us for his purposes.

Have you ever made a bad decision? How did that work out for you? On this episode,  we'll look a t how God can take a bad decision and use it in his perfect plan!

Looking at Esther 1:1-9... we learn a few things: (1) God is the only one that is awesome; and (2) No matter how pagan or how powerful a ruler seems to be, he or she can never thwart God’s providence. Listen now and follow along in our study series through Esther!

Starting a new series in the book of Esther. There are two themes in this book: (1) finding God when he seems absent and (2) God's providence is everywhere. Join me for a brief overview and introduction to... The Book Of Esther

Welcome to Preach Jesus Now with Pastor Trent. THIS IS MY FIRST PODCAST! I wanted to start with a brief introduction of who I am and what I hope to accomplish with this thing! Enjoy and stay tuned for more!