by Bob | Mar 29, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 25: Resting in GodHow do you help others to wait on God? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to find delay gratification and remember their future hope?There are many...
by Bob | Mar 28, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 24: Clinging to God’s Rope of HopeWaiting is rooted in the Old Testament. The Prophets promised Israel that a better day was coming, later.The New Testament writers develop the waiting motif when...
by Bob | Mar 27, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Mar 26, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Nov 4, 2008 | African American History, Barack Obama, Hope, Racism, Waiting on God
African American Hope—Then and NowAs I pen these words, America has just elected its first African American President—Barack Obama. While Evangelical Christians may take issue with President-elect Obama’s pro-choice views on abortion, and perhaps with various other...
by Bob | Apr 6, 2007 | Crucifixion, Easter, Passion Week, Resurrection, Waiting on God
Nameless SaturdayWe have names for days leading up to Easter from Wednesday to Friday.Evangelicals don’t have a name for Saturday.The in-between day.The day of waiting.The day of faith-testing.Never Ending SaturdayImagine it, for the first time all over again.Your...
