Truth & Love Blog
Mourning Into Dancing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 39: Mourning Into Dancing Problems can either shove us far from God or drag us kicking and screaming closer to Him. So in suffering leading to worship, we ask a core soul care question, “How are...
Problems Are Opportunities
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 38: Problem Are Opportunities“Worship;” it’s such a common word. But what is worship really. Specifically, in the midst of grief, what does worship look like?Subtle ContrastsLet’s start with some...
Loving God or Pursuing False Lovers?
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 37: Worshipping—Loving God or Pursuing False Lovers of the SoulAs we progress through the stages of healing, we are transformed from regrouping to waiting, from deadening to wailing, from despair...
Seeing with New Eyes
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 36: Seeing with New EyesWhat about you? We’ve explored how we can journey with others helping them to entrust themselves to God’s larger purposes, good plans, and eternal perspective. But what...
Nourishing the Hunger of Your Soul: Introduction
Nourishing the Hunger of Your Soul: IntroductionBe nourished by some core concepts from the Introduction to Soul Physicians.“What would a model of biblical counseling look like that was built solely upon Christ’s gospel of grace?” (Soul Physicians, p. 3).“Love is not...
For Two Days We Walk As One: Walk for the Cure!
For Two Days We Walk As One: Walk for the Cure!Dear Friends and Family,I will be participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. This is such an important cause because this year, an estimated 40,000 women will die from the disease. Breast cancer takes another life...
Are You Ready to Learn What to Do After the Hug?
Are You Ready to Learn What to Do after the Hug? You care deeply. But perhaps sometimes you struggle to know what to do after the hug. Learn how to care like Christ--how to change lives with Christ's changeless truth.In What to Do After the Hug, I've condensed all of...
Gain a New Perspective on Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 35: Gain a New Perspective on SufferingHow do you help others to trust God’s Person, larger purposes, good plans, and eternal perspective? There are many effective ways to journey with people...
Life Is Bad, But God Is Good
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 34: Life Is Bad, But God Is God Weaving is entrusting myself to God’s larger purposes, good plans, and eternal perspective. Weaving is everywhere in Scripture. We find weaving in passages like...
To Dream the Impossible Dream: A Clay Pott Named Paul Potts
A Clay Pot Named Paul Potts*Note: Many readers asked me to reprise this previous blog in light of the newest sensation, Susan Boyles (see yesterday's post). You’ll understand why as you read.Paul Potts’ mania has swept over Britain and most of the world. In case...
