I think I know something about suffering, but of course, my suffering isn’t your suffering. I get that. When my wife died last summer, after an eight month battle with stomach cancer, someone told me that 98% of those who live in the Senior Housing understand what I was going through. Of course, that is […]
Victims Cannot Heal Part 2
A little over a month ago I wrote a post called “Victims Cannot Heal.” I received a number of comments about it and didn’t discover until quite a long ways into fielding those comments that they were not actually about the post itself, but about the title. When I realized this, and the numbers of […]
Victims Cannot Heal
I read this passage today and noticed that the king was talking with his young son and warning him against falling into grievous sin. He said, My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them […]
No Way Up
I was recently asked a number of questions about comments that were made to an article about a pastor in the SBC pastor who had preached a sermon in response to his son’s revealing that he was gay. You can find the article here. My responses to the comments may have very little to do with […]
A Lot of Time to Think
As I sit in my chair and watch my wife sleep, I have a lot of time to think. One thing I think a lot about is how the saints have drawn together to honor and bless our family. There are a few things people should know, however. Ours is not the only suffering family […]
The Navy Way?
“There’s a right way, a wrong way, and the Navy way.” This was a quote I heard quite a bit when I was in the Navy. It was usually offered when something that we were told to do just didn’t seem to make sense. The longer I was in the Navy, however, more I came […]
IS DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE BIBLICALLY ACCEPTABLE? Part 2
My recent post on divorce and remarriage prompted a few questions. Here are my answers: Would you consider an abusive marriage to fall into the category of desertion/abandonment? If so, would it follow that the abuser would be excommunicated and therefore be an unbeliever, and the wronged spouse would be free to biblically divorce and […]
Is Divorce And Remarriage Biblically Acceptable?
God Hates Divorce The short answer is, No! There is never a time when God is pleased with an exploding family. God hates divorce (Mal. 2:16). He says that the man who divorces his wife is covering his garment with violence. He is stripping the land of a union that Biblically can only be torn […]
Change: time moves on
by Lisa Leidenfrost Change is not an easy thing, especially when it goes in a direction you don’t want. Let’s face it. When you are in a severe trial your life changes. The initial trial may be bad enough on its own, but there is often a series of negative changes that happen in its […]