Truth & Love Blog
Surviving Scars
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 18: Surviving ScarsFor those without Christ, the grief process moves from denial, to anger, to bargaining/works, to depression. For those with Christ, for those who grieve with hope, we journey...
God Comes
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 17: God ComesSo far on our journey we have approached three road markers leading to three decision points.*Confronting road marker one on our destination, we choose to move from denial to...
Making Room for God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 16: Making Room for GodWhat about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from works to crying out to God in total dependence. But what about your path from...
God’s Megaphone
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 15: God’s MegaphoneHow do you help others to move from a self-sufficient, works-oriented, bargaining with God response to suffering? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to...
Does God Have Your Attention?
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 14: Does God Have Your Attention?When loss hits we are typically so shocked that we numb and deny. Our caring God gently urges us toward candor—honesty with ourselves. Because He knows all, He...
Wondering Who St. Patrick Was?
Wondering Who St. Patrick Was? St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures. But for all his celebrity, his life remains somewhat of a mystery to many.Taken Prisoner By Irish RaidersIt is known that St. Patrick was born...
Crying Out to God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 13: Crying Out to GodStage one of the grieving process moves from denial to candor, stage two from angry to complaint, and stage three from bargaining and works to crying out to God for...
Your Dark Night of the Soul
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 12: Your Dark Night of the Soul What about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from anger to complaint/lament. But what about your path from anger that...
With Christ in the School of Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 11: With Christ in the School of SufferingBiblical complaint counters unbiblical anger. Unproductive and unrighteous anger pushes us away from God, others, and personal healing. Productive and...
God Prizes Complaint!
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 10: God Prizes Complaint!Can complaint be biblically supported? Does God really prize complaint?Complaining About Biblical ComplaintSome think not. They ask, “Didn’t God judge the Israelites for...
