by Bob | Jun 3, 2011 | 5 to Live By, James MacDonald
Five to Live By Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. Through the Rain and Through the Storm Pastor James MacDonald at Vertical Church shares about responding to life When It...
by Bob | Jun 2, 2011 | God's Healing for Life's Losses, Grief, GriefShare, Salvation
Suicide, Salvation, and Eternal Security Ever since the publication of my book God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting, I receive many emails, phone calls, and questions about grief. One of the most difficult questions I hear is from...
by Bob | Jun 1, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Comfort, Nouthetic
False Comfort Anyone who follows my ministry knows that I deplore one-dimensional biblical counseling. Frank Lake said it so well over a generation ago. “Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered and with the sins...
by Bob | May 31, 2011 | Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends
How I Write Versus How I Live I’ve been thinking lately how difficult it is to live what I write. In my books like Soul Physicians and Spiritual Friends, I write about living the Christian life and being a Christian friend. Frequently I fail at both. While pondering...
by Bob | May 30, 2011 | Identity in Christ
Tangled…Untangled Until this weekend, I was likely one of the final few people who had yet to watch Tangled, the Disney movie about Rapunzel. Watching it, I was struck by how it, like so many movies, fables, and fairy tales communicates the message: we are blinded to...
