20/20 Vision: How Exodus 20: 20 Brings the Purpose of Our Trials Into Focus

By Sara B Anderson

Are you ready to transform your life for the better despite your circumstances? 

Are you looking for hope in the midst of social, economic, and political unrest?

Have you been dealing with a trial for what seems like forever with no end in sight? 

If you’re looking for a solution to any of these issues in progre

• Language: English
• Publisher: BNA Publishing
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780578641201

Sara B Anderson

Sara Broyhill Anderson graduated with high honors from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in Speech Communications. From there she earned her Juris Doctorate with honors from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Sara is now a mother of five children with her wonderful husband. She is also the founder and president of Fruits of Faith Ministries Inc., an online ministry, which endeavors to plant the word of God and harvest fruits of faith. Sara's great delight is unpacking the Word of God and defending its truths in a relative world. To that end, she is currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity with a cognate in Apologetics to combine her skills in logic and rhetoric with her passion for sharing the unchanging truths of Scripture.

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20/20 Vision: How Exodos 20:20 / Sara B. Anderson. -- 1st ed.

ISBN 978-0-5786410-5-8 Paperback

ISBN 978-0-5786412-0-1 Ebook

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Contents

Chapter 1 Looking Back to Look Forward

Chapter 2 My Life Was Normal Until. . .

Chapter 3 Through the Looking Glass

Chapter 4 Bringing the Desert into Focus

Chapter 5 Insight on the Mountaintop

Chapter 6 Mountaintop Reconciliation

Chapter 7 Hope in the Desert

Worksheet I - Your Desert Experience/s

Worksheet II - Encountering God and His Wisdom

About the Author

End Notes

Dedication to My Children

To know God’s love transcends any circumstances of this life

Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin

―Moses to the people of Israel

CHAPTER ONE

Looking Back to Look Forward

What does Exodus 20:20 have to say to us in the 2020s? A lot as it turns out. When the calendar turned over to 2020 many of us welcomed the new decade with cautious optimism. The tumultuous 2010’s put us through some tough times individually, nationally, and globally. We are left wondering— hoping —that the 2020s will usher in a new era of peace and prospe rity.

As a whole, society is at a tipping point. We have no united standard for economic, social, or moral issues. Everyone is