If you’re not in transition, if you’re happy with where you’re at, you don’t need patience. But if you’re waiting on someone (God, you, somebody else) to change something in your life, read on.

This is the January/February 2015 Keep It Alive Bible study . . . a study that only runs in live magazine. We're offering it here to give you a chance to sample the content that runs in every issue of live magazine. And because there was so much great content in our January/February issue, we had to move this study online.

Precariously perched on the steep and slippery bank of the “Jordan” (our nickname for the river in Spitak, Armenia), I carefully helped one person out of the cold, swift current before the next one stepped in. A few of us who crowded the bushy and muddy slope stretched our hands out to guide 16 men and women in and out of the river during a baptismal service I will likely never forget.