Truth & Love Blog
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...
See in This Some Higher Plan
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 33: See in This Some Higher PlanWithout Christ and a Christian perspective, we despair. We doubt. We give up any hope of ever making life work, of ever figuring out the mystery of life, of ever...
Is Life Trying to Kill the Dream You’ve Dreamed?
Is Life Trying to Kill the Dream You’ve Dreamed?Not since Paul Potts shocked the world with his amazing singing two years ago on Britain's Got Talent, have we seen anything akin to this performance!Unassuming, unemployed, shy, and a tad nervous, forty-seven-year-old...
Despair Is the Negative of Hope
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 32: Despair Is the Negative of HopeIn the healing process, we’ve moved from regrouping to waiting, from deadening to wailing/groaning, and now we move from despairing and doubting to...
The Glorious Easter Exchange
The Glorious Easter ExchangeJohn Flavel:Lord, the condemnation was yours,that the justification might be mine.The agony was yours,that the victory might be mine.The pain was yours,and the ease mine.The stripes were yours,and the healing balm issuing from them mine.The...
It’s Saturday . . . but Sunday’s Coming!
It’s Saturday . . . but Sunday’s Coming!It’s Saturday, the day before Easter. On the Christian calendar, we often forget this day. Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday.On Friday, Jesus was crucified; died for our sins. His followers mourned.On Sunday,...
