Throughout the last 21 years that I’ve been a pastor’s wife, people have asked me how Mike and I met. It is a fairy-tale story that didn’t begin until I was thirty. And, like most fairy-tale stories, there are bad parts and good parts woven together, and my story is no different. Here’s how it […]
He is Risen
By Lisa Leidenfrost He is risen and everything changed. Death has lost its power and can no longer bind us. Trials can no longer ultimately defeat us and nothing on this earth can stop God’s kingdom and His glory from coming. Jesus suffered an excruciating death and somehow, in that miraculous way of His, God […]
God Is No Patcher
As William Tyndale put it, when God “buildeth he casteth all downe first. He is no patcher.” In the same way, the love of the Christian husband does not proceed from reading the “right books,” including this one, or going to the right seminars. God will not patch His grace onto some humanistic psychological nonsense—even […]
Sex and Cohabitation Before Marriage are a Cancer
Nancy Pearcey (nancy.pearcey.7) Posted at April 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM on Facebook “Sex and cohabitation before marriage are a cancer destroying marriage from the front end: “In a recent study conducted by ChristianMingle.com, Christian singles between the ages of 18 to 59 were asked, “Would you have sex before marriage?” The response? Sixty-three percent of the single Christian respondents […]
Things Our Culture’s Counselors Never Say
You can find this whole article here. It is authored by Jared Oliphint. Why do we put the adjectives “biblical” … in front of “counseling”? We want to consider the things that our culture’s counselors never say: It does not get said in our culture’s counseling that “Man does not live by bread alone, but by […]
we experience all suffering as death
Ultimately, we experience all suffering as death. Whether it is the little death of a flat tire, or the bigger death of a broken engagement, or the grand death that ends our earthly life, we each face daily casket experiences. Robert Kellemen, God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, p. 12
groan for home and to live in hope
Suffering causes us to groan for home and to live in hope. The author of Hebrews, surveying the landscape of the Old Testament journeys, shows us the way home. These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were […]
Suffering Has Its Reasons
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely […]
For Those In Trouble
Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my […]