Truth & Love Blog
My Story of Finding God’s Healing Hope
In my book, God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, I walk with readers down God’s path of healing hope. In the first half of the book, I share my story of dealing with the death of my father. Even thirty years later, it’s not an easy story to tell. But I share it today, just as I did in the book, in the hopes that in reading my story, you too will discover God’s healing hope.
Meet Tim Challies
View a brief video introduction to one of the world’s leading Christian bloggers: Tim Challies.
Good Grief, Bad Science, and All-Sufficient Scripture
Yesterday, the New York Times published a fascinating Op-Ed piece by Dr. Allen Frances called Good Grief. In the article, Dr. Frances reports that a startling suggestion is buried in the fine print describing proposed changes for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V). If this suggestion is adopted, many people who experience completely normal grief could be mislabeled as having a psychiatric disorder.
The Best of the Best Around the Net (8/15/10)
The Best of the Best Around the Net links you to blog posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. Check out the following links you can trust.
How to Build Grace Connections
Connecting is a commitment to love another person. It is compassionate discernment in action. It is not a technique to be mastered, but a way of life to be nurtured by personal communion with Christ. Communion with Christ leads to connection with others.
Grace Connecting: Exposure without Rejection
How would your relationships change if you prayed The Spiritual Friend’s Prayer? “Dear Lord, Help me to approach every relationship as an audience with an eternally valuable human being.”
How to Care Like Christ: Offer GRACE
You’re reading Part One of a new blog mini-series designed to equip you with five biblical counseling skills using the acrostic GRACE. Excerpted from Spiritual Friends.
Review of The Mystery of the Holy Spirit
R. C. Sproul in The Mystery of the Spirit has honored the Spirit’s mystery while also respecting the Bible’s descriptions of Who the Spirit is and what ministries the Spirit performs. As an introduction to the topic that balances theology and life, The Mystery of the Spirit is well-worth reading.
Christian Themes: Big at the Box Office
Christian-themed films are taking many approaches—and big box office receipts.
Leaving a Legacy of Loving Leaders
I dread seeing great effort expended on “programs” that don’t launch or don’t last. “How do we effectively disciple the Body of Christ for one another ministry in the church and to the community?” “How do we pass the baton of ministry?”
