Truth & Love Blog
Healing for the Holidays: Part 9—Cropping Christ Back Into Your Holiday Album
Healing for the holidays requires that we allow God’s eternal story to invade our earthly story.
Healing for the Holidays: Part 8—Pregnant with Hope
I ache for heaven, for Paradise. But I’m pulling weeds until the day I die!
Healing for the Holidays: Part 7—Clinging to God’s Rope of Hope
You’ll never see waiting as one of the grief stages in any research study because it is not natural in a fallen world. It is supernatural.
Healing for the Holidays: Part 6—All I Want for Christmas Is Hope
Pray for your healing. Ask for hope. Ask God for the faith to believe that a new beginning is possible—it’s possible to hope, to thrive.
The First Annual Biblical Counseling Coalition Leadership Retreat
The next three days I have the privilege of facilitating the leadership retreat for the Biblical Counseling Coalition.
Healing for the Holidays: Part 5—Tidings of Comfort and Joy
My tiding for you this holiday season is more than “Blessed Thanksgiving,” or “Merry Christmas,” or “Happy New Years.” My tiding to you through Christ is, “Comfort and joy.”
Healing for the Holidays: Part 4—A Lament for Your Loss
Today, we ponder six practical principles of lamenting holiday loss—whatever shape or size your loss takes.
Healing for the Holidays: Part 3—Q/A About Holiday Honesty
4 Q/A about just how honest should we be around the holidays.
A Social Media Christmas Story
How social media, web and mobile tell the Nativity story. The Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, GMail…
Healing for the Holidays: Part 2—Give Sorrow Words
Denial is like trying to forcefully keep an inflated beach ball submerged on the ocean floor. We can’t. Inevitably the pain forces its way to the surface—only made worse by our refusal to face it.