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The Best of the Best Around the Christian Net: This Week’s Top Five
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
GriefShare Surviving the Holidays
People who’ve experienced the death of a loved one often face Thanksgiving and Christmas with dread. But grieving people can find actionable strategies and encouragement to make it through the 2010 holiday season at GriefShare’s Surviving the Holidays one-time seminars across the nation.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Three—Q and A About Holiday Honesty
Today, I want to give voice to four possible “push-backs” on Part Two: Give Sorrow Words. Consider these as Q/A about just how honest should we be around the holidays?
Healing for the Holidays: Part Two—Give Sorrow Words
In Part One, we saw Jesus and Paul giving us permission to grieve. Now we ask, “But what do I do with my hurt during the holidays?” Shakespeare said, “Give sorrow words.” God’s Word models that principle—we need to move from denial to candid honesty about the hurt that holiday memories can bring.
Healing for the Holidays: Part One—A Promise
Holidays… They’re “supposed” to make us think of words like thankful, merry, and happy. We’re “supposed” to associate holidays with a phrase like “Home for the Holidays!”
But… what if a loved one is not coming home this holiday season? What if death, divorce, or distance causes us to associate the holidays with words and feelings like depression, anxiety, and stress?
Top 20 Sister Blogs
What are the top 20 sister blogs to my RPM Ministries site? Check out these friends of the blog–each worth your time as they encourage you in life and ministry.
Happy One-Year Anniversary!
It’s been one year since Jon Barnes designed and launched my new website. I’ve been very happy with it. Apparently you have been too, as visits have quadrupled compared to the former site.
An Almost Indispensable Book on the Bible
Where can you find a book about that Bible that is both pastoral and theological? It’s rare. But one has arrived. It is John Frame’s opus: The Doctrine of the Word of God.
This Week’s Top 5: The Best of the Best Around the Christian Net
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
The 4Gs of Peacemaking
Learn basic principles of personal reconciliation from Ken Sande’s The Peacemaker, including the 4Gs of peacemaking and the slippery slope of conflict resolution.
