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 […]
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 […]
IN MEMORY OF DR. LAURA HENDRICKSON
I only knew Dr. Laura through her writing, but greatly respected and admired how she wrote, taught, thought and love the Lord Jesus. Here are a few posts remembering her: From the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors From the Biblical Counseling Coalition From The Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship (IBCD) I was half way […]
IS IT A SIN TO BE AFRAID?
Ed Welch has a great answer. He doesn’t answer the question, really, but he does put the command into a real life context that invites us to come to the God who loves us instead of OBEYING a harsh judgmental God. More great stuff.
Rest For Your Soul — Anxiety
Hi George, It sounds like you all are going through a pretty tough time. I’ll be praying for you both. I don’t know very much about CBT and hypnosis. I do know something about anxiety, God, and the Bible. If Sandy’s anxiety is not linked to the medication, but to the thoughts connected with the […]
What Dying To Yourself Looks Like
In the light of her comments about things not changing or getting better, I wonder if telling her the depression/mania situation will probably never change, like Paul’s thorn in the flesh, and that she’s going to have to learn to live with it would be helpful. I wonder if we need to help her see […]
Loving God
by Lisa Leidenfrost Math 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.” If this is the greatest commandment, do we love God with all our heart, soul and mind? We could respond, ‘Yes, but I do it […]