The vicissitudes of life often assault us like wintery blizzards, numbing our fingers, or like blistering rays from the sun, burning our skin. No one receives a pass on hardship. But God, in His grace, gives us friendships that become for us robust tree trunks walling us from the biting wind, or they shade us from the scorching heat like leafy branches.

In this sermon, Chuck Swindoll teaches about the circle of friends who were in Paul’s life and the ways you might be a sheltering tree to those enduring a storm.