...But God

1 Peter 5: 10-11

Creators & Guests

Host
Chad McBeam
Business Leader, Foster Advocate and Fighter of Human Trafficking, Chad enjoys hosting this podcast channel as a way to spread and highlight the great examples of those who live out their faith daily. He can also be seen on occasion on your TV or Film Screen or be heard narrating one of your books as his love of acting has stuck with him since his childhood.
Writer
Aaron Marcarelli
After getting his under-graduate degree from Cal State University San Bernardino where he played college baseball and received all American honors. he was a graduate assistant baseball coach at both Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee, and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.  He received his master’s degree in Teaching from Whitworth, with plans to someday be a head baseball coach at a university.  However, God had other plans.  Aaron started teaching English and History and coaching baseball and other sports at the high school level and found out how much he loves high school kids, and he has been doing that for the past 27 years.     Personally, heI has been married to his wife Sharon for 32 years, they have one daughter, Amanda Parrish, who has been married to Austin Parrish for 2 years. Aaron also has two grandsons Travis age 2 ½ and Aden who is 13 months and are blessed to have another on the way due in May. Aaron loves reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and grandkids.
Designer
Linda Cowen
Linda Cowen of San Antonio Christian School is our gracious and talented art designer for the But God, weekday morning devotional series.

What is ...But God?

A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam

“After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 5:10-11 NASB2020

Peter explains that our suffering will be for a short time. Compared to eternity own time here on earth is short. Therefore, our suffering will be short. Also if we truly put our hope and trust in Christ then our sufferings here on earth won’t seem as bad because we will endure it through the eyes of the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter goes on to explain that Christ will “perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
Knowing that, I can endure anything that the world throws at me. Because through Christ, I have the hope and strength to endure! As the apostle James explained in his letter “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
James 1:2-4 NASB2020

I stand in Christ alone! He is my rock, my fortress, my foundation and He is the reason I live, both now and through eternity.
Lord God, we praise your Holy and Mighty Name! We thank you that we get to know you through Christ and we thank you for loving us and for wiping our sins away and giving us eternal life with you through Christ’s resurrection. Give us the strength to endure, help us to rest in the power of your mighty name. So that we can do the work of proclaiming what you have done for us, so that others may know the perfect peace that only comes through you. We pray all this in Jesus name Amen…
Shalom, Shalom blessings! Press in and Press on!