by Bob | Mar 12, 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 9: Can We Really Complain to God?Our healing journey has walked us down the path from denial to candor: honesty with ourselves. In a Christian approach to grieving, we can’t stop there. We must...
by Bob | Mar 11, 2009 | Candor, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 8: Your Grief JourneyWhat about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others through their grief. But what about your grief journey?Perhaps you’re going through a very fresh season...
by Bob | Mar 9, 2009 | Candor, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 6: No Grieving; No Healing. Know Grieving; Know HealingSo… does God really allow and even invite His children to be brutally honest about life? Can we support candor biblically?A Man After God’s...
by Bob | Mar 7, 2009 | Candor, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 5: Courageous Truth TellingSo, the world’s way is denial. How do we move with God from denying the reality of our loss to brutal honesty—to candor?Candor DefinedWhat exactly is biblical candor?...
by Bob | Mar 6, 2009 | Candor, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 4: True Faith Faces All of LifeThe world has it’s way of grieving. But, when our fallen world falls on us, when suffering crushes us, we need much more than research. We need revelation—we need...
by Bob | Mar 5, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 3: Facing Suffering Face-to-Face with GodMy study of biblical suffering suggests an eight-stage process for moving hurting people to hope in Christ. God’s purpose in suffering is not simply to...