Timothy C. Geoffrion/Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries Videos

How do you discern God's will for your life? In this second set of lectures for MIT Doctor of MInistry students, I address various aspects of this very important subject for individuals and for leaders in the first two lectures (sessions 4-5 in this three day series). In the third lecture of this second day (session 6), I share my personal story of when I almost lost my faith in God and what I learned about how to trust God even amid unanswered questions. Grace and peace, Dr. Tim Day 2's topics Session 4 Aligning oneself with the purposes of God Session 5 Spiritual discernment Session 6 Trusting in God You can find all the lectures and sessions on my YouTube Channel, TimGeoffrion.

"Coping with Crisis through Christian Spirituality"
ယခုကြုံတွေ့နေရသော အကျပ်အတည်းကို သင်မည်သို့ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းနေပါသနည်း။ ခွန်အားနှင့်သတ္တိရှိဖို့ရန် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာအရင်းအမြစ်များကို သင်လိုအပ်နေပါသလား။ "မျက်မှောက်ခေတ်အကျပ်အတည်းများကို ခရစ်ယာန် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးစွမ်းပကားဖြင့် ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းခြင်း" ဟူသောဤဗွီဒီယိုထဲတွင် လက်တွေ့ကျသော နည်းဗျူဟာ ၃ မျိုးကို တင်ပြထားပါသည်။ ၁. ဝိညာဉ်ရေးအမှန်တရားများအပေါ်တွင် ခိုင်မာစွာမှီတည်ခြင်းဗျူဟာ။ ၂. မိမိဝိညာဉ်ရေးပုံစံကိုသိရှိ၍ လက်တွေ့ကျသော ဝိညာဉ်ရေးလေ့ကျင့်ခန်းများအားဖြင့်အခက်အခဲကိုကျော်လွှား ခြင်းဗျူဟာ။ ၃. ခိုင်မာသောခြေလှမ်းဖြင့် ပျော်ရွှင်ငြိမ်သက်ခြင်းဆီသို့ တစ်လှမ်းခြင်း တက်လှမ်းခြင်းဗျူဟာ။ (မြန်မာစာတန်းထိုးထားသောဗွီဒီယိုဖြစ်ပါသည်) သိက္ခာတော်ရဒေါက်တာ Timothy C. Geoffrion သည်ခရစ်ယာန်အမှုတော်ဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်၍ ဓမ္မသစ်ကျမ်

"Coping with the Current Crisis through Christian Spirituality"
How are you coping with the current crisis? Do you need more spiritual resources to keep up your strength and courage? In the video below, "Coping with Current Crisis through Christian Spirituality," I present three practical coping strategies: 1. Lean heavily on relevant spiritual truths, 2. Know your spiritual "type" and draw upon useful spiritual practices, and 3. Take concrete steps toward greater peace and joy. (Video in English with Burmese subtitles)

"How to Grow Spiritually in Difficult Times"
(Video is in English with Burmese subtitles) ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ရက်, ၂၀၂၁ မှစပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် အကြမ်းဖက်မှု၊ ဆုတ်ယုတ်မှု၊ ပြဿနာများစွာထဲသို့ တစ်ရစ်ပြီး တစ်ရစ်နှစ်မြှုပ်နေခဲ့ပါပြီ။ ကောင်းမွန်နေတဲ့- ပညာရေး၊ အလုပ်အကိုင်၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး၊ အင်တာနက်၊ ဘဏ်စနစ်၊ လုံခြုံမှု၊ အနာဂတ်စတာတွေဟာ မသေချာမရေရာဘဲ အခွင့်အရေးဆုံးရှုံးသွားခဲ့ရပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီလိုအခြေအနေ မျိုးမှာ ခရစ်ယာန်တွေအနေနဲ့ ဝိညာဉ်ရေးပိုင်းမှာ ဘယ်လိုတိုးတက်ကြီးထွားနိုင်မလဲ။ ဤဗွီဒီယိုတွင် ဒေါက်တာဂျက်ဖရီယွန် အနေဖြင့် အရေးပါသောကျမ်းစာသွန်သင်ချက်၊ သိပ္ပံနဲ့စပ်ဆိုင်သော ဦးနှောက်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်၊ မိမိကိုယ်ပိုင်အတွေ့အကြုံများဖြင့် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးတွင် မည်သို့ကြီးထွားလာနိုင်သည်ကို တင်ပြထားသည်။ ဤသို့ခက်ခဲသောအခြေအနေတွင် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးကြီးထွားလာနိုင်သလို၊ ခက်ခဲကြမ်းတမ်းမှု များအားဖြင့်သာ ဘုရားက ကျွန်

"How to Grow Spiritually in Difficult Times"
"How to Grow Spiritually in Difficult Times" (Video is in English with Burmese subtitles) Are you overwhelmed by all the stress and uncertainty in your life? Are you wondering how you can keep growing when you feel so overwhelmed or discouraged? This 19 minute teaching video draws on neurobiology, the Bible, and the professor's personal experience to offer practical suggestions to help you draw closer to God and to grow spiritually in the midst of your hardships. ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ရက်, ၂၀၂၁ မှစပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် အကြမ်းဖက်မှု၊ ဆုတ်ယုတ်မှု၊ ပြဿနာများစွာထဲသို့ တစ်ရစ်ပြီး တစ်ရစ်နှစ်မြှုပ်နေခဲ့ပါပြီ။ ကောင်းမွန်နေတဲ့- ပညာရေး၊ အလုပ်အကိုင်၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး၊ အင်တာနက်၊ ဘဏ်စနစ်၊ လုံခြုံမှု၊ အနာဂတ်စတာတွေဟာ မသေချာမရေရာဘဲ အခွင့်အရေးဆုံးရှုံးသွားခဲ့ရပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီလိုအခြေအနေ မျိုးမှာ ခရစ်ယာန်တွေအနေနဲ့ ဝိညာဉ်ရေးပိုင်းမှာ ဘယ်လိုတိုးတက်ကြီးထွားနိုင်မလဲ။ ဤဗွီဒီယိုတွင် ဒေါက်တာဂျက်ဖရီယွန် အနေဖြင့် အရေးပါသောကျမ်းစာသွန်သင်ချက်၊ သိပ္ပံနဲ့စပ်ဆိုင်သော ဦးနှောက်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်၊ မိမိကိုယ်ပိုင်အတွေ့အကြုံများဖြင့် ဝိညာဉ်ရေး

"What Saved My Faith"
Final Chapter (Conclusion) in "What We Can Expect from God Now: Seven Spiritual Truths for Trusting God in Troubled Times" (Video series, read in ENGLISH with BURMESE subtitles) "ယခုချိန်တွင် ဘုရားသခင်ထံမှ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ဘာကိုမျှော်လင့်နိုင်ပါသနည်း" စာအုပ်​၏နောက်ဆုံးအခန်း (မြန်မာစာတန်းထိုး ဗွီဒီယိုစီးရီးများ) When my mother slowly lost her mind due to dementia (Alzheimer’s disease), I was heartbroken. Then, I was angry. As the months turned into years, I started to become resentful and bitter toward God. Why didn’t God spare her and us from so much suffering? Why did he fail us? In this final chapter of my book, I tell my own personal story of grief over many losses in my life, including my mother’s heart-wrenching demise. During those years, I almost lost my faith. But one day, something surprising happened that saved my relationship with God. What I experienced was a huge turning point in my life and spirituality, for which I will always be grateful. The life-giving choice I made is available to you, too, in the midst of your suffering and unanswered questions. With the love of Jesus, Dr. Tim ဦး ထင် ကျော် Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D., is a former American pastor, who has also served as a Visiting Professor of New Testament and Christian Spirituality in Myanmar since 2009.

Practical Strategies for Reducing Anxiety
(Chapter 7 read in ENGLISH with BURMESE subtitles) "ယခုချိန်တွင် ဘုရားသခင်ထံမှ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ဘာကိုမျှော်လင့်နိုင်ပါသနည်း" အခန်း ၇ (မြန်မာစာတန်းထိုးဗွီဒီယိုစီးရီးများ) What’s your strategy for dealing with anxiety? Do you have a good one? Is it working? In this chapter, I talk about my own experience with anxiety and some of what I have learned that has been most helpful to me over the years. For example, when I face my anxieties directly, they lose some of their power over me. When I use a practical tool that I developed to help me whenever I feel overwhelmed with anxiety (which I explain in detail in the chapter), I feel more peaceful and am better able to redirect my energy in positive directions. When a situation is completely outside of my control, I get strength by waiting on God. Most of the examples pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I hope the application to the current political and social crises will be obvious. As you put your faith into action and apply this spiritual wisdom when you feel anxious, you will see the difference it will make in your life. You will grow in many ways, be more useful to yourself and others, and God will give you greater peace, strength, and confidence to face all that you must face and endure. With the love of Jesus, Dr. Tim ဦး ထင် ကျော် Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D., is former American pastor, who has also served as a Visiting Professor of New Testament and Christian Spirituality in Myanmar for over 10 years.

The Power of Prayer and God's Love in Times of Suffering
CHAPTER 5 in "What We Can Expect from God Now: Seven Spiritual Truths for Trusting God in Troubled Times." (Read by the author) How can God help anyone who is suffering from abuse or oppression? What good is faith and prayer in the face of horror and hopelessness? In this chapter, I talk about how the Apostle Paul encouraged followers of Christ who were facing great suffering, deprivation, and even death in their day. His reassuring and practical teaching is relevant for all those who are looking for more strength, courage, and confidence to sustain them throughout their long dark night, whenever and wherever it may come. Your comments and messages are welcome. With the love of Jesus, Dr. Tim ဦး ထင် ကျော် Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D., is former American pastor, who has also served as a Visiting Professor of New Testament and Christian Spirituality in Myanmar for over 10 years.

CHAPTER 4 in "What We Can Expect from God Now" (Video series, in ENGLISH with BURMESE subtitles) read by the author,
CHAPTER 4 in "What We Can Expect from God Now: Seven Spiritual Truths for Trusting God in Troubled Times." (Read by the author) Suffering. No one wants to suffer, yet, everyone does, to one extent or another. In many cases, the suffering is unjust, and sometimes whole groups of people are targeted for abuse, exploitation, and oppression. For example, those who seek to serve Christ faithfully often experience persecution for their faith. Jesus himself suffered horribly in order to fulfill his mission. As hard as it is to hear or accept, suffering was promised to all his followers, as well. But there is hope. In this chapter, I talked about the mysterious and encouraging promise that those who share in Jesus Christ's sufferings will also share in his glory (Rom. 8:17). What does Paul mean by sharing in Jesus' glory? Why is this message so important for all followers of Christ, especially for those facing persecution, oppression, disease and possible death? What relevance does it have for those who are not suffering for their faith, but for other reasons? Not all these questions have clear answers, but my prayer is that God will speak to you through this video to give you more hope, strength, and courage to face whatever you must face in these very difficult days. With the love of Jesus, Dr. Tim ဦး ထင် ကျော် Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D., is former American pastor, who has also served as a Visiting Professor of New Testament and Christian Spirituality in Myanmar for over 10 years.

CHAPTER 3 in "What We Can Expect from God Now" (Video series, in ENGLISH with BURMESE subtitles) "ယခုချိန်တွင် ဘုရားသခင်ထံမှ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ဘာကိုမျှော်လင့်နိုင်ပါသနည်း" း (မြန်မာစာတန်းထိုး ဗွီဒီယိုစီးရီးများ) In this third chapter, I talk about three types of responses to the COVID-19 crisis (or to any kind of major crisis): there are the action-takers, positive-thinkers, and overwhelmed observers. Which type of person best describes you? Which kind of person do you want to be? On your own, you may feel very weak and afraid sometimes, especially when you are suffering so much. Yet, the Bible teaches that if you put your faith in God's working in your life, you can expect God to strengthen your faith, build your character, and restore your hope through your suffering. That's my prayer for you. With the love of Jesus, Dr. Tim ဦး ထင် ကျော် (You can also subscribe to my YouTube page@Tim Geoffrion to be notified every time I post another video.)