Truth & Love Blog
Hope Waits
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 23: Hope WaitsYesterday’s journey ended with the Woman at the Well in a dilemma. God told her to wait.So what would “hope” look like in her immediate context? Hoping in God, she would choose...
When God Says “Wait”
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 22: When God Says “Wait”If the grief process was a direct journey, and it is not, then we would have arrived at the half-way point on our path. Sustaining has been the first “half” of our...
Finding God When We Can’t Find Answers
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 21: Finding God When We Can’t Find AnswersWhat about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from depression, alienation, and separation to comfort through...
The Presence of God in the Presence of Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 20: The Presence of God in the Presence of SufferingHow do you help others to move from depression to comfort? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to find God’s comforting...
Wreslting with God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 19: Wrestling with God Can we biblically support comfort as a legitimate stage of the grieving/healing process?Wrestling with GodJacob’s wrestling match with God certainly illustrates it. Recall...
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...
