by Bob | Apr 22, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Worship
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...
by Bob | Mar 22, 2009 | Comfort, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Sustaining
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...
by Bob | Mar 15, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving
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...
by Bob | Mar 15, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament
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...
by Bob | Mar 14, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament, Trialogues
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...
by Bob | Mar 13, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament
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...