Truth & Love Blog
Spiritual Depression and Spiritual Separation Anxiety
How does Satan want to trap, trick, and trip us up when suffering enters our world? Here’s his persistent ploy. “Life is bad. God must be bad, too.”
The Story
How do you participate in life’s greatest adventure of empowering others to live a changed life if you remain powerless to change?
The Lesson Plan of Suffering
God loves us too much to allow us to forget our neediness. God makes therapeutic use of our suffering. Luther taught that suffering creates in the child of God a delicious despair. Suffering is God’s putrid tasting medicine of choice resulting in delicious healing.
GPS: God’s Positioning Scriptures
God’s GPS: God’s Positioning Scripture derived from God’s Word. Nothing ever written can compare with the honesty and reality of the Word of God. It is totally sufficient to light our path. It is utterly profound in its capacity to resonate with our experiences.
Creative Suffering
We need to be able to deal with life’s losses in the context of God’s healing. Jesus did.
Black History Month: Day of Reflection
When the Apostle John peers into the future, he does not see a homogenized eternity. Instead, he sees a multi-cultural future throng gathered together for ever and ever in joint worship of the King of Kings.
I’m thankful that diversity will outlive the old heaven and the old earth. I’m thankful that in the new heaven and the new earth our differences will be celebrated. I want to live today in light of that future intercultural day.
The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective
The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective Book Details • Author: Mark E. Shaw • Publisher: Focus Publishing (2008) • Category: Biblical Counseling, Ministry, Church Reviewed By: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, Author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the...
Lift Every Voice
The Forty-Day Journey of Promise Day Forty: Lift Every Voice Note: Welcome to The Journey, our forty-day blog series from MLK Day through the end of Black History Month. We’re learning life lessons from the legacy of African American Christianity. The series is based...
Following the North Star
The Forty-Day Journey of Promise Day Thirty-Nine: Following the North Star Note: Welcome to The Journey, our forty-day blog series from MLK Day through the end of Black History Month. We’re learning life lessons from the legacy of African American Christianity. The...
Who Are You in Christ?
The Forty-Day Journey of Promise Day Thirty-Eight: Who Are You in Christ? Note: Welcome to The Journey, our forty-day blog series from MLK Day through the end of Black History Month. We’re learning life lessons from the legacy of African American Christianity. The...
