by Bob | Apr 30, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Death and Dying, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Kellemen, Suffering, Sufferology
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 42: Conclusion—Creative Suffering or Destructive Suffering? It’s clear that there is a typical way to respond to suffering. That typical way does not typically factor God into the equation.It’s...
by Bob | Mar 25, 2009 | Comfort, Grief, Grieving, Suffering
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...
by Bob | Mar 24, 2009 | Comfort, Depression, Grief, Grieving, Healing, 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...
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 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...
by Bob | May 27, 2008 | Grieving, Spiritual Direction, Suffering
Held, Part IIGuest Blog by Pastor Aaron TolsonYouth Pastor of CROSS-EYED Youth MinistryHeld has always been one of those songs that tugs at my own heart. Being the father of two amazing young children, I must admit that I can’t imagine losing either one of them. My...