Truth & Love Blog
Brian McLaren, I Accept Your Invitation
Dr. Bob Kellemen addresses the implications of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity for “the personal ministry of the Word”—pastoral counseling, one another ministry, soul care, spiritual direction, biblical counseling, Christian counseling, pastoral care, spiritual friendship, personal discipleship, one another ministry.
Crying Out to God: I Surrender All
Crying out to God is a faith-based plea for mobilization in which I humbly ask God for help based upon my admission that I can’t survive without Him.
Complaint: A Lament for Your Loss
Complaint is vulnerable frankness about life to God in which I express my pain and confusion over how a good God allows evil and suffering.
The Best of the Best Around the Net
Links to the best Christian blog posts of the week: from Challies, Mohler, Sproul, and the Gospel Coalition.
Candor: Telling Yourself the Truth
God’s Word offers us profound practical wisdom for moving from denial to candor. What exactly is biblical candor?
A Portrait of Your Healing Journey
When life’s losses invade your world, learn how to face suffering face-to-face with God.
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.
