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...
by Bob | Mar 4, 2009 | Death and Dying, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:Post 2: Miserable Counselors?For far too long some biblical counselors have highlighted confronting the sinning, but minimized comforting the suffering. But if we are to rightly call ourselves biblical counselors, then we...
by Bob | Mar 3, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 1: Creative SufferingFrank Lake powerfully depicts God’s purposes in suffering. “There is no human experience which cannot be put on the anvil of a lively relationship with God, and battered into...
