Truth & Love Blog
Comfort: God Comes
Today, I’m sharing a few sample Comfort Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Crying Out to God: I Surrender All
Today, I’m sharing a few sample Crying Out to God Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Complaint: A Lament for Your Loss
Today, I’m sharing a few sample Complaint/Lament Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Journeying and Journaling with God
I’m sharing a few sample Candor Journey and Candor Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Biblical Counseling: Is It Just for Spiritual Problems?
My friend, Ed Welch, at the excellent CCEF site posted a very helpful blog this week: Biblical Counseling: Is It Just for Spiritual Problems?
Wanted
The key to our victory is faith in our new identity. I’m convinced that everything in the Christian life revolves around how we answer the questions: “Who am I to Christ?” “Who am I in Christ?”
Extreme Makeover
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful Swan. Swan reflected the Creator, related lovingly, ruled humbly over Swandom, and rested contentedly.
What Causes Our Fights and Quarrels?
What causes the fights and quarrels among husbands and wives? What causes the fights and quarrels among church members? What causes the fights and quarrels between various counseling “groups”?
Our Capax Dei
Spiritually speaking, “hunger is the best sauce in our thirst for God.”
A Puritan Father’s Lesson Plan
On Father’s Day we tend to focus on simple gifts to Dads—a tie, a silly or sentimental card—and on back-yard barbecues. All good things, to be sure. And modern fathers tend to focus their parental energy on teaching their kids how to play sports, get good grades, or lead a “balanced life.” Again, all good, but have we lost our focus on a Father’s spiritual role? Perhaps comparing a father’s focus in Puritan America will help us to answer that question. Cotton Mather’s A Puritan Father’s Lesson Plan provides just such a look.
