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What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and what really hurts) by Nancy Guthrie

What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and what really hurts) by Nancy Guthrie

What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and what really hurts) , by Nancy Guthrie (Crossway, 2016). In this brief and en...
Christ has purchased all that is needed for those who suffer

Christ has purchased all that is needed for those who suffer

Christ is able to afford all that is needed in such a case. By the love and tenderness of his heart, he is disposed to help those that are ...
When Hope Shouts: Navigating Exhaustion and Exultation in Christ

When Hope Shouts: Navigating Exhaustion and Exultation in Christ

In Luke 22:45, Luke describes the disciples in the garden as having fallen asleep because they were “exhausted from sorrow.” This picture of...
When Hope Screamed: The Glory of Christ in Suffering

When Hope Screamed: The Glory of Christ in Suffering

Hope in the New Testament is often connected to the resurrection and the life that is found as a result of being “in Christ.” This hope is n...
When Hope Screams: The Struggle to Endure and Understand Suffering

When Hope Screams: The Struggle to Endure and Understand Suffering

My daughter Hope is precious, at least in my eyes. This utterly biased perspective is probably true of most Fathers. There are times when my...
Still Sick in the Bay of Biscay: An Unremarkable Reflection

Still Sick in the Bay of Biscay: An Unremarkable Reflection

“Still sick, -in the Bay of Biscay - Lat. 47 N. Long. 3 W.” –William Carey, Journal entry for June 15, 1793. I heard these words in ...
Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets you Free, Book Review

Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets you Free, Book Review

Title:   Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets you Free Author: Tullian Tchivdjian Publisher: David Cook, 2012 Price: $17.99 ( amz ) Bind...

Missing Silence in the Midst of Tragedy

This is the ironclad logic of continuous broadcasting: Broadcasting must be continuous. Someone must always be saying something even when t...
When Hope Screams . . .

When Hope Screams . . .

My daughter Hope is precious, at least in my eyes. This utterly biased perspective is probably true of most Fathers. There are times when ...

Not without Pain . . . But without Stain

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain. —C. S. Lewis, in a "L...
Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God's Purpose & Provision in Suffering, Book Review

Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God's Purpose & Provision in Suffering, Book Review

Title :  Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God’s Purpose & Provision in Suffering Author : Nancy Guthrie Publisher : Crossway , 2010 Price...
Job: When the Righteous Suffer
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Job: When the Righteous Suffer

This past weekend we went to the regional DesiringGod conference in Austin, TX, with John Piper. The theme was "Job: When the Righteous...

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